paint make! - Oregon College of Art and Craft

DRAWING & PAINTINGWORKSHOPSIllustration From Start to FinishJONATHAN HILL2 DAY WORKSHOP • DR701M T W T F S S • MAR 2-3; 9:00AM-4:00PMTUITION: $165; STUDIO FEE: $10EARLY REGISTRATION TUITION (DEADLINE 1/15): $135This two-day workshop will introduce the basicprofessional process of creating an illustration in astep-by-step manner from start to finish, combiningboth traditional analog methods of image creationwith more contemporary digital methods. Students willlearn how to conceptualize ideas, communicate thoseideas visually as thumbnails, interact with an editorand change those images as needed, execute theillustration and learn the basics of digital productionsuch as scanning, coloring and printing. Materials willfocus primarily on traditional pen and ink or graphitewith computer coloring. Prerequisite: Basic drawingskills. Some previous experience in Photoshop is a plus.Jonathan Hill graduated as valedictorian from the SavannahCollege of Art & Design in 2003 with a BFA in Sequential Art.Since then he’s worked as a freelance illustrator and cartoonist inPortland, Oregon. Some of his clients include Willamette Week,Hollywood Video, the Spokane Inlander, the Vietnam LiteratureProject, the Asian Reporter and Powell’s City of Books.His work has appeared in the second volume of the acclaimedBEASTS! book published by Fantagraphics, as well as anthologiespublished by Image Comics, Three Rivers, and Tugboat Press.His first graphic novel, a collaboration with author MK Reedtitled Americus, was published in fall 2011 by First SecondBooks and has been picked as an ABC New Voices title andnominated for a YALSA Best Graphic Novel for Teens 2012.An Inventive Approach (Part One)Alternative Painting SurfacesELIZABETH MALASKA1 DAY WORKSHOP • DR702M T W T F S S • MAR 9; 9:00AM-4:00PMTUITION: $100; STUDIO FEE: $20EARLY REGISTRATION TUITION (DEADLINE 1/15): $70In these tandem workshops, designed to be takenindividually or as a pair, students will investigate amyriad of tactics for making supports for paintings,drawing, and collages (Part One), and/or explorenovel approaches to the creation of images withdifferent drawing and painting mediums (Part Two).Alternative Painting Surfaces will be devoted tocreating substrates. Participants will look at supports—canvas,linen, panel, paper, board, foundmaterials—as well as the many unique ways inwhich these surfaces can be prepared to receivemarks. Demonstrations will include, but not belimited to: gessoes (traditional and non-traditionalrabbits skin based preparations, chalk-based homemadegesso, store-bought acrylic and oil-basedvarieties), staining, gilding, layering, as well asmodern updates and additions to traditional materials.Prerequisites: Willingness to experiment. Somefamiliarity with painting and drawing is helpful butbeginners are welcome.An Inventive Approach (Part Two)Alternative Painting MediaELIZABETH MALASKA1 DAY WORKSHOP • DR703M T W T F S S • MAR 16; 9:00AM-4:00PMTUITION: $100; STUDIO FEE: $20EARLY REGISTRATION TUITION (DEADLINE 1/15): $70Alternative Painting Media will be devoted to traditionaland alternative approaches to materials andimage creation. Students will explore the propertiesof different mediums in order to understand howto effectively break the rules. Further investigationswill include unusual mark making tools as wellas unconventional combinations of materials andapplication, including taking two dimensions intothree, and vice versa. Prerequisites: Willingnessto experiment. Some familiarity with painting anddrawing is helpful but beginners are welcome.Elizabeth Malaska is a Portland native but has lived andtraveled extensively throughout Europe and America in pursuitof her art. She has exhibited in San Francisco, New York andRome. She is the recipient of awards to study and teach at Astoria’sClatsop Community College, the Art Farm in Nebraskaand at Caldera, outside of Sisters, Oregon. Her large-scalepaintings combine traditional and innovative techniques to createimages that examine art history and the implications of thefemale body as the subject of the artist’s gaze.Photo Transfer Techniques for PaintersJEFFREY T. BAKER1 DAY WORKSHOP • DR704M T W T F S S • APR 13; 9:00AM-4:00PMJEFFREY T. BAKERTUITION: $100; STUDIO FEE: $25EARLY REGISTRATION TUITION (DEADLINE 1/15): $70Over the course of one day learn effective andsafe methods for placing photographic imageryinto your drawings and paintings using a variety ofDRAWING & PAINTINGDRAWING & PAINTING studio school11