Thursday, June 08, 2017

IMC 2013 -- The Illustration Master Class

I love the IMC so much!!!  A week of wallowing in fantastic fantasy art!

Check it out:  Illustration Master Class IMC Website

They always sell out right away, so don't hesitate.
A core group of top-notch teachers working in traditional, digital, comics, gallery, children's book illustration:  Rebecca Guay, Boris Vallejo, Julie Bell, Donato Giancola, Dan DosSantos, Greg Manchess, Scott M. Fischer.  Often with Iain McCaig and James Gurney.  With a main Guest Instructor, and many dropping by to give talks and lectures.

IMC 2013 had Mike Mignola as Guest Instructor (although he had to leave a few days early).

A list of assignments to pick from to work on during the week (held in Amherst, MA, in June), is given out beforehand.  We bring materials/supplies/computers to work on.  Live and eat together.

Around 100 students.

Auditorium for Lectures/Presentations--
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Crits on the first day, with 3 or 4 of the faculty--
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Lecture on Shooting Reference, with Scott Fischer and Donato Giancola having some fun--
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Some of my rough sketches for the "A Midsummer Night's Dream" assignment--
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More detailed sketch of Titania and Oberon--
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There are some models/drawing/painting sessions... this one has James Gurney doing some painting--
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Boris Vallejo--
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My oil painting, on 18x24" masonite, at my workstation--
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Diana Harlan Stein, working on her Captain Nemo painting--
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We were in the first floor painting studio.  There was also a room upstairs, and another room just for digital (darker and no paint allowed!)--
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Row of easels--
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Greg Manchess, painting--
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Iain McCaig, Greg Manchess, and Donato Giancolo looking at artwork--
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Scott Fischer, painting--
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Donato Giancola, painting--
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Diana Stein, painting--
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Rebecca Guay, painting--
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My painting--
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End of the week, display of work and sketching in everyone's sketchbooks--
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