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9:00am CDT

Get Weird with It: Letting the Canvas Dictate your Illustration

Saturday April 12, 2025 9:00am - 11:00am CDT

Staring at a big blank canvas can often be the most paralyzing thing when beginning an illustration. But what if we start with an obscure canvas shape and let the dimensions dictate the flow and shapes of our illustration, instead of trying to squeeze a premade design into it? Join illustrator and designer Erikas Chesonis as he walks you through one of his favorite exercises to get the creativity flowing. Everyone will be given interesting shapes cut out of wood to use as a canvas, and use limited color palettes of paint markers to embrace the abstract and create unique pieces of artwork with forms and styles you may not have come up with had you not been forced into these limitations!

Workshop Leaders

Erikas Chesonis

Erikas is an illustrator and designer living in Austin, Texas. His art uses simple color palettes and geometry inspired by mid-century design and folk art. When he's not drawing birds and other animals, he's usually out walking his duck-tolling retriever Sammy and looking up at the... Read More →

Saturday April 12, 2025 9:00am - 11:00am CDT
Crafts Rooms 1 & 2 (Upstairs)

Wood Sculpture/Paint Markers

1:30pm CDT

Get Weird with It: Letting the Canvas Dictate your Illustration

Saturday April 12, 2025 1:30pm - 3:30pm CDT

Crafts Rooms 1 & 2 (Upstairs)

Workshop Leaders

Erikas Chesonis

Saturday April 12, 2025 1:30pm - 3:30pm CDT
Crafts Rooms 1 & 2 (Upstairs)

Wood Sculpture/Paint Markers

Design Ranch 2025