Drawing and Painting Imaginary Animals: A Mixed-Media Workshop with Carla Sonheim

224 Pages·2012·42.83 MB·English

DRAWING AND PAINTING
IMAGINARY ANIMALS
A MIXED-MEDIA
WORKSHOP WITH
CARLA SONHEIM
Author of Drawing Lab for
Mixed-Media Artists
Photography by Steve Sonheim
contents
AUTHOR’S NOTE
INTRODUCTION
1
SECTION Just MESSING AROUND
Sketchbook Play and Other Nonsense
1 Blobs and Sidewalk Cracks
FINDING ANIMALS AROUND YOU
Exercise #1 Line Blobs
Exercise #2 Coloring Your Blobimals
Exercise #3 Exploring a Single Sidewalk Crack
Mini Gallery
2 Photos and Life
DRAWING ANIMALS AROUND YOU
Exercise #4 Drawing Blast
Exercise #5 Eraser Drawings
Exercise #6 Bits and Pieces
Mini Gallery
3 Memory and Imagination
DRAWING ANIMALS WITHIN YOU
Exercise #7 Scribbles Galore
Exercise #8 Start with an Eye
Exercise #9 Watercolor Blobimals
Mini Gallery
2
SECTION Mixed-Media PROJECTS
Paintings, Artist’s Books, and Other Fun Stuff
4 Oaxacan Dotted Elephant
MORE IS MORE
5 Imaginary Animals
ABSTRACT WATERCOLOR STARTS
6 Junk Mail Creatures Book
GESSO AND WATERCOLOR
7 Watercolor Transfer Animals
IRON-ONS
8 Doggone It!
MESSY COLLAGE
9 Animals In Tape
INSTANT COLLAGE
10 Creatures On Wood, Part I
PUZZLE PAINTINGS
11 Creatures On Wood, Part II
EMBRACING SERENDIPITY
12 Go Fish!
INSTALLATION
13 Wrapped and Tied
3-D FABRIC ANIMALS
3
SECTION Artist’s GALLERY of Inspiration
Featured Artists
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
THANKS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Author’s Note
There’s more than one way to skin DRAW a cat!