Observational Abstraction: Pulling From Here & There (Online Demo) Summer 2025 w/ Matt Chapman
June 9 (Monday), 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM, Eastern Time
**Demo is live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. The recording will be available to students for 3 months after the live demo, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite.
PROMO: https://youtu.be/KYgYgnho5Fc
Demo Description
Abstraction can take on many forms, and just as many influences. Here, artist Matt Allyn Chapman explores how using a language of abstraction and gestural mark making can provide an entry into bringing the intangible and often harder to define moments of our experience to a visual representation.
Demo Materials List
These are simply suggestions, this sort of work can be done with any material you feel comfortable with. These are materials I use regularly.
Ink: Sumi, India, Drawing Inks, Calligraphy Inks
Assorted Brushes: 2” flat house painters brush, 1” flat, 1/2” flat
Graphite: Range of H-B Pencils, or Sticks in standard or water-soluble
Charcoal: compressed or Vine
Acrylic paint
Markers: Acrylic paint pens (POSCA), Alchohol, Waterbased
Watercolor paper: Fabriano / Arches Hotpress 140lb is acceptable, 300lb is preferred
OTHER HELPFUL ITEMS:
Ruler
Painters Tape
Construction Knife
Paper Towels or Clean cloth
2 containers of clean water
June 9 (Monday), 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM, Eastern Time
**Demo is live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. The recording will be available to students for 3 months after the live demo, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite.
PROMO: https://youtu.be/KYgYgnho5Fc
Demo Description
Abstraction can take on many forms, and just as many influences. Here, artist Matt Allyn Chapman explores how using a language of abstraction and gestural mark making can provide an entry into bringing the intangible and often harder to define moments of our experience to a visual representation.
Demo Materials List
These are simply suggestions, this sort of work can be done with any material you feel comfortable with. These are materials I use regularly.
Ink: Sumi, India, Drawing Inks, Calligraphy Inks
Assorted Brushes: 2” flat house painters brush, 1” flat, 1/2” flat
Graphite: Range of H-B Pencils, or Sticks in standard or water-soluble
Charcoal: compressed or Vine
Acrylic paint
Markers: Acrylic paint pens (POSCA), Alchohol, Waterbased
Watercolor paper: Fabriano / Arches Hotpress 140lb is acceptable, 300lb is preferred
OTHER HELPFUL ITEMS:
Ruler
Painters Tape
Construction Knife
Paper Towels or Clean cloth
2 containers of clean water
June 9 (Monday), 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM, Eastern Time
**Demo is live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. The recording will be available to students for 3 months after the live demo, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite.
PROMO: https://youtu.be/KYgYgnho5Fc
Demo Description
Abstraction can take on many forms, and just as many influences. Here, artist Matt Allyn Chapman explores how using a language of abstraction and gestural mark making can provide an entry into bringing the intangible and often harder to define moments of our experience to a visual representation.
Demo Materials List
These are simply suggestions, this sort of work can be done with any material you feel comfortable with. These are materials I use regularly.
Ink: Sumi, India, Drawing Inks, Calligraphy Inks
Assorted Brushes: 2” flat house painters brush, 1” flat, 1/2” flat
Graphite: Range of H-B Pencils, or Sticks in standard or water-soluble
Charcoal: compressed or Vine
Acrylic paint
Markers: Acrylic paint pens (POSCA), Alchohol, Waterbased
Watercolor paper: Fabriano / Arches Hotpress 140lb is acceptable, 300lb is preferred
OTHER HELPFUL ITEMS:
Ruler
Painters Tape
Construction Knife
Paper Towels or Clean cloth
2 containers of clean water