Mixed Media Thumbnail Sketching ONLINE
This is a recorded version of this course (originally released 2021). Lessons have been activated and are ready to be enjoyed at your own pace. Once you purchase the course, you will need to wait for the access email to be sent manually to you. Depending on the time of day and your time zone, there may be a few hours between purchase and email. Please type your email address carefully and check your junk folder.
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This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the thumbnail sketching method I have enjoyed for many years. It's a great way to get to know a place, while generating a multitude of cropped compositions to fuel future art and design work.
This was my first venture into teaching online. I released it when the pandemic was in full swing, so an enormous number of people enjoyed its lessons as the world took to the internet for solace and stimulation. It hasn't been available to new students for a number of years now, as I disliked my unpolished filming, unamused voice and somewhat cheesy backing music. I recently had cause to revisit it, however, and decided that what I thought cringey actually has a nostalgic low-tech charm. The main thing is that it's crammed with good stuff, from simple mark making and en plein air sketching, to developing grids using playful concepts, with much more between (details below). Techniques are demonstrated and explained over ten lessons, each consisting of a written overview and video.
WHAT YOU GET
• Downloadable course document (PDF)
• Intro video showing how to construct makeshift viewfinders
• Ten video lessons (varying from 20 to 50 minutes long) with supporting material, such as lesson summaries, glossary, reference list, quotes, anecdotes, and static illustrations
• Two weekend briefs, designed to help you springboard an independent piece at the end of each week based on what you have learned from the preceding five lessons
FURTHER DETAILS ON CONTENT
We will kick off with an exploration of drawing, painting and collage materials, and a range of predictable and novel mark making methods. This is be followed by experiments in combining marks and media, developing a visual vocabulary, and using a grid to make comparisons, and spot differences / similarities. We will consider the materiality of place, and look at ways of communicating mood, temperature, sound and other ephemeral factors. I will show you how to use viewfinders of all shapes and sizes to select and crop multiple compositions and record them in grids across a sketchbook spread. This technique will help you to work on many frames at once. Perfect for on-the-hoof sketching, when time is short; and for slow sketching where critical observation, annotation, and detail are the aim. The rhythm and momentum of the thumbnail method makes for a super-productive, immersive, time on site, generating a stash of scenes, abstractions, sensory information, notes, colour pairings, lines and forms. These might be a stand-alone pleasure, or graphics to be referred to later as part of another creative process, or when you simply want the experience to be recalled in all its vibrancy.
CONCESSIONS
The lower price is provided on an honesty box basis for people on a genuinely low income. It is funded via a private grant for widening participation in art education. The discount is not funded by customers paying the full price. Please access it only if you are in actual need.
COPYRIGHT
All content is copyright Tansy Hargan. By signing up for this course you agree not to share, distribute or monetise its content in any way. Videos are not to be replayed in classrooms and studios. If you are a teacher and would like to see me (in person or online) in your school or studio please get in touch [email protected]
