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Making Images for Teens and Adults

In this class, students will learn to find their artistic voice using the media they are most comfortable with, or the one they want to learn the most. We will explore many media not included in the title, such as ink, colored pencils, Photoshop, Procreate, etc. Students will build an image archive to draw references from to create a body of work. 

With a practice rooted in drawing and an aesthetic based in the old masters, this class follows traditional norms of an instructor passing  on knowledge. In this case, knowledge she  has learned in more contemporary mediums within the context of historical standard of composition and concept art. Drawing is rightly the traditional basis for learning how to see and understand the visual world around us. In our technological age, we are privileged to have access to many more tools as we realize our individual visions.

The techniques we will go over to create images:

-visual research using the internet - finding expanders 

- conceiving of a concept (thumbnails)

-collecting your source material - staging and making photos, drawings, discovering your archive 

-assembling and manipulating material 

-photoshop 

-rephotographing and ways of switching between analogue and digital 

-uses of final images - to help plan larger work, to play with ideas, as final digital art work, for a website....!

Also - for all these techniques, you wont need to leave your home/yard!

We will start the class with discussions about influences, finding images and digital artists whose work resonates, looking at how this medium, along with photography, has shaped the world we live in, and coming up with your individual image concepts. 

Sketching the concepts first, we will work on an individual basis to decide the best ways to create your image, with each idea possibly requiring a new technique. Staging and making photos using your iPhone, drawing and painting, collaging with paper and in photoshop - in a world where everything is possible, I hope to teach you have to find the most efficient ways to select the method of creation and work through that step by step. 

The resulting images can be a digital artwork on their own, but we will also look into how these can be printed, or serve as a step in the larger process of planning out a big composition for a painting, interior, etc. 

Working between analogue/traditional processes and the digital is a fluency that can be very powerful and exciting, and will serve the artist in their ability to problem solve, figure out what they have to work with, take full advantage of what they have, and provide a safe space to experiment freely without the fear of irreversibility

ABOUT ABIGAIL TULIS

Abigail Tulis is a sculptor, designer and painter making work inspired by renaissance and medieval forms. Her sculptures and drawings are in numerous private collections and she has executed sculptural commissions for architects and interior designers. She studied traditional figure drawing and painting at the Grand Central Academy and classical architectural design at the Beaux-Art Atelier, in New York City. Abigail has also worked as creative visual director for Kitten the Band and Ava Della Pietra, while also contributing media to numerous musical projects and creating look-books with producers developing Netflix shows. In these creative realm she uses photography, film, collage, and digital manipulation to create fantastical realities for her clients. Her media work has been mentioned by Paper Magazine, MTV, i-D Vice, and Steriogum. Her sculptural work has been featured in Vanity Fair Magazine, Architectural Digest, been exhibited at Booth Gallery and GCA’s 11th St. Art Gallery, and won the Stanford White Award from the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art for a sculptural design for a house in Millbrook, Ct. She recently curated “You Muse, You Lose” at Paul Calendrillo Gallery in NYC and “All the Ages You Were Before” At Project Space in Oyster Bay. Dividing her time between NYC and Europe, Tulis has also been a part of the Hudson River Fellowship, the Metropolitan Copyist program, and held a residency by Werk aan Het Spoel in the Netherlands.

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