Description

About the workshop:

Color pencils aren’t just the simple art tools used by children. Neither are coloring books for the young. This exploration of color pencils will reveal it as a very powerful and evocative art medium. From intense and strong blocks of colour to ethereal luminous tints, the color pencil is an extremely versatile tool with great potential. For many, the medium of color pencil has a strong element of the meditative.

In this workshop you’ll learn the various techniques of color pencil handling, which also explores aspects associated with graphite pencil works such as shading and blending. Using these methods, participants can turn simple line work into vibrant full-color works or even create fully-rendered art pieces from scratch.

Course Outline

• Lesson 1
  • Color Pencil Basics
  • Understanding your tools and materials
• Lesson 2
  • Layering
  • Saturating your colors
  • Shading
  • Saturation vs Light Layers
• Lesson 3
  • Burnishing
  • Blending Colors
  • Colorless Blenders
• Lesson 4
  • Highlights & Mixed Media
  • Using Solvents

About the Instructor:

David “Wolfe” Liew is an illustrator, cartoonist, sculptor and model maker.
Besides illustrating books and magazines, he’s the main artist for the best-selling children’s series “Ellie Belly” written by Eliza Teoh, the award-winning series “The Adventures of Squirky the Alien” by Melanie Lee.  In 2018, he illustrated the five-book series on the evils of smart device abuse – “The Plano Adventures” by Hwee Goh and Mo Dirani.

He has run many art programmes and workshops, including “Illustrated Poetry on Kindness” for the Singapore Kindness Movement and “Building a Fictional Universe” in 2019’s BuySingLit campaign. He was a guest artist at Bookaroo, a children’s festival aimed that promoting the love of reading and literacy in New Delhi, India and Kuching, Sarawak.

When he’s not illustrating books or teaching, David in his incarnation as a miniature maker builds tiny worlds in unattended drawers and empty spaces on bookshelves.

*Important Notes:

– In line with the PDPA regulations, during the lesson, TASA Gallery will be taking photographs and recording video of the workshop. By registering this workshop, participants are deemed to have given consent to be photographed, videoed or recorded in these medium as may be necessary for purposes such as publicity, illustration, advertising and web consent.

Venue: TASA GALLERY ART STUDIO – Kong Beng Industrial Building @ 41 Jalan Pemimpim, #01-04 Singapore 577186