Composition for Artists Seminar at Art Farm

Composition for Artists is an intensive 2-Day, 18-hour seminar with feature animation designer & Art Center Professor Will Weston (click on image for larger view).

When: Saturday & Sunday, Nov. 21 & 22.
Hours: 9:30 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. each day.
Who: This seminar will benefit landscape painters, film and animation artists, graphic novelists, children's book illustrators and others. Reasonable drawing skills are suggested.
Fee: $249/$100 non-refundable deposit holds reservation. Includes hand-outs and other materials.
Enroll Early: Class size is limited to 20!
Registration and Questions: Contact director@carlsbadartfarm.com

About the Seminar: Many artists have difficulty with composition. This intensive and engaging seminar addresses issues faced when composing pictures by combining lively lectures, presentations, and demonstrations with drawing exercises that breakdown the three essential stages of picture composition. Instructor Will Weston notes that: "Composition prioritizes everything in painting from the most important to the least important elements. In art, composition is content, and the essential element separating the beginner from more advanced or professional artists."

About the Instructor: Will Weston is a highly experienced professional artist and art instructor. He has worked in feature animation for Disney Feature and Television Animation, Nickelodeon, Warner Bros., and Sony Pictures. Prior to his animation work, he worked nationally in advertising and editorial illustration.

While solidly grounded in traditional art and illustration technique, Will is equally at home with digital drawing and painting. He is a full-time professor at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, and is the Entertainment Arts Advisor to its Illustration Department. He teaches seminars to professionals and graduate students at various locations, including the USC Graduate School of Animation and the Animation Guild.

Will's extensive teaching experience allows him to understand a broad range of student needs and different learning styles, delivering effective instruction in an engaging manner. Balancing that is the real-world professional background that he brings to the classroom and studio, helping to prepare students for the challenges of today’s dynamic and rapidly changing work environment. For more information on this artist, visit: WillWestonStudio.com

Kris Finch Drawing and Painting Workshop Oct. 12

Kris Finch, one of our painting instructors at Art Farm, hosts a monthly oil painting and drawing class for adults at the San Diego Art Department, 3830 Ray Street, in San Diego. The fee is $25 per session.

His next class is Oct. 12, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Kris is a gifted instructor. The class is appropriate to every skill level, from the tentative beginner to experienced artists. I can't say enough good things about his approach to teaching. He really gets results.

For more information, contact me at director@carlsbadartfarm.com or contact Kris directly at kfinchart@gmail.com.

Follow the Youtube link below to see a wonderful drawing demonstration by Kris. Turn up the volume because the music is lovely.

KFinchArt Portait Drawing - Google Search

Coming Soon to Carlsbad Art Farm

After nine busy weeks of summer camp, and time out for some end-of-season vacation time, I'm getting back in the saddle (so to speak) at Art Farm. Thanks to all of you parents who have been patient in waiting to hear back from me concerning after school and Saturday art classes for young students. I will be posting times, dates, fees on this blog soon. The difficult part is getting consensus on best times and days. If you would like to weigh-in on this, please contact me at director@carlsbadartfarm.com.

This year Art Farm is opening up to adults (the quick-sketch painting at right is my own recent effort). We will be offering ongoing classes, workshops and seminars.

If you are interested in wildlife or animal art, please let me know as I am working on having Joe Weatherly (www.joeweatherly.net) come to Art Farm for a 2-Day paint sketch seminar this fall. We will use resident Art Farm animals as models.

Will Weston (www.westonseminars.com) is coming to Art Farm Saturday & Sunday, Nov. 21 & 22, to teach a 2-day, 18-hour seminar on Composition for Artists. The fee is $249. Space is limited to 20, so if you are interested contact me soon at director@carlsbadartfarm.com. A $100 deposit secures your reservation.

This workshop is appropriate for intermediate to advanced students (or the ambitious beginning student!). Will notes that many artists - even very experienced artists - have difficulty with composition. Whether you're a fine artist, landscape painter, composing for animation or film, graphic novels, or children's books, this seminar is designed to help you work through those problems and come away with information and hand-out materials that will enable you to continue leaning after the workshop.

The seminar addresses traditional issues faced when composing environmental drawings by combining lectures, presentations, and demonstrations with selected exercises and hands-on drawing. Using landscape composition as a starting point, students learn to compose pictures with applications to studio art and illustration. Examples are presented and explained in detail. Students do short exercises to direct the eye, create depth and establish mood and time of day. Students then draw a landscape composition under the direction of the instructor. Handouts provided during the seminar enable students to continue learning after the workshop.

About the Instructor: Will is a professor at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, where he teaches composition, film composition, digital painting, life drawing, and visual development for animation and film. He is also the curriculum advisor for Art Center's Entertainment Program. Professionally, Will has worked for many studios, including Disney Feature and Television Animation, Nickelodeon, Warner Bros., and Sony Pictures. He also has many years experience working in illustration and advertising.