[CesarAndrade]

Hi ivana, personally, I think it’s because of the water, you would need a pretty strong and waterproof tape i’d assume. Having progressed through the course, and having acquired a heavy duty stapler with 3/8 staples, i found no issues even on hardwood. IT is also quite a bit cheaper than rolls of tape in the long run, but if i were you, I would experiment with whatever tape I had in hand and hurry to the meat of the course: the drawing.

[CesarAndrade]

hi everyone, currently gathering my materials, and was wondering if a light duty staple gun is enough? my panel’s frame is made of poplar and the face is birch.

[CesarAndrade]

Hmm interesting question. I think bill’s content does require a bit more patience to see how it is applied. If you want a few more immediate examples on how he does apply it, I suggest you take his color bootcamp series insetad of this. I feel this series specifically is more in the “advanced” category of things and requires in-depth study, specially to reach a conclusion on how you might use this information in your own work. In the color bootcamps, he talks about many of the same things, but goes nitty gritty almost immediately, and makes you apply what he is talking about in the lecture itself. Since they are more demo oriented, it has less broad information, but very useful nonetheless.

Huston’s is also great, specially just how effortessly he draws examples applying his concepts while explaining, which makes it much more evident and easy to grasp, but whatever you choose to do, you will be getting great value. What I tend to do, is to play videos at 1.5 speed, specially if they seem a bit slow. It is fast enough that  it shaves off a whole lot of time in the consumption phase of learning, but not too fast to impair understanding.

[CesarAndrade]

Yes, that bit was particularly brilliant! What I love this is medium agnostic, and so useful all around. I am planning on making an actual printable chart or something with this information for quick reference.

[CesarAndrade]

I just love the way bill breaks down things, and this whole rational, yet not prescriptive approach to composition is just what I needed; it makes you think about what is going and why without going to the bogus extremes some contemporary art tries to; thank you so much for bringing these lessons to us NMA and thanks to bill for sharing his invaluable knowledge! Looking foward to discuss these lessons with anyone interested and apply them in my own work.

[CesarAndrade]

Grat introduction to the medium! I will be acquirig the book soon.  I wonder if it also deals with oil pastels? I have purchased a set of pentel oil pastels, since they were fairly cheap and varied, or if anyone knows of a good resource on that particualr medium, I would be very grateful.

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