Illustrating Books with Prints

Course Details
  • Course Number FGC-2463-A
  • Day(s) TH
  • Dates Jun 13 - Aug 15
  • Hours 06:00PM - 10:00PM
  • Ceus 3.50
  • Cost 470.00
  • Additional Fees 145.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 133/141 West 21st Street

Description

How to use printmaking as a viable approach for illustrating magazines and fine books is the focus of this course. Students will be introduced to basic etching and monoprint techniques, including hard ground, soft ground, aquatint and color printing. Students will be encouraged to select or develop a story and then to illustrate it with the techniques they find most interesting. Artists past and present who used printmaking as an illustration technique will be discussed and studied.

Instructor

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Silkscreen for Illustrators

Course Details
  • Course Number FGC-2531-A
  • Day(s) S
  • Dates Jun 15 - Aug 17
  • Hours 02:00PM - 06:00PM
  • Ceus 3.50
  • Cost 470.00
  • Additional Fees 145.00
  • Status Canceled
  • Location 133/141 West 21st Street

Description

This course is for those interested in both silkscreen and drawing. Students will learn the process off silkscreen as well as various methods of making color separations to optimize their drawings for the medium. Starting from hand-drawn and digital images, separation techniques for both opaque and transparent color will be explored. Projects include posters, mini-comics, postcards, T-shirts and zine covers.

Instructor

Sara Varon

Illustrator

Education:

BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; MFA, School of Visual Arts

Books include:

Bake Sale, Chicken and Cat, Chicken and Cat Clean Up, Sweaterweather, Robot Dreams

Clients include:

The New York Times, Nickelodeon magazine, Scholastic, First Second Books, Unicef, Walker Art Center, Roaring Brook Press

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Making It Real

Course Details
  • Course Number ILC-2334-A
  • Day(s) W
  • Dates Jun 05 - Aug 14
  • Hours 06:00PM - 09:30PM
  • Ceus 3.50
  • Cost 540.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Canceled
  • Location 133/141 West 21st Street

Description

This course will teach you all you need to know to create fully three-dimensional illuminated paintings of the world around you. It is perfect for beginners and will prove of great value to more advanced painters. It explores how to make an image pop off the canvas or a landscape recede into the blue and hazy distance. It will teach you how to made a head really solid and dimensional, the eyes really liquid and the jewelry sparkle. Students will explore the means by which an image can be made to appear more real than real itself. They will discover how color, tone and paint techniques can be combined to produce an image of dazzling reality. We will examine various options of underpainting, color and tonal systems, as well as some of the more amazing games that can be played with shadows and reflections. Studio work will be from the figure and still life. Assignments include the use of a variety of sources from landscape to photography.
NOTE: A complete supply list will be distributed at the first session.

Instructor

John Parks

Painter

Education:

BFA, Hull College of Art; MA, Royal College of Art, London

Exhibitions include:

Coe Kerr Gallery; Allan Stone Gallery; Segal Gallery; Wonderlich Gallery; Royal Academy, London

Clients include:

CBS Records, New York magazine, Franklin Mint

Publications include:

The New York Times, American Artist, Watercolor

Collections include:

Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Royal College of Art, London

Awards include:

National Endowment for the Arts, British Institute Award, Pears Portrait Commission

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The Business of Art: How to Plan, Launch and Grow a Creative Business

Course Details
  • Course Number PDC-3499-A
  • Day(s) T
  • Dates Jun 11 - Jul 16
  • Hours 06:30PM - 08:30PM
  • Ceus 1.00
  • Cost 270.00
  • Additional Fees 0.00
  • Status Open
  • Location 136 West 21st Street

Description

This course is presented from the perspective of a creative talent contemplating life as a founding business owner or equity business partner. We will examine the key steps required to launch and sustain a creative agency/business organization. How best to navigate the building of your organization from start-up to "going concern" will be the focus. Students will be encouraged to think beyond the creative mindset and learn the basics necessary to successfully lead and manage a business, including operating systems, marketing, human resources, sales, finance, legal and other sensitivities critical to the sustainability of any organization. The components of an actual business plan for a successful creative agency will be identified and discussed, and we will then engage in the development of a business plan for a mock creative services organization. Skill sets and attributes necessary to becoming a successful business owner will also be addressed.

Instructor

Steve Cranford

Chief executive officer, Whisper

Education:

BS, Pittsburg State University; JD, Washburn University

Clients include:

BigBand Networks, Qantas Airways, NBC Universal, Seagram International, AccuWeather, March of Dimes

Publications include:

Financial Post, Fast Company

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