March 27, 2025 - May 8, 2025 5pm est

An 8 week digital art study: Abstract painters meet the digital age - let's explore the Masters together - through the use of your digital drawing apps!

**This class assumes an understanding of whatever digital app your student works in! I will not be teaching the apps in this class, rather USING the apps to explore art history through the various mediums and methods they provide** if your student needs to learn how to use Procreate, please see my Intro series before enrolling in the "Meet The Masters" classes!

We will explore:

• Art History - Introduce students to Hundertwasser through biography worksheets.
• Art Analysis - Have students analyze Hundertwasser's art and understand the importance art plays in shaping a voice for our culture.
• Production - Have students create weekly  inspired work by using what they have learned in this class and making it their own, encouraging their own artistic voice..

Through the eight weeks of our study of  Kandinsky and Klimt we will look at the art movements of Abstract Art and Art Nouveau.

Weeks 1-4 Wassily Kandinsky- the father of abstract art:

• Week 1- Using line, shapes and colors to convey a sense of emotion Homework: Students will work on emotion that is assigned randomly
• Week 2- Using the tools found in digital apps, we will  create a composition incorporating patterns  Homework: Complete classwork and analyze "Improvisation 31"
• Week 3- Thumbnail sketches, incorporating music with art Homework: Finish classwork
• Week 4-  The use of line and shape, different ways to add texture through brushes in our apps; Homework: Finish classwork

Gustav Klimt

• Week 5- We will import patterns and images and use these images to "paint" in an Art Nouveau style -using long, curved lines. Homework: "Tree of Life"
• Week 6- "Portrait of Adele" self portrait Homework: Finish classwork plus analysis worksheet
• Week7- Drawing the face with correct proportion Homework: self portrait
• Week 8: "Tree of Life" incorporating all that we have learned with photos, texture, line and pattern.

**This class assumes an understanding of whatever digital app your student works in! I will not be teaching the apps in this class, rather USING the apps to explore art history through the various mediums and methods they provide** if your student needs to learn how to use Procreate, please see my Intro series before enrolling in the "Meet The Masters" classes!