Draw-Dropping Backgrounds! - Jelly Bean Class with Kathryn Hansen

ONLINE WORKSHOP: 

August 24, 2024 • 10a.m. Pacific Time: 90 minutes - Sold out!

October 19, 2024 • 10a.m. Pacific Time: 90 minutes - Sold out!

Limited to 35 students 

Can't attend? All registrants receive a video.

Attention Artists: Don't abandon your colored pencils when creating backgrounds!

That's right. Leave the solvents, watercolors, and PanPastels in the drawer, and create gorgeously soft backgrounds with just colored pencil!

Kathryn Hansen will show you all the tricks to award-worthy backgrounds: the best way to hold the pencil, layering colors together to create blurry edges and shapes, and her signature "noodling" pencil stroke. 

A well-crafted background is powerful. It sets the mood, tells a story, and helps your subject stand out.

You'll learn to:
• Use layering and gradation to keep edges soft.
• Blend a variety of colors together without creating hard edges or defined lines.
• Trick your brain into seeing shapes.

About Kathryn: Kathryn Hansen's drawings are focused on her passion and devotion to animals and nature. She earned a BFA at the University of Stevens Point in Wisconsin, then went on to study illustration at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, and fine art at the Associates of Arts in California.

What's a Jelly Bean Class?

Small, sweet and hard to stop at just one, Jelly Bean classes are our newest way to help you and your colored pencil life bloom. Each short, focused class is a mere 60 to 90 minutes, but you'll learn lessons you can use for a lifetime. Small projects or single topics that deserve a bit of delving into, Jelly Beans will enhance your skill set and knowledge base in a fun, quick fashion, all from the comfort of your own home. Scheduled on both weekdays and weekends, we hope to accommodate every schedule.

What you need to know:

• You'll receive an email with a link to download a PDF and Zoom instructions, as well as a link to the classroom.
• On the day of the workshop, just before class begins, click on the link to enter the classroom.
• As Kathryn leads the workshop, you'll get to ask questions.
• Please Note: Kathryn will be working on a small section of the background during the demo - please feel free to follow along, if you’d like - but the pace of the class may be hard to keep up with, depending on how fast you work. A video will be provided a few days after class concludes. 

Requirements:

• Laptop, PC, Mac, tablet or iPad with speakers
• No supplies needed. (More info emailed after registration)