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Trompe L'oeil — French for "trick the eye"
This class isn’t just for realistic painters!
The fundamentals and techniques I talk about in this class will help you in whatever style of art you like to make, even if it has nothing to do with painting.
Acrylic Techniques in Trompe L’oeil Masterclass Syllabus
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We’ll start with this exercise because it quickly touches on every topic all at once and it gives me a good idea of where each of you is starting so I can better conduct the rest of the course. At the end, we’ll try to revisit it so you can see how much you learned.
We’ll talk form, light and shadow, blending, perspective, straight lines, taping, composition, value mapping and more. The entire rest of the course revisits these topics and builds off of this first simple exercise. DO NOT MISS! -
Learning to See:
First we’ll meet, at 10am, at Kiesel Overlook Park down the street to spend about an hour looking, noticing, and taking some photos. Then we’ll head back to the studio to look at architecture and analyze our photos. We’ll talk about composition, natural vs artificial light, perspective, horizon line vs vanishing point, atmospheric perspective, and good reference images. Homework: Reference Images -
Using your reference photos we’ll be choosing a color palette and painting a small landscape.
We’ll talk more about color, light and shadow, composition, atmospheric perspective, depth of field, and knowing what to keep or scrap, what to do next, and when to stop -
Today we’ll be painting one of my images of a Red Rose in a Red Vase on the window sill.
We’ll talk about surface prep, image transfer methods, reflections, perspective, details, and what parts really matter.
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In the morning we’ll be doing 2 or 3 exercises to understand how to make a 3D object appear 3D on your 2D surface.
We’ll talk more about light and shadow, light sources, color matching, texture vs the illusion of texture, and perspective.
In the afternoon, we’ll revisit Egg-in -in-a- Box to see how much you’ve learned. -
I’ve reserved this day on my calendar just incase we need it. I’ve crammed a lot of information and activities into this course and I want to make sure you’re able to get everything you can out of it.
If there’s anything you didn’t finish or didn’t understand from any other day you’ll have this Bonus Day to wrap it all up.
Whatever your vision, I can make it happen!
I’ve been painting Trompe L’oeil murals for over 10 years and trained with top trompe l’oeil muralists to learn how to create masterful illusions that make you feel as if you’re somewhere else.
Whether teaching or painting, I can help you have the Unblockable View of your Dreams.
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