Fall 2023 Newsletter

Community Arts for Adults SUNY Westchester Peekskill ● 27 North Division Street Peekskill NY 10566 ● 914-606-7300 New! Comic Illustration for Adults — 30 Hrs This class focuses on the fundamentals of sequential storytelling in comics and graphic. Students will develop short stories, create character sheets, environments, scripts, and professional comic pages. In our journey industry-standard software will be used as well as traditional tools to design content across multiple mediums. The objective is for students to produce a portfolio piece at the professional level that can be used to secure freelance or industry-based opportunities. This class will have bi-weekly critiques. CE-ART 2360PE, $440. IN-PERSON Sat., Sept. 9-Dec. 2 (skip 9/23, 10/14 & 11/25), 1:00-4:00 pm. #92127 New! Digital Painting & Animation with Procreate This course will take students interested in digital painting and animation from understanding the Procreate interface to advanced techniques. Students will explore the basics of drawing such as designing sketches and painting with different brushes and textures. This class will cover various aspects such as canvas properties, brushes, alpha lock, clipping masks, animation, and other topics. Whether you are looking to learn the basics or find a new way to create digital art students will build their portfolio in an exciting new way. CE-DGART 2146PE, $400. IN-PERSON Thurs., Oct. 5-26, 6:30-9:30 pm. #92126 New! Museum Best Practices & Exhibition Design Get real world gallery experience working directly with museum staff. Students will have the opportunity to speak directly with curators, museum educators, art handlers, graphic designers, and the founder of KinoSaito art center. The focus of this course is getting hands-on experience working in a non-profit gallery setting. On completion of the course students will have a fuller understanding of everything it takes to make an exhibition come to life. This class will be offsite at the KinoSaito Museum, 115 7th St. in Verplanck. CE-ART 2358PE, $330. IN-PERSON Thurs., Oct. 12-Nov. 16, 5:30-8:30 pm. #92128 Painting En Plein Air Students will focus on outdoor landscape painting. Various locations throughout the local area will be selected. Rain dates TBA. Focus will be on color mixing, light and shadow, and composition. Students will be informed of the great plein air traditions of the Impressionists and the Hudson River School painters. Various approaches to landscape painting will be introduced, including water-mixable techniques in oil painting. This class will be offsite. CE-ART 2020PE, $287. Sat., Sept. 23-Nov. 11, 10:00 am-1:00 pm, #92129 Painting & Drawing for Adults Get your ideas out of your sketchbook! Students will enjoy painting in the studio in class and outdoors in an interactive environment. In this class, students will learn from discussion, group critique, examples of art while honing art skills of observation, gesture, composition, value, color mixing, and brushstroke, etc. The teaching artist demonstrates painting and drawing techniques for portraiture, representing the human form, and landscape, abstraction. CE-ART 2146PE, $287. IN-PERSON Mon., Oct. 2-Dec. 18, 6:30-8:30 pm. #92130 Mixed Media Printmaking for Adults Discover innovative ways to make handmade prints in addition to how technology such as computers and jet printers make printing contemporary. Make a portrait print based on a photograph, drawing from observation, and imagination. The instructor will introduce soft linocut, monotype, stenciling, and how to marbleize paper, to create prints on rice paper and other printmaking papers. CE-ART 2334PE, $322. IN-PERSON Tues., Oct. 10-Dec. 5, (skip 11/21), 6:30-9:30 pm #92131 Drawn in Procreate by Instructor Emmanuel Jaquez R, IG: @ejrart 9

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