There’s a Trick for That! Realistic Facial Features with Rob Silverman

There’s a Trick for That! Realistic Facial Features with Rob Silverman

by | Aug 9, 2020 | Past Classes and Workshops

There’s a Trick for That! Rendering Realistic Facial Features with Robert Silverman
4 Weeks • THURSDAYS • 1-4pm

Fall: Sept 10, 17, 24 & October 1

$230 Members / $265 Non Members

*** Outdoor Classes are under a tent so that social distancing can be practiced. Face mask guidelines must be followed and tables will be cleaned between classes. Guidelines will be provided to all students upon registration.

THERE’S A TRICK FOR THAT The Keys to Rendering Realistic Facial Features: Eyes, Nose, Mouth and Ears 

If you want to draw or paint expressive Portraits, it is not enough to try to copy what you see, trying to mimic every contour as you become frustrated with the model moving ever so slightly. If you know what to look for, you will render realistic form with confidence! 

Working from a live model, this Workshop will provide you with the knowledge and experience that reveals the patterns to every key Feature on the head. Through demonstrations, handouts, exercises and personalized crItiques, you will be provided with the strategy and insight to identify and replicate the unique characteristics of the sitter’s Head and Individual Features. 

The 4 session Workshop includes demos, handouts and personalized critique including: 

  • The effect of light on the form and choosing an optimal lighting set-up to reveal the key features. 
  • The overall structure of the head with keys to placement of each feature 
  • Compositional guidelines to optimally position the head on the canvas. 
  • Information regarding application of any medium to produce a convincing final rendering and likeness

REGISTER:

Trick for That – Rob Silverman

Materials List
MATERIALS

OIL
For experienced painters, bring the colors you are comfortable with. Please use Turpanoid as a substitute for turpentine. Beginners may want to try water soluble oils (Lukas Berlin from Jerrys Artarama is an inexpensive option). Light to medium toned (similar to the color of sand paper or a midtone grey) stretched canvas or panel, 11×14, 12×16, or 14×18 preferred. A hand-held mirror is recommended, as well as a View Catcher or equivalent.

BRUSHES
A selection of brushes each from 2 (2 brushes), 4 (3 brushes), 6 (1), 8 (1) sizes—Princeton Aspen are a good choice. Please have mostly filberts and a few small rounds.

Paper Towels
Palette; or 12×16 Richeson gray palette pad
Palette knife

COLORS (limited palette† is ok)
Cerulean Blue†
Cobalt Blue
Ultramarine Blue†
Chromium Oxide Green†
Viridian†
Alizaron Crimson†
Burnt Sienna†
Raw Umber†
Flesh
Yellow Ochre†
Naples Yellow
Cad Red†
Cad Orange
Cad Yellow†
Titanium White†
Ivory Black†

CHARCOAL OR PASTEL (as option to oil)
Canson Mi-Teinte 3 or 4 total sheets (for padding) of middle grey color such as light blue, light grey or wave green or 12×16 Canson pad of various colors of greys (use smoother side of paper)
–sharpener, and/or single-edge razor blades; emory board (works better than sandpaper blocks)
–paper stumps, and paper towels–kneaded erasers–chamois (chammy) cloth
Pastel: Bring our own set of pastels or buy nupastel prismacolor or faber-castelle hard pastel set of 36 (I will also have pastels you can experiment with on hand).
Charcoal: White charcoal pencil and hb, 2b, 4b, 6 (Generals brand charcoal pencils preferred).

Rob Silverman's Bio

Rob Silverman’s innovative techniques have been featured in American Artist Workshop Magazine and The Art of the Portrait, the official publication of the Portrait Society of America. His work has appeared at Crosby Street Gallery and Spring Studio Gallery in Soho, the Art League of Long Island, Edward Hopper House, The Art Guild of Port Washington, The National Art League, the Lockwood-Mathews Museum, as well as the National Arts Club and Salmagundi Club.

FULL Introduction to Abstract Painting (All Levels) with Ellen Hallie Schiff

FULL Introduction to Abstract Painting (All Levels) with Ellen Hallie Schiff

by | Jul 30, 2020 | Past Classes and Workshops

Introduction to Abstract Painting (All Levels) with Ellen Hallie Schiff
4 weeks • Monday • September 14, 21, Oct 5 & October 12 • 1:30pm – 4:-0pm
$150M/$185NM

*** Outdoor Classes are under a tent so that social distancing can be practiced. Face mask guidelines must be followed and tables will be cleaned between classes. Guidelines will be provided to all students upon registration.

Intrigued by the idea of painting abstractly? This four session class will give you a taste of painting in an abstract manner. We will be working with black and white water based enamel on watercolor paper. This experience has been called “freeing” and “a lot of fun “ by so many students. Experience what it feels like to paint this way. Lots of individualized instruction and discussion. The works you produce here can be the beginnings of new ideas and directions.

MATERIALS List to come

Ellen will provide the paint.

    About Ellen Hallie Schiff

Artist’s Statement
An essential truth seems to come alive when I use my body to create my paintings- something visceral and muscular; a directness that feels so “right”. The authentic mark is what I am after; the true, non-gimmicky, not contrived mark; the mark that is made when “I am the painting I am painting”. Playing with the paint, working sometimes at the speed of light, other times slowly and deliberately; all coming together in a flurry of physical activity. The result is an authentic moment in time.

Ellen is on the Art Advisory Council of the Port Washington Library and is the former Vice President of The Art Guild of Port Washington. Her work has been exhibited in galleries in Philadelphia and New York. Her friend and mentor is Stan Brodsky. View Ellen’s work at @ehschiff.

Painting Foliage and Trees with Howard Rose

Painting Foliage and Trees with Howard Rose

by | Jun 24, 2020 | Past Classes and Workshops

Howard Rose, art guild, artguildpw

FOLIAGE & TREE WORKSHOP

WITH HOWARD ROSE

September 8, 15, 22, & 29, 1:30-4pm

Fall Session (4 weeks):
$250 Members/$285 Non-members

When Painting Plein air or in the studio, we all are striving to create elegant and creative landscapes. When we were in elementary school, our teacher taught us how to draw a tree. We of course made a big green ball with a brown straight trunk coming out of it. It’s taken 40 years to get over that ingrained image.  We will have 4 sessions going over all foliage: drawing calligraphic grasses and trees and limbs. Turning your brush to create elegant lines with the least amount of effort.  How do you draw big bunches of flowers? Our initial start is to draw each flower and ignore how our eyes really see bunches of flowers…shapes, variety and transition of light to lead the eye in the right direction.

Getting good at painting a scene that you would walk by a thousand times, and never pay attention to, could be the most exciting part in this journey to become a great painter.

We are the artists…We don’t accept the given image because we want to make sure our design is as good as can be. We can change the shapes, move things around, push the light for drama and add atmosphere when you might not see it in your chosen image.

At iur first session we will review other artists that have  expertise in our type of trees and foliage techniques. We will go over their work and hopefully will inspire you to learn from them  and add different techniques to your own paintings. Howard will then do a short demo at the start of each class based on the subject that we are working on for that class.

Over the next 3 sessions we will cover everything that has been part of your landscape painting  journey: Colors of the landscape, brush technique, texture, atmosphere, moving objects around  to create great design, seeing the shapes of beautiful objects, edges, arial perspective and picking a pleasing subject. 

There is lots of learning to do and with practice, you will start to SEE the possibilities and how every 5 degree turn is a beautiful painting…waiting to be painted.

About Howard Rose

Howard Rose graduated from the School of Visual Arts, NYC, and Graduate studies at C.W. Post, and the New School in NYC. Since 1974, he was head product

Since 1974, he was head product designer for a major leatherwear company in Santa Monica. In 1980 he started his own graphics and product design company on Long Island. In 1989, Howard saw the paintings of a western painter named John Nieto. The amazing colors and large sized paintings of American Indians caught his eye and he hasn’t looked back since. Howard has studied with Artists, Alfred Chadbourn. Charles Sovek, Matt-Smith, and Ovanes Berberian. He had is first art studio in Roslyn, NY for 18 years where he taught and specialized in landscapes.The beaches of Long Island became his favorite subjects including the dunes, waves, and sky’s found in some of the most beautiful beaches in the country.He teaches oil painting classes in multiple venues on Long Island,including the Art Guild,  League of Long Island, National Art League and runs classes at his studio in Syosset, Long Island. Howard runs many varied workshops including; Color Mixing, Iphone,photography, Design and perspective and an intensive Calligraphy and Penmanship course.His articles and instruction techniques have been published in various magazines, including “Artists”, and “American Artist” Magazine. He runs annual workshops in Tuscany, Paris, Venice,Barcelona, and many locations on the east coast. He runs plein air workshops all over the east coast.

 

ONLINE The Portrait in Colored Pencil Workshop with Jesse Lane, April 17-18, 2021

ONLINE The Portrait in Colored Pencil Workshop with Jesse Lane, April 17-18, 2021

by | Jun 21, 2020 | Past Classes and Workshops

Dramatic Portraits In Colored Pencil with Jesse Lane
April 17-18, 2021  • 10 am – 5 pm
$365M/$400NM

Draw a dramatic, realistic portrait with award-winning artist Jesse Lane. Learn the secrets of turning colored pencil into a Fine Art medium…. creating works as rich and nuanced as any oil painting.

Everyone works on the same portrait as Jesse gives detailed demos, step by step, sharing his signature style… including special tips for creating nuanced skin tones, compelling eyes and realistic hair. Classes are thorough as Jesse breaks down complex rendering into simple shapes.

All skill levels are welcome!   

The workshop includes:

  • Large Screen Demos:  A video camera on Jesse’s drawing board is projected to a large screen so students can easily follow along as they draw.
  • One-on-One Instruction: After each demo, Jesse visits each participant, offering encouragement, answering questions, explaining technique and giving tips individual to each student.
  • Jesse provides high-quality instructional materials, including a reference photo, a glossy tutorial booklet, and the image already outlined on drawing paper. Workbooks also have a complete list of colors for each section.
  • Students are required to bring their own drawing supplies, and a materials list will be distributed well in advance of the workshop.

Take your art to the next level as everyone shares their love of colored pencil in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere.

Update: This workshop has been updated to Online (via Zoom). Days will begin at 10am and end at 5pm, with an hour for lunch. The last hour will be used for individual critiques and feedback for students who want it.  

 

Supply List

Download the list here: Jesse Lane Supply List

 

About Jesse Lane: 
Through art, I’ve been able to find something inside myself that changed my life.
Growing up, I often felt alone.  In school, I was struggling with the challenges of dyslexia.  I desperately wanted to find a place in life where I didn’t feel inferior. For years, I bottled up my feelings.  Then I realized they could be a source of inspiration.  I began creating images of personal struggle and intimate emotion. What was hidden for so long became voiced and heard. For the first time, I felt truly seen. I took my weakness and made it my strength. Along the way, I’ve discovered we all share these feelings. They are universal.

When people see my portraits, they’re surprised I work in colored pencil.  I love the precision and versatility of colored pencil. This medium can be as rich and nuanced as any other.  One of my goals is to advance colored pencil in the world of fine art.” 

Jesse Lane (born 1990) lives in The Woodlands, Texas, near Houston.  His earliest teacher was his father, Jerry Lane, a former illustrator and underground cartoonist.  
Jesse earned a degree in visualization from Texas A&M University.  He also studied art in Italy, where he was greatly influenced by the lighting and drama of the master painter Caravaggio.
Jesse’s compelling portraits have appeared on the covers of publications including International Artist and The Artist’s Magazine. Southwest Art Magazine recognized him as one of the nation’s leading young emerging artists, and he’s been featured numerous times in American Art Collector.

Numerous awards include top honors from the Salmagundi Club, International Artist Magazine, the Colored Pencil Society of America and the Hudson Valley Art Association.  Jesse has also been a finalist several times in theInternational Art Renewal Center Salon.

Jesse is represented by RJD Gallery in Bridgehampton, New York.

He works at his home studio in The Woodlands, Texas, where he lives with his wife, Kinsey, a teacher and talented sculptor. Jesse  teaches workshops nationwide.

“Jesse Lane is taking the colored pencil world by storm.” – Colored Pencil Magazine

“For collectors interested in a quickly ascending star in the art world, Lane is one surely to watch.” Fine Art ConnoisseurMagazine

For more about Jessie Lane visit his website.

Jesse Lane Workshop
WORKSHOPS:  Cancellations by the student – more than 90 days: full refund. Under 90 days: $50 non-refundable registration fee is included in the workshop tuition.  Deposit is non-refundable within 14 days of the start of the workshop.  
ONLINE From Urban Sketch to Finished Painting Workshop with Stacy Kamin, October 1-3

ONLINE From Urban Sketch to Finished Painting Workshop with Stacy Kamin, October 1-3

by | Jun 10, 2020 | Past Classes and Workshops

ONLINE From Urban Sketch to Finished Painting Workshop, with Stacy Kamin, New Date October 1-3, 2020

12pm – 3pm EST
$325 Members /$360 Non Members

In this unique workshop, Stacy will introduce students into the world of sketching on the streets. Her travels have taken her to the streets of the United States and Europe for years armed only with a sketchbook, drawing pen and travel watercolor kit to gather material as inspiration for studio paintings. Now she will give you all her secrets to traveling light and yet taking your art skills on the road. 

Students will learn how important creating sketches and studying the pictures are. It is ideal to have that personal connection with the subject or place that you are working from. In a perfect situation, I will do sketches on location plus take pictures  creating the connection with your subject .

Day 1: Learn how to plan the composition shapes & values, study the details and color. 

Stacy will guide the students through the process of creating sketches, value studies, color studies. Composition studies. With demos.

Day 2:

Students will create studies on their own and then Stacy will critique (students may watch or continue with their studies). Using photos and sketches from her trav

I will do a demo, using pictures and sketches, and creating studies to work from.

Day 3: 

A continuation of the previous day beginning with critique while students begin to paint.

With Stacy’s warm and generous nature, everyone—regardless of experience—will feel comfortable tackling this exciting subject matter.  

*There will be demonstrations and daily individual critiques; all levels are welcome

 

Materials List
Block of watercolor paper or mixed media paper
Sketch pad
Small watercolor set.  
Stacy uses French Ultramarine Blue, Sepia Brown, Burnt Umber, Yellow Ochre and Transparent Brown or Burnt Sienna.  ( Windsor and Newton if possible).
For color studies, you may use colored pencils or pastels if you prefer.
A variety of watercolor brushes.  Stacy uses Raphael Kolinsky brushes, but any synthetic watercolor brushes will do.
 
Micron or Staedler black pens in sizes 0.2, 0.3 and 0.5.  Have several in case of breakage.
A variety of pencils.  HB, 2B, 3B
Oil paints:
Titanium White
Cadmium Yellow
Cadmium Yellow Deep
Yellow Ochre
Alizarin Crimson
Ultramarine Blue
Raw Umber
Burnt Umber
Transparent Red Oxide
Ivory Black
Walnut or linseed oil to use as medium
A few brushes for oil painting
One or Two 5×7 canvases suitable for oil painting

Having grown up in the cosmopolitan city of Washington, D.C., Stacy Kamin has lived a life any aspiring artist would envy. Providence brought Stacy into the world with a mother who nurtured her interest in drawing and painting every step of the way. Noted artist and teacher, Jacqueline Kamin, indulged her child’s art supply caprices and enrolled her in children’s classes at the National Gallery at a very young age. Art was alive in this bright artistic spirit, and as Stacy herself says, “Creating images from pencils and paint was like magic to me. I knew early on that I had to be an artist.”

Stacy studied illustration and traditional animation at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, earning a BA in 2000. After graduation, she interned with a small animation company long enough to realize that illustration was not her calling, although a fascination with capturing movement was. This she would explore through line and paint as a fine artist.

She joined her family in Los Angeles and there found a well-respected Chinese artist, Shuqiao Zhou, to mentor her privately for six years. Zhou’s teachers came from the great Russian lineage of Ilya Repin and Valentin Serov, and through this expressive tradition, imparted a love of paint that is still a hallmark of Stacy’s work.

Drawn to the dramatic effects of Rembrandt, Stacy sought out the instruction of two well-known masters of this knowledge—David A Leffel and Sherrie McGraw. She credits their influence for the startling light that she is able to achieve in her own work. “They introduced me to Abstract Realism, a way of painting so rich that I can’t imagine my education ever ending—I will be a student of this great tradition my entire life.”

This humility coupled with a selfless generosity led to a desire to teach. She presently teaches workshopsfor Bright Light Fine Art nationwide. Recently she taught a figure and still life painting workshop with David A Leffel and Sherrie McGraw at Scottsdale Artist School; in 2019 she conducted a portrait painting class in Noyer’s France; and locally she teaches private workshops in Seal Beach.

In her own words Stacy describes this life-long obsession this way: “I believe art is supposed to evoke emotions and feelings in human beings. When I see a great painting, it touches my soul. Even if I can’t describe what I feel in words, a work of artaffects me profoundly. The reason I never ceasestudying is because the magic of capturing life on a flat surface continues to intrigue me. I want my own work to provoke thoughts and emotions for viewers, so that they too can experience the beauty that captivates me still.”

For more info on Stacy and her work, please visit her website.

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Stacy Kamin Workshop Oct 2020




ONLINE! Tuesday Evening Watercolor with Denis Ponsot

ONLINE! Tuesday Evening Watercolor with Denis Ponsot

by | Apr 20, 2020 | Past Classes and Workshops

WATERCOLOR WITH DENIS PONSOT

TUESDAY EVENINGS, 7pm – 9:30 pm EST

$120 Members/ $155 Non-members

With over twenty years’ experience teaching, Instructor Denis Ponsot has designed this informative class to demonstrate all the “shop tricks” in watercolor painting. Both beginning and experienced students will learn to avoid common pitfalls and advance their abilities. The focus will be on students individually, helping them realize their full watercolor potential. Explore a variety of watercolor techniques with an emphasis on developing one’s own style. Includes demonstrations of color and design, wet on wet, and dry-brush techniques. Students choose to paint from still life arrangements, photos, or their own subjects.

“We look forward to the next class the minute each one is completed! He is engaging and informative….and shares all of his techniques, experiences and varied artistic expressions with the class while giving superb directives for the current work in progress”

SUPPLIES:

  • Arches paper 140lb cold press
    • Either 2 sheets of 22×30 cut into 4 sheets, or a 12×16 block
  • Set of beginner watercolors or watercolors of your choice
    • Denis recommends Cottman for beginners
  • Brushes – #5, #7, #10 and a flat 1/4″ and 1″
  • Miskit or another brand of masking
  • Rubber cement pick up (this is used to take off the Miskit)
  • Pencil (#2H preferred)
  • Eraser (Denis recommends Staedler)

About Denis

Award-winning artist, Denis Ponsot has worked in all of the various media but prefers to work in watercolor. He also teaches watercolor painting, oils, mixed media, and drawing from introductory to advanced levels to children and adults.

He says, “Teaching is my greatest inspiration. The combination of teaching and painting has helped to make my artistic experience complete. Working with students is important to me because I enjoy helping them with their painting and drawing problems. I am able to encourage them to experiment with their own ideas. I take pleasure in helping my students expand their artistic horizons beyond their expectations.” Denis teaches at The Craft Students League and The Kids Club in Manhattan and at the Art Guild in addition to accepting commissions in watercolor, oil, and portrait painting.

Denis has developed watercolor portfolios in three areas: “Landscape,” “Flowers and Still Life” and “The Figure and Portraits.” His work can be viewed on his Facebook page @DenisPonsot or at www.DenisPonsot.com.