Space 4 Art Educational Catalog July/August 2010

Dry-Medium Life Drawing Class
Instructor: Roy de Vries
Instructor email: vries.royde@gmail.com
Location: Classroom
Dates: July 15, 17 Time: 7-9 PM
Cost: $20 per class
$10 S4A tenants
Ages: 18 and up

Description: Students will explore form and motion at first in a series of warm-up exercises, then moving to longer lasting poses in order to explore the human form.

Materials: Board approximately 24 X 28, standard large newsprint pad, carpenter pencils, conte crayon, china marker, charcoal, graphite stick, are all acceptable. White eraser.
  
Goals: Students will have a more finely honed sense of positive/negative spatial relations, a more developed sense of proportion and an increased mastery of the materials.

Roy de Vries is a Space 4 Art tenant/artist with a BFA from the University of New Mexico and a California Teaching Credential for Secondary Education

Introduction to the Human Figure: Drawing from Life
Instructor: Belen Escalante Gutierrez
Instructor email: escalante.b@gmail.com website: www.escalandoarts.com
Location: Classroom
Dates: July 19, 26 Time: 7-9 PM
Cost: $20 per class
$15 for S4A Tenants
Ages: 18 and up

Description: This is a class for beginners open to students who want to become familiar with drawing the human figure. Advanced students are invited to attend class and use the model for their own projects.

Materials: Basic human anatomy packet, drawing board with metal clips to hold paper 23.5 x 26in x 1/8" thick, basic materials for preliminary sketching: newsprint, vine charcoal.

Goals:
Students will learn about the human figure’s three main components: head, torso and pelvis, focusing of these components separately will help students understand the structure and nature of the human figure as a whole. Every student/artist has their own style of creating a work of art; this class will embrace each student’s individual style while teaching the student the techniques needed to draw from life.

Belen Escalante Gutierrez has a BFA Summa Cum Laude in Painting and Drawing from Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design.

Watercolor Illustration
Instructor: Marcy Gordon
Instructor email: marcykaymolloy@hotmail.com
Location: Classroom
Dates: July 20, 21 Time: 10 am-4 pm
Cost: $85 for the two sessions (includes illustration board)
$65 for S4A Tenants

Description: This is an art form with many possible applications, from fine art to botanical and wildlife illustration. The techniques learned in this class can be applied to all forms of watercolor because it teaches control over results, sequence and method.

Materials: Small tubes of watercolor in the following colors: lamp black, cadmium red deep, cadmium yellow light, ultramarine blue, alizarin crimson. A HB or #2 pencil, pink pearl eraser, kneadable eraser, drawing paper, plastic palette, water container, paper towels, ruler, medium round sable watercolor brush.

Goals: By the end of workshop students will know how to achieve perfectly flat and smoothly graded washes which is the basis of all watercolor. They will learn how to apply these skills in a painting and use core and cast shadows to reflect light and to create the illusion of depth.

Marcy Gordon has taught this class for over 25 years locally at UCSD Extension, Mira Costa Continuing Ed and the Athenaeum.

Monoprint Workshop
Instructor: Valerie Henderson
Instructor email:  vshenderson@att.net
Location: Classroom
Dates: August 7,14 Time: 10 am-1 pm
Cost: $50 (for 2 classes + $7 material fee)
$40 for S4A

Description: Experiment with making quick and direct one-of-a-kind prints. Monotype printmaking is very close to painting; it can be very spontaneous and both expressive and forgiving. The print can be further worked when dry with everything from pastels, markers and colored pencils to acrylics, watercolors and collage. The printing ink we will use in the workshop is a soy-based formulation that cleans up with soap and dish detergent.

The French artist, Degas, who worked in Paris at the end of the 19th century and loved to draw and paint dancers, made monoprints in black and white into which he later drew with pastels. Matisse did drawings into inked plates which he printed as monoprints, as did the Swiss artist, Paul Klee. There is something almost magical about peeling back the paper after printing to reveal the print

Materials: Instructor will provide printing ink, Plexiglas panels, tools and printmaking paper. Students should bring a notebook and for the second session, some art materials you may have on hand or would like to use.

Goals: The first session will be an opportunity to play with the process and get the feel for some of the possibilities of monotype printmaking without a press. The second session will be an opportunity to make it your own. See how you can bring something new into your own art practice!

Valerie Henderson received a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and an MFA in Visual Art at UCSD. She has taught art-making to people of all ages from third graders on up.

Puppet Camp
Instructor: San Diego Guild of Puppetry
Instructor email: lynnejenn@aol.com website: www.sandiegoguildofpuppetry.org
Location: Studio 33
Ages: 6 to 14

Description:
Work with an artist and learn about the elements of puppet theatre and art. The San Diego Guild of Puppetry is offering a small series of intimate workshops for young audiences. A one-hour, afternoon single-session puppet-making workshop will be held on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday: Mask Making 7/19, Pom-Pom Caterpillars 7/21, and Circle Felt Mouse 7/23

Cost: $10 for members of SDGP
$15 for non-members

*Kids may also sign up for a 5-day camp to learn closely about movement and making with a fellow puppeteer-artist. Cost for each camp is $150 for members, $200 for non-members.

"Enchanting Paper Puppet Theatre" with Jenna MacGillis
Ages 9 - 11
Date: 8/9 – 8/13,
Time: 9 am – 12 pm

"Puppetry Gone Green" with Jackie Tauber
Ages: 6 - 8
Date 8/16 – 8/20
Time: 1 pm – 4 pm

"Puppet Life" with Jason Johnson
Ages: 12 - 14
Date: 8/9 – 8/13
Time: 1 pm – 4 pm

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