Expressive Drawing for Visual Journalists
$75
Juliana Coles
Student Level: No prior experience necessary but a certain level of self awareness will be expected
We can all draw, though it may not be how we expect it or how we think it should look. So we are convinced we can’t do it. We’re not good at it. We don’t know how. We can’t draw a stick figure. We can’t draw even a straight line. It’s time I show you otherwise, because drawing a straight line has nothing to do with expression. The Visual Journalist uses drawing in order to document the world around her- not to be great or render a perfect image. There’s little life in that. Drawing is just note taking. Drawing is research. Drawing is learning to see and to make comparisons between this and that. A scratch here, a line there, that we carve through our years and smear across the pages of our Visual Journal. This is not drawing 101. We will not be learning to draw crumpled bags, still lifes, shading a box, or any other boring mechanical drawing exercise taught in art school. I am going to challenge you to redefine what drawing is and how it should look while you learn to make marks in your own unique style, in your own strange and beautiful hand through my pioneering methods of Expressive Drawing. Your drawings will not look like mine: they will look like your own.
Supply List:
Your Visual Journal (A blank book, sketchbook, altered book or any book or journal you are currently working on. Size and paper stock is up to you. Working in a book is all important to the Visual Journaling process so please do not show up with random pieces of paper to bind later.)
Your favorite supplies or your traveling mixed media tool kit.
Your favorite glue - I love big UHU gluesticks.
Scissors .
Various brushes for your paints, including a 1/4 inch brush.
A rag or two.
A jar for water.
All Visual Journalists should have a set of rubber stamp letters and numbers.
I highly recommend Staz On stamp pads because we work so quickly.
acrylic paint- any brand, any color in at least two colors, one light one & one dark (cheap craft paints like Anita’s brand are fine).
At least two brush markers in different colors- black would be good.
A graphite pencil- regular old number two is fine, but I highly recommend you can get to an art store get an ebony pencil, or a 6B, or a graphite stick (not charcoal)- just make sure that you have some wet items and some dry items.
Writing pen- whatever kind is your favorite.
Eraser, the one on the bottom of your pencil will work- or one of those pink pearls ( my favorite).
A magazine to cut up.
China Markers.
Water color crayons in at least three different colors ( no oil sticks or water based oil sticks like portfolio - it needs to make a clear hard line- not smudgy).
Some random collage items (copies of things that are precious.)
Questions? Email Juliana at Juliana@meandpete.com
Web site: www.meandpete.com
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