Where:
Kathryn Schultz Gallery
25 Lowell Street (rear entrance)
Cambridge, MA 02138
Admission:
$100
Categories:
Art, Classes, Date Idea, Rainy Day Ideas
Event website:
https://cambridgeart.app.neoncrm.com/nx/portal/neonevents/events#/events/5244
Read and Respond - The Illustration Process with Michelle Stevens
Two Tuesdays in November and December
11/19 and 12/3 from 12:00-2:00pm
Location
Kathryn Schultz Gallery, 25 Lowell St. Cambridge MA
Admission
$100 CAA Member
$120 General Admission
Maximum number of attendees: 10
From thumbnail drawings to final work, students will go through the step-by-step process of creating an illustration in response to an article or short story.
In this class, students will review every stage of the illustration process, from brainstorming and sketching initial ideas to group critiques and finished artwork.
Come practice your illustration skills and leave with new inspiration and approaches to creating imagery from text!
Session 1: Read and brainstorm from text, workshop sketchbook images
Session 2: Class discussions and work on final Illustrations
Materials List (bring to first class)
Instructor's note: I would prefer attendees to work in whatever materials they are most comfortable with if they already regularly make art, but I'll list here my default recommendation:
Drawing pencils: B, 3B, 6B
1 Mars plastic eraser
Small-Medium sketchbook for process work
18” x 24” Mixed Media paper for final works
Pack of a range of watercolors
Watercolor brush (1 Small round, 1 Large flat)
Cup for Water
- Pack of a range of Colored pencils
Michelle Stevens
Michelle Stevens received a BFA in Illustration and a minor in Sustainability from MassArt with Honors and a Faculty Choice Award. She was an Artist-in-Residence in early 2024 at the Cannery Arts Centre in Esperance / Kepa Kurl, Western Australia. A 2D artist and Illustrator, she has completed projects for Re:SET Music Festival, Boston Calling Music Festival, Boston Art Review Magazine, Trillium Brewing Company, musician San Holo with his record label Bitbird, and the Canadian National Railway. Michelle's work has been exhibited at Fitchburg Art Museum, Clark University, and Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, among others. She received the 2019 Roddy Drawing Prize at ConcordArt, and has been recognized by the Society of Illustrators NYC.
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