Hello Friends!
It is such an honor and privilege to get to serve the artists and students in our community all year long. This school, and our amazing community would not exist without each and every one of you. The holiday season is a time when I can show my gratitude for all of you by offering gifts, goodies and give aways! WE have created this space together, and I just get so excited about what more the future could possibly hold for us. I could never have done this without you! To show my gratitude, I will be sharing free videos and give aways for the next 10 days!
If you miss a day, don't worry! But if you want to be sure not to miss a day, bookmark this page! You can also follow me on FACEBOOK and INSTAGRAM. Also, to view days that have passed just scroll down the page. All COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS content will be available through Christmas Day evening! After that, it will be gone! Get started now!!
Hugs to you all!
Kara
GOODIES, GIFTS, AND GIVE AWAYS!
Not only will you be getting free videos, but I also will be GIVING AWAY special gifts such as post card packs, art bags, and classes! To make sure you have a chance at winning be sure to subscribe to my newsletter HERE
Also, each day we will have special discounts on certain classes! Don't miss out on these as they may only last for up to 24 hours at a time. Worried about missing a day? Don't worry! You can scroll down and find all previous days below! They will be available until December 25th!
DAY 10
COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS - DAY 10
Hello Friends!
Today is Day 10 of our Christmas Countdown! Yesterday we offered a fun and quirky lesson with Kathy Lewis!
During Day 10, we are offering a fun lesson with me! This is one of my favorite lessons because it is so freeing. I think when you can't control the outcome of something, it truly feels good and gives us permission to play and go back to how we were early on in our art journey. I hope you have fun with this and can't wait to see what you create with it!
This video, along with all coming days, will be only be available through December 25th!
Hugs!
Kara
WALKING HEAD
This week we have a new lesson with me, Kara Bullock (@karabullockart)! I am so excited to share with you my mini lesson from LFI21! For this lesson, I am sharing a piece that was inspired by two artists that I absolutely adore, Robert Kelley, and Paul Cristina! I know that you are all familiar with Robert, but if you have not heard of Paul, please be sure to check out his work on Instagram (@paul_cristina). Paul's earlier work from 2018 is very inspiring to me, especially works such as Until Nothing Comes and Modern Lovers, as seen below. I would love to take the portraits created from this lesson and create something more with them, possibly for a later lesson....we will see.
SUPPLIES
I will be using the following materials, but we always recommend that you use what you have. There is no PDF this week.
- Hot-pressed watercolor paper - any size. I am using about 11x14
- Willow Charcoal - thin
- Willow Charcoal - thick
- Compressed charcoal pencil - 6B
- Blending stump
- Cotton ball
- Cheap paint brush
- Clear gesso
- Bowl Scraper
- Sanding block
- Black and white china marker
- Acrylic inks; black, white, turquoise, orange, van dyke brown, transparent raw sienna, light sky blue and quin rose pink.
- Pastels; bright pink, coral, orange-coral-reddish color pastel please feel free to use what calls to you <3 always!
- Matte medium (luiqitex) any brand is great, if you want to adhere your paper to the hardboard. Please know any substrate works and feel free to substitute anything else!
- I added some craft croc chalk markers just to use them ha, I had cleaned out a space and found them. Why not right? 🙂 pink, yellow, blue and red.
FYI if you decide to adhere paper down, you may want to seal with fixative first or try not to get Matte medium on top of face. It may smear some, although that is also fun.
LETS FACE IT 21 - WEEK 28 INTRO
LETS FACE IT 21 - WEEK 28 PART 1
LETS FACE IT 21 - WEEK 28 PART 2
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Today we are featuring the following classes. These courses are full of tools and techniques that will introduce you or help you to inspire your portrait skills!
I hope you enjoy the freebies! I appreciate you all so much and hope you have an amazing holiday season! See you tomorrow for Day 10!
xoxo
Kara
DAY 9
COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS - DAY 9
Hello Friends!
Today is Day 9 of our Christmas Countdown! Yesterday we offered a freebie with Kasey Moran! Her classes have definitely been popular in our community!
During Day 9, we are offering a quirky lesson with Kathy Lewis! It just wouldn't be the same if we didn't offer a free lesson with Kathy! Kathy's artwork brings so much joy and laughter to people's lives and I am just so grateful to have her as a main teacher in our community! If you have never taken a class with Kathy, I promise you will learn A LOT and HAVE FUN!
This video, along with all coming days, will be only be available through December 25th!
Hugs!
Kara
WALKING HEAD
In this lesson you learn to create a head with legs! It will also have feathers (like the wall head) and a collaged partial face (or just eyes) on the back. Below are some ideas for different walking heads you can make. Refer to these or use your own imagination!
SUPPLIES
Below is a list of the supplies that I will be using for the projects in this lesson. However, you are always encouraged to use what you have on hand.
Clay
Tools and Wire
- Wooden Sculpting Tools
- Xiem Pottery Tools (optional but useful)
- Silicone sculpting tools and dotting tools set (optional but useful)
- Feather wire texture tool (good to have)
- Wire cutter (crafty type, a really good one that cuts like butter is made by knipex, I have style 71 01 200 but they are expensive. Amazon has them but not needed, craft type will do)
- Needle nose pliers (small craft type)
- Rebar Tire Wire (I used 16 gauge)
Paint
- Permanent (waterproof) fine liner in size 0.2 or 0.5 or similar. I use UniPen but there are many other good brands
- Paint, any acrylic paint you like. I use golden in these colors:
- Titanium White
- Titan Buff
- Red Oxide,
- Raw Umber,
- Payne’s Gray,
- Yellow Oxide or Yellow Ochre
- Prussian Blue
- Mars Yellow
- Black
- I am using transparent shading gray (Golden High Flow Acrylic) a lot lately!
***Your paint can be heavy body or fluid but be sure you at least have white and black in fluid. A new color that I seem to use in EVERYTHING is Matisse Australian Ghost Gum, and I am also loving Jo Sonja’s warm white, sapphire, olive and vermillion. These are the colors I am using but you do not need to get them all. Just use what you have.
Paint Brushes:
- Paint Brushes - Blick Scholastic brushes are cheap and work well, include detail and mid size. Here are some I like:
- Filbert size 12
- Bright size 8
- Round size 1
- You might want a teeny brush (size 0).
- Old paint brush for matte medium
Other Supplies:
- Papers for small bits of collage like text and eyes
- Feathers in your favorite colors - I hunt for them on Etsy. You need at least 6, 3 for two projects
- Ball tool stylus
- Uniball signo uni-ball signo broad point gel marker
- Matte Medium
- Newspaper
- Small piece of sand paper ( 220 or 330 grit)
- Masking tape (lots, get a good sticky one, I use this)
- A few round tooth picks
- Paper towels and/or baby wipes
- Wax Paper
- Foil
- 2 large size zip lock bags
- Small fine mist sprayer for water
- Rubber gloves, the thin type if you can wear them
- Rolling pin or craft roller for clay or brayer roller
- xacto knife with blade
- E-6000 glue (amazon)
- Good white craft glue
- Scissors
- Small alphabet set
- Permanent black stamp pad
- Container for water
OPTIONAL
- potters wheel is very helpful but not necessary: I use this one: https://www.dickblick.com/products/amaco-no-5-decorating-wheel/
- Dust mask (recommended for sanding)
- Winsor & Newton professional spray varnish
WALKING HEAD - PART 1
WALKING HEAD - PART 2
WALKING HEAD - PART 3
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Today we are featuring the following classes. These courses are full of tools and techniques that will introduce you or help you to inspire your paperclay skills!
I hope you enjoy the freebies! I appreciate you all so much and hope you have an amazing holiday season! See you tomorrow for Day 10!
xoxo
Kara
DAY 8
COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS - DAY 8
Hello Friends!
Today is Day 8 of our Christmas Countdown! Did you enjoy Dylan's lesson yesterday? If so, you can find more from him in his online course Calligraphy Pen Portraiture, or Let's Face It 2022 and 2023!
During Day 8, we are offering a fun lesson with Kasey Moran! Kasey is another community favorite on our network! She has created three courses for us and has also been a part of Let's Face It! Kasey's artwork is so beautiful and her lessons and courses are always fun, AND she is so good with her color palettes! We are sharing a lesson from her Painterly Prints which is a fun and entertaining course on using the gelli plate! I just bought one and can't wait to use it.
This video, along with all coming days, will be only be available through December 25th!
Hugs!
Kara
PAINTERLY PRINTS with KASEY MORAN
In this lesson we will be looking at working a print from front to back of the image. Front meaning foreground, back meaning background. This lesson is to get you aware of space and the layering process. What is also helpful is seeing and using negative space. This will apply in all lessons.
SUPPLIES
Below is a list of the supplies that I will be using for the projects in this course. However, you are always encouraged to use what you have on hand.
- Gelli plate and/or plexiglass
- Variety of acrylic brushes
- Water container
- Soft rubber brayer
- 2 in rubber shaper ( optional)
- Spray alcohol and water
- Baby wipes or paper towels
- Glazing liquid ( optional)
- Watercolor paper: hot press or smooth printing paper that can handle layers of paint.
- Image or sketch to print from
- Palette ( freezer paper)
- Palette knife
- Paint colors used in this demo: (Feel free to use any colors you like)
- Titanium white
- Payne’s gray
- Sap green
- Nap red
- Turner yellow
- Cad yellow
- Turquoise deep
- Yellow green
BUILDING LAYERS - 4
BUILDING LAYERS - 5
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Today we are featuring the following classes. These courses are full of tools and techniques that will introduce you or help you to brush up on your portrait drawing skills!
I hope you enjoy the freebies! I appreciate you all so much and hope you have an amazing holiday season! See you tomorrow for Day 9!
xoxo
Kara
DAY 7
COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS - DAY 7
Hello Friends!
Today is Day 7 of our Christmas Countdown! I am sure you had fun with Ce Duff's lesson during day 6! Her courses are always a community favorite!
During Day 7, we are offering an awesome lesson with Dylan Sara! Dylan Sara is incredibly brilliant at drawing portraits, and he SHOULD be for as often as he does it! Did you know that he offers many live drawing sessions per month? And you can join any of them! They are super fun, and in those sessions everyone draws each other! You can get a little taste of Dylan's teaching style in today's freebie! I think you will want more after you try this! Have fun and we would love to see your work in our FB community!!
This video, along with all coming days, will be only be available through December 25th!
Hugs!
Kara
ZINES with DYLAN SARA
This lesson is comprised of lesson 3. Without a grid we’ll move straight into shape recognition, and observation to build our portrait following up with line work and a simple method of vertical hatching. We will be working on one portrait in this lesson.
Students will be introduced to the following objectives:
- Practice building our preliminary pencil drawing through without a
grid. - Learn to recognize angles and distances in the shapes of the face.
- Identify shapes to build a portrait.
- Ink a pencil sketch.
SUPPLIES
Below is a list of the supplies that I will be using for the projects in this course. However, you are always encouraged to use what you have on hand.
- Hahnemühle Nostalgie paper (190gsm/90lbs) throughout the lessons. Bristol paper is a great alternative ideal at a similar paperweight for the purpose of folding your zine.
- Herlitz Calligraphy pen (1.4mm nib) there are many alternatives available, just look for calligraphy pen with a broad nib. Pilot parallel pens and Faber Castell calligraphy pen are two examples.
EXAMPLE ZINES
ACTUAL ZINE CREATED
ZINE PORTRAIT LESSON
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Today we are featuring the following classes. These courses are full of tools and techniques that will introduce you or help you to brush up on your portrait drawing skills!
I hope you enjoy the freebies! I appreciate you all so much and hope you have an amazing holiday season! See you tomorrow for Day 8!
xoxo
Kara
DAY 6
COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS - DAY 6
Hello Friends!
Today is Day 6 of our Christmas Countdown! I hope you enjoyed getting to know Holly Beals! I adore her art and am excited because she will be coming back early in 2023 to create another course!
During Day 6, we are offering a wonderful lesson with Ce Duff! I adore Ce and her artwork. This course that she created in 2022 was so much fun and I think you will enjoy playing along! Have fun and we would love to see your work in our FB community!!
This video, along with all coming days, will be only be available through December 25th!
Hugs!
Kara
LIFE IN LAYERS with CE DUFF
This lesson introduces more variations and ways to expand on the use of collage in a small portrait painting. We add paint to one of our teabag faces from the second warmup, and integrate her into a collaged background on a small 4”x4” board. We then work intuitively to build up translucent layers around our teabag character. This lesson also focuses on the challenge of painting a small face with small brushes.
Students will be introduced to the following objectives:
- Paint a small scale portrait
- Building a character through layering collage and paint
- Gain an understanding of creating depth with translucent layers of collage
SUPPLIES
Below is a list of the supplies that I will be using for the projects in this course. However, you are always encouraged to use what you have on hand.
- 4”x4” cradled wood board, sealed and primed (if necessary)
- Lightweight collage papers: e.g. napkins, Japanese fibre papers (rice, mulberry, unryushi), sewing pattern tissue, inkblot tissue (created in warmup 1), doily, collage words
- Matte medium and brush
- Teabag portrait from Warmup2
- Acrylic Paint:
- Liquitex Soft Body: Burnt Umber, Dioxanine Purple, Yellow Oxide, Parchment
- Golden Fluid: Red Oxide, Transparent Red Iron Oxide;
Titanium White
- Liquitex Acrylic Ink - Transparent Burnt Sienna, Muted Violet
- Water mister
- Golden Soft Gel Semi Gloss
- Small brushes
- I used a Princeton Mini Detailer Filbert #2 and a Jackson’s Spotter #2
CE DUFF - PART 1
CE DUFF - PART 2
CE DUFF - PART 3
CE DUFF - PART 4
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Today we are featuring the following classes. These courses are full of tools and techniques that will introduce you or help you to brush up on your portrait painting skills!
I hope you enjoy the freebies! I appreciate you all so much and hope you have an amazing holiday season! See you tomorrow for Day 7!
xoxo
Kara
DAY 5
COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS - DAY 5
Hello Friends!
Today is Day 5 of our Christmas Countdown! Did you enjoy your lesson with Robert yesterday? He is truly an amazing artist and human and I am so grateful to know him!
During Day 5, we are offering a beautiful lesson with the incredible Holly Beals! She is also such a wonderful artist, instructor and human. I am excited that she will be coming back in early 2023 to record another course for you all! I love Holly's process and I do think you are going to have fun with this lesson!
This video, along with all coming days, will be only be available through December 25th!
Hugs!
Kara
FIGURES AND COLLAGE with HOLLY BEALS
In the main lessons, we will complete three different figure paintings using a unique (and fun!) blend of acrylic painting and collage techniques. We’ll begin with the conceptual phase of a small, loose pencil sketch and take the project all the way to completion on wood panel. You’ll be amazed at the variety of possibilities and textures that can be achieved, even through the simple layering of paint over handmade papers applied to the surface. Bringing elements of pattern, texture and collage together in your figure paintings can make for some truly creative explorations! Let's begin our first lesson!
Students will be introduced to the following objectives:
- Complete a figure painting inspired by an experience
- Begin with the conceptual phase of a small, loose pencil sketch
- Discover new ways to create texture and interest
- Experiment with elements of pattern, texture and collage
SUPPLIES
Below is a list of the supplies that I will be using for the projects in this course. However, you are always encouraged to use what you have on hand.
Substrates
- Wood painting panels in your choice of size. There are many available brands, but I use Blick Premier panels (dickblick.com) with an extra deep profile in the 12x16 and 18x24 inch sizes for this course.
- Watercolor paper for the planning and sketch phase. For this course, I use Fabriano 140 lb sheets in the 5x7 inch size for sketches.
Paints
- Acrylic paints in a variety of warm and cool colors, and white (my favorites are Nova color and Golden)
- Acrylic ink in Scarlet (I use Daler Rowney in the 6 oz. container)
- For achieving dark shadows, I like to use a mix of Phthalo blue, Quinacridone Crimson and Scarlet acrylic ink
- Brushes
- Any preferred brushes or tools used for applying paint in a variety of sizes. I love the fine tip brushes for details, but my largest brush is a Simply Simmons XL flat.
Other
- Collage materials (I especially like the older stuff you can dig up at consignment stores, like sheet music and other printing in black & white)
- Handmade or embossed papers fore developing textured areas (dickblick.com has a nice selection of handmade papers)
- Printed photos (feel free to print the photos provided in the lesson for reference or to use as collage)
- Gel medium. I typically use Nova Color gloss medium for gluing and matte varnish as a seal. ModPodge is more affordable (and what I first started out with)
- Painting palette (I use the Masterson Sta-Wet)
- Drawing pencil (HB) and eraser for sketching
- Hairdryer (for speeding up the paint drying process)
- Small rubber kitchen spatula for mixing paint
- Palette knife
- High Flow Medium
- Resealable containers for storing mixed paint colors
HOLLY BEALS - SKETCHING
HOLLY BEALS - PAINTING PART 1
HOLLY BEALS - PAINTING PART 2
HOLLY BEALS - PAINTING PART 3
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Today we are featuring the following classes. These courses are full of tools and techniques that will introduce you or help you to brush up on your figurative skills!
I hope you enjoy the freebies! I appreciate you all so much and hope you have an amazing holiday season! See you tomorrow for Day 6!
xoxo
Kara
DAY 4
COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS - DAY 4
Hello Friends!
Today is Day 4 of our Christmas Countdown! I hope you enjoyed your free lessons with Maria! She really is a master at creating watercolor cityscapes and I am always so mesmerized by her work!
During Day 4, we are offering a lesson with one of our favorite community instructors, Robert Kelley! Robert is a true master at drawing charcoal portraits! In 2022, he created a course on drawing animal portraits and today you will get to view one of those lessons! He also has a brand new course out, STYLIZED PORTRAITS, and the first 100 sign ups will get it for $99!
This video, along with all coming days, will be only be available through December 25th!
Hugs!
Kara
FRANK THE DOG with ROBERT KELLEY
In our first lesson we will be drawing Frank the dog. In this lesson, you will learn a dynamic approach for creating animal portraits using soft shapes, definitions and application. We will focus on slow and loose development.
SUPPLIES
Below is a list of the supplies that I will be using for the projects in this course. However, you are always encouraged to use what you have on hand.
- 18x24 Strathmore 400 series
- Vine and willow charcoal
- Blending stumps asst. sizes
- Kneaded eraser
- Inexpensive paint brushes soft to stiff
- Cotton balls
- Kleenex
FRANK THE DOG - PART 1
FRANK THE DOG - PART 2
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Today we are featuring the following classes. These courses are full of tools and techniques that will introduce you or help you to brush up on your charcoal drawing skills!
I hope you enjoy the freebies! I appreciate you all so much and hope you have an amazing holiday season! See you tomorrow for Day 5!
xoxo
Kara
DAY 3
COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS - DAY 3
Hello Friends!
Today is Day 3 of our Christmas Countdown! I hope you enjoyed your free lessons with Colby! I have to say that the rest of his class is incredible and I hope you decide to join it!
During Day 3, we are offering a lesson with Maria Zinca! Maria is an incredibly talented cityscape artist! I just adore her cityscape paintings and know you are going to enjoy watching her paint this rainy day scene!
This video, along with all coming days, will be only be available through December 25th!
Hugs!
Kara
RAINY DAY CITYSCAPE with MARIA ZINCA
In our first lesson, I will show you how I paint a rainy day scene. We will include street car reflections, lots of red lights and brake lights on the cars, and more, to really capture the feeling of rain.
SUPPLIES
Below is a list of the supplies that I will be using for the projects in this course. However, you are always encouraged to use what you have on hand.
Substrate
- Watercolor paper 300grams cold press
Brushes
- Round big MOP shape
- Pointed brushes, sable, squirrel, needlepoint for fine details and lines
Paints
- Watercolor pigments - I use the following, but please use what you have:
- Schmincke Horadam - 101 titan white
- White Nights - 244 Indian Gold
- Schmincke Horadam - 229 Naples Yellow
- White Nights - 214 Lemon
- Schmincke Horadam - 227 Cadmium Orange Light
- Schmincke Horadam - 655 Yellow Ochre
- White Nights - 324 Quinacridone Rose
- Schmincke Horadam - 348 Cadmium Red Orange
- Schmincke Horadam - 357 Alizarin Crimson
- Schmincke Horadam - 670 Madder Brown
- White Nights - Claret
- White Nights - Violet Rose
- Sennelier - 903 Blue Violet
- Schmincke Horadam - 495 Ultramarine Violet
- Schmincke Horadam - 496 Ultramarin Blue
- Schmincke Horadam - 510 Cobalt Green Turquoise
- Schmincke Horadam - 962 Glacier Turquoise
- Schmincke Horadam - 499 Cobalt Cerulean
- White Nights - 806 Voronez Black
- White Nights - Indigo
- White Nights - Payne’s Gray
- Winsor and Newton Professional - Ivory Black
- White Nights - 528 Royal Blue
- White Nights - 625 Lavender
Pencils
- HB and 6B
Other
- Eraser
- Masking tape
- Masking fluid
- Water bottle
- Water containers
- Paper towels
- Hair dryer
RAINY DAY CITYSCAPE - PART 1
RAINY DAY CITYSCAPE - PART 2
RAINY DAY CITYSCAPE - PART 3
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Today we are featuring the following classes. These courses are full of tools and techniques that will introduce you or help you to brush up on your landscape skills!
I hope you enjoy the freebies! I appreciate you all so much and hope you have an amazing holiday season! See you tomorrow for Day 4!
xoxo
Kara
DAY 2
COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS - DAY 2
Hello Friends!
Today is Day 2 of our Christmas Countdown! Did you enjoy your free video with Sarah? She is an incredible artist and an even more incredible teacher! I highly recommend her courses! If you missed it, just scroll down and you will see Day 1!
During Day 2, we are going to view some videos of Colby Sanford! Colby is one of my favorite artists! I love how he captures life so beautifully! His way of painting is also super accessible and approachable! I hope you enjoy!
This video, along with all coming days, will be only be available through December 25th!
Hugs!
Kara
SMALL STUDIES WITH COLBY SANFORD
Now that we have selected our screenshots of inspiration, we will move into creating small studies. During these lessons, you will learn how I create quick drawings, to later paint. I will also show you how I am often inspired to create multiple studies from one special moment. In the lesson following this, we will move on to painting. I don't spend much time on these small studies, and it is a great way to see if a study can work as a larger, completed painting.
Students will be introduced to the following objectives:
- Create quick drawings to inspire paintings
- Gain inspiration to create multiple studies from one moment
SUPPLIES
Below is a list of the supplies that I will be using for this lesson. However, you are always encouraged to use what you have on hand.
Paint
- Liquitex paint in the following colors:
- Titanium White
- Payne’s Grey
- Burnt Sienna
- Raw Sienna
- Cadmium Yellow
- anything works
Brushes
- Flat brushes in sizes 8, 12 and 1/2”
- Round brushes in sizes 3 and 5)
Paper
- Moleskin “sketch” notebooks - rip out the individual pages)
Miscellaneous
- Spray or spritzer bottle
- Paper Towel
- Tape
- Computer screen
STUDY 1
STUDY 2
STUDY 3
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Today we are featuring the following classes. These courses are full of tools and techniques that will introduce you or help you to brush up on your portrait painting skills!
I hope you enjoy the freebies! I appreciate you all so much and hope you have an amazing holiday season! See you tomorrow for Day 3!
xoxo
Kara
DAY 1
COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS - DAY 1
Hello Friends!
Today begins our very first day of our COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS! I am so excited because we have so many fun freebies scheduled for you all! I just can't wait!
To begin our countdown, we will be sharing a free video from Sarah Sedwick's Class - DYNAMIC STILL LIFE. In the lesson below, Sarah shares how she plans out her paintings using thumbnail sketches! Sarah is an incredible teacher and if you are looking to learn more about painting in oils, or brush up on your skills, Sarah's classes are for you! Today, we are offering 40% off of her classes! Don't miss out on this discount! Enjoy!
This video, along with all coming days, will be only be available through December 25th!
Hugs!
Kara
THUMBNAIL SKETCHES WITH SARAH SEDWICK
Thumbnail sketches are a great way to plan your composition, and make a few important decisions before moving on to your canvas.
We’ll use a viewfinder to visually frame our setup, considering cropping, focal point, and big value shapes - and going over a few simple “do’s and don’ts” of composition.
Using pencil and sharpie marker - or the sketching medium of your choice - you’ll create three small composition plans in different formats, and discuss how to choose the one that appeals to you most - and that will create the most successful painting!
Students will be introduced to the following:
- The purpose and process of making thumbnail sketches
- Sarah's technique of quick sketching with pencil and sharpie marker
- Using cropping and big value shapes to create interesting negative spaces
- How the "Rule of Thirds" helps determine a focal point in your composition
- Reviewing the "Composition Checklist" to catch any potential issues before moving on to your painting
SUPPLIES
THUMBNAIL SKETCHES
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Today we are featuring the following classes. These courses are full of tools and techniques that will introduce you or help you to brush up on your oil painting skills!
I hope you enjoy the freebies! I appreciate you all so much and hope you have an amazing holiday season! See you tomorrow for Day 2!
xoxo
Kara