
Repetition in Form
Discover how to create tableware by blending wheel throwing, slabs, and bisque mold-making techniques, mastering consistency and precision in every form.
Students will learn how to use digital art tools to create illustrations that build their skills in composition, color theory, lighting, texture, and stylization. This class is open to both hobbyist and career-seeking students!
June 23 – June 27, 2025
One week session
Friday, June 27, 2025
Parks Exhibition Center @ 4:00 PM
18+
$1,640
$800
$20
$50
All levels
Enrollment is limited to 12 students
Explore the ever-growing field of digital painting! Students will learn how to use digital art tools to create illustrations that build their skills in composition, color theory, lighting, texture, and stylization. This workshop will include demos and assignments that walk students through drawing tools in Adobe Photoshop and how they can use those tools to create appealing compositions, utilize color theory, create mood through lighting, render different textures, and use stylization to find their own personal voice in painting. After demos and painting exercises, students will use what they have learned to create a final illustration and receive individualized guidance and critique. We will also learn about the various hobbies and careers where students can utilize their digital painting skills, such as illustration, comics, and animation. Students will have access to Wacom Cintiqs. This workshop will help hone skills and knowledge for both beginner students with no prior knowledge of Photoshop, and intermediate students who are looking to level up their digital painting.
Keely Mikkelsen is a Southern California-based color designer, comic colorist, and background painter. She has been freelancing for 3 years. Clients include Nike SNKRS, PlayQ, Netmarble F&C, and Digital: Comic Book Series. She has also worked part-time as a professor of Visual Development and Digital Concept Painting at Azusa Pacific University, and as a marketing coordinator and digital painting instructor at Idyllwild Arts. She graduated May 2021 from California State University, Fullerton with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and concentration in Entertainment Art/Animation.
The lab fee covers the software(s) used in class in addition to sketch pads and pencils/pens.
The program will begin Sunday morning, with a brief orientation at 8:30 am. Workshops will start at 9 am.
Sunday night will feature a program mixer, where you will have an opportunity to meet with your classmates outside of the studio, as well as meet other students in our adult programs for the week.
Monday nights feature an opening reception at the Parks Exhibition Gallery, featuring work from our very own summer faculty!
Daily instruction occurs from 9am-12 pm, with a break for lunch in the campus dining hall (included in tuition), and followed with more instruction from 1pm- 4 pm.
Artist Talks will be held in the evenings on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. This is a wonderful opportunity to listen to our Metals Week and HOT Clay instructors speak on their art.
On Friday afternoon you will be able to display your own work from the week at our Culmination event outside Parks Exhibition Center!
Discover how to create tableware by blending wheel throwing, slabs, and bisque mold-making techniques, mastering consistency and precision in every form.
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