Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Throw In

Throw in

2011 Summer Workshop, Paint the San Juans

Join us this summer,
Paint the San Juan Islands!



Experience the beauty of San Juan Island while
Expanding painting skills.



Annie's Summer Plein Air painting workshops will cover the basics and nuances of working on location. Friday evening will be devoted to a demonstration and time for questions about materials and techniques. On Saturday and Sunday, artists will set up at different locations each day on San Juan Island.
Artists will sketch, thumbnail, and work to finish a small painting each day. Annie will go from easel to easel giving each artist personalized instruction on their particular view. Endless possibilities abound with San Juan Island's maritime and pastoral views. Workshop sites are one day by the sea, and another at old island farms.
Years of teaching drawing and painting combined with her love of painting her island home, makes Annie's workshops the perfect creative island experience.
Scroll down for online painting demonstration and material list here.
Dates for this year's 3 workshops.
July 15, 16, 17
August 12, 13 14
September 9, 10, 11
Cost $225 per workshop

Overnights available at Nichols Street Suites


Sign up at Funk and Junk Antiques in Friday Harbor, email at anniehowelladams@gmail, or phone at 360 378 2638 in Friday Harbor.

Draw the Portrait March 27th...... In Person or Online

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New Class !!! beginning March 27th, 6 weeks of drawing the portrait from the beginning.
Class will cover the basic steps to render a convincing portrait. Class will help any artist, even if not ultimately interested in portraiture....
"If you can draw a portrait, you can draw anything......."
Each week will cover small incremental step for portrait drawing, we will demystify drawing the portrait by learning these steps:

The Envelope, tilt, the block- in
Setting the Features
Measuring
lights, darks, & edges
Specifics of side, 3/4 and frontal views
anatomy of head,
specifics of eyes, nose and mouth
Emphasis and Composition

Available for online learners. Artists not in Friday Harbor can sign up for this class. I will teach and critique online via gmail. Islanders will meet Sunday morning, 10 am at the Islands Arts League, on Mullis Street. ONline students will receive lessons each week. Cost $72. Sign up in person, Funk & Junk or contact me at anniehowelladams at gmail.com, or first day of class.
Class open to artists of any level.

Blog Assignment #5

This piece of work, my midterm, is my most significant accomplishment. I feel like it, as a whole, is significant because I used so many photoshop tools to create it. I feel like the multiple layers of meaning make it so creative to me. I liked how I started out without a focus because I wasn't sure how to get creative with the big idea of imagination. When I put the dream aspect of the big idea into my project, which was photography and dreams themselves, my imagination started to come into focus a little more. I liked the quote because it had to do with imagination and focus. I liked the fact that focus could give meaning to the photography aspect and the creative aspect itself.

This piece of work, for quiz 4, was the most challenging in the class. The cloning and selecting was the most challenging part for the piece. It was tough trying to clone out Tom Hanks' character on the left side. It was also hard cloning out the previous quote in the middle of the poster. I also had some trouble selecting the man and the baby from a different poster to place into this poster. Before this class I had never really used the masking tool. To select things in the past I would use the magnetic lasso or the regular lasso tool. I found that after this class using the masking tool gives you a more precise selection. I also learned that you can feather the masking selection to smooth out the edges. Before this class getting a precise selection was a little hard for me but now with the tools and techniques I've learned I feel like I can make a pretty good selection. Same goes for the cloning tool. I feel like I have mastered the cloning tool after taking this class.

These are two of my projects that I retouched this quarter. The one on the left was the first one I did. I think the for the first one I was going for a more unreal look while the second one I was trying to make look more real. The first one I made her eyes bigger and overly softened her face. For the one on the right I tried to keep her looking more simple. For both of them I feel like I maybe took away the texture of the face. If I were to retouch another photograph like these I would try to leave some texture in the face. The photograph on the left almost seems dream-like while the one on the right seems more senior picture-like.