zine camp
I recently led a workshop on making zines as part of a professional development class at University of Southern Maine, called Building Literacy Through the Arts. John Holdridge, lead facilitator and senior consultant with the the Arts Literacy Project, had already jazzed up a group of educators, with mark-making, physical movement and performance, and poetry sessions. I arrived with my stash of zine-making supplies at Kaler Elementary School, rarin’ to go. I began by sharing my collection of zines, many of them created by Maine College of Art illustration students in my Illustration 2...
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One sunny Saturday seven artists filled swell sketchbooks by the sea. Yes, they did! I joined up with Maine College of Art CS faculty, Judy Labrasca, to lead a sketchbook class along the ocean side of Peaks Island. She ferried over with students from the mainland, doing quick contour sketches on the boat. We gathered in the ferry shelter to introduce ourselves, choose papers and sketchbooks, and get these nifty watercolor sets Judy made, complete with brush pens. We walked to Sandy Beach, where the tide was too high to see any beach, but everyone found a spot on the rocks. Anne did a...
Read Moredrawing with color
Peaks Island’s TEIA club house, above, is a daily view upon walks with the dog. It’s a well-loved setting for sailing, tennis, weddings, and cultural events. I was honored to lead a workshop, Drawing With Color, last week. We gathered on the porch for a discussion of the color wheel, examples of the relativity of color, color contrasts and associative properties. I shared my favorite books about Monet, Connie Hayes, Wolf Kahn, Fairfield Porter, Matisse, and Alex Katz, all masters of color. I laid out a selection of pastel varieties and papers of various textures, asking them to...
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