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Digital Photography Live In-the-Field @ Liberty Station
Digital Photo Academy @ 2816 Historic Decatur Rd , San Diego, CA
Join us for an immersive photography experience at Liberty Station. Enhance your skills and capture stunning images in a real-world setting. Learn from expert instructors and elevate your photography game.
Sat, Jul 20th, 11am–2pm PDT
(3 hours)
Digital Photography Live In-the-Field @ Coronado Island
Digital Photo Academy @ 1100 Orange Ave, San Diego, CA
Unleash your creativity and capture the breathtaking beauty of Coronado Island through the lens of your camera. Join our expert instructor for an immersive photography experience that will transform your perspective and enhance your skills. Get ready to discover the hidden gems and iconic sights of this stunning location like never before.
Sat, Aug 17th, 11am–2pm PDT
(3 hours)
Digital Photography Live In-the-Field @ East Village
Digital Photo Academy @ 905 J St, San Diego, CA
Discover the hidden beauty of San Diego's East Village Industrial area through the lens of a camera in this captivating photography course. Immerse yourself in the whimsical charm of old and new architecture, capturing compelling street portraiture and unique angles. Unleash your creativity and elevate your photography skills in this hands-on experience.
Sat, Oct 19th, 11am–2pm PDT
(3 hours)
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Prima Materia Workshop: Learn to Paint in 1 Day
Prima Materia Institute @ 3350 Sports Arena Blvd, San Diego, CA
The Prima Materia Learn to Paint Workshop is a 6-hour immersive, eye-opening workshop that will awaken your creativity and you will see and paint like an artist. You will start and finish 10 paintings, from silhouetted figures in front of a city scene to a decorative bowl filled with colorful fruit plus a seascape complete with boats and seagulls and much, much more. Impossible? Not when you know the secrets to stimulate your right brain and...
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Composing Your Artistic Voice: Watercolor Workshop
This workshop with internationally-recognized artist, Chuck McPherson, is for painters that seek more from their artwork. Strong composition lends a "voice" to your art that can turn heads. Once you have created an attractive composition, it's all about the fun of painting. You will learn how glazing brings attitude, emotion, and depth to your work. His methods will help you find “your true voice” and improve your stylistic goals. Workshoppers...
Gestural Life Drawing Workshop
Explore fluidity and movement in figure drawing using your whole body, not just your hand, and learn to capture a pose quickly—with energy! In this workshop, you will be introduced to the history of gestural drawing and why it is fundamental to capturing the human form. Students will create several sketches of a live clothed model. Gain experience, confidence, and knowledge with how to draw from life and capture the human body. Great for beginning...
Color Scheme Harmony 2-week Workshop
Art on 30th @ 4434 30th Street, San Diego
In this workshop, we'll be using what we learned in Color Mixing Basics and use it to explore how to: identify color schemes choose colors that don't fight with each other recognize that the appearance of color depends on its surroundings arrange colors to discover the logic behind their interaction use transitional tones to unify colors ...and more! 2 Week Workshop Info: All supplies provided in class fee All skill levels...
Abstract Trompe L'Oeil
Abstract Trompe L'Oeil is an illusionistic technique that will trick viewers into thinking objects are floating above your canvas. If you love contemporary art, you'll enjoy this class. The three day workshop will give you enough time to create a refined painting of our own that will impress your friends. Part 1 - Learn about trompe l'oeil through examples, demonstrations, and a hands on project. Create a study to learn how dimension...
Online Summer Art Camp: Five Approaches to Portraiture
The virtual tour of the Masters: Rouault, Picasso, El Greco, Dumas, and Warhol, will introduce each Master’s approach and explain the steps of their unique technique. Such a diverse array of masters will enlighten you about the genesis of personal style, and encourage you to dive into each distinctive technique – with the objective to develop the style of your own. Supply List: For Drawing 9x12in Drawing pad (or any size you’d like) Set...
Online Summer Art Camp: Lions, Tigers, and Bear Dogs
Online Summer Art Camp: Lions, Tigers, and Bear Dogs, Oh My! Dogs, horses, cats, parrots, hamsters, ducks, and pigs - and whoever else you take care of or share your home with - create their portraits on canvas or paper. You can choose any five of your favorite animals (domestic or wild) that you’d love to learn to draw or paint, get ready to create their likeness with these professional techniques. Supply List: For Drawing 9x12in Drawing pad...
Online Summer Art Camp:Extraordinary Desserts on Canvas
Become a creator of something that everyone wants - the desserts that no one can say no to. Learn a technique of how to paint and draw cakes - as a treat to yourself, a visual delight for your kitchen or dining room, or as a unique gift for your family or friends for any special occasion. Supply List: For Drawing 9x12in Drawing pad (or any size you’d like) Set of drawing materials (the set does not include drawing pad) Workable Fixative Spray ...
Online Summer Art Camp: The Next Shiny Object
This expression is often used as a metaphor for “getting easily distracted”, but we will take it literally. Learn to paint and draw shiny objects - that are considered to be only possible to the “professional level” of skills: silver and gold, highly polished surfaces, sparkling eyes, and raindrops on leaves or flower petals. Find out how easy it is to create the shine - it is the technique that makes it possible: after these five days...
Online Summer Art Camp: Great Masters
Online Summer Art Camp: Great Masters, Meet Contemporary Teens Paintings by the Great Masters are awesome. They will teach us how to compose, draw, and paint realistically. Recreate their work in your own way, invite their characters into the 21st century, treat them with our fast food, give them a box of french fries and a coke, hand them a cell phone, earphones, a player, and a pair of sneakers, and let them wear your beanie. Transform that historic...
Out of Chaos: Principles of Composition 2-week Workshop
In this 2-week workshop, we will be exploring the Principles of Composition to create successful abstract art. “Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for color, and that you be a true poet. The last is essential.” ~Wassily Kandinsky While creating abstract art is a highly intuitive process that takes practice to master, there is a “method to the madness”...
How to Draw Plants
Would you like to feel confident when drawing plants? Nancy will teach you the steps to drawing petals and leaves through skeletal structure, fleshing in, correcting your illustration through a layering process. You'll learn tips and tricks such as how to draw a curling leaf or petal, symmetry, and more. We'll work in graphite pencil during this three-hour class. You leave with the fundamentals of plant drawing approaches which can be applied to...
Children's Picture Book Illustrations
Begin your journey into the world of picture books with author and illustrator, Andrea Zuill! This is a fun 2-part workshop: Part One - Picture book facts and business Part Two - Creating artwork for picture books Supply List: Sketchpad, any size Pen for taking notes and drawing Please Note: All skill levels welcome Students are encouraged to bring a drink and snacks Student parking available in back lot
Faux Watercolor with Acrylics 2-Week Workshop
Try your hand at fluid washes and watercolor techniques using only acrylic paints and mediums! Drips, spatters, staining, and washes...they draw us in and transport us to our favorite beaches, rivers, and lakes. I love these techniques because it allows for the colors to have such depth and luminosity with little effort. Learn how to create quick and easy abstracts on canvas using special effects that are typically used in watercolors. Students...
Colorful Coastal Landscapes
Learn to paint the California Coastline using Joe's approach to color: bright, bold and unexpected! In this workshop, you’ll learn the artist's specific techniques and how to take an ordinary image and transform it into something extraordinary. Learn about valuable art principles and important techniques focused on cliffs, water, skies, etc., while we work through and complete a finished piece. Paint from supplied reference images or bring your...
Abstract Drawing: Level 1
Art on 30th @ 4434 30th St, San Diego, CA
This is not your grandmother's drawing class. Get loose in this unconventional drawing class using a variety of drawing tools and materials on paper. The earliest civilizations created abstractions through shapes and pattern. The 20th Century brought abstract art to Western culture through Fauvism, Cubism, and Abstract Expressionism. Abstract Drawing extended the creative practices performed throughout history. Drawing is a way for anyone, regardless...
True to You: Find Your Personal Color Palette Workshop
We all have our favorites...but how do you choose color combinations that are true to your artistic visual voice and that won't fight each other on the canvas? How do you mix colors that are custom and unique, yet recognizable to viewers as being made by you? In this workshop, we'll discover more about ourselves as artists, color mixing, exciting "color contrasts," and goof-proof color harmonies. Be prepared to learn a lot, not only about color...
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