Drawing with Aris Moore: Transparency Books

Drawing with Aris Moore:
Transparency Books

Carla Sonheim Presents: Aris Moore

Aris Moore’s drawings are moving, emotional, silly and sometimes haunting and have gained her lots of international attention. In this class she shows us how to make playful books from transparent paper that are full of invention and surprise. This is a great way to lose yourself in a fresh new process with all your colored pencils, pens, markers and more!

Now available as a self-study class.

In this class you will create a multi-faceted and layered book made with transparent paper. Being able to see through the pages will create playful and thoughtful conversations and interactions between characters, shapes and imagery. These interactions will inspire new pages, new characters and new relationships. The world you create will be surprising, yet familiar because so many different parts of your visual language will come together. You will also realize that the book is creating itself with you… a collaboration!

We will explore how different materials interact with the paper, making it more or less see-through depending on opacity. We will create space through exploring composition, shifting scale, investigating color relationships and allowing the pages underneath to peek through. We will explore shape and pattern to add interest, and create continuity throughout our books. Finally we will play with the order of the pages… in my experience the possibilities surprise and delight me, and I hope you will be similarly entertained!

This book will be a great way to work through a creative block, develop new imagery, explore content and shake things up when we are feeling predictable. It will remind us that creating comes from playing and that making art doesn’t have to be painful to be meaningful. It is all inside of us, just waiting to come out and play.

Aris

This class includes:

• 5 video lessons;
• Instructor feedback;
• Unlimited access to all the teaching materials of this class;
• The ability to watch the class at your pace, at the time you choose, as often as you want. You can watch it from your computer, but also from your tablet or phone. So you can also take this course while on holiday!
• Access to the class forum
• Forever access; Now available as a self-study class.

This class is only available for customers
outside United States & Canada

If you live in The United States or Canada, please visit www.carlasonheim.com to purchase this class

Price:
USD 59 (Outside EU)
EUR 65 (EU, 21% VAT incl.)

Class Itinerary

Lessons are prerecorded and are available instantly upon signup.

Lesson 1: Shapes

We’ll begin our books by making free-form abstract shapes on the fronts and backs of our first five pages. We’ll use alcohol-based markers, paint markers, colored pencils, metallic Sharpies and more! As your layers build, “space happens,” and it is a very generous way to work.

Lesson 2: Characters

In this lesson we will toggle in five more pages into your books and begin to draw some characters, from reference or imagination. The pages from Lesson 1 serve as inspiration and beginnings for the figures themselves and also where they are placed in the composition.

Lesson 3: Moving Towards a Book

Now it’s time to clip our pages together in an order that makes sense to you (don’t worry, you can still change it in later lessons). Now, you will go through each spread adding, deleting or changing, cleaning things up and crafting relationships between the characters. Your mission: to make each page about something.

Lesson 4: Backgrounds

In this lesson you will place your figures and characters in different environments… add horizon lines, trees, rocks, mountains, interior walls… this serves to both break the pages up and allow your characters to exist somewhere. We will pay attention to colors, values and textures with our media.

Lesson 5: Patterning & Finish

Finally, we will add patterns and details to create interest and movement. Take the time to be meditative with this step, and use pattern to pull things forward and push things back. Take a final look at the order of your pages before stapling on your cover!

Supplies

For a full list of the supplies you will need, see the tab titled “Materials” located at the top of this page.

Some of Aris’ sketchbook drawings:

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