Composition Bootcamp, February 2021

with Marshall Vandruff

[The webinar is over.]

In early 2021, I will host a 12-session Composition Bootcamp on Mondays beginning February 1st from 7–8:30 PM Los Angeles time (check Daylight Savings Time). This is not my Composition Seminar where I lecture. This is to guide you through three months of serious exercises and projects to bring out your composing skills.

I will assign you weekly work for specific challenges and projects, including:

  • Choose Your Art Parents
  • Abstracting Elements
  • Limiting Values
  • Separating Analysis & Instinct
  • Touchstones & Reveries
  • Emotion & Metaphor
  • Motifs
  • Comparisons & Contrasts
  • Balance and Extremes
  • Dominance
  • Guide the Eye
  • Image as Music
  • Change & Counterchange

You can register for either of two levels:

Participant Tier ($360). Includes Marshall’s feedback on your work. Acceptance to this tier requires an audition.

Observer Tier ($120). This allows you to attend the sessions, follow along with the projects, and learn while watching feedback on the work of students in the Participant Tier.

This is to help you master the major elements and principles of pictorial composition. Each week, I will do all I can to make every topic practical, and help you learn from the art you love, develop your talent for composing, and create your best images!

The webinar has begun and registration is closed.