Drawing with Aris Moore: Transparency Books

Class Includes Lifetime Access, Online Community, Instructor Commenting, 5 Video Lessons & More!

5 Lessons – $41.3 $59

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!

Forever Access, Pre-recorded Video Class runs: November 12 -21, 2024

 

TEACHER: Aris Moore

Class Description

Drawing with Aris Moore:
Transparency Books
5 Lessons
Class Dates: November 12-21, 2024

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 

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Some of Aris’ sketchbook drawings:

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Class Itinerary

Lessons are prerecorded and are available at 1amPT on the following schedule:

Lesson 1 – Tuesday, November 12
Lesson 2 – Wednesday, November 13
Lesson 3 – Friday, November 15

Lesson 4 – Tuesday, November 19
Lesson 5 – Thursday, November 21

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!

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For a full list of the supplies you will need, see the tab titled “Supplies” located just under the video screen above.

Supply List

Hi! I have provided links for your convenience, but please feel free to substitute any of these materials with supplies you already have on hand! –Aris

Tracing Paper (I like this brand, but anything you have that is see-through will work! I cut pages to 6.5 x 6.5 inches but you could also work larger.)

• acrylic paint markers (I like these.)

white gel pens 

Permanent colored markers (my absolute favorite for this book! I forgot to bring them with me for filming): 

fine point colored pens for small patterns and fine detail fine point sharpies are also great. 

• colored pencils (here is a great starter set of Prismacolor colored pencils but any kind should work great)

• alcohol markers (these are super reasonable and great quality)

• Any other types of pens or markers you have lying around. 

For the cover, I use a manilla file folder cut to 7 x 7 inches (a half inch larger than my pages) and I use binder clips to hold my book together while i am working on it. When finished, I just staple along the binding and wrap it with masking to cover up the staples… very low tech!

About the Teacher

Aris Moore lives and works in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She can often be found drawing in local coffee shops. Her work explores contradictions of strength and vulnerability, and attraction and repulsion, to create beings that are simultaneously awkward and unbelievable, yet familiar. Her drawings have been exhibited throughout the United States and have been included in several publications including New American Paintings and The Creative Block. When she is not drawing she is spending time with her nineteen year old twins, August and Owen and their very talkative cat Theo.

instagram: @arismoore

Nuts & Bolts

– Lessons are prerecorded and are available at 1amPT on the following schedule:

Lesson 1 – Tuesday, November 12
Lesson 2 – Wednesday, November 13
Lesson 3 – Friday, November 15

Lesson 4 – Tuesday, November 19
Lesson 5 – Thursday, November 21

– A private Facebook group and a Padlet group (for those not on FB) will be available for you to (optionally) share your artwork and enjoy and learn from the artwork of others. You may also email your teacher directly with questions or feedback.

– You will have forever access to the class videos and materials.