Materials
Needed
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paper
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pencil
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eraser
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1 thick black marker
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1 thick red marker
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1 thin black marker
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1 thick dark marker (non-black)
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1 thick light marker (non-red)
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practice pages linked with individual lessons
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for Lesson 2: ​Raven Head Formline Design
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for Lesson 3: Bear Head Formline Design
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Lessons
Lesson 1. Introduction to Drawing Formline
[length 16:30] Abel Ryan discusses sources of traditional colors used in Formline Art by people of the Northwest Coast. He leads you through the drawing and coloring of an ovoid, a floating ovoid, u-shapes and a trigon, all while introducing the concepts of primary and secondary formline and fine lines.
Lesson 2.
Coloring Formline Designs with Traditional Colors
[length 5:55] Abel Ryan models how to determine the placement of traditional colors within a formline design. He will guide you through determining a design's primary and secondary formline, as well as its positive and negative spaces (which will guide where the colors are used).
Supplementary Resources:
Lesson 3.
Coloring Formline Designs with Non-Traditional Colors
[length 6:24] Abel Ryan models how to determine the placement of non-traditional colors within a formline design. He will guide you through determining a design's primary and secondary formline, as well as its positive and negative spaces (which will guide where the colors are used).
Supplementary Resources: