Cameras are becoming smarter and offering more features. Auto settings work well much of the time but by understanding the other settings, and when to opt for the manual setting, you can become smarter than the camera and unlock a new level of creativity.
Term: 2021 Winter
Suggested Ages: 18+
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Create an accordion book with removeable pages. Fold and cut framed page attachments (1- or 2- sided) to display removable content such as prints, photographs, postcards, or text. This kind of page attachment can be applied to a variety of accordion structures, sewn into a codex, used for displaying paper cut outs and layering translucent papers, and can even be fashioned as a paper quilt. Many basic skills of book binding will be introduced including measuring, cutting, and gluing. No experience necessary.
Term: 2021 Winter
Suggested Ages: 18+
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Advance your photography to a higher level. Critiques of students’ work, assignments, and presentations of master photographers will strengthen the understanding of how and why photos work or may not work. Delve into the composition, depth of field, camera settings, mood, lighting, and contrast to help see the picture before clicking the shutter. A five-image portfolio will be required for the final class. This class will meet every other week.
Term: 2021 Winter
Suggested Ages: 18+
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Break down the fundamental aspects of drawing to their most essential. Students will follow instructor-led exercises focusing on line, shape, value, and mark making. Students need not have taken the previous Intro to Drawing classes to attend this one. All are welcome.
Term: 2021 Winter
Suggested Ages: 15+
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Take a simple plain weave draft, crowd the warp ends together, use both a fine and a heavy weft and create a sturdy, durable fabric called a Rep Weave. The alternating color patterns are created entirely through the warp color order. Learn the fundamentals of rep weave, how to set up a rep weave project on the loom, choose your own project, and explore the classic and nontraditional rep weave techniques.
Term: 2021 Winter
Suggested Ages: 18+
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Explore form, color, line, texture, pattern, composition, and process to independently generate and resolve meaningful visual ideas. Students will be exposed to a variety of abstract painting concepts and will broaden their personal painting processes and visual vocabularies in relation to the formal qualities of their work.
Term: 2021 Winter
Suggested Ages: 18+
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Have you ever thought about what makes a book a book and not, for example…a cocktail? CAW and Ordinary present a fun winter evening of drink-mixing and creative exploration, all online. Book artist and CAW instructor Paulette Rosen will challenge our perceptions and help us to think outside the box, while Ordinary’s mixologist Tim Cabral will lead a master class in bartending for the evening’s beverages. No prior art or bartending experience is necessary! Registration closes on Sunday, January 24 at 10 pm. After you register, you will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link. Your What is a Book? kit will be ready for pickup at Ordinary at 990 Chapel Street, New Haven on Monday, January 25, between 4-7 pm. *Price includes master class, snacks, and ingredients for two (2) cocktails
Term: 2021 Winter
Suggested Ages: 21+
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Discover this fun material in a new way. Not only can you sculpt in 3-D with it, but you can also paint with it. Plasticine paintings are a mixture of sculpture and painting as they are made on a flat base with raised up textured elements, (also known as relief) which will teach students to recreate three dimensional spaces on two dimensional surfaces. Students will gain knowledge of lines, colors, hues, color mixtures, and textures. Starting with the simple exercises, students move on to create a still life, a landscape, and a painting of their choice.
Term: 2021 Winter
Suggested Ages: 8 - 14
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Create a unique card for Valentine's Day that can be adapted to any occasion without any special equipment—a show stopping shadow box card. It will use easily found items from around the house. You won’t see this at Hallmark.
Term: 2021 Winter
Suggested Ages: 18+
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Learn, discover, and practice drawing skills through observation, imagination, tips, and techniques. Explore line, shape, form, shading, texture, mark-making, and composition using pencil, colored pencil, pastels, watercolor, charcoal, and pen and ink. Appropriate for beginners who love drawing, as well as students who have studied drawing and/or have drawing experience.
Term: 2021 Winter
Suggested Ages: 8 - 14
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