10 AM Roy de Vries- Learn to paint with Windsor & Newton Oil Bar
Roy was our first mentor, We started the day experimenting with oil bars, a mix between big oil pastels and oil paint. They allow for playfulness and immediate gratification, while lending themselves to interesting blending and the joy of an oil painting without all the cleanup and threatened muddyness.
First experiment with oil bars. Can't wait to pair this up with a poem.
11 AM Valerie Henderson- Hands on Monoprint Workshop
'Stretching' the ink onto the plexiglass.
Removing the ink, working on negative space and texture with toothpicks and cutips.
The result: the spent plexiglass, the image and its ghost. I love prints and textures. Ready to be a designer for Ikea now;)
12 PM Lisa Starace- Screenprinting Demo
1 PM Marcy Gordon- Water Color.
Learning new watercolor techniques: wetting selecting areas of the drawing, alternating petals in this case, allows the water to have 'boundaries' and results in more controlled bleeding and blending.
3 PM San Diego Guild of Puppetry- Overhead Shadow Puppetry: Tips and Techniques.
Shadow puppetry ...what a magical workshop. Here are my first movable 'puppets': a chicken and a worm/dragon. This was pure fun and I started thinking about shadow puppetry for architectural application (a city skyline to start a journey into form exploration).
The back of the puppets. Lots of work goes into making the moveable parts seamless and invisible.
4 PM Chris Warren- Laptop Musicianship.
5 PM Jennifer Bennet- Collaborative Linoleum Print.
My first linoleum print since art school. Miss carving.
8 PM Colette Plush- A Visual Interpretation of a Sentence.
My starting sentence.
We followed a pretty elaborate process in choosing various hardware and found objects from various mounds, according to the number of words, adjective , verbs, the color of our sentence...
The end product.
I attended these workshops two Sundays ago at SD Space for Art. It was incredible, a whole day of art, a sort of ‘intervention’ that every creative should undergo at least once a year.
I apologize for the delay in posting this, and for going a bit M.I.A. Fall Semester has started at my school and while there is new energy and new purpose in the air — and I’m excited for the History of Architecture class– there just seemed to not be enough hours in the day lately.
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