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Creative Essentials – Line and Color Workshop By Penelope Rolland The workshop is designed for all levels of artistic experience. It is open to anyone who wishes to develop or enrich their creative skills, and to beginner or advanced art students who feel the need to improve their technical skills as well as reinforce their creative potential. This intensive 5 day course intends to bring out a range of original tools and techniques that will strengthen observation and line drawing skills, intensify color sensitivity, enhance composition, and propose the manufacture of sourcebooks for research and preparatory work. The multiple forms of expression that collaborate together as a whole throughout the course provide a vibrant and innovative approach of artistic practice, generating a new vitalized creative energy. Learning outcomes: Through the reinforcement of visual perception skills, the enhancement of colour awareness, and new insights on how the creative process actually works, students will reveal their genuine artistic potential and uniqueness, thus allowing them to pursue their art practices with greater passion and confidence. DAY 1: Introducing the creative process. Defining, understanding and illustrating the 5 different stages of the creative process (accordion book 1). Creative cycles in nature. Line drawing fundamentals1 understanding L mode and R mode. Upside down drawings. Color scheme1. DAY 2: Line drawing fundamentals 2 contour drawing and the perception of edges. Free drawing1 translating feelings and emotions (accordion book 2). Introducing color. Color proportionality and interaction. Color symbolism. DAY 3: Line drawing fundamentals 3 negative space. Free drawing 2 problem solving. Feeling and perceiving color, lighting effects. Color mood. Color portraits (accordion book 3). DAY 4: Sketchbook and sourcebook bookbinding. DAY 5: Line drawing fundamentals 4 sighting relationships (angles and proportions), Free drawing 3 line and color. Color scheme 2. Special project. The course will run from 10 am to 12:30 pm and from 2PM to 4 PM. The last half hour of each day will be dedicated to class discussion. I will be available for one to one appointments with students every day at 12:30 pm. Students are welcome to contact me atpeneloperolland@gmail.com Cost: The price of this 5 day intensive program is 800QAR   Recommended tools and work materials: Drawing: plain medium size sketchbook, 2b, 8b pencils, sharpener, pens, china ink, bamboo reeds Color: assorted paint brushes, tempera or acrylic, assorted watercolors or inks, color pencils Bookbinding: cutting mats, cuter, cardboard, printed or plain cotton fabrics for book covers, old magazines, large sheets of paper 50x65cm (white, color, recycled...) paper needles and thread, bone folder, plastic or bookbinding glue DAY1 Morning (10 AM – 12:30 PM)Presentation of the workshopIntroducing the creative processDefining and understanding the 5 stages : insight, saturation, incubation, illumination, verification3 accordeon booksIllustrating the 5 different stages of the creative process (accordeon book 1)Creative cycles in Nature.   Afternoon (2 PM – 4:30 PM)Line drawing fundamentals 1 understanding L mode and R modeUpside down drawingsFlowers on day 1 (Color scheme 1)   Last 30 minutes dedicated to class discussion and assignments Research and reference artists: Betty Edwards, Ingres, Carole Benzaken, Gérard Gasiorowski, Edouard Manet. DAY2 Morning (10 AM – 12:30 PM)Line drawing fundamentals 2 contour drawing and the perception of edges Freedrawing 1translating feelings and emotions (accordeon book 2)   Afternoon (2 PM – 4:30 PM)Introducing colorColor proportionality and interactionColor symbolism Last 30 minutes dedicated to class discussion and assignments Research and reference artists : Josef Albers, Henri Matisse, Itten, Bram van Velde     DAY3 Morning (10 AM – 12:30 PM)Line drawing fundamentals 3 negative spaceFree drawing 2 problem solving   Afternoon (2 PM – 4:30 PM)Feeling and perceiving color, lighting effectsColor moodColor portrait (accordeon book 3) Last 30 minutes dedicated to class discussion and assignments Research and reference artists : Bridget Riley, Wolfgang Laib, Dan Flavin, Louise Bourgeois, Paul Rand, Claude Monet. DAY4 FULL DAY SOURCE BOOK BOOKBINDING Last 30 minutes dedicated to class discussion and assignments DAY5 Morning (10 AM – 12:30 PM)Line drawing fundamentals 4 sighting relationships (angles and proportions) •Free drawing 3 line and color Afternoon (2 PM – 4:30 PM)Flowers on day 5 (Color scheme 2)Special project Final hour dedicated to student art work and class discussion Research and reference artists : Egon Schiele, Giuseppe Penone, Pierre Bonnard, James Whisler, Ellsworth Kelly, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly.     References : La Psychologie de la couleur, Eva Heller The Art and Science of Creativit,y George F. Kneller A Technique for Producing Ideas, James Webb Young The Creative Journal, Lucia Capacchione Drawing on the Artist Within, Betty Edwards Colour in Art, John Gage Colour and Meaning, John Gage The Pleasure in Drawing, Jean Luc Nancy Undesrtanding Color, Linda Holtzschue Color, Betty Edwards Interaction of Color, Josef Albers Visual Thinking, Rudolf Arnheim Art and Visual Perception, Rudolf Arnheim   Workshop package total Fee: 800 QAR To register, contact us at: Katara Art Studios Tel: 44080235 or 44080233 education@katara.net