From Meh to Magnificent - Improve Your Animal Art - Jelly Bean Class with France Bauduin

From Meh to Magnificent - Improve Your Animal Art - Jelly Bean Class with France Bauduin

$35.00

ONLINE WORKSHOP: 

New Date to be Announced • 10:00a.m. Pacific Time: 90 minutes

Limited to 35 students 

Can't attend? All registrants receive a video.

After this class, when you hear, “Your artwork looks amazing; it’s just like a photo!” - you'll be able to confidently respond, “Actually, it looks much better than a photo.” 

Let’s be honest: when it comes to taking pictures of animals, particularly wildlife, achieving that perfect shot—where everything is in focus, the lighting is just right, and the background complements the scene while the animal behaves as you wish—is incredibly rare.

France has developed a PowerPoint presentation designed to assist any animal artist in recognizing the potential of a reference photo, identifying and correcting its flaws, and suggesting improvements through cropping, minor adjustments, background changes, composition tweaks, and even storytelling...

ONLINE WORKSHOP: 

New Date to be Announced • 10:00a.m. Pacific Time: 90 minutes

Limited to 35 students 

Can't attend? All registrants receive a video.

After this class, when you hear, “Your artwork looks amazing; it’s just like a photo!” - you'll be able to confidently respond, “Actually, it looks much better than a photo.” 

Let’s be honest: when it comes to taking pictures of animals, particularly wildlife, achieving that perfect shot—where everything is in focus, the lighting is just right, and the background complements the scene while the animal behaves as you wish—is incredibly rare.

France has developed a PowerPoint presentation designed to assist any animal artist in recognizing the potential of a reference photo, identifying and correcting its flaws, and suggesting improvements through cropping, minor adjustments, background changes, composition tweaks, and even storytelling enhancements. It includes over 50 examples demonstrating how these changes can be made, sometimes simply and other times with the aid of editing software like Photoshop or iPhoto.

While many step-by-step classes focus on replicating a reference photo, this course goes further. It emphasizes enhancing the image with various tips and tricks so that the final artwork surpasses the original reference.

You'll Learn:
• When and how to effectively crop a reference photo.
• When it’s beneficial to change or completely remove the background, with numerous examples and suggestions.
• How to utilize multiple photos to adjust composition, enhance storytelling, or make small changes - what to keep, discard, modify, accentuate, soften.

This course focuses less on specific techniques and more on developing new perspectives when analyzing a reference photo, allowing artists to identify its potential based on their strengths and weaknesses and the goals they wish to achieve. 

Whether the purpose is for a commission, to win an award, or simply for personal satisfaction, every change carries the risk of introducing discrepancies. Guidance will be provided on what to watch for regarding lighting, proportions, and more.

About France: Entirely self-taught, France has been using CP for nearly 25 years, winning awards with CP societies and other Animal Art Competitions. By either changing or combining reference photos she aims to better illustrate strong playful relationships in animals with her art, especially cats, big or small.

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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 France leads the workshop, take notes if you need them - and write down your questions to ask at the end.

Requirements:

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

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    Orley Kathleen Marron
    Very useful, focused lecture on how to enhance one's artwork by using photos creatively

    I really enjoyed this excellent lecture. I watched the video because I couldn't attend the live session. France gave many examples of how to take a photograph and create from it a much better composition, with better color schemes that brought out the subject and created a more dramatic focus. She gave tips on how to emphasize certain features and hide or downplay others, and she openly discussed mistakes that she made and should be avoided. An additional interesting perspective was how to create a story or kind of staged scene in a picture - like two kittens staring at a mouse or frog. This is a bit more of an illustration style, but it was very charming and captivating. I would recommend watching this video to any artist who relies on photographs!

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    Drema
    Wonderful class

    Of all the art classes I have taken, this Meh to Magnificent was undoubtedly one of the most helpful. It came to me at precisely the right time. France's knowledge and candor was so appreciated. As I said in the class, it was way under-priced. Kudos Ann!

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    Alison Mosier
    Worth every penny!!

    As an intermediate artist, I struggle with my reference photos, not knowing what to leave out. This class takes all the guesswork out of trying to recreate that photo, turning it from plain to wow!! France was just amazing, with all her knowledge, explaining the process every step of the way. Just an amazing class, well worth every penny!!

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    Crystal Wolfe
    You will never view your reference photos and compositions the same again! Fantastic opportunity!

    This is an incredible learning experience! Great, and generous, teacher with so much inspirational information.

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    Lis Zadravec
    France was Charming!

    Her work is amazing and her insight into her process was priceless. She is a charming and generous teacher.

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