Let’s get into color theory today! You’ll be learning all about how to make any color from a base of 3 primaries, secondary colors, intermediate colors, shade, tone, value, and hue in this class. Miss Linda’s color wheel template can be found as a downloadable pdf at the Supplemental Materials Read more…
Today’s class starts us on our colored pencil series. Miss Linda goes over the crucial techniques, and a few new tools, needed to create inspired colored pencil drawings. If you’d like a closer look at Miss Linda’s techniques board, there are pictures below, as well as at the Supplemental Materials Read more…
Let’s start our color journey with a fun and unusual way to make a watercolor picture. We’re going to do it without using paint or sheets of paper, and we’ll be using some of our drawing techniques before we start “painting”! You may remember a similar project, the Burst of Color art class, Read more…
Let’s make some fantastic pictures and patterns using an aluminum embossing technique! If you can get some 36 gauge aluminum craft sheets, they are my favorite material to use for this lesson. If not, just grab some heavy duty aluminum foil or a clean disposable aluminum pie plate; I had Read more…
Let’s have some wild and crazy fun with irregular patterns! Miss Linda uses the Maori koru as inspiration for this week’s lesson, showing you how to combine 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional techniques to make one cool piece of nature-inspired artwork. Miss Linda’s example of her koru inspired artwork is below or Read more…