A note about INSPIRATION
Sadie Jernigan Valeri
Setting huge goals did not help.
I was lucky in that art education had changed a lot since I had last taken art classes. The Internet allowed me to look up living artists and find their classes, and there was a whole new world there waiting for me. I found incredible teachers who inspired me, who had things to teach me, actual practical steps for how to make a drawing or a painting.... and day by day, step by step.... my whole life changed.
-Sadie
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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.
Preparing 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.
Painting for Posterity: A Free Lecture Demonstration with Natural Pigments' George O'Hanlon
January 9, 2015
6pm - 9pm
FREE
We are honored to present an incredible evening with master of pigments and materials, George O’Hanlon, owner of the renouned paint supplier Natural Pigments.
Learn all about constructing a painting from the support to the ground and final layers, including discussing how the “fat-over-lean” rule in oil painting is inherently flawed. Practical procedures are described to build your oil paintings according to the studies on the conservation of paintings. The presentation will be followed by questions and answers. This presentation is designed for painters of all mediums, but has special application to oil painting.
Natural Pigments manufactures and distributes rare and hard-to-find materials for fine artists and decorators. They specialize in supplying artists’ materials that were used in historical painting since prehistoric times up to and including the nineteenth century.
January 9, 2015
6pm - 9pm
FREE
Please RSVP to ti...@sadievaleri.com, Thank you!
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 Aristides 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
Intro to Still Life and Cast with Sadie Valeri
$140 for a One-Day Intro (any Sunday, 10am-4:30)
$440 for 8 Flex Sessions within 2 Months
$800 for 16 Flex Sessions within 4 Months
$990 for UNLIMITED sessions for 3 Months
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’s Still 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 er week, and students can attend any 8 sessions within 2 months.
Sadie 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?
Felicia Forte: Alla Prima Portrait Painting and Portrait Drawing: Jan-May 2015
Wednesday Evenings, 6:30 - 9:30pm Jan-May 2015
$220/month, based on a four week month, new students register for two months at a time.
In This class students may choose to draw or paint. If you choose to draw: Felicia teaches a tonal style of drawing that lend’s itself to learning representational painting. Painting: 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.
Drawing, Felicia Forte, Painting, Portrait, WeeknightWORKSHOP: 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.
WORKSHOP: 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.
Intensives: 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.
WORKSHOP: Daniel Keys: Alla Prima Still Life Painting
4 days, 10am - 5pm
January 20-23, 2015 FULL
NEW DATES NOW OPEN FOR REGISTRATION:
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.
WORKSHOP: Carl Dobsky: Long Pose Figure Painting
5 Weekdays
June 22-26, 2015
$775
DISCOUNT when combined with 2 or more weeks of a 2015 Intensive
$675
We welcome Carl Dobsky back to the San Francisco Bay Area for this incredible workshop. Carl has moved to Los Angeles and is very much missed, so we are thrilled to have him back for a visit!
Carl Dobsky shares his techniques for Long Pose Figure painting in this 5-day workshop, designed to give a complete overview of his atistic process: from concept, through sketching and final execution of the painting. Students will create one painting during a 30-hour pose.