Supply List
Artist's Toolbox
Lyric Kinard, Instructor
Sample exercises
This class involves time spent observing and absorbing your visual environment, then doing some quick exercises in both paper and fabric to give you hands-on experience with what you have learned. The difference between taking this class and simply buying a book is the feedback you will get from the instructor and the things you will learn from your interaction with the other students.
SUPPLIES
- 8x10 or larger sketchbook
- pencils (anything you have around or treat yourself to a 6B artists pencil)
- Ink pens (any black pen or treat yourself to a Pigma, Faber-Castell or Prismacolor black India ink artist's pen)
- glue stick
- paper scissors
- fabric scraps
- basic sewing supplies (scissors are a must, the rest are optional)
- a willingness to learn and share!
Optional Supplies
- Art + Quilt: Design Principles and Creativity Exercises by Lyric Kinard
- digital camera
OUTLINE
Lesson One
We will work on
- acquiring the skills of an artist
- silencing your inner critic
- making time for art
- the basic principles of
- texture
- line
- shape
- paper exercises for texture, shape and line
- cloth exercises for actual texture, visual texture, shape and line
- bonus exercise: blind contour drawing
Lesson Two
We will explore the elements of color and value
- look at the 12 step color wheel
- learn about color schemes
- monochromatic
- triadic
- complementary
- analogous
- polychromatic
- explore value as a tool
- practice with exercises
- paper
- find and name color schemes in the world around you
- tear out a magazine ad and analyze the color scheme
- look at artwork and find the values
- cloth
- inventory your stash by color
- test color interactions with 1" and 2" squares
- test value interactions with 1" and 2" squares
- paper
Lesson Three
Our objective this week is to understand the principles of
- unity
- variety
- focal point
- balance
We will then do exercises both with paper and cloth
- look at works of art to study
- unity
- focal point
- balance
- cloth compositions
- using proximity
- where one element is repeated to create unity
- with main focal point
- with asymmetrical balance
Lesson Four
We will look at the principles of
- scale
- proportion
- depth and space
- size
- overlap
- vertical placement
- perspective
- rhythm and motion
We will also complete
- paper exercises
- sketch interior and exteriors of buildings
- examine ads for use of proportion and scale
- trace perspective lines in landscapes or artwork
- take pictures of things that have rhythm in them
- draw sketches of patterns that create rhythm
- four cloth exercises
You may check the Class Supply Glossary in the Library for generic descriptions of products that may be sold under various names in different countries.
If you have trouble finding your supplies locally in the US, many of our items are available online at Batiks Etcetera & Sew What Fabrics. International students can check our Class Supply Sources.