Personal Map Making - A Daily Mixed Media Practice by e bond

All levels | 2 hours 15 min

Personal Map Making - A Daily Mixed Media Practice
Overview01:17
Materials01:16
Day 1 - Rearrange a map06:51
Day 2 - Shift your perspective 03:55
Day 3 - Make backgrounds07:40
Day 4 - Take textures from nature04:18
Day 5 - Map your desktop03:13
Day 6 - Make a grid02:44
Day 7 - No straight lines04:31
Day 8 - Color in a map03:19
Day 9 - Explore a leaf03:41
Day 10 - Look up, look down06:38
Day 11 - Pick a single shape06:20
Day 12 - Make a moveable map03:15
Day 13 - Limit your colors04:41
Day 14 - Use rope07:41
Day 15 - Add text03:59
Day 16 - Word maps04:28
Day 17 - Remap the world05:52
Day 18 - Photo safari01:54
Day 19 - Morning map03:59
Day 20 - Aerial views05:22
Day 21 - Map a poem04:37
Day 22 - From here to there03:41
Day 23 - Get scrap happy02:27
Day 24 - Reduction map02:36
Day 25 - Map of omission01:29
Day 26 - Stacked map04:09
Day 27 - Life timeline02:17
Day 28 - Emotional timeline02:43
Day 29 - Folding for fun05:12
Day 30 - Topographical portrait05:08
Day 31 - Show and tell03:59

Taught by e bond

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You might think of maps as diagrams of physical places, but the irrepressibly creative e bond will show you how to re-imagine a map as a visual journey through your artistic and emotional places. In this 31-day class, you’ll use maps and mapping, their functions and characteristics, as a process tool for generating abstract compositions with mark-making, collage, doodling, and other visual experiments. Map-making will be your conceptual point of departure as you fill up your sketchbook with paint, photographs, leaves, ephemera, and pieces of actual maps to create vibrant, mixed-media spreads.

Here’s what you’ll need:

Cutting mat
X-acto knife
Scissors
Bone folder
Pencil
Pens
Brush Pens
Glue stick and/or double-sided tape
8.5" x 11" mixed media paper
Existing maps and photocopies of maps
Ephemera
Various backgrounds, old artwork
Craft paper
Tracing paper
Carbon transfer paper
Card stock, printer paper, or any of your favorite paper
Acrylic inks
Water-based spray paints
Tempera paint markers
Acrylic paints
Paint brushes
White-out marker
Sharpie marker
Sewing machine
Circle punches
Ruler
Cutting mat
Home laser/inkjet printer or access to photocopier (optional)

Special supplies needed for certain days

Day 2:
Map you made from Day 1
Day 3:
Oil paint markers, scrapers
Day 4:
Leaves, bark, plastic plants, conte crayon or charcoal or crayon
Day 5:
Image of your desktop
Day 9:
Photocopy of leaf, paint pen
Day 10:
Photographs
Day 11:
Circle stencils in different sizes
Day 14:
Rope or string
Day 15:
A pre-written list, string map from previous day or other background
Day 18:
Camera
Day 26:
Magazines, brads
Day 27:
Straight line image, list
Day 28:
Wiggly line image, list
Day 30:
Portrait

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Learn how to:

Make timelines
Work with tracing paper
Utilize existing maps
Sew on paper
Make rubbings of textures

What you'll get:

A 31-day series of easy-to-follow video lessons on how to use map-making to inspire your sketchbook with collage, textures, and multi-media
33 HD video lessons you can access online anytime, anywhere
Detailed supply list
Step-by-step instructions by artist E Bond
The ability to leave comments, ask questions and interact with other students