1st
June
2010
Student Exhibition Show June 10th, 2010 at the L.A. Art Walk from 12:00pm-9:00pm.
We invite you to drop by and show your support for our emerging artists during this special event. For more information please contact us at 818.708.9232.
Participating Artists: Eric Pedersen, Margaret Ouchida, Michael Hubbard, Marina Fridman, Alex Douziech, Alex Alvarado
L.A Art Walk
724 S. Spring Street- 5th Floor
Los Angeles, CA
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29th
May
2010
LAAFA Instructor, Aaron Westerberg, is featured in American Artist Workshop Magazine! You can read the article in this summer’s issue of American Artist Workshop Magazine. http://www.artistdaily.com/blogs/artistdaily/archive/2010/05/23/how-to-successfully-paint-color-relationships-from-the-start.aspx
Aaron Westerberg will be teaching a monochromatic head painting class at LAAFA. For information about this class, go to http://www.laafa.org/sessions/classes_details.php?id=67&class_id=3140&cat_id=2
Taylor Montague, will be exhibiting June 5th-19th for the Laguna College of Art and Design MFA Thesis Show. The show will be at the Arena 1 Gallery in Santa Monica. http://www.lagunacollege.edu/mfa.php
He will be teaching a Figurative Oil Painting in a Setting class next quarter at LAAFA. For information on his class, go to:http://www.laafa.org/sessions/classes_details.php?id=67&class_id=3122&cat_id=2
James Galindo, will be exhibiting at Dawson Cole Fine Art Gallery in Laguna June 3rd-17th. His work will be featured for the First Thursdays ArtWalk June 3rd. For more info about the show, go to http://www.dawsoncolefineart.com/selectart.php?id=38
To view his painting class at LAAFA, go to: http://www.laafa.org/sessions/classes_details.php?id=67&class_id=3129&cat_id=2
To view his drawing class at LAAFA, go to: http://www.laafa.org/sessions/classes_details.php?id=67&class_id=3133&cat_id=1
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29th
May
2010
If you’re a fan of Maurice Sendak, some of the original art will be on display at the Skirball center in a exhibition called Monsters and Miracles at the Skirball Center now until Aug 1st.
There will be over 100 illustration and texts from Jewish picture books ranging from the famed Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are to Lemony Snicket’s The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story. Other featured authors and artists include Arnold Lobel, Daniel Pinkwater, Mark Podwal, Francine Prose, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Art Spiegelman, and William Steig, as well as luminaries Marc Chagall, El Lissitzky, and Ze’ev Raban. Paintings, collages, papercuts, computer generated imagery, and drawings as well as text will be shown.
Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90049
Hours-
Tuesday–Friday, 12:00–5:00 p.m.
Saturday–Sunday, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Closed Mondays
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27th
May
2010
This Workshop will focus on learning to paint a portrait from life. The Instructor will be going over composition, drawing, likeness, organizing your palette, color mixing, value, edges, and producing a completed portrait. This will consist of one day costumed or semi- nude poses. Students can work in any media. Instructor will be working in oil.
Sean Cheetham uses a very distinct palette, called a “mud-Palette” when working on Alla-Prima Portraits. This palette will be discussed extensively throughout the workshop. The benefits of working with this palette are value and color control. Harmony and unity in you final piece and a simple step by step process to painting alla-prima portraits. Don’t miss this opportunity to study with one of the great Portrait Painters of this time.
Sean Cheetham has been recognized by many Galleries, Magazines, Museums, and Art Collectors as a valid and important Artist in today’s representational Fine Art world!
What: Sean Cheetham Portrait in Alla-Prima Workshop
Where: Atelier Marchant
15414 Cabrito Rd.
Van Nuys, CA 91406
When: June 24th-28th 10am-6pm each day
Cost: $695 total
www.seancheetham.blogspot.com
To Register or for more details please Call Matthew Marchant 661.350.1579 or e-mail: marchant07@sbcglobal.net
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22nd
May
2010
Hey folks,
There’s a great show at Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra tonite. There will be more then a dozen paintings that are the works of faculty and notable contributors to the Illustration Academy.
210 East Main Street
Alhambra, CA 91801
(626) 458-7482
6pm-10pm
Works exhibited will be by
Trey Bryan, Doug Chayka,John English,Mark English,Jon Foster,Josh George,Sterling Hundley,Android Jones, Gary Kelley,Edward Kinsella,Anita Kunz, Robert Meganck, C.F. Payne,George Pratt, Barron Storey,Marshall Vandruff, Brent Watkinson, Andrew R. Wright
I’ll be there to tonight to document this great event. I’ll be the one in the grey hat, and red converse and camera in hand!
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21st
May
2010
Our Summer Brochure is here! We have all our sessions classes and workshops listed. We also have information about LAAFA’s Full-Time Program Scholarship Competition, our Complimentary 5-Week Teen Portfolio Class, Teacher Appreciation Classes, and our new 5-Week Courses!
The brochure also includes information about our Student Show at the Downtown Art Walk, June 10th and our Open House June 19th.
You can view our brochure at: http://www.laafa.org/PDF/SU10BrochureWeb.pdf
Classes will be filling up fast, so of you would like to pre-enroll, you can call 818.708.9232 or enroll online at:http://laafa.org/sessions/register_policy.php?cmd=pre_application
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