Charla is a very knowledgeable but humble teacher and I would love to take another class with her. We covered a lot of ground, including an extensive session on colour mixing. "Charla's workshop is a well structured mix of demos and painting time. She captivates her audience with her paintings."
She is a soft spoken funny woman full of inspirations. Charla is a great teacher and very knowledgeable in color mixtures and in boldness. I really recommend this to all artist that love making portraits or animals in colors. "This is a very informative and great Color Bootcamp. I have been taking online classes for years and this is one of my favorites." Going through her course feels like you have a friend giving you a private training in your living room. Charla goes over the theory you need in a way that is easy to understand (turns out there is a method to the madness!), offers you resources and walks you through every stage of her painting process. For years I’ve been admiring artists that use big gorgeous color combinations but when I tried it myself things would get muddy or awkward. "The Bold Color Bootcamp is exactly what I needed. "Thank you for this time to explore at our leisure ( I dove straight in even without the correct materials) and am loving it and can’t wait to explore with the acrylics I am a water colourist or oil painter and only use acrylic for palette knife as less messy for beginners - so am very excited - this course is clear informative and fun in a lively group of creative souls - thank you Charla xx The other thing I love, she is deep and spiritual. I plan To take every single class she offers. "I have painted before, but this class has and is (I keep learning, since you can access your classes over an over) took my skills to a whole new level. MODULE 06 // PREP YOUR CANVAS Old School Grounding Is there such a thing as an easy or hard face?Īctivation: Create a Studio Reference (PDF)Īctivation: Another Studio Reference (PDF) You will have access to the course for the lifetime of your membership. The course will go to focus on COLOR with some discussion on technique. We start with learning the basics of drawing a face.
It is an intensive course taking you through the process of painting a complete portrait with Anything But Skin Tones. My first course is called Bold Color Bootcamp. If you’ve been searching for a place to be your jumping off point so that your art can fulfill its calling then Bold Color Bootcamp is for you. If you are looking for an honest community or artists to critique your work then Bold Color Bootcamp is for you. If you are looking for a community that discusses creativity and is a safe place to share work then Bold Color Bootcamp is for you.
If you wish to know how to use color in non-traditional ways then Bold Color Bootcamp is for you. I founded BOLD SCHOOL as a place to feed those very things. It can be difficult to find communities of like minded people that help you along your unique journey. It takes practice, knowledge and experience. But to fulfill the calling on my soul I must figure out how to create from that very place that calls. Making a birthday cake or crafts with my kids feeds my creative energy. It’s first course launched February 2020 and is available to begin today!Ĭreativity calls the artistic soul. I love to make. We will cover how to do this successfully and bring life into a drawing when working from a photograph.Įvery lesson in this class will be augmented by demos from Armin, along with PowerPoint® presentations and handouts.Introducing BOLD SCHOOL. Traditionally observation drawing is from life and this will be emphasized but in today’s world, photo references play a very important role as long as you take your own photos. Some of the topics include contour drawing, full-value rendering, negative/positive space, sight measuring (sighting) and the often misunderstood grid system. We will work only in graphite during this five-day workshop. Learn the difference between observation realism and intellectual realism drawing what you see – not what you think you see. If you have to invent them or try to go from memory, they appear even less convincing. Light, shadow, and details are hard enough to replicate when they are right there in front of you. We all see the world around us, but do we really look, take in the forms, shapes, and structures as an artist does? Just relying on our memory alone does not suffice.
Join renowned artist, Armin Mersmann, and immerse yourself into a week-long study of drawing and the art of observation.