Art Lessons and Services
Lee-Su.com offers private and group art lessons (see e-catalog immediately below for rates and details).
We also privide custom Visualization and Design services at $108 per hour or with a negotiated contract.
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This class catalog was updated on November 24, 2011.
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Art Lesson Index
Digiing: Explore the Digital World - private hourly lessons only
Drawing: Draw Any and Everything - private hourly lessons only
Painting: Illusions of Light and Space - private hourly lessons only
Examples of digiings by instructor:
Digiing: Explore the Digital World
"Digiing" is a verb and noun coined to mean image making, editing, and presentation in the digital format. Digital image making includes scanned graphics and photography with a digital camera. The editing of images involves software like Photoshop as a digital darkroom and as a medium for creating/elaborating upon visual work. Lastly, digital image presentation encompasses creating Flash animation and building your own webpage with XHTML, PHP, CSS; etc. These are all possible by learning to digi... some call digiing "Digital Media." Private lessons are always built around your personal goals and pace!
Private digiing lessons are $48 per hour
plus get a 10% discount for your next purchase - book with Lee@Lee-Su.com (see Possible Additional Costs above)
Examples of drawings by instructor:
Drawing: Learn to Draw Any and Everything
Lessons include sketching with graphite, charcoal, and ink from life and the printed image. They will focus on making the illusion of light and space by using lines and value. Lee Su specializes in multiple methods of constructing perspectives that are useful in developing your drawing skills. Private lessons are always built around your personal goals and pace!
Private drawing lessons are $48 per hour
plus get a 10% discount for your next purchase - book with Lee@Lee-Su.com (see Possible Additional Costs above)
Examples of paintings by instructor:
Painting: Illusions of Light and Space
Lessons include learning about the materials, methods, and distinct characteristics of painting with various mediums like oil, acrylic, gouache, and more. Drawing techniques, color theory, and art history are instilled when applicable. As always, lessons are built around your personal goals!
Private painting lessons are $48 per hour
plus get a 10% discount for your next purchase - book with Lee@Lee-Su.com (see Possible Additional Costs above)
Examples of Design Work by instructor:
Design 101
Interested in making your idea a reality? No matter what your concept may be, the path to bringing it to real life involves visualizing your idea, documenting your considerations, creating technical drawings, building a model/prototype, and finally, making a detailed presentation of the product for your contractor, fabricator, or buyer. Each session will be tailored to your specific idea and needs! You will explore different methods of making your idea conceptually and physically tangable. Class will nurture your skills of visualization, critical thinking, technical drafting, construction documentation, basic understanding of materials, and presentation of your creation.
A Private 08 hour seminar (2 or fewer meetings) is $268
plus get a 10% discount for next class - book with Lee@Lee-Su.com (see Possible Additional Costs above)
Topic 01: Introduction
Topic 02: Envisioning in 3-dimensions
Topic 03: Documenting Your Idea Visually
Topic 04: Developing your Idea Using Techical Drawing
Topic 05: Designing the Details of Your Idea
Topic 06: Construction Drawings for Your Idea
Topic 07: Building Models & Prototypes
Topic 08: The Final Presentation
Examples of Visualizations by instructor:
Visualization 101
Whether from a dream or the imagination, you may have an image in your mind that needs to be understood more clearly. This short Seminar is for you! We will explore your notion together through visual means including use of 2 and 3-dimensional representation and even animation. Each session will be tailored to you!
A Private 08 hour seminar (2 or fewer meetings) is $268
plus get a 10% discount for next class - book with Lee@Lee-Su.com (see Possible Additional Costs above)
Topic 01: Introduction
Topic 02: Understanding Human Vision and Recognition
Topic 03: Vision: Light & Value
Topic 04: Vision: Light & Color
FREE CMY color mixing poster
Topic 05: Drawing and Proportions
Topic 06: Composition
Topic 07: Depth and Perspective
Topic 08: Presentation of Your Work
Examples of oil paintings by instructor:
Mastering Oil Painting
This fun class caters to everyone from those who have never held a brush to artists who would like to gain from new experiences. The individual attention provided will enable anyone to follow along, develop new skills, or renew forgotten abilities; each session will be tailored to your needs! You will explore the medium of oil paint with emphasis on fundamentals. Class will nurture your skills of composing an image, creating illusions of light & space, understanding of perspective, color mixing, and most of all, the enjoyment of creating art with your own hands. Past students of Sketching with Gouache may substitute all duplicate class topics for others of interest when taking this as a private 10 hour course.
A Private 10 hour course (5 or fewer meetings) is $298
plus get a 10% discount for your next purchase - book with Lee@Lee-Su.com (see Possible Additional Costs above)
For group classes during spring and fall:
- Assabet Valley Center for Continuing Education - Marlborough, MA (see AssabetAfterDark.com)
- Groton Dunstable Regional School District Community Education - Groton, MA (see Spring 2012 Flyer)
Assabet - Fall 2011
Class 01: Introduction, Syllabus, Materials List
Class 02: Starting a Painting, Frame it!
Class 03: Drawing and Proportions
Class 04: Depth and Perspective
Class 05: Vision & Value
Class 06: Vision: Light & Color
FREE CMY color mixing poster
Class 07: Survey of Oil Techniques
Class 08: Local Artists
Class 09: Sketching En Plein Air
Class 10: Preserving Your Art
Download all files above in a single 17MB pdf file here. (May take a while pending your connection.)
Examples of works in gouache by instructor:
Sketching with Gouache
This exciting class with gouache, also known as bodycolor to J.M.W. Turner and Matisse, explores the unique properties of the medium being both a transparant watercolor at times and an opacque paint at others. It is water based and is just as easy to set up and clean as watercolor; in addition, gouache has colors more true to the visible light spectrum than any other medium -- except digital. This class caters to everyone from those who have never held a brush to artists who paint with watercolor and would like to gain from a new experience. The individual attention provided will enable anyone to follow along and develop new skills while enjoying the creation of art with your own hands. Each session will be tailored to your specific needs! Past students of Mastering Oil Painting may substitute duplicate class topics for others of interest when taking this as a private 10 hour course.
A Private 10 hour course (5 or fewer meetings) is $298
plus get a 10% discount for your next purchase - book with Lee@Lee-Su.com (see Possible Additional Costs above)
For group classes during spring, fall, and winter:
- Harvard Community Education - Harvard, MA (contact Judy Cavanaugh - (978) 456-4118 - jcavanaugh@psharvard.org )
Harvard - Winter 2012
Class 01: Introduction, Syllabus, Materials List
Class 02: Composition: Creating inter-relationships
Examples of finger paintings by instructor:
Finger Painting
This is not making mud pies. Finger painting can be fun and produce handsome works while not having to use restricting tools. Lessons include the use of your fingers, paint, and canvas... that is all. You will be suprised at the possibilities those little digits hold (see instructor examples above). You will work with a waterbased, nontoxic paint. No pressure and prerequisites; just come have fun, relief stress, and let your imagination run free.
A Private 6 hour course (3 or fewer meetings) is $198
plus get a 10% discount for your next purchase - book with Lee@Lee-Su.com (see Possible Additional Costs above)
Topic 01: Painting Freely with Your Fingers
Topic 02: Drawing and Proportions
Topic 03: Creating the Illusion of Light, Space, and Material with Value (greyscale)
Topic 04: Creating the illusion of Light, Space, and Material with Hue (color)
FREE Color Mixing Delta
Topic 05: Creating the Illusion of Depth with Perspective
Topic 06: Sketch Anything Using Finger Paint
Examples of color studies by instructor:
A Colorful Seminar: Color Mixing and Theory for All Mediums
Color mixing and color theory is knowledge that can be applied to all mediums of visual art. This shorter course is an intensive study of color, understanding it in the form of natural light, computer screen generated hues, and pigments of paint. The eye as a receiving mechanism for light (electromagnetic radiation), will be analyzed along with a brief review of the science of vision. Color theories will also be examined (ie: Photoshop RBG, printing CMYK, the Leonardo da Vinci described RYBG primaries; etc. Optical Art will be reviewed along with works by Mark Rothko, Josef Albers; etc. But do not be frightened off, classes are always designed for your personal pace and goals!
A Private 8 hour seminar (2 or fewer meetings) is $268
plus get a 10% discount for next class - book with Lee@Lee-Su.com (see Possible Additional Costs above)
Topic 01: Introduction
Topic 02: Color from Light to Paint Overview
FREE Omega: The complete color guide
Topic 03: Mixing of Light (using Photoshop RBG as demo)
Topic 04: Mixing of Paint (using Photoshop CMYK and gouache as demo)
Topic 05: Survey of Existing Color Systems
Topic 06: Brief Explanation of Vision and Optics
Topic 07: Optical Art
Topic 08: History of Color Theory
Examples of perspectives by instructor:
The Observed and the Constructed Perspective
As with color, perspective applies to work in every medium of visual art. It is a technique that gives the illusion of 3-dimensions on a 2-dimensional surface. One can capture it through sketching from observation or construct it from architectural drafting. This seminar will examine both methods. The instructor has discovered multiple techniques in perspective construction of which only a hand full of people are aware. This is an indepth course that you will not get anywhere else!
A Private 8 hour seminar (2 or fewer meetings) is $268
plus get a 10% discount for next class - book with Lee@Lee-Su.com (see Possible Additional Costs above)
Topic 01: Introduction
Topic 02: Copying the Printed Images
Topic 03: Drawing from Observation
Topic 04: Surveying Strange Worlds
Topic 05: How to Construct a Perspective 1
Topic 06: How to Construct a Perspective 2
Topic 07: Survey of Construction Methods
Topic 08: Manipulating the Perspective
Examples of drawings by instructor:
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