DELAPLAINE ON DEMAND
View online workshops led by artists and Delaplaine instructors on our YouTube channel at your convenience!
Musings on Art Lecture Series: Aesthetics and the Human Experience
Join Dave Moreland, Frederick Community College Professor Emeritus of Art, in an online series that will introduce basic concepts related to the visual arts and discuss how these concepts intermingle across time, cultures, and media. Comparative examples of artwork and music from around the world illustrates the programs. FREE
- Session 1: The Big Questions
- Session 2: The Nature of Art
- Session 3: The Language of Art
- Session 4: Two-Dimensional Art
- Session 5: Three-Dimensional Art
Pet Portraits Workshop
Kids (and adults!) are invited to join artist and Delaplaine instructor Lindsay Anderson to experiment with a variety of mediums and techniques, including drawing, painting, and printmaking, to create pet portraits ranging from abstract to realistic! The five-part series is sponsored by FCB Bank. FREE
- Session 1: Preparing Your Image
- Session 2: Realistic Value Drawing
- Session 3: Exploring Colored Pencil
- Session 4: Exploring Watercolor
- Session 5: Abstract Pet Portraits
In the Studio with Gina Copanzzi
Metalsmith and Delaplaine jewelry instructor Gina Copanzzi shares basic metalsmithing techniques: setting up your torch, soldering, and adding patina. FREE
Visual Journaling
Visual journaling mixes words and images in a creative way to express and record experiences, thoughts, and feelings. This video series led by artist and Delaplaine instructor David Modler introduces methods and materials for starting a visual journaling practice. You will experiment with a variety of drawing, writing, painting, collage, image transfer processes, and other mixed media techniques to begin constructing a personally meaningful document. FREE
- Session 1: Watercolor Basics
- Session 2: Experimental Watercolor
- Session 3: Watercolor Pencil
- Session 4: Image Transfers
- Session 5: Writing Embellishments
Creating Hand-Drawn GIFs
Go back to the analog tradition of animation to understand and apply the skills and methods behind GIF creation in this workshop led by Hayley Powers Thornton-Kennedy, an interdisciplinary illustrator and educator based in Baltimore, Maryland. She has an MFA in Illustration Practice from the Maryland Institute College of Art, where she teaches part-time in the undergraduate illustration department. FREE
Papercutting
Papercutting artist Rosa Leff takes you step-by-step through cutting a paper cherry blossom. You can download and print a copy of Rosa’s cherry blossom stencil. FREE
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