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Hi Everyone,

HAPPY NEW YEAR~!!

We have just updated our website with our Spring 2009 schedule and enrollment information. The new schedule will be available for enrollment starting 12AM on Jan. 1st, 2009.

http://www.conceptdesignacad.com/

Due to the heavy volumes of e-mails, please allow us at least 1 day to get back to you with the reservation confirmation. Thank you very much for your patience.

Hopefully you are all enjoying a great holiday break and a great new year to come~!!

Best,
Kevin Chen

Visualizing Characters and Environments for Games and Animation-

A FREE event at the Art Institue Inland Empire in San Bernardino.

RSVP Required-Call (909) 915-2100, Click on brochure for more details.

Happy Holidays from Tofu Girls and Illustration.org

Glenn Vilppu will be teaching a 3-Day Figure Drawing with Ink and Waterbrush Workshop at Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art Jan 16th-18th.

You will learn the traditional use of pen, ink and wash by Renaissance and Baroque masters, such as Michelangelo, Rubens and Guercino using modern fountain pens and water brush.

Instructor: Glenn Vilppu

Day: Fri.-Sun., Jan. 16th-18th
Time: 10am-5pm
Class #:726
Cost $: 350
Weeks: 3 Days
Hours: 18

If you would like to attend this workshop, call 818.708.9232. Please register before Jan 6th!

5-Day Figure/Portrait Painting Workshop 1/16-1/20/09

In this class, Christopher teaches a method of geometrical analysis of the model that develops in the student an understanding of the principles of light and shade and the ability to create the illusion of three-dimensional volume and solidity. Pugliese puts a strong emphasis on demonstration and encourages students to start the week by drawing and slowly progress towards painting as they absorb concepts.

Instructor: Christopher Pugliese

Day: Fri.-Tue., Jan. 16th-20th
Time: 10am-5pm
Class #: 908
Cost $: 695
Duration: 5 Days
Hours: 30
Start Date: Fri.-Tue., Jan. 16th-20th

If you are interested in taking this workshop, call 818.708.9232! Please register before Jan. 10th!

Late Night Drawing Salon for the Holidays!

This Friday, Dec 12th from 9PM to 1AM

The theme is Krampus or Dark & Twisted Christmas Stories.

2023 South Santa Fe Ave in Downtown LA

(Between Olympic and 15th Street, West of the bridge.

Don’t go over the bridge if you are going South on Santa Fe.)

Lots of parking on the street or across from the strip joint at the end of the street and in a gated lot behind the building accessed through the alley or the street behind.)

Wine and Beer, Christmas Treats, DJ, and many wonderful models!!!

$10 suggested donation but give what you can.

(No amount will be refused.)

(side note: It is up one flight of stairs. Sorry, there is no elevator.)

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NEW WORKSHOP ON THE WEST SIDE

Get The Lead Out Workshop

7:30pm to 10:30pm Tuesday Nights $25 per session

http://gettheleadou t-workshop. blogspot. com/

Bring your own supplies.

All media is welcome including laptops.

Please email angie@sticksand jones.com

if you are bringing a laptop, so we are sure we have juice for it.

Place: Kline Academy of Fine Art

3264 Motor Ave. Culver City, CA 90034

(310) 927-2436

This Tuesday night Dec 16 features a Geisha Vampire inspired theme, thanks our model KJ and the Gallery Girls. Fun dramatic poses. 5 to 15 minute poses and a long pose if the majority of the class desires.

Bring your owns snacks and refreshments pot-luck style!

Theme ideas so far are Silent Actress, Barbarella, Geisha Vampires, Arabian Nights, Mobsters, Voodoo Magic, Circus Freaks…and more!

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Please pass this on to cool artists you know that might like to go.

Hope to see you soon.

Jennifer Fabos Patton

www.gallerygirls.org

jenfabpat2@yahoo.com

818-535-5761

Greetings!

This workshop will be held in a spacious loft in downtown Los Angeles,
Natural light, LOTS OF SPACE!.  Loft 305

Come on over everyone!  Bring your favorite medium, nibble and drink,
Create art.  Draw or paint your happy little heart out.

What better way to spend your late Saturday morning? 

Hope to see you all there!!
This is a fundraiser for me to create travel money so I can get across the country to my family.
Please help me to follow this new path in my life. 

Thank you so much,

Lisa Ann Davis
themuse@altrionet.com
626-676-8262 – cell

Hey folks,

If you haven’t already seen this amazing exhibit, please check it out at the Merry Karnowsky Gallery in Hollywood. Its there till January 10, 2009.Viktor Safonkin is an amazing renaissance artist with a touch of Salvador Dali in him.Blurb from Press report

“Merry Karnowsky Gallery is proud to present the first North American solo exhibition by Russian painter Viktor Safonkin. Safonkin’s surreal paintings deftly explore and exposehuman emotions ranging from pathos to elation through bizarre and unworldly images that appear to the artist indreams. Safonkin’s mastery of perspective, composition, color andanatomy, and his exploration of theme including philosophy, religion, and mythology create incredibly powerful narratives.”

http://www.mkgallery.com/

-Tosh

Processions: The Art of Christian Lorenz Scheurer
Friday, December 5th
Reception at 7:00 pm

10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Monday – Friday

Contact

info@gnomongallery.com 323-466-6663

Bio

Christian Lorenz Scheurer has worked on some of the most innovative movies, games and theme parks of the past decade.

His range of projects reaches from architectural design for movies such as The Fifth Element to concept art for The Matrix and Titanic to the fantastic dreamscapes of Dark City, Final Fantasy, Animatrix and The Golden Compass. He was involved in the visual definition of video games such as EA’s Spore, Mistwalker’s Lost Odyssey and Square’s Final Fantasy IX. Venturing into other artistic projects, Christian has lent his unique vision to massive theme parks in Dubai, children’s bestselling book covers and original intellectual properties for animated film. His career has lead him from New York to Tokyo to Cape Town and his work has been shown in presentations and expositions around the world.

In 2006 Christian released his first book Entropia: A Collection of Unusually Rare Stamps (Design Studio Press) which he has optioned off to a major Hollywood Studio – he is designing and co-directing this ambitious project.

Along with his current work on Entropia, Christian also teaches at Art Center College of Design (Pasadena). During his free time, he continues to fill sketchbooks and has recently returned to traditional painting. He lives with his lovely wife and his newborn daughter Kiki in the Hollywood Hills.

Artist Statement

“For universe designers in particular, it is important to have a large knowledge base. It is often not enough to simply know how things look. It is crucial to understand how they work. Personally, I am also very interested in anthropology. I love to study cultures – their social, political, economic and spiritual backgrounds. I found out one of the best ways of learning is by traveling.”

“For my more personal work such as painting, sketching or writing, I am trying find a way back to the lucid dreaming of my childhood. Painting and drawing are more and more turning into an process of active meditation in which I try to combine the conscious and the subconscious through an “artist’s eye” which simultaneously looks both inward and outward.”

www.christianlorenzscheurer.com