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10am Pacific Time
10am Pacific Time
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Flora and Fauna: Cardinal Bird
with Kristin Frost
10:00am – 12:00pm PT | PASSWORD: DJ2020
Come learn to draw a striking Cardinal bird in colored pencil, and finish with a bold watercolor background. A perfect choice for this festive season!
Supply List
One sheet of watercolor or mixed media paper
Watercolor paints
Watercolor brushes
Water container
Paper towels or rag
Colored pencils
Pencil
Eraser
Pencil sharpener
Blue or painter’s tape
Demo Via Zoom
Like the demo? Join Kristin for her Winter Class “Drawing the Landscape” starting in January!
Sculpting a Sketch of the Human Figure
with Elijah Evenson
10:00am – 1:00pm PT | PASSWORD: DJ2020
Using clay and wire, we will create a sketch of a small figure from reference.
Supply List
10lbs J-Mac clay (other clays are acceptable)
3 feet of aluminum wire: 16 gauge
12″x12″ wooden base
Sculpting tools
Drawing the Figure with Digital Charcoal
with Gary Faigin
10:30am – 12:30pm PT | PASSWORD: DJ2020
A Demonstration from block-in to final rendering!
Gage Artistic Director Gary Faigin demonstrates how the same principals that apply to analog figure drawing translate to the digital domain. Using tools that are the equivalent of “digital charcoal”, Faigin progresses from a basic block-in of a standing figure, to a summary of the tonal relationships, and then rendering with more detail and luminosity. Audience members can follow along using charcoal on bond paper, the closest analog equivalent.
Supply List
Soft Vine Charcoal
18” x 24” Bond Paper Pad
ChamoisKneaded eraser
Small pencil sharpener or sandpaper pad
Demo Via Zoom
Like the demo? Join Gary for his Art Talk Series “New Sensibilities” underway now!
And check out his renowned Atelier program!
Digital Open Studio
with Live Models
All Day! | PASSWORD: DJ2020
Artists from Gage and the community are invited to work independently from a live, costumed model, practicing drawing, painting, or sculpting the figure.
Like the demo? Join our “Year-round Open Studios” underway now!
11am Pacific Time
11am Pacific Time
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Miano Method Portrait Painting
with Charles Miano
11:00am – 2:00pm PT | PASSWORD: DJ2020
Demonstration and Paint Along!
Miano’s method blends a perfect balance of an abstract, free approach with traditional studio technique. Unleash your power of personal expression while maintaining the beauty and naturalness of realism.With Miano’s sculptural and mass-oriented approach, you will see how you can reach your full potential by following a clear process.
In this demonstration you will learn 3- simple stages of making a portrait painting.
They are:
1. How to Block- in a strong DESIGN using “dead color”
2. How to Mass- in COLOR HARMONY using a system of values
3. How to Model forms sculpturally while expressing the LIGHT EFFECT
Learn to solve the problem of how to “draw sculpturally with the brush” while maintaining color relationships. He will teach you the techniques to practice when working from nature.You’ll also get a taste of what he will be teaching in his upcoming workshop at Gage!
Reference Photo: Click HERE
Supply List
Oil Colors – Colors are listed in the order they appear on the palette, from left to right
- Viridian
- Ultramarine Blue
- Ivory Black
- Raw Umber
- Transparent Oxide Red
- Alizarin Crimson
- Venetian Red
- Cadmium Scarlet
- Cadmium Orange
- Indian Yellow
- Yellow Ochre
- Cadmium yellow
- Titanium White
- Bristle and Mongoose brushes – Flats and Filberts – variety of sizes, #2 – #12 (Miano Rosemary Set)
- Large Palette (Miano Mostro Palette)
- Canvas: cotton or linen 16”x20” – Miano tones his canvas with an imprimatura of earth tones
Demo Via Zoom
Like the demo? Join Charles for his Spring Workshop “Portrait Painting” in April!
Winter Watercolor Landscape
with Willow Heath
11:00am – 12:30pm PT | PASSWORD: DJ2020
Watch or paint along with artist Willow Heath as she paints a winter watercolor landscape complete with happy little trees, special effects, and snow speckled mountains.
Supply List
1Watercolor paper
Watercolor paints
1 round fine tip #3-6 paint brush
1 flat 1/2 wash brush
Artist’s tapePencil
Paper towel
A teaspoon of sea salt
Gilding: The Art of Metallic Appliques
with Artist & Craftsman
11:00am – 11:45am PT | PASSWORD: DJ2020
Supply List
Metal leaf (we will be using imitation on our end), gold, silver, variegated, etc.
Gilding Size AKA gilding adhesive
One, small soft brush (preferably one that you don’t mind wrecking)
I recommend a small round or angle brush (size 2-6)
One, coarse, natural bristle brush
A cup of water
Items to gild
Book covers, frames, ornaments, works of art, statuettes, etc.
Stencils, traceable items, image references for your designs
Demo Via Zoom
Digital Open Studio
with Live Models
All Day! | PASSWORD: DJ2020
Artists from Gage and the community are invited to work independently from a live, costumed model, practicing drawing, painting, or sculpting the figure.
Like the demo? Join our “Year-round Open Studios” underway now!
12pm Pacific Time
12pm Pacific Time
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Learn to Draw Hands in Trois Crayon
with Patricia Watwood
12:00pm – 1:30pm PT | PASSWORD: DJ2020
This drawing demonstration will teach key details for understanding the structure and landmarks in the hands, while exploring the beauty of working in “Trois Crayon.” A Trois Crayon drawing uses sanguine (earth red), black and white pencils on a toned paper, a lovely traditional style that create subtle life-like tones and dimensional form on paper. Learn how to organize the values of these materials into light and shadow, and make a lovely study of that important, elegant and pesky detail of drawing— the hands.
Click numbers for Reference Photos: 1, 2, 3
Supply List
Demo Via ZoomArtist will be using oil/wax type pencils (similar to a colored pencil)
White: Prismacolor White PC938
Red: Faber-Castell Indian Red #9201-192 or Cretacolor Sanguine Oil #2 (462 02)
Black: Cretacolor Nero Pencil Medium #3
Paper: A light grey, tan, light brown, or light blue paper like Canson Mi-Tiente in Sky Grey, or Flannel Grey or similar (use the smooth side)
Kneaded eraser
White vinyl eraser
Sharpener and sanding block or similar
Demo via Zoom!
Papermaking Made Easy
with Artist & Craftsman
12:15pm – 1:00pm PT | PASSWORD: DJ2020p
Recycling Paper Scraps with Arnold Grummer’s Products.
Supply List
Arnold Grummer’s 5 ½ ”x 8 ½ ” Pour Handmold
Unwanted paper scraps from around your home (in various colors!)
Keep in mind that the paper you use will determine what paper you get out i.e. tissue paper will yield thin, translucent sheets whereas envelopes and cardstock will give you heavier, water resistant paper
An old blender (I have a designated papermaking blender that I picked up at Goodwill, you won’t necessarily want to use this one for shakes after making paper with it)
A deep (6”-10” high) tub of water.
This will hold your pouring mold and must be at large enough to hold it’s 5 ½” x 8 ½“ frame with some room along the edges
Demo Via Zoom
1pm Pacific Time
1pm Pacific Time
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Creature Design for Comics
with Jonathan Tune
1:00pm – 4:15pm PT | PASSWORD: DJ2020
Learn the basics of designing interesting creatures, from dogs to dragons! We’ll talk about silhouettes, skeletons, and gesture sketching.
Supply List
Printer paper or sketchbook
Pen and pencil
Demo via Zoom!
Like the demo? Join Jonathan for his Winter Teen Class “Comics Challenge” starting in February!
Sculpting Demo Process and Q&A
with Alessandro Gallo
1:00pm – 3:00pm PT | PASSWORD: DJ2020p
This 2 hour workshop will focus on Ceramics, hand-building and figuration and aims at sharing both techniques and ideas behind my work. Alessandro will give an overview of his approach from start to finish, focusing on:
-Reference preparation
-Building an armature
-Hand-building solid
-Cutting, Hollowing and putting everything back together.
-Firing
-Finishing
He will be using videos to document his process, and quick demos to highlight tricks and talk about specific tools and materials. Throughout the second half, he will talk about his work and answer questions from participants.
Supply List
Coming Soon
Demo Via Zoom
Like the demo? Join one of our “Winter Sculpting Classes” starting in January!
Rendering the Moon
with Tiffany Dae
1:30pm – 3:30pm PT | PASSWORD: DJ2020
We’re going to do a black and white drawing of the moon on toned paper. We’ll start by toning our paper with loose charcoal powder, and working reductively to find the overall light and shadow side, and then go in with charcoal and white chalk pencils to render more specifically.
Supply List
General’s Charcoal Pencils: 2x hard, 2x medium, 2x soft
Faber-Castell Pitt Pastel Pencils: 3x White #101
8”x10” Toned Paper (grey preferred, tan also works)
Loose charcoal powder
Pencil sharpener
Tissues
Kneaded eraser
2 soft brushes for blending (1x medium, 1x small)
Demo via Zoom!
Like the demo? Join Tiffany for her Winter Class “Atelier Primer” starting in January!
Gilding: The Art of Metallic Appliques
with Artist & Craftsman
1:30pm – 2:15pm PT | PASSWORD: DJ2020
Supply List
Metal leaf (we will be using imitation on our end), gold, silver, variegated, etc.
Gilding Size AKA gilding adhesive
One, small soft brush (preferably one that you don’t mind wrecking)
I recommend a small round or angle brush (size 2-6)
One, coarse, natural bristle brush
A cup of water
Items to gild
Book covers, frames, ornaments, works of art, statuettes, etc.
Stencils, traceable items, image references for your designs
Demo Via Zoom
2pm Pacific Time
2pm Pacific Time
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Painting a Portrait with Zorn Palette
with Dominique Medici
2:00pm – 4:00pm PT | PASSWORD: DJ2020
I will demonstrate how Anders Zorn used just 4 colors to create an amazing portrait. Using one of his paintings as an example I take you through the process of painting the portrait in 4 simple steps.
Supply List
Palette: Bring a gray palette.
You can make a gray palette by painting the back of a piece of plexiglass with gray acrylic) or simply use a gessoed gray panel as a palette.
Brushes: Any professional brushes in the following sizes
Hog Hair or Natural Bristle (Flat and/or Filbert) #2 (2), #4 (2), #6 (1) #8 (1)
Kolinsky Sable or synthetic (pointed) #4 (1)
Paints: We will use a Limited Palette, no student grade.
Titanium White
Yellow Ochre
Cadmium Red Light
Blue-Black, Ivory Black or Mars Black
Surface/ Support: Bring your preferred support
Primed Masonite (hardboard), Canvas or Linen Panels
Stretched Canvas or Linen (prime with gray gesso) Size: 11” x 14″ or 12” x 16”
Quantity: 1 or 2 canvases/ panels for each class
Mediums: Linseed Oil
Brush Cleaner: Gamsol
Demo via Zoom!
Inky Animals
with Jessica Heide
2:00pm – 3:30pm PT | PASSWORD: DJ2020
Learn to take your graphite sketch to a beautiful ink illustration, in this animal themed demo. I will be working on a flamingo, bring your own animal image to work from.
Supply List
Animal image
Graphite pencils
Paper: art drawing or mixed media paper suggested (any paper will work, but printer paper may bleed)
Eraser
Sharpener
Ink pen: Pigma Micro felt tip pen, size 01 suggested (ballpoint/fountain/fine point sharpie will also work)
Recommended age group is Teens, but class open to all ages!
Demo Via Zoom
Like the demo? Join Jessica for her Winter Teen Class “Drawing Animals” starting in January!
Papermaking Made Easy
with Artist & Craftsman
2:45pm – 3:30pm PT | PASSWORD: DJ2020p
Recycling Paper Scraps with Arnold Grummer’s Products.
Supply List
Arnold Grummer’s 5 ½ ”x 8 ½ ” Pour Handmold
Unwanted paper scraps from around your home (in various colors!)
Keep in mind that the paper you use will determine what paper you get out i.e. tissue paper will yield thin, translucent sheets whereas envelopes and cardstock will give you heavier, water resistant paper
An old blender (I have a designated papermaking blender that I picked up at Goodwill, you won’t necessarily want to use this one for shakes after making paper with it)
A deep (6”-10” high) tub of water.
This will hold your pouring mold and must be at large enough to hold it’s 5 ½” x 8 ½“ frame with some room along the edges
Demo Via Zoom
Digital Open Studio
with Live Models
All Day! | PASSWORD: DJ2020
Artists from Gage and the community are invited to work independently from a live, costumed model, practicing drawing, painting, or sculpting the figure.
Like the demo? Join our “Year-round Open Studios” underway now!
3pm Pacific Time
3pm Pacific Time
*Zoom links become active 5 minutes before each demo starts. If the link does not work, please reload this page.
Drawing White Objects
with Kathleen Moore
3:00pm – 5:00pm PT | PASSWORD: DJ2020
Draw along with Kathleen and learn how to use subtle value shifts to render the three-dimensional form of white objects.
Supply List
Paper
Pencil(s) – a 2B will work
Kneaded eraser or white vinyl eraser
Demo via Zoom!
Like the demo? Join Kathleen for her Winter Class “Drawing Fundamentals” starting in January!
Gesture Armature and Drapery
with Mike Magrath
3:00pm – 6:00pm PT | PASSWORD: DJ2020
Build a readymade posable wire maquette for gesture study and multi-figure composition
Supply List
Most of this stuff can be got at local hardware store!
Phase 1
60” of 16 gauge wire, (any 16g wire will do)
(16.5 gauge “tie wire” ~$6 ~300lf, vinyl coated if available)
Wire cutting Needle-nose pliers
Extras for Phase 1
Paper towel, mineral spirits or paint thinner for cleaning wire
Thin, flexible work gloves/gardening gloves if desired.
Phase 2
~4 sf Tinfoil – regular weight
Hot glue gun, 2-4 glue sticks
Extras for Phase 2
Staple gun, staples, ~4” scrap of wood;
alt, chunk of styrofoam or cardboard and means of attaching wire to same,
Phase 3
Old electric skillet, crock pot, or double boiler for wax
Yard or 2 of muslin or old bed sheets
Scissors
Beeswax or paraffin.
Heat gun or hand held hair dryer
Demo Via Zoom
Like the demo? Join Mike for his Winter Class “Foundation Figure Sculpture” starting in January!
And check out his renowned Atelier program!
4pm Pacific Time
4pm Pacific Time
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Comic Page Process 
with Bri Fecarotta
4:00pm – 6:00pm PT | PASSWORD: DJ2020
In this two hour demo, we will cover the steps on how to make a comic page from scratch. This demo features discussion on those steps, key tricks used in the trade, and a bit of digital inking and color demo as well! Anyone from comic enthusiasts to curious onlookers are welcome to join, watch, or draw along!
Supply List
The artist will be using Clip Studio Paint EX, but feel free to follow along with a digital program of your choice!
Or, use pencil, paper, and inking pens (Sakura Micron, Fabre-Castell, ink well and nibs, etc)
Note-taking tools also recommended, but not necessary
Demo via Zoom!
Like the demo? Join Bri for her Winter Teen Class “Create Webcomics” starting in January!
Virtual Sketch Walk
with Gabriel Campanario
4:00pm – 5:00pm PT | PASSWORD: DJ2020
Seattle Times artist and urban sketcher Gabriel Campanario has been capturing Seattle places, people (and ships!) in pen and ink sketches for more than a decade. In this one-hour Zoom session, you can join him on a virtual sketchwalk and watch him demonstrate his technique as he draws a scene from Google Street View. Travel sketching from the comfort of your couch was never this easy!
Supply List
Watercolor kit
Water-resistant ink pen of your choice (i.e. Micron, Sakura or Staedler pigment liners; fountain pens loaded with Platinum Carbon Ink or Noodler’s ink; Pentel brush pen)
Pencil (H grade)
Optional: Dip pen and India ink pot
Demo Via Zoom
Like the demo? Join Gabriel for his Winter Class “Pen and Wash Drawing” starting in January!
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