Learn and practice how to draw your favorite things, places and people using pencils, pens, colored pencils and markers. This camp is just right for the kiddo who loves to draw everything and wants to increase their repertoire and confidence !
Drawing
Cartooning
If you love cartoons, get ready for an unforgettable week! Learn all about different cartooning styles and techniques,explore character creation, storyboarding and learn about the history of cartooning. From quick sketches to color drawings, students will create many exciting pieces by the end of the camp week.
Figure Drawing Workshop
In this figure drawing workshop, we will practice various techniques for constructing the human form. There will be an emphasis on Gesture, Shape, Mass, Value, and Proportion. We will utilize short poses to introduce the various techniques. Some longer poses will be held for guided practice. Students should expect to leave the workshop with an introduction to a variety of techniques they can practice and synthesize into their own work.
Layout of Day:
Morning session: 10 am – 1 pm
Lunch: 1 pm – 2 pm
Afternoon session: 2 pm – 5 pm
Each person attending the workshop should arrive with the following supplies:
Substrates and Supports
- Smooth newsprint drawing pad size 18 x 24
- Drawing board with clips (large enough to hold the drawing pad)
Drawing Materials
- Vine or Willow charcoal sticks (soft preferred, medium okay)
- Charcoal Pencils: Soft, Medium, Hard (one of each is enough for the session)
- Crayola colored pencil set 12 or 24 pack
- Blending Stump
- Kneaded eraser
Sharpening
- Metal hand sharpener
- Hobby knife with new blade
- Sandpaper stick or A sheet or two of fine to medium grit sandpaper (sharpening)
Automatic Drawing Inspired by Nature Sounds and Sight Workshop
Let’s embrace the spring weather! In this class, students will explore the trails from the Rock Cliff Nature Center and create drawings based off of sights and sounds in nature. Attendees will leave with refined drawings. All materials will be provided.
The workshop will be held off site at Rock Cliff Nature Center (2500 UT-32, Kamas, UT 84036) with our partners from the Wasatch Mountain Institute
Meet at the Rock Cliff Nature Center Main Building.
Rock Cliff Nature Center (2500 UT-32, Kamas, UT 84036)
Students, please bring:
- folding chair, otherwise you can sit cross legged on the boardwalk.
- hat and sunscreen
- dress in layers (We don’t want the cold to be a reason for discomfort)
- gloves
- water to drink
- snack to eat
- art materials provided
The weather is supposed to be really nice Saturday, 60 degrees!. But it won’t hurt to be prepared for cold or inclement weather.
Note from instructor: “I’d like to ask the participants not to listen to anything on the drive up to the Nature Center. Drive in silence. I realize this is an odd request but it will prepare them to be more sensitive for the class.”
Sculpting the Figure
Gain technical skills required to sculpt the human figure.
Learn first how to make an armature and then build form while learning about anatomy through the use of an oil-based clay typically used for creating statues in bronze casting. Work will be created on a small scale (6-10″). This class is open to all levels.
Materials are provided. (Oil based clay, wooden tools, wooden board for base)
Exploring the Landscape
Explore the surrounding nature of Park City in this five-week course.
Experiment and gain confidence with color mixing, values and texture while creating personal impressionist paintings of the local area. This class will cover the fundamentals of painting including illustrations of the steps to create a painting from start to finish, color mixing, brushwork, and drawing. This class is open to all levels of painters.
Materials:
- Please bring your own photographs of subject matter you are interested in painting
– Oil Paints / Acrylic Paints
Kits with primary colors are great. If you choose to purchase individual tubes of color, please include these:
Utrecht Brand Preferred
- Cadmium Yellow Hue
- Hansa Yellow Light
- Cadmium Yellow
- Permanent Orange
- Naphthalene Red Light
- Crimson Alizarin
- Ultramarine
- Cobalt Blue
- Payne’s Gray
- Sienna
- Naples Rouge
- White Titanium
– Bristle Brushes: Flat sizes: 2, 8, 12 and Filbert size 4
– Brushes from Home Depot- Flat 1”, Flat 2”
-Palette A palette is any surface on which you can mix your paint. I prefer to use a covered palette which preserves paint for longer use. You want a palette big enough to mix all your colors on
– Odorless Gamsol
-Linseed Oil Linseed oil increases the transparency of paint as well as the fluidity, while maintaining the paint’s oil base.
-Glass Jar To hold our solvent. You may want to purchase one with a metal coil inside to help clean brushes. Bring an extra empty, sealable jam jar as well.
– Palette Knife If you prefer to mix your colors with brushes, that is fine.
– Rags Used for cleaning/drying brushes
– Soap to Clean Brushes
–Painting Clothes These are clothes you don’t mind getting paint on
–Canvas – 1 yard of unstretched canvas (can be purchased at Blick Art Supplies)
– Foam Backing for canvas
– Contractor 2” tape from Home Depot
– Utrecht Acrylic modeling paste- small container
– Caran d”Ache Neocolor II Aquarelle Artists Pastels
Colors:
Black 009
Sepia 407
Vandyke Brown 045
White 001
Black 009
