Online Mediums & Styles: Creating 100 Faces in 10 Weeks

Online using Zoom.

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Mondays 11am - 1pm (Pacific Time)
March 10 - May 12

Classes are recorded so if you can’t attend during class sessions, you won’t miss a thing! The recordings will be available for one month after the workshop ends.

Here is a short video of my 100 Faces sketchbook, to give you an idea of what we will explore during our time together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXVN-2NIxZ4

We will explore multiple mediums and styles as presented in Julia L. Kay’s book, Portrait Revolution, Inspiration From Around The World For Creating Art In Multiple Mediums And Styles.

As far as supplies, bring your favorites, bring what you have discovered recently, or supplies you had forgotten you had. Anything and everything!

Come join me in a goal to create 100 faces in 10 weeks. You will be free to move at your own pace as this isn’t about me setting a pace of unrealistic expectations. There is no such thing as falling short and getting behind. Ultimately, the goal of this workshop, is to inspire each other for 10 weeks, share different ways of approaching the same subject and learning about styles and mediums.

Not only is this is a great way to practice drawing and painting faces but it will also push us to explore techniques, mediums, and styles. It will guide us towards finding our preferences and originality. It will help everyone develop a habit of pursuing a creative goal for 10 weeks while we share our ideas and inspiration with each other.

Each week, I will share information about drawing faces, we will review portions of the book together, share our work, and watch videos on various styles, techniques, or mediums. You will be encouraged to share your faces with the class as we learn and laugh our way through the challenge of creating 100 faces in 10 weeks.

Your work doesn’t need to be based on the information shared during our time together. You can use whatever mediums you prefer (and hopefully you’ll be inspired to use a wide variety - graphite, charcoal, ink, watercolor, gouache, pastel, acrylic, collage, alcohol washes, digital art, colored pencils, fiber, oil, mixed mediums, and whatever you want to explore). You can experiment with different surfaces: mixed media paper, canvas, watercolor projects, sanded paper, mat board, fabric, colored papers, wood, sand, anything goes!

You can create the work from reference photos I provide each week, or from your own photos, from selfies, from your imagination, from people who are willing to pose for you or from people who might not realize you are drawing them, or you can draw inspiration from work by the masters,

Some of the “portraits” may come together in 5 minutes, some might take hours, or days to complete. It’s completely up to you. The idea is to keep drawing portraits!

As we progress from week to week, you will find that you are making marks more confidently, having more fun, and learning from each other. You might find that your proportions are getting more accurate and your expressions more believable. Or you might find that your approach gets looser, more abstract. You will find which mediums and styles work for you.

We will have time in class to work on our face creations and the only homework will be to draw as many faces as you can each week. Come join me!

While you don’t have to create faces from the styles and techniques I will share each week, it might be helpful for you to know what I will share the week by week plan and the supplies recommended for those lessons.

Week 1
Blind Contour Drawing | Step by Step Art Tutorial
Drawing paper (mixed media or even copier paper), Sharpie or other thin tipped marker

Continuous Line Faces with Watercolor Wash
Mixed media paper, a fountain pen (or Sharpie or other thin tipped marker) and watercolor

Week 2
The Basic Construction for Drawing the Head
Drawing paper, pencil and eraser

Portraits created with acrylic Ink and made in the moment
Mixed media paper, acrylic ink or Dr. Ph. Martin's Hydrus Fine Art Watercolors or watered down watercolor paint, a straw and a brush. 

Week 3
How to Paint Portraits in the Style of Expressionism
Acrylic paints, canvas or (or canvas panel or sheet from a canvas pad), brushes

ExpressivePortrait Drawing Tutorial in Oil Pastel
Mixed media, pencil, eraser, collection of colorful markers or oil pastels or crayons, mirror

Week 4
Pencil Drawing Techniques and Mapping Lights & Darks
Mixed media paper or drawing paper, Sharpie, tracing paper, pencil and eraser.

Week 5
Ballpoint Pen Portraits
Smooth paper like copier paper, pencil, eraser, Bic pens, Q-tips.

Week 6
Collage Human Face
Mixed media paper, colorful paper (in a variety of colors) to cut up / rip up and glue (could be origami paper, gift wrap paper, paper you’ve painted, magazines, etc.), pencil, eraser, glue, cheap brush to apply glue

Magazine Collage
Mixed media paper, and any or all of the following: old magazines, scraps of vintage paper, found imagery, various materials with a sense of nostalgia, maps, postcards, greeting cards, sewing patterns, food labels, old books, children’s books, dictionaries, catalogs, glue, double sided tape, scissors, xacto, cutting mat, ruler, needle and thread.

Week 7
Sculpt Profiles
White Creative Paper clay or Crayola Air Dry Clay (both options require no firing or baking), water, sculpting tools if you have them but not necessary.

Picasso Faces
Charcoal (vine, compressed or charcoal pencil),  drawing paper, magazines with faces

Week 8
Upside Down Drawing Faces
Mixed media paper, or drawing paper, pencil and eraser.

Week 9
Art Blob
Mixed media paper or watercolor paper, watercolors & Sharpie, Poska or other thin tipped marker, maybe gold, silver or white marker

Beginners guide to drawing simple faces in 4 steps
Watercolor paper or mixed media paper, watercolor paints, watercolor brushes, a fountain pen with waterproof ink (or Sharpie or other thin tipped marker)

Watercolor Faces (more realistic style)
Watercolor paper, watercolor paints, watercolor brushes, pencil, eraser

Week 10
Retro Comic Heads
Drawing paper (even copier paper), pencil and eraser

Self Portraits
Your favorite supplies

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There is a $35 cancellation fee. No refunds for cancellations received less than two weeks before the day of the workshop.