Zea Mays Printmaking/Your Art Better: Looking

Your Art Better: Looking

Do you often find yourself wondering how to make your artwork better? Do you look at others’ work and are at a loss of how to talk about it? This course will provide you with the tools needed to look critically at artwork, to discover what makes an image “work” or not, and to utilize these strategies in your own art making practice. Lynn Peterfreund guides you through a variety of looking exercises to learn to see, with useful questions, to help edit your own work while in process, and to understand how others see your work.

What's Included?

Meet Your Instructor

Lynn Peterfreund

Introduction

Learn why it’s important to develop strategies for looking and analyzing the unique visual language of art and how it can improve your work.
Introduction

The Elements of Art: Line, Shape, Value, Color, Texture, Space and Materials

This is the alphabet of mark making. Learn how each one functions in a composition and how you can become skillful at employing them in your own work.
The Elements of Art

Putting the Elements Together

Guided looking at a wide variety of prints to learn how artists use the elements to create successful images.
Putting the Elements Together

Variations

Follow Lynn as she takes a deep dive into recreating the feeling of an older print in a new series.
Variations

Work in Progress

Looking at stages of images and they change and develop into finished work.
Work in Progress

Looking and Appreciating

Lynn looks at three prints to gain a deeper understanding and appreciation.
Looking and Appreciating

Instructions and Exercises

Glossary of Terms
Bibliography
Exercises
Thought Exercises