Playful Mixed Media Drawing w/Angela Bandurka

Online Class! All Levels Welcome, Some Experience is Helpful.

New Date - Saturday April 17, 2021 / 11am-5pm

Cost: $175

Registration: online (this page)

Location: Your home! This will be an online webinar that can be viewed via zoom.us. A link to the Zoom webinar, along with instructions on how to use Zoom will be sent in an email before the demo.

Description:

A fun class that mixes painting and drawing! Breaking the day up into three sections, Angela will guide students through creating a low-contrast abstract painting that will be used to then make a good background for a fun drawing. Use whatever supplies you have - this is a playful class with a lot of fun techniques to help you loosen up, and then apply either a positive- or negative-space drawing onto the surface of your piece.

What you can expect to learn:

    • How to create an abstracted background that won’t detract from your drawing

    • Methods of making your painting suitable to accept your drawing media

    • Different methods of creating your drawing

What to wear: anything that you’d wear in front of your grandma :)

What to bring: a smile, your computer, a smartphone and your supplies

How the online experience will be:

Angela has a Student Page created that you’ll get the link to in advance of the class. This page will include the following (some items, such as the in-class demos, will be posted after class):

    • Links to download Pdf and Jpg files for the class

    • Multiple videos including painting demos and tips

After morning greetings and introductions, Angela will begin with her first demo and then she’ll help talk you through your next assignment. While you’re working, you’ll take photos of your work with your smartphone and email them directly to Angela so she can bring them up for you both to walk through what elements are working and what elements need to be changed. There will be a one-hour lunch break and students are encouraged to work at their own pace. At least two demos will be done during this workshop.

Supply List:

  • Fluid or Soft Acrylic paints or colored inks: two colors that are similar (like blue and green or dark blue and lighter blue or red and orange to create a low-to-no contrast background

  • One translucent medium to allow drawing on acrylic painting: examples include silverpoint medium, pastel medium, clear gesso… it just has to have a “tooth” to allow the drawing tool to make marks easily.

  • Drawing tools: whatever you have (like chalk in white or a color that is lighter or darker than your paint colors, charcoal, pencils, inktense pencils, or silverpoint)

  • Support: card stock, board, hot-pressed watercolor paper, or any surface that can handle wet media and is smooth in texture.

  • Brushes: any brushes you have will work for this abstracted background, but at least a 1-inch wide soft flat wash brush for the main background and splattering.

  • Optional: stencil or stamp for mark making on the background (or anything you could use as a stamp, like a used toilet paper roll or potato stamp or something would work

  • Optional: scrap paper or wall paper for collaging on to the support before beginning

  • Optional: hair dryer to speed up dry times

For example, here’s what Angela will be using: Fluid paints in varying shades of turquoise and green to create the background (she will use Turquoise, Green and White to create difference shades of blues and green). She will use a stencil to paint in some texture, and then splatter on that background a little. Once that’s dry, Angela will apply pastel medium in a thin layer. After the medium has dried, she’ll draw on that background with Inktense pencils and chalk.