Invest in Your Art Life in 2015: Videos, Online Classes, or In-Studio Classes!
Sadie Jernigan Valeri
Indirect Oil Painting Video: Feature Length DVD+Blu-ray or Digital Download
Format: DVD + Blu-ray
$95
NEW: Digital Download
$75
Sadie Valeri demonstrates layered, indirect oil painting in the tradition of the Dutch Masters of still life.
High-definition video footage, professionally recorded and edited, shows how Sadie uses thin layers and controlled brushwork to create images of stunning realism.
http://www.sadievaleri.com/classes/
Distance learners can benefit as well through my videos and online class at:
http://www.sadievaleri.com/videos/
Elizabeth Zanzinger: Long Pose Figure Drawing: Inside Out, Outside In
6 Saturdays 1:30 - 4:30
January 10 - February 14
$330 per 6-session class
DISCOUNT PRICE for Enrolled Students:
$280
We are honored to host Guest Instructor Elizabeth Zanzinger, former student of Juliette Artistides and the Grand Central Atelier.
In this six session class, students will come away with a deeper understanding of figure drawing and the principles that help guarantee success. Starting with a solid fail-proof approach, students will then couple their direct observation from life with their study of anatomy and structure. We will have fun exploring the medium of white chalk and Nitram vine charcoal and learn how to use it to our advantage with the figure.
Sadie Valeri: Intro Series in 8 Flexible Sessions
$440 for 8 Flex Sessions within 2 Months
$800 for 16 Flex Sessions within 4 Months
$140 for a One-Day Intro (any Sunday, 10am-4:30)
NEW: Weeknights, Weekends, and Weekday Sessions
Daytime Instructor: Sadie
Weeknight Instructor: James
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.
Cast Drawing, Drawing, Intro, Painting, Sadie Valeri, Still Life, Weekday, Weekend, WeeknightSadie Valeri: Still Life Drawing and Painting
$440 for 8 Flex Sessions within 2 Months
$800 for 16 Flex Sessions within 4 Months
$140 for a One-Day Intro (any Sunday, 10am-4:30)
NEW: Weeknights, Weekends, and Weekday Sessions
Daytime Instructor: Sadie
Weeknight Instructor: James
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 within 2 Months
$800 for 16 Flex Sessions within 4 Months
$140 for a One-Day Intro (any Sunday, 10am-4:30)
NEW: Weeknights, Weekends, and Weekday Sessions
Daytime Instructor: Sadie
Weeknight Instructor: James
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 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, WeeknightSadie 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, WeekendFelicia Forte: Portrait Drawing: Monthly Ongoing
Monday Evenings, 6:30 - 9:30pm
$220/month, based on a four week month
Registration now open for new students Dec/Jan or Jan/Feb
Students in this class will draw from the model in a progression of poses that will start with quick sketch using charcoal on newsprint and end in a nine hour drawing using graphite on archival paper. This progression will repeat twice a year, once January-May and next September-December, but a new student can join in at anytime when a space is available, the fundamentals repeat each week. Some of the quicksketch sessions will include figure as well as portrait. Felicia teaches a tonal style of drawing that lend’s itself to learning representational painting. In this class you will discuss and practice different strategies for accomplishing your goals. Felicia will challenge you to correctly observe and record the fundamentals: shapes, values, and edges.
Drawing, Felicia Forte, Figure, Portrait, WeeknightFelicia Forte: Alla Prima Portrait Painting: Ongoing Monthly
Wednesday Evenings, 6:30 - 9:30pm
$220/month, based on a four week month
Registration now open for new students, Dec/Jan or Jan/Feb
In Direct Painting, also known as Alla Prima, a work is completed in a single session while the paint is still wet. Direct Painting is a stimulating method which teaches you to be present in every brush stroke, focusing on only the essentials, ultimately teaching you great dexterity and control. In this class you will discuss and practice different strategies for accomplishing your goals. Felicia will challenge you to correctly observe and record the fundamentals: shapes (drawing) values, edges and color, while at the same time encourage you to develop your own language of abstraction. Felicia may give you special exercises and drills based on the needs of the class and the individual.
Drawing, Felicia Forte, Painting, Portrait, WeeknightWORKSHOP: Felicia Forte: Alla Prima Portrait Painting
4 Days 10am - 5pm
January 27-30, 2015
$520
Over the four days of this workshop we will practice a series of exercises designed to illustrate the fundamentals: monochromatic study, 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, WorkshopsWORKSHOP: Kate Stone: Textural and Optical Effects in Still Life Painting
5 days, 10am - 5pm
January 5-9, 2015
$625
Learn some new tricks from award winning still life painter, Katherine Stone. Kate will share her four-step process for paint layering and her methodology for creating a work of art that will not yellow, delaminate, crack or peel. With the help of a slideshow of close up photos of her own work, Kate will also share her techniques for creating textural and optical effects.
Painting, Still Life, Weekday, WorkshopsWORKSHOP: Iliya Mirochnik: Painting the Portrait in Oil
5 weekdays, 10am-5pm
January 12-16, 2015
$650
We are honored to welcome Iliya Mirochnik, trained at the Repin Academy and winner of First Place award at Portrait Society of America’s International Portrait Competition.
This workshop explores a direct painting approach to capturing a likeness and composing a portrait. Participants will paint either a portrait head study, or a study with hands. The focus will be on developing an exciting composition and exaggerating various elements within the portrait to express the character of the sitter as well as the artist’s relationship to him or her.
Intensives: Short-Term, Full Time Study
Two to Six Weeks of Full Time Study
Still Life Painting and Cast Drawing with Sadie Valeri
~~~COMING SOON: Figure Drawing and Figure Painting Intensives to be announced for summer 2015~~~~
Email in...@sadievaleri.com to request to be notifed when the new Intensives are announced
Starting at $1,200 for 2 weeks
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.
Cast Drawing, Drawing, Intensives, Painting, Sadie Valeri, Still Life, Workshopshttp://www.sadievaleri.com/classes/
Distance learners can benefit as well through my videos and online class at:
http://www.sadievaleri.com/videos/