Messy "Spaghetti" - Creative Abstract Art Made Fun and Easy!
This is a fun, abstract art workshop for beginner and intermediate learners. Through "Dadaist" inspired scribble exercises, students learn to improvise shapes and contrasts to design unique artistic creations.
Randy James, MEd
Average rating:
4.9
Number of reviews:(356)
What's included
1 live meeting
45 mins in-class hoursClass Experience
Intermediate Level
Class Activities In this unique one-time class the teacher will demonstrate the craft of spontaneous art generation. Employing a variety of abstract art and cartooning games in the "Dadaist" tradition, students learn techniques to improvise and illustrate uniquely original creations. The majority of class activities revolve around the spontaneous illustration of unique faces and abstract black-and-white designs. Students begin each exercise by scribbling several random circles, waves, lines, dots, zig-zags, cubes, etc. Using improvisational illustration techniques demonstrated by the teacher, students will engage in these specific activities: - "Spaghetti": Draw a series of long horizontal "waves" and "S" shapes to create a visual opportunity for abstract faces and creatures. Seek-out eye shapes and other patterns to create high contrast black and white artwork. - "Scribble Face": Close your eyes and draw six or eight random scribbles on a piece of paper. Then open your eyes and rotate the paper to discover opportunities to draw over your scribbles to create a strange face or creature.
Other Details
Supply List
Required Materials -Lots of white A4 (printer) paper (or similar) -Thick black pens or sharpies
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Sources
To see the general style of fun and strange artwork students will create in this class, please Google Image Search:
"black and white cartoon abstract expressionism"
Joined December, 2021
4.9
356reviews
Teacher expertise and credentials
Master's Degree in Education from San Francisco State University
Randy James, MEd
Creativity Coach, Cartoonist, Animator, Word-Nerd
Hi, please call me Randy! As a college professor of game design and animation I mentored the artistically gifted for over 20 years. I have a Master's Degree in education and recently taught over 5,000 ESL classes to more than 1000 VIPKids. Parents routinely praise me for my humorous and creative classes and I love to keep things lively!
Much of my creative arts curriculum stems from experiences as an award-winning cartoon animator and educational game producer in San Francisco. I rely on these professional skills and instincts in the classroom to identify your child's artistic potential, and it's always a joy to nurture their creative abilities.
As a kid myself I always enjoyed language games that reward clever wordplay like "telephone" and "madlibs", and have designed a series of word games and activities that really spice-up vocabulary and grammar classes. Students who may think vocabulary is "booooring!" can abruptly devour their nomenclature (eat their words) as they learn how the English language is alive and composed of fragments from world history!Reviews
Live One-Time Class
$14
per classMeets once
45 min
Completed by 39 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 8-12
1-6 learners per class
