Recent Studio Events: George O'Hanlon Lecture and Workshop with Kate Stone
Sadie Jernigan Valeri
Last Friday evening we all enjoyed an incredibly informative 3-hour lecture on “Painting for Posterity” with George O’Hanlan of Natural Pigments, manufacturer of high quality artists’ materials.
George and his wife Tatiana presented the lecture and gave a live paint-mixing demonstration, sharing all the knowledge they have gained through extensive scientific analysis of the materials artists depend upon.
George and Tatiana return to my San Francisco studio in May to teach a 3-day workshop on “Painting Best Practices, I hope you can join us!
http://www.sadievaleri.com/classes/workshop-painting-best-practices-with-george-ohanlon-of-natu.html
About the workshop:
“Natural Pigments spent years developing a technical workshop to teach skills that are not taught in art school and universities—a thorough understanding of artist’s materials and tools, what they are designed to do, when to chose them and how to provide considerable longevity to your finished work. This workshop covers the most important aspects of painting that have proven to be the best practices over the centuries.”
>> Click here for more information about the “Painting Best Practices” workshop
George O’Hanlon, Tatiana Zaytseva, Nowell Valeri, Kate Stone, David Gluck, and Sadie ValeriThe lecture was a wonderful way to wrap up our 5-day workshop with Kate Stone, who taught an inspiring workshop on “Textural and Optical Effects in Still Life Painting”, showing us how she achieves incredible, tactile effects for subjects such as wood grain, fur, glass and a variety of natural objects.
Students were encouraged to bring their own materials in addition to a variety of subjects we provided, and each were able to create a painting to experiment with all the methods Kate teaches. We were lucky to have Kate’s husband, painter David Gluck, participate in the workshop as well.
Together Kate and David author the blog “Painting Stuff to Look Like Stuff” which has established itself as one of the most informative and entertaining sources of information for realist painters.
Kate working on her demo painting
Student working on her painting
David working on his painting
Kate teachingThank you so much to Kate Stone, Dave Gluck, George O’Hanlon and Tatiana Zaytseva for bringing such inspiration and knowledge to the studio this week!
For more information about all our upcoming classes and workshops:
www.sadievaleri.com/classes
Students who are not local to San Francisco can take part in our training through videos and my online class:
www.sadievaleri.com/videos
-Sadie
UPCOMING CLASSES, WORKSHOPS, and INTENSIVES
Sadie Valeri: Intro Series in 8 Flexible Sessions
Intro to Still Life and Cast with Sadie Valeri
$440 for 8 Flex Sessions
$300 /month for UNLIMITED Sessions
Registration NOW OPEN
New students can start any time
An introduction to the fundamental building blocks of Classical methods, with the option to focus on Drawing or Painting. This series of introductory classes are the first lessons introduced in Sadie’sStill Life Painting and Drawing and Cast Drawing classes. They are also an excellent preparation for all of our Figure classes. Flex classes are offered several times per week:
Cast Drawing, Drawing, Intro, Painting, Sadie Valeri, Still Life, Weekday, Weekend, WeeknightSadie Valeri: Still Life Drawing and Painting
$440 for 8 Flex Sessions
$240 - $650/month at a Reserved Station
Registration NOW OPEN
New students can start any time
Sadie teaches the painting technique she uses for her own still lifes: The layered, Indirect method of oil painting developed by the Dutch Masters of 17th century. This method of applying many thin layers of oil paint on a smooth wood panel gives the artist incredible control for achieving effects of stunning realism.
Drawing, Intro, Painting, Sadie Valeri, Still Life, Weekday,Weekend, WeeknightSadie Valeri: Cast Drawing
$440 for 8 Flex Sessions
$240 - $650/month at a Reserved Station
Registration NOW OPEN
New students can start any time
“Casts” are plaster reproductions of historic sculptures, and studying them was the standard for art education in the 19th century French Academic tradition.
Students start with a series of graphite pencil drawing exercises designed to develop the perception of values (dark and light) and proportion (height, width and shape), using 19th-century academic methods.
Cast Drawing, Drawing, Intro, Sadie Valeri, Weekday, Weekend, WeeknightMonthly Enrollment: Full Time Scholarship Program
Full Time Scholarship Program
with Sadie Valeri and James Edmonds
$480 per month
Exceptional students are accepted into our reduced-tuitionFull Time Scholarship Program with the understanding that their goal is to become professional artists. We offer an information-rich environment designed to foster and encourage the most driven students, with the expectation that the student maintains the focus and intensity required to develop a skill set to rival the artistic masters of the past.
Cast, Cast Drawing, Drawing, James Edmonds, Painting, Sadie Valeri, Still Life, Weekday, WeekendMonthly Enrollment: Part Time Program
Reserve a Station for Part Time Study
with Sadie Valeri
$240 - $650 per month
Students who want to work on a cast drawing or still life painting over the course of several sessions have the opportunity to reserve a workstation for one or more days per week, with stable lighting and access to the reserved station all day.
All our students are guided through a progressive series of exercises designed to build confidence and mastery at every stage before moving on to more complex projects. This rigorous and thorough method of training is designed to emulate the training curriculum of the 19th century French Academic Method.
Cast Drawing, Drawing, Painting, Sadie Valeri, Still Life, Weekday, Weekend, WeeknightPreparing Traditional Panels for Oil Painting
6 Sunday afternoons, 2pm-5pm
1504 Bryant Street Studio
$330
DISCOUNT PRICE for Enrolled Students:
$280
*All Materials Included*
Learn how to make traditional panel supports for oil paintings, using time tested methods along with the most stable, long lasting materials that new technology can offer.
Sadie Valeri: Alla Prima Still Life Oil Painting (Single Session)
8 Sunday Mornings
10am - 1pm
February 1 - March 22, 2015
$440
Sadie Valeri introduces the basic steps for creating a quick still life oil painting in a single session. We start with a fast “wipe out” umber under painting, and then apply color while managing hue, value, chroma and edge control with each stroke.
Painting, Sadie Valeri, Still Life, WeekendSadie Valeri: Proportion and the Figure
8 Sundays, 1:30-4:30
February 1 - March 22
$440
DISCOUNT PRICE for Enrolled Students:
$340
16 Classes within 4 months (Including Flex Sessions)
$800
Everyone can tell when a figure drawing is out of proportion: Head too big, legs too short, arms too long. Even a non-artist will spot the errors immediately. Distort your shapes beyond the range of reasonable proportion and your figure drawing starts to look more alien than human! So, we can tell what wrong: Now, how how to fix it?
Drawing, Figure, Sadie Valeri, WeekendWORKSHOP: Felicia Forte: Alla Prima Portrait Painting
3 Days 10am - 5pm
January 28-30, 2015
$390
Over the three days of this workshop we will practice a series of exercises designed to illustrate the fundamentals: value study in black and white, quick sketch portrait painting. Finally these exercises will culminate in painting the model using the Zorn palette, a muted version of a primary color palette, allowing you ease in color harmony. I will demonstrate each day of class as well as offer each student personal critique and advice.
Felicia Forte, Painting, Portrait, Weekday, WorkshopsIntensives: Short-Term, Full Time Study
One to Eight Weeks of Full Time Study
Registration Now Open
Daily practice is the best way for an artist to significantly improve their skills, but many serious students of Realism are unable to attend a full-time program year-round. That’s why we offer the opportunity to study at the atelier for short-term, full time Intensives.
Students can choose one or more weeks of study, full days or half days, consecutively or throughout the year, to build their own ideal program. All with exceptional instructors who share their extensive knowledge of realistic painting and drawing.
Intensive study is designed to be as flexible as possible to accommodate different schedules and lengths of study.
Cast Drawing, Drawing, Intensives, Painting, Sadie Valeri, Still Life, WorkshopsWORKSHOP: Daniel Keys: Alla Prima Still Life Painting
4 days, 10am - 5pm
May 25 - 28, 2015
$650
Join us for four days of intensive study with master of “Alla Prima” (single session) painting technique, Daniel Keys.
Each day Daniel will do a demonstration while discussing the skills necessary for creating beautiful still life paintings using alla prima methods.
Following each mornings’ demo, the students will set up still life compositions of their own and paint them from life while receiving one-on-one instruction.
Painting, Still Life, Weekday, Workshops