Bill Perkins, Color Boot-Camp 5-Day Workshop : LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER

Bill Perkins, Color Boot-Camp 5-Day Workshop & CTN Expo Registration info! Date: 5/4-5/8 2011 Time: 9am-7:30pm daily Cost: $575 Address: 15414 Cabrito Rd.                  Van Nuys, CA 91406 marchantatelier@gmail.com or call Matt Marchant @ 661-350-1579 to register Hello Artists and Friends, We only have a couple of spots still available in this amazing workshop experience! Students who have attendced the past two workshops have left with rave reviews!  DONT MISS OUT! Here's a quote from one of the attendee's of the last workshop "I was at the last boot camp and came away with more knowledge and enthusiasm for painting then I did after four years of art college. I highly recommend that if you can take the time to take this session, you should do it! If I could have taken the time off work I would do again. I had a great time." -Scott Seeto: Concept Artist at Disney Toons studios    If you’re interested in improving your ability to see color more simply and paint it more directly this workshop is for you.  In five days you will paint approximately 30 paintings from life and cover multiple variations of seven basic contrasts of color theory.  Critical aspects of color theory and design are presented and practiced through painting from real life situations.  By creating model set-ups specific to aspects of color theory rather than color swatches, you don’t just learn color theory, you see it, paint it, and own it!             Demos and critiques will be ongoing throughout the five days.  This is not a portrait, or technique class, it is all about pushing your limits to improve your ability to perceive and understand the effect of light through color relationships. During each workshop I document each pose, then present the specific color theory, along with notes on the process and procedures for each set-up.  Artists are encouraged to upload their paintings into the document to create their own personal color journal of their workshop experience.  For more information or if you are interested in seeing examples of past journal pages contact me at: billperkinsart@yahoo.com or (805) 231-4728. Sincerely, Bill Perkins Where: Atelier Marchant Contact: Matthew Marchant E-Mail: marchantatelier@gmail.com Phone: 661.350.1579 Website: www.ateliermarchant.blogspot.com Bill's Fine Art Portfolio: Click Here Bill's Commercial Work: Click Here REGISTER FOR THE CTN Expo NOW!!! Atelier Marchant highly recommends the Creative Talent Network’s Animation Expo (CTN-X) as it returns for it's 3rd year to the City of Burbank beginning Friday, November 18th – Sunday, November 20th.  This is the ONLY place where you’ll meet so many animation industry icons under one roof and make contacts, learn new techniques and meet with recruiters. Hurry and join in NOW where “X” marks the spot to connect with renowned artists from around the world including some of our own talent from Atelier Marchant.  Register online or call (800) 604-2238 and save. CTN-X takes place at the Burbank Marriott Convention Center with ample discounted parking and is conveniently located across the street from the Burbank Airport and Amtrak Station. Early bird tickets are $50 for a day pass and $130 for a 3-day pass. Discounted rates are available to Atelier Marchant students when registering online using this code   ATEMARX11. To  register online NOW,  please visit: www.regonline.com/ctnx2011 or call, (800) 604-2238. Check out what you missed last year ... http://vimeo.com/18502169 I have attached some graphics that can link to either The Creative Talent Network (CTN) http://www.creativetalentnetwork.com The CTN animation eXpo http://www.ctnanimationexpo.com

Bill Perkins, Art Director of the Disney classic Aladdin and lifelong Fine Artist is teaching a 5-day Color Workshop 5/4-5/8

Bill Perkins, Color Boot-Camp 5-Day Workshop

Date: 5/4-5/8

Time: 9am-7:30pm daily

Cost $575

Van Nuys, CA 91406

marchantatelier@gmail.com or call Matt at 661-350-1579 to register

Hello Artists and Friends,
In June of 2010 Atelier Marchant kicked off with our first workshop being Bill Perkins' newly designed Color Boot-Camp 5-Day intensive.  Bill is a master in color understanding and he is genius in his ability to simplify the complexity of color perception.  The workshop was such a success and students gave such overwhelmingly positive feedback, that we decided to offer the workshop again this May 4th-8th!
Perkins has extensive knowledge and experience when it comes to color, working in the commercial Art field as well as a Fine Artist...
In 1990 he became the Art Director on Disney's Aladdin. As Art Director he designed the style and developed the first discrete style guide which was designed to mine the collaborative process and secure predictable outcomes. An avid lifelong student himself, Bill began teaching color, composition and design at the Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art in 2002. When he left Disney in 1994 he worked as a Visual Development artist, Art Director, and Concept Artist for Warner bros, DreamWorks, then moved to San Anselmo to work for ILM. When he returned to southern California in 2001, Bill opened High St. Studio as a pre-production and concept design studio with the following clients, DNA Productions, Character Builders, Disneytoons, Walt Disney Animation Studio, Hot Donut productions, 9th Ray Studio, Mass Media, Sprite Entertainment, Spark Unlimited, THQ, and Paramount Studios. In 2007 Bill returned to Disney to finish development on Bolt and continued on to art direct a short project and joined the visual development team designing for Walt Disney Animation Studios on future projects.
This workshop will be a great learning experience for Artist at all levels of their personal artistic growth... Don't miss this opportunity to advance your skills!

Here's a quote from one of the attendee's of the last workshop
"I was at the last boot camp and came away with more knowledge and enthusiasm for painting then I did after four years of art college. I highly recommend that if you can take the time to take this session, you should do it! If I could have taken the time off work I would do again. I had a great time."
-Scott Seeto: Concept Artist at Disney Toons studios




If you are serious about improving your color sensitivity, this is an intense, five-day painting workout that will do just that.  I have carefully designed the format, aids, and procedures to challenge right brain processing which allows many artists to experience startling rapid growth in color perception, color mixing, and color vibration.  Because we are painting from life I will unveil color theory, not through exhaustive lectures and painting color chips but through experiencing and painting these effects as they reveal themselves in real life situations. I will set-up situations that clearly express all seven basic contrasts of color in various combination's and mutations.  As a bonus, the paintings produced by each artist during this course will be labeled with the specific applied theory, which it captures, and these will serve as documents of their personal journey, to study from and reflect on for years to come!
This course is suggested for students, professional artists, Illustrators, Designers, and digital painters.  The course will be conducted in oil paints but your experiences will translate to other mediums directly.  Some familiarity with alla-prima approach and basic color mixing is recommended.

Contact:

Matthew Marchant

E-Mail: marchantatelier@gmail.com

Phone: 661.350.1579

Website: www.ateliermarchant.blogspot.com

Bills Fine Art Portfolio: Click Here

Bill's Commercial Work: Click Here

Bill Perkins Color Boot-Camp 5-Day Workshop 10/27-10/31

Bill Perkins, Color Boot-Camp 5-Day Workshop 
Date: 10/27-10/31 
Time: 9am-8:30pm daily* (*ends at 5pm on Halloween)
Cost $575
Location: 15414 Cabrito Rd. Unit. F
                Van Nuys, CA 91406
marchantatelier@gmail.com or call Matt at 661-350-1579 to register

Hello Artists and Friends,


In June of 2010 Atelier Marchant kicked off with our first workshop being Bill Perkins' newly designed Color Boot-Camp 5-Day intensive.  Bill is a master in color understanding and in his ability to simplify the complexity of color perception he is genius.  The workshop was such a success and students gave such overwhelmingly positive feedback, that we decided to offer the workshop again at the end of this month!  


Perkins has extensive knowledge and experience when it comes to color, working in the commercial Art field as well as a Fine Artist...

In 1990 he became the Art Director on Disney's Aladdin. As Art Director he designed the style and developed the first discrete style guide which was designed to mine the collaborative process and secure predictable outcomes. An avid lifelong student himself, Bill began teaching color, composition and design at the Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art in 2002. When he left Disney in 1994 he worked as a Visual Development artist, Art Director, and Concept Artist for Warner bros, DreamWorks, then moved to San Anselmo to work for ILM. When he returned to southern California in 2001, Bill opened High St. Studio as a pre-production and concept design studio with the following clients, DNA Productions, Character Builders, Disneytoons, Walt Disney Animation Studio, Hot Donut productions, 9th Ray Studio, Mass Media, Sprite Entertainment, Spark Unlimited, THQ, and Paramount Studios. In 2007 Bill returned to Disney to finish development on Bolt and continued on to art direct a short project and joined the visual development team designing for Walt Disney Animation Studios on future projects. 

This workshop will be a great learning experience for Artist at all levels of their personal artistic growth... Don't miss this opportunity to advance your skills! 

Here's a quote from one of the attendee's of the last workshop  
Scott Seeto: Concept Artist at Disney Toons studios  

"I was at the last boot camp and came away with more knowledge and enthusiasm for painting then I did after four years of art college. I highly recommend that if you can take the time to take this session, you should do it! If I could have taken the time off work I would do again. I had a great time."

 If you are serious about improving your color sensitivity, this is an intense, five-day painting workout that will do just that.  I have carefully designed the format, aids, and procedures to challenge right brain processing which allows many artists to experience startling rapid growth in color perception, color mixing, and color vibration.  Because we are painting from life I will unveil color theory, not through exhaustive lectures and painting color chips but through experiencing and painting these effects as they reveal themselves in real life situations. I will set-up situations that clearly express all seven basic contrasts of color in various combination's and mutations.  As a bonus, the paintings produced by each artist during this course will be labeled with the specific applied theory, which it captures, and these will serve as documents of their personal journey, to study from and reflect on for years to come.

This course is suggested for students, professional artists, Illustrators, Designers, and digital painters.  The course will be conducted in oil paints but your experiences will translate to other mediums directly.  Some familiarity with alla-prima approach and basic color mixing is recommended.

Where:

Atelier Marchant

15414 Cabrito Rd. Unit. F

Van Nuys, CA 91406

Contact:

Matthew Marchant

E-Mail: marchantatelier@gmail.com

Phone: 661.350.1579

Website: www.ateliermarchant.blogspot.com

Bills Fine Art Portfolio: Click Here

Bill's Commercial Work: Click Here

 

Bill Perkins Color Boot Camp Workshop 10/27-10/31 9am-8:30pm each day $575 total

The last Color Boot-Camp was a great success! Students were overwhelmingly pleased with the amount of information and color knowledge they left the workshop with.  

  Color Boot camp

5-Day Intensive Workshop

October 27th-31st 2010

9:30am to 8:30pm (each day, except "Halloween" we end at 5pm)  

If you are serious about improving your color sensitivity, this is an intense, five-day painting workout that will do just that.  I have carefully designed the format, aids, and procedures to challenge right brain processing which allows many artists to experience startling rapid growth in color perception, color mixing, and color vibration.  Because we are painting from life I will unveil color theory, not through exhaustive lectures and painting color chips but through experiencing and painting these effects as they reveal themselves in real life situations. I will set-up situations that clearly express all seven basic contrasts of color in various combination's and mutations.  As a bonus, the paintings produced by each artist during this course will be labeled with the specific applied theory, which it captures, and these will serve as documents of their personal journey, to study from and reflect on for years to come.

This course is suggested for students, professional artists, Illustrators, Designers, and digital painters.  The course will be conducted in oil paints but your experiences will translate to other mediums directly.  Some familiarity with alla-prima approach and basic color mixing is recommended.

Where:

Atelier Marchant

15414 Cabrito Rd. Unit. F

Van Nuys, CA 91406

Cost:

$575

Contact:

Matthew Marchant

E-Mail: marchant07@sbcglobal.net

Phone: 661.350.1579

Website: www.ateliermarchant.blogspot.com Also visit Bill's Websites: www.billperkinsstudio.com and www.highstreetstudio.com  

 

New Workshops!!! for Fall 2010...

We are excited to announce a listing of Fall 2010 workshops with Atelier Marchant.  We have a couple great artists visiting from New York, in October James Gurney and in November Master Painter  Steven Assael, as well as some local Artists Bill Perkins and Danni Shinya Luo teaching a Color and Watercolor for Illustration workshops respectively.  Here is the information on all of these great workshops listed below!

Call 661.350.1579 or email marchantatelier@gmail.com to register! 

James Gurney: 3 Part Lecture Series October 10th, 2010 from 1pm-5pm

$30 for each lecture or $65 for the entire day. 

in October, the esteemed James Gurney, creator of www.dinotopia.com and the creator of the best art blog on the internet, will be joining us to share his knowledge with you, covering three important topics, lectures, and presentations. James' BLOG (This is a must read blog for all artists so if you have not clicked that, do it now!  You will learn and see a lot of great stuff). We are very fortunate to have James offering these lectures and I hope everyone will take a deeper look at his world and art.

Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn’t Exist

This digital slide presentation examines the practical methods that will help intermediate and advanced artists translate an imaginative scene into a realistic image. The content of the talk is almost entirely updated since my 2007 lecture: Dinotopia: Behind the Scenes, which I shared with over twenty art schools and five movie studios. The topics include research, thumbnail sketches, models posing, maquettes, photo reference, and plein air studies. A slightly modified version of this talk works well with audiences that include a lot of kids.

Color and Light

The subject of color often seems like an abstract science, but it really comes to life for the realist artist when it is related to light and atmosphere, the central tools of any realist painter. An understanding of color and light is also fundamental to artists who need to create color scripts for sequential works—such as graphic novels, video games, illustrated books, or animated films. I’ll show a practical method for color organization called “Color Wheel Masking,” which involves placing one of a set of uniquely shaped templates over the color wheel to create an infinite variety of reduced triads and complementary schemes. In the course of discussing this unique method, I’ll cover most of the standard fundamentals of color: hue, value, and chroma; as well as limited palettes, warm and cool color, and perceptual effects of color vision. 

Pioneers of Plein Air  

Many professional artists have found enormous benefits from painting outdoors. This fast-paced digital slide presentation starts by taking a look at how plein-air painting was practiced in the 1830s and 40s by the American landscape painters Asher B. Durand, Thomas Cole, and Frederic Church. I show how they achieved remarkable results, and how they contended with insects, wind, and direct sunlight. I then bring the story to the modern day, discussing materials and methods of both drawing and painting media. If the talk is in range of car travel, I’ll typically bring in the actual paint set-up so that people can take a close look at the equipment.

 Steven Assael:  Alla-Prima Figure Painting

Wednesday Nov.10th-Sunday November 14th (5Days) 11am-5pm $750 total

 Steven Assael is one of the most inspirational and original masterful realist painters of our time.  His poignant renderings of the details of life’s struggles leave the viewer agape at not only their own immortality, but also at the lush surfaces he deftly creates with the flicks of his brush.  Add to that his warm personality, and you have the makings of an incredible artist and instructor.

Understanding drawing, tone and value and color with a unified direct application of paint is stressed.  Simplification of form and the gradual development of the parts in context with the whole are produced through the observation of light and shadow and warm and cool colors.

           

This class will pursue direct painting from the model over a week.  Some time will be devoted to a painting demonstration (approximately six to eight hours).  Students are to develop rapid immediate starts establishing the whole at once.  Understanding how to develop an initial structure that’s flexible to change and develop are stressed.

Students will gain an understanding of materials and basic craftsmanship from establishing ground supports to a variety of techniques in oil paint using fat over lean principles.

 

Bill Perkins: Color Boot Camp Workshop

Wednesday, October 27th-Sunday October 31st  9am-5pm (each day) $575 total

If you are serious about improving your color sensitivity, this is an intense, five-day painting workout that will do just that.  I have carefully designed the format, aids, and procedures to challenge right brain processing which allows many artists to experience startling rapid growth in color perception, color mixing, and color vibration.  Because we are painting from life I will unveil color theory, not through exhaustive lectures and painting color chips but through experiencing and painting these effects as they reveal themselves in real life situations. I will set-up situations that clearly express all seven basic contrasts of color in various combination's and mutations.  As a bonus, the paintings produced by each artist during this course will be labeled with the specific applied theory, which it captures, and these will serve as documents of their personal journey, to study from and reflect on for years to come.

This course is suggested for students, professional artists, Illustrators, Designers, and digital painters.  The course will be conducted in oil paints but your experiences will translate to other mediums directly.  Some familiarity with alla-prima approach and basic color mixing is recommended.

Danni Shinya Luo:  Watercolor for Illustration Workshop  

Friday November 5th - Sunday November 7th  $245 total

An introduction to steps and ways of creating paintings or illustrations using watercolor mediums.  By exploring the property and behavior of the medium, students will learn to come up with their own appropriate styles and processes using watercolor.

Day 1:

            Introduction to watercolor surface and tools.

Exploring of Painting Process and Basic Methods

Day 2:

            Sketching, Portrait demo

            Practice in Class, Reference book discussion, Art work sharing

Day 3:

            Exploring different surfaces, textures, and mediums

            Students share art works, Painting in class.

Call 661.350.1579 or email marchantatelier@gmail.com to register!

Sequential Art Course with Marshall Vandruff

Atelier Marchant  
www.marshallart.com
Friday thru Sunday
Aug. 6th-8th 11am-6pm each day
Cost: $295
Hosted by 3Kicks Fine Art Studio
55 Wavery Dr. Suite #109
Pasadena, CA 91105

This course is for anyone who tells stories with pictures. We begin with the old wisdom about what makes a character interesting and a story worth telling, then we get into how to compose and arrange pictures to make a story emotionally powerful. Whether you are designing shots for a film, pages for a children's book, or panels for a graphic novel, you have two problems: making the story clear, and bringing it to life. We will study how great masters of pictorial storytelling use their craft to move an audience's emotions.
Click here to sign up or to check if this course is now open for registration.
This is a three-day Intensive course

SESSIONS & TOPICS

Character Development	Types, Casting, Complexity & Transitions
Story Development	Structure, Unity, Reversals, Tension & Timing
Shot Design	Camera, Image, Shot Structure, Clarity & Impact

I've taught this course over thirty times at Laguna College of Art & Design and (formerly) at Cal State Fullerton. I've also taught it to the cinematics team at Blizzard Entertainment. This is a boiled-down version of the course for professionals and beginners. The sessions will be packed with instruction, so be prepared to learn.
The first sessions are a concentrated, foundational course on storytelling. The final sessions are a concentrated course in sequential shot design. I will explain some differences between various media, such as illustrated books, graphic novels, comic strips and films, but I will emphasize the fundamental discipline behind them all: how to tell the story with pictures, not words.

Materials:

Bring a sketchpad and a mechanical pencil or pen or some other non-messy point media. No charcoal or dusty media or anything that leaves shavings.

Call Matthew Marchant @ 661.350.1579 to register.  Or email marchantatelier@gmail.com.

Marshall's workshops are very popular so register soon!  It will fill fast...

Aaron Westerberg Workshop July 7th-11th

Aaron Westerberg Five-Day Oil Painting workshop!


Where: 15414 Cabrito Rd. Van Nuys, CA 91406
When: July 7th-11th , Wednesday – Sunday
Cost: $595

This five-day workshop will focus on the fundamentals of picture making and direct painting from a live model.

We will discuss various starting techniques as well as color studies, value schemes, and the preliminary work involved in starting a painting. The first part of the workshop will focus on the portrait the second we will focus on the figure and setting up a scene. There will be daily instructor demonstrations and critiques.



There will be two long demonstrations the first day and the third. Students should bring at least four canvases. I like to have more so I have more options for composition.

One for portrait either 11x14, 16x12, 20x16 one for the figure pose 20x16, 24x18 and two smaller canvases for color/compositional studies 5x7, 4x6, or 10x8 are good.

visit Aaron's Website!

www.westerberg-fineart.com

To Register or for more details please Call Matthew Marchant 661.350.1579 or e-mail: marchant07@sbcglobal.net