This one-day class consists of two powerful exercises designed to build your compositional skills, understanding of design principles and give you a foundation to build both literal and abstract artworks. You will be encouraged to work more spontaneously and to let the art speak to you as you work. The emphasis is on play and experimentation and you will hopefully find yourself creating work that will surprise and delight you.   

BUILDING STRUCTURES

Letters and lines are design elements that, when grouped together, create structures that can be used to build compositions. When you see letters as line, shape and form you are working as an artist, not just a calligrapher. The structures we create can be readable or abstract. Building structures with lines and letters is a great way to experiment, play and learn more about design. It also frees you up to play with letters in a less formal, non-traditional manner. These exercises are a perfect introduction to the followup Power of Two exercises.

POWER OF TWO

The Power of Two is all about contrast. Two is all you need to make a powerful composition: big and little, art and text, structure and freeform, abstract and readable, color and black, black and white. Same with lettering. You can contrast thick and thin, uppercase and lowercase, compressed and expanded, sloped and upright, tall and short, two different styles. Computers use the power of two with 0 and 1 to express everything. We can do the same in our art.  

Be sure to check your CLAS email of February 8 for registration information and supply list.

This is a members-only event. For membership information, contact Kathi Fogleman Join.CLAS@gmail.com