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Exploring the Essential Features of “Exploring Color and Composition – Mary Jane Begin”
- 9 Video lessons in HD
- 2h 31m of class content
- Exclusive bonus content
LESSONS
1. Class Introduction
2. Color As Meaning
3. Grounds And Their Purpose
4. The Power And Illusion Of Light
5. Creating Color Studies
6. Creating Harmony And Color Hierarchy In A Limited Palette
7. How To Choose A Palette
8. Pulling It All Together: Telling A Story With Color
9. Critique Of Audience-Submitted Illustrations
CLASS DESCRIPTION
Instructor Mary Jane Begin is an award-winning illustrator and author of children’s picture books, a Rhode Island School of Design graduate and professor in the Illustration Department. Mary Jane will guide viewers through useful exercises and practices that help to solve both understanding the color they see and want to recreate, as well as exploring the art of inventing palettes that resonate with expression.
The course will be taught through showing concrete examples and a demonstration that deconstructs the “how to’s” for creating a palette that expresses a mood.
Mary Jane will cover the following topics:
- Color as meaning: subjective, regional and universal
- The power and illusion of light
- Creating color studies
- Choosing the right medium for color expression
- Deciding on the palette that works best
- Harmonizing a color palette
- Expressing meaning with color focus
- Pulling it all together to finalize an image
- Experimenting with color through media and materials
The best way to observe color is from life, but analyzing and recreating an image from a photograph can be a very practical way to learn how to effectively interpret color. Please join this class to continue developing your understanding of color, composition, meaning, mood, and expression.
MARY JANE BEGIN
As an award-winning illustrator and author of children’s picture books, a Rhode Island School of Design graduate and professor in the Illustration Department at RISD…Mary Jane feels INCREDIBLY lucky; she gets to do all the things that she loves to do. But in truth: luck + hard work + passion were and are the main ingredients for where she’s at now. It’s one of the reasons that she became the Internship + Professional Development Advisor for her department; she sees it as a way to help students get a running start into the professional realm, to open a doorway and give guidance into an unknown world. As an illustrator, she’s been able to explore painting and color with clients like Hasbro. Her latest books, My Little Pony, Under the Sparkling Sea and MLP, The Dragons on Dazzle Island were a collaboration between Hasbro and Little Brown and Company. She’s worked with Celestial Seasonings, Mead Johnson and Disney, and has received awards from the Society of Illustrators, multiple Awards of Excellence from Communications Arts, the Irma Simonton Black Award, and the Critici Erba Prize at the Bologna Book Fair. Her artwork has been exhibited throughout the country with one- woman shows at Books of Wonder Gallery in New York and Beverly Hills, at the National Museum of American Illustration in Newport, the RISD Museum, Society of Illustrators (NY), The DeCordova Museum, and Storyopolis in LA.
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