Youth A G E S 7- 1 0
AG ES 8 - 1 2
Beginning Cartooning
Acrylic & Oil Painting Studio
Learn the basic drawing skills needed to create cartoon characters
For students who have had some painting experience and are
and stories that are the foundation of successful cartooning.
interested in learning to paint with oil paint (water-based) and/or
Expressive faces and bodies in action will be explored, along with
further explore acrylic paint. Color mixing, light, form, texture and
creative viewpoints and settings. Media include pencil, pen and
composition will be explored.
ink, brush painting, markers and watercolor. Repeating students will have the opportunity to create and work on projects with instructor.
INSTRUCTOR : Karen Kelly LOCATION Youth Art 1, Shadelands Art Center $231: 15 classes
INSTRUCTOR : Staff
Class 35919
LOCATION Youth Art 3, Shadelands Art Center
$10 supply fee due at first class
Tue, Thu 1:30pm-3:30pm
6/20-8/10
No class 7/4
$76: 7 classes
Class 35932
Tue
4:00pm-5:00pm
6/20-8/8
No class 7/4
AG ES 8 - 1 2
Fantastic Animals and How to Draw Them
A G E S 7- 1 0
Tinkering
Let’s venture through the world of fantastic animals and learn
Tinkering is what happens when you try something you don’t quite
Disney, Studio Ghibli and animals from Harry Potter and Pokemon.
know how to do, guided by whim, imagination and curiosity. When
We’ll go through step by step instructions utilizing gesture,
you tinker, there are no instructions--but there are also no failures,
construction, anatomy and technique to explore everything from
no right or wrong ways of doing things. We’ll use real wood, real
anime characters like Totoro’s Cat bus, Pixar dragons, and all
hand tools and your imagination to create contraptions that roll,
things in between. We’ll cover realistic and cartooning techniques
float and move. Our process will start with a doodle, a brainstorm
throughout the course. You provide the imagination and we’ll take
of ideas, and deal with challenges, design and construction of
those fantastic animals and show you how to draw them!
how to draw creatures from all genres. From studios like Pixar,
individual projects.
INSTRUCTOR : Warren Paylado
INSTRUCTOR : Brittany Zagoria
LOCATION Annex A, Shadelands Art Center
LOCATION Youth Art 3, Shadelands Art Center
$34: 3 classes
$82: 8 classes
$15 supply fee due at first class
Class 35992
4:30pm-5:30pm
Thu
Class 36353
Tue
4:00pm-5:00pm
7/25-8/8
6/22-8/10 AG ES 8 - 1 2
AG ES 8 - 1 0
Character Design
Masters & Contemporary Painters Studio
Do you love to draw characters from your favorite cartoons, TV
Visit the works of a different artist each week and examine their
shows, movies, video games or books? We’ll go through step-by-
techniques and methods of working with the medium. Focus
step instructions utilizing Gesture, Construction, Anatomy and
on an important piece of that artist’s body of work. Children
Technique (G.C.A.T.). We’ll explore everything from super heroes,
often find these studies and exercises to be huge confidence
science fiction, fantasy, anime, pop culture and much more!
builders, exposing them to new approaches to their own creative
This class will help with basic anatomy drawings such as hands,
expression. Work in both acrylic and oil paint, selecting artists
hairstyles, clothing, drapery, dynamic posing, setting up shots, etc.
from Michelangelo to Picasso. Completion of Paint Box or a similar
You provide the passion to draw and we’ll do the rest.
class recommended.
INSTRUCTOR : Warren Paylado
INSTRUCTOR : Karen Kelly
LOCATION Annex A, Shadelands Art Center
LOCATION Youth Art 1, Shadelands Art Center
$34: 3 classes
$101: 8 classes
$10 supply fee due at first class
Class 35929
4:00pm-5:30pm
Class 36354
Tue
5:00pm-6:00pm
7/25-8/8
Thu
6/22-8/10
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