Class Description

Lessons to include Drawing texture, Patterns , Cross Hatching, Light and Shadow. Self-portrait, Abstract expression with color, shape, and movement. Paper cut out and collage.

Also, Watercolors

*Watercolors are a type of paint that can be mixed with water to create translucent layers of color on paper. You can also call a painting made this way a watercolor. Anyone can paint with watercolors, from beginners to professional artists. Students will enjoy learning technique for mixing paint, caring for a brush and stroke-making, then practice making happy art as they create watercolor projects that are cute enough to proudly display.

Mediums & Media/Programs Used

  • Ink
  • Paints
  • Paper

Subjects Covered

  • Beginners Drawing
  • Concept Creation
  • Design Basics

INSTRUCTORS

Woody Woodman

Foundational Drawing / Illustration / Story Boards / Comics Instructor

Woody Woodman is an artist, storyteller and teacher with 20 years in the animation industry. After being honorably discharged from the United States Marine Corps in 1991, I began my pursuit to become a professional artist, and enrolled at Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota Florida, where I received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.

I was recruited by Walt Disney Feature Animation and continued my education in their internship program in Orlando Florida in July of 1997. I began my animation career as an ‘inbetweener’ on the film “Mulan” with Barry Cook. I worked on several films; “Tarzan,” “The Emperor’s New Groove” and “Lilo & Stitch” Then I was accepted into the story department working with some of the finest storyboard artists and directors in the business. I also worked on “Treasure Planet” with Ron Clements, John Musker and Glen Keane. I continued to work for Disney in the story department on “Brother Bear” and a few films that where never realized, until the Orlando studio was shut down in 2003. Woody has continued his Animation experience working with such clients such as: Aardman, Lucas Films, Laika and 20 Century Fox.

Amanda Moldovan

Digital & Traditional Instructor

Amanda Moldovan is a skilled animator, painter, illustrator, graphic designer, and professional weirdo. In school, she crawled her way through the jungles of the amazon to get her BFA in Animation. Being a University of Central Florida student taught her what it was like to work in a studio environment and create a short animated film. Since then she has had animation jobs around the US, started her own art business, directed a short, and worked as a painting instructor.

In her first job as an instructor she taught people of all ages how to get creative and pick up a brush. She has animated on short films, music videos, video games, YouTube series, and Television shows. She also is an avid member of Women in Animation, where she was lucky enough to be in a mentorship group under a head of animation at Pixar.  Her hobbies include Dungeons and Dragons, rock and roll, and re watching old Muppet show episodes. Raised in the state of Florida (home of the mouse himself), she found herself inspired by the world around her and began to create. The world hasn’t been the same since.

Veronica-Suarez

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Veronica Suarez

Digital & Traditional Instructor

Veronica Suarez has been exploring the world through visual media for as all as I can remember. When the rest of my friends were fighting over popularity and a Teen People, I was on my belly in front of a National Geographic trying to redraw the animals I found in the saturated pages.  I wasn’t sure of the value everyone was looking for in others they did not contain themself.

Once I turned 18, I set off to the University of Central Florida to obtain my Bachelor of Fine Arts in Experimental Animation. Experimental Animation is an innovative concept that encourages artists to arrive at creative solutions through all means necessary without a boxed-in idea of what storytelling tools look like. Experimental Animation meant I was allowed to be unsure if I was to arrive at my characters and stories through traditional or digital media. I was given the opportunity to practice both in order to continually find my identity as a human and an artist. Today, I share my joy of what I learned through school and more importantly through myself when it comes to improving as an artist.  I am a program assistant at the university that inspired me so much, passing on the love that carried me through the difficult yet rewarding years of undergrad school and personhood.  Guiding others on their journey is an honor and a joy.

I am grateful for my opportunities as a teacher. Veronica is a traditional and digital artist with over a decade of experience designing for a variety of clients from Veteran Care to LVMN (Louis Vuitton /Moet & Chandon).  In her free time when she’s not making art she’s attending and supporting much of our local art community.  Examples include research, apprenticeships, partnerships, and cooperatives with a wide network of published and practicing individuals in fields such as Florida Prize winner Robert Rivers, Dark Horse artist John Nadeau, Portrait Society winner Stacy Barter, Steven Assael international artist and current instructor at New York Academy of Art, Disney animators Todd Bright, Aaron and Travis Blaise, and Joanne Adams.