by Grace Lucarelli | Feb 25, 2017 | Past Classes and Workshops
Art Studio for Teens – Fall 2017
Ages 12-14 • 8 weeks, dates TBA – Call us for more info.
4-5:30 pm
Fee: $165M/$195NM
A fun class to nuture a love of art, with an emphasis on building artistic skills. Projects may include still life, self-portraits, perspective and use various media including pencil (graphite and colored), charcoal, acrylic paint, and printmaking. Curriculum may vary based on students’ interests.
This course can help prep students for Art Acceleration (AP Art) in the Middle School (Criteria from Port Washington School District.) Instructor will guide and prepare students who will be submitting a portfolio to their school for the AP art program – including four (4) pieces of art work, only one (1) of which may have been created in Weber (School) art classes. The criteria used for the portfolio evaluation is based on a rubric, which rates students’ work on the following:
1. observational skills
2. control of media
3. composition
4. creativity and imagination
In addition to the portfolio, instructor will prepare students for in an in-school qualifying art examination
Instructor: Kristine Rivera
by Grace Lucarelli | Aug 23, 2016 | Past Classes and Workshops
The Power of Watercolor Workshop with Antonio Masi
Aug 5, 6, 7, 2016, 10-4 pm
In this three day workshop with award-winning watercolorist Antonio Masi, artists will learn how to use untapped power of watercolor! The focus will be on how to approach this thin medium from a contemporary point of view, bold, powerful, emotional and delicate, not the traditional transparent way it is looked upon.
Mr. Masi teaches though demonstrations and one-on-one with each student, so he can understand the student’s level as a starting point.
Students will work from photos; their own paintings, sketches, imagination and plein aire in Elderfields’ beautiful backyard.
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from one of watercolor’s masters!
A materials list will be provided.
About Antonio Masi: Mr. Masi, is President of the American Watercolor Society and has been featured in The Artist’s Magazine, PBS – Sunday Arts, NBC-TV Weekend Today in New York, and a Newsday feature in August 2008, “Bridgemaster.” In June 2009 he had a solo exhibition for The New York Centennial Commission of the Queensboro Bridge, a solo show in 2010 at The Forbes Gallery in New York City, The New York City Transit Museum in 2012, and The Salmagundi Club of New York. He is featured in the September 2014, The New York Times video, “Living City: A Tale of Two Bridges.”
For more about Antonio Masi visit his website.
by Grace Lucarelli | Nov 4, 2015 | Past Classes and Workshops
Saturday, February 13 & Sunday, February 14, 2016
9:30 PM – 4:30PM
Learn How to Paint Fast, Loose and Bold
Through a series of targeted exercises you will learn to paint confidently, using brilliant color, gestural brushwork and starting from strong compositions. Whether you’re a beginner or an accomplished artist, you’ll learn:
• how to see limited values clearly
• how to mix colors so they stay clean and bright
• how to create a value sketch as a “roadmap” to a successful painting
• how to translate your design into exciting and endless color possibilities
• how to economize and let go of the unnecessary repetitive brushstrokes
• how to simplify – know what’s important detail- and what’s not
• how to start out with large shapes rather than smaller details
• how to work with bigger brushes for a more gestural quality
• how to hold your brush for a bolder application of paint
• how to paint small but necessary details with big brushes
• how to paint with fewer strokes for a bolder look
• how to work with thicker paint
• the importance of grays
• how to mix colorful grays
• and more
The most eye-catching, dramatic paintings are based on strong composition with simple, large shapes. Learn how to get your fundamentals in place, right from the start – to create dramatic, brilliant and confident paintings!
All levels and all media are welcome. A materials list will be provided. Painting demonstrations will be in acrylics or oils, but the fundamentals taught apply to all media.
Patti Mollica believes that truly great painting is not about the “subject matter,” but rather the way an artist communicates beauty, sensitivity and integrity in whatever is painted. Flowers, gardens and sunsets are no more worthy as painting subjects than a subway station full of weary commuters, or a closeup of an old rundown building with cascading fire escapes. She believes that a painter’s job is to show the viewer the inherant beauty of all subjects and scenes, most especially the ones that are not commonly thought of in an artistic light.
Although she is equally comfortable working in both oils and acrylics, she feels that the new developments in recent years to acrylics make them a perfect vehicle for infinite versatility and personal expression. This is explored and illustrated in depth in her book, “Modern Acrylics“. She has also recently authored “Color Theory” and “Getting Started in Acrylics“, available in art stores worldwide and online at Amazon.com.
For more about Patti, please visit her website: mollicastudio.com
$350 members/$380 non-members
Update: We had a wonderful time with Patti! Click here to see pictures on our Facebook page. (You don’t need a Facebook account to see them.)
by Grace Lucarelli | Jul 27, 2015 | Past Classes and Workshops
The Silkscreen Monotype with Water-Based Media
July 9-10, 2016 10 am – 3 pm
A Two Day Workshop
$150 Members/$180 Non-Members
Come discover this unique process that combines screen printing with drawing and painting techniques using water-based materials. Non-toxic, versatile and simple to master. Draw or paint directly on the silkscreen to create unique prints and explore the layering possibilities for overprinting on drawings, prints and other media.
Students will work from their own images using materials such as pastels, watercolor, gouache, watercolor pencils, watercolor crayons, graphite and other materials. Students will need to purchase a reusable silkscreen and a squeegee. No prior experience or skill necessary.
Materials list provided at registration.
About Stephanie Navon-Jacobson:
As an artist, I am always observing the world around me. Whether floral, landscape, animal, or figure, abstract or realistic, my images always go back to nature. I am first and foremost a printmaker, although I work in other mediums, too. I am a printmaker who paints, rather than a painter who prints.
I was originally attracted to printmaking in college. I loved the studio community a
spect as well as the various techniques. I like to experiment with various techniques. The possibilities seem endless. I also like the element of surprise each time you pull a print.
It is so satisfying to work with people who are new to printmaking or to teach experienced artists a new technique and watch their enthusiasm as they ‘get bit by the printmaking bug.’ Printmaking is such a versatile medium. It can stand alone or be incorporated with other mediums such as oil or watercolor. I encourage my students to add printmaking to their artistic arsenal and incorporate it with their other artistic endeavors.
by Grace Lucarelli | Jul 25, 2015 | Past Classes and Workshops
Saturday September 19 and Sunday, September 20, 2015
9:30am-4:30pm
This workshop will focus on drama in still life. How to turn simple props – pots, fruit, flowers, baskets – into compelling dramas of light and shadow. The focus will be on showcasing the significant and modifying or obscuring the less meaningful.
We will be exploring how to create effects with paint strokes, palette knife swipes and rag swoops. How to, in other words, make the canvas not only a depiction of observed reality, but also a celebration of abstract paint beauty.
Still life is not only a worthy subject in its own right, but it can also provide vital learning skills for all other genres. Landscape, portrait, interior and figure. Each of these is made easier by a deep familiarity with the art of the still life.
Materials list will be provided.
Though other mediums are welcome, the workshop will only be taught with, and demonstrated in, oils.
Gregg Kreutz is an award winning painter and author of the classic artist’s guide, Problem Solving for Oil Painters. After graduating from NYU, he pursued his training as a painter at the Art Students League of New York, winning a merit scholarship. He studied with Frank Mason, Robert Beverly Hale and most significantly, David Leffel. Gregg teaches drawing and painting at the Art Students League as well as workshops throughout the US and around the world.
For more info on Gregg, please visit his website.
by Grace Lucarelli | Feb 8, 2015 | Past Classes and Workshops
A Two Day Workshop in Pastel or Oil Paint
Saturday April 18, 9 am – 4 pm
Sunday April 19, 9 am – 5 pm
$350 Members/$380 Non-Members
Make your portraits come alive by capturing the inner spirit of a person.
This intensive two-day workshop on the art of the portrait in pastel or oil paint includes two lectures, and a Q&A.
Each student will have four critiques per day.
On Sunday there will be a general critique of the finished paintings.
– Half hour lunch break (bring your own), each day.
– Materials list provided at registration. Tuition includes model fee.
About Diana De Santis:
Diana De Santis is a portrait painter who also teaches still-life and landscapes. She is a graduate of the Parsons School of Design and attended Traphagen School of Design. She was awarded a scholarship by the Arts Students League and studied with David Leffel and Harvey Dinnerstein. She is a master pastelist at the International Assoc. of Pastel Societies; a signature member of Pastel Society of America and Knickerbocker Artists, U.S.A.; a fellow of American Artist Professional League and a member of Hudson Valley Artists, Audubon Artists, Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, and the Portrait Society of America.
She is listed in “Who’s Who in American Art“ and is a Coast Guard artist. Diana has been awarded fifteen gold medals and over two hundred and fifty awards. Her work has been published in American Artist, Artist Magazine, The Pastel Journal and by Rockport Publishers.
Diana DeSantis has shown her work at the Nassau County Museum of Art; Heckscher Museum, Huntington; National Arts Club, Manhattan; Salmagundi Club, Manhattan and Pastel Society exhibits in France, Italy and Russia.
