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Valley Art Workshop
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The Valley Print Studio is a community workshop dedicated to providing artists with a well-equipped environment for creating fine art prints. They strive to adapt traditional crafts to contemporary image-making and promote environmentally sensitive art production.
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Live Model Portraiture
Through short and long poses, the class will focus on gesture, anatomy, expression, structure, and costume. This is a traditional portraiture class, open to all levels, built around the study of a rotating cast of models. Exercises and media are individualized according to student portfolio requirements and technical objectives. Note: Students will not be able to skip weeks or reschedule classes without the instructor's permission. If a student...
The New Yorker Cartoon
Valley Art Workshop @ 5210 Collier Place, Woodland Hills, CA
Extracting Humor from the Everyday —- Class is indoors, masked, and requires proof of vaccination. — Laura is an illustrator and architect living in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, and Seattle’s The Stranger. Laura is also a 2014 high school graduate of the Valley Art Workshop! In this workshop, Laura gives a presentation on the history and particularities of the New Yorker cartoon, its formula...
$100
Hands & Feet
Valley Art Workshop @ 5210 Collier Place, Woodland Hills, CA
Trouble drawing hands and feet? This is the workshop intensive for you! Hands and feet are famously complicated structures that when done well can seriously elevate figurative work. They are independently interesting subjects that represent our most primordial and refined relationships to the world around us. In this class, students will run through a series of hand and foot drawing exercises designed to emphasize and combine the anatomical, expressive,...
$125
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Live Painting Demo & Talk with Benjamin Björklund
Swedish painter Benjamin Björklund is this summer’s Artist-in-Residence. In addition to producing work through the studio, Ben will host our inaugural artist talk. Ben is young painter from Sweden. He divides his time between London and Uppsala, where he lives in a small rustic 19th century wooden farm house with his Great Dane and muse, Solomon, and a menagerie of pets including rabbits, guinea pigs, mice, and rats. Ben’s home is his...
Procreate for Fine Artists
Valley Art Workshop @ 5210 Collier Place, Woodland Hills, CA
A Creative Intro to Procreate on iPad Procreate is a wonderful iPad app that provides traditional artists an extra set of tools for composing, editing, and mocking up final works. Used broadly in the entertainment and graphic design fields, its ease of use and natural feel have been winning over traditional artists who may be left cold by the more technical interfaces of older graphics technology. With an eye towards traditional drawers and painters,...
$80
Long Pose Life-Drawing Club – Instructed
In this workshop, we provide for focused engagement with professional nude models, at an intimate scale (7 artists, maximum). Instructed students can expect demonstrations and lectures on anatomy, gesture, and the principles of 2-dimensional figure construction. The class is open for adults and ambitious teenagers, at all levels of experience. For instructed students, we will focus on drawing techniques.
Accordion Folded Book & Non-Adhesive Cover
Both the accordion book and the non-adhesive cover are beautiful, folded paper techniques that can be made in a small studio where materials or tools may be limited. Simple to execute, without the use of paste or thread (though you can use both to expand an accordion book), it is a simple and elegant way to express content on two sides that is linear or flowing. The accordion can be displayed in a variety of ways, including as a stand-up structure...
Cyanotype Photography
Valley Art Workshop @ 5210 Collier Place, Woodland Hills, CA
In this class, students will apply the simple chemistry of photo-sensitive iron-salts to create images on both paper and fabric. Through examples and technical guidance, Miles will point in the direction of this medium's tremendous experimental potential on other surfaces and with different kinds of photo-negatives. Cyanotype is an alternative, analog photographic process. It also goes by the names of "blueprint" and "sun print", producing images...
$50
Think In Ink
Valley Art Workshop @ 5210 Collier Place, Woodland Hills, CA
Ink Illustration: Drawing as Risk-Taking This workshop is a 4-hour imagination intensive, designed to put students in touch with the wild edge of their own powers of visualization, and to connect risk-taking to the process of inventive communication. Split into two segments, Ryan will present students with a list of themes and with a group of reference photographs for the creation of two separate and distinct images using the same reference...
$60
Intro to Egg Tempera Painting
Valley Art Workshop @ 5210 Collier Place, Woodland Hills, CA
-Create their own egg tempera paints -Paint beautifully woven layers of egg and color. An introduction to the ancient technique of painting with egg and pigment on panel or paper. This is an inexpensive, do-it-yourself, extremely detail-sensitive, enviro-friendly, non-toxic, and strangely neglected method of weaving color. In this Workshop you will learn:-the history-how to surface and gesso your panels -how to create and apply your...
$25
Monoprint Workshop
Valley Art Workshop @ 5210 Collier Place, Woodland Hills, CA
In this introductory workshop, participants will create various one-of-a-kind monotype prints (up to 11”x15” in size) starting with single color, single plate impressions and gradually moving on to incorporate multiple colors and various press passes. Historically referred to as “the painterly print,” monotype is the only printmaking process intended for creating one unique, unrepeatable impression. Throughout art history this process...
$20
Hardground Etching
In this class, students will sequentially etch a simple drawing on a small copper plate. This allows us to create different quality of line and value, in order to learn the potential of this truly sculptural method of mark-making. Hardground etching is a form of intaglio printmaking. Traditionally, it involves the use of acid to burn lines and textural details into sealed metal plates, in order to create a printing matrix/surface. Adapted in the...
Intro to Monotype
Students will create 5.5" x 7.5" prints starting with single color, single plate impressions and gradually moving on to incorporate multiple colors and various press passes. Monotype is the only printmaking process intended for creating one unique, unrepeatable impression. Throughout art history, this medium has been used as an alternative means of mark making and experimentation. In this process, ink is applied to and removed from a metal or...
Bookbinding: Coptic Style
Valley Art Workshop @ 5210 Collier Place, Woodland Hills, CA
We will go step by step through the sewing, to teach you this time-tested style of book craft! Coptic binding is an ancient style of book making developed by the Christian Copts in Egypt. It's characterized by its decorative sewing, exposed spine, and lay-flat pages. A non-adhesive style, this method requires no glue. Students will learn the sewing structure for the modern Coptic binding and receive the necessary components to make a 5.5" x 4"...
$35
Pop Art Revival: Mixed-Media Monoprinting
Monoprints combine the spontaneity of printed inks and paper, creating a surface that is unlike any other art. Monoprinting is known as the most painterly method among the printmaking techniques. Essentially, a monoprint is a printed painting. They key characteristic of this method is that no two prints are alike; although images can be similar, editioning is impossible. The charm of the monoprint lies in the unique translucency that creates a quality...
Egg Tempera Painting
In this class, students will learn all of the proper techniques to begin painting with eggs in a durable, traditional manner. Each student will work on a 5" x 7" prepared panel. Egg Tempera is a classic form of paint, composed of water, pigment, and egg yolk. This simple chemistry was adopted widely by Eastern European icon painters of the 1st millennium and Western European artists of the 2nd millennium. During the Renaissance, egg tempera was...
Linoleum Relief Printing
Linoleum block printing is a form of relief, the oldest kind of printmaking. Carve a linoleum surface to produce a printing block, then use on different kinds of paper to explore the range of looks and the quality of multiples that this method can provide. Invented in China, woodblock printing dates back to 220 A.D. A few famed artists who have worked with relief printing are Albrecht Durer, Paul Gauguin, Kathe Kollwitz, Edvard Munch and Hokusai....
Ink Portrait Sketching
Draw from a live model! This class is open to any level of portrait-drawing experience. Ink brush and wash techniques have been a common sketching technique for centuries. The quickness and lightness of the method allows for an elegance and flow that pencils or ballpoint pens do not permit. Ink's permanence turns the drawing into a kind of successive game, where each line must work with and against others to create space, volume, and tension. Students...
Long Pose Life-Drawing Club – Uninstructed
The class is open for adults and ambitious teenagers, at all levels of experience. For uninstructed artists, we welcome most any drawing, painting, and small-scale sculpting media.
Long-Pose Life Drawing
Valley Art Workshop @ 5210 Collier Place, Woodland Hills, CA
We're creating an intimate setting for a concentrated study of the figure. This is not offered at most other workshops around LA. One of the special features of this drawing group is that we are going for 5-12 hour poses over multiple weeks. 30 minutes of short poses & a 2.5 hour finisher. Bring your own drawing and painting materials. We welcome all questions.
$15
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