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Studio 6 Workshop Series
The Studio 6 Workshop Series is comprised of several
intensive workshops of usually one week duration
and limited registration for advanced students.
Instructors are present each day, allowing students
to work closely with their instructor to focus on
the fine points of bringing their art to a professional
level.
Please contact us for more information about Studio 6, or to register for an upcoming workshop.
James McElhinney
 Secrets of American Landscape Painting: In the Field and in the Studio
Part 1: the Hudson River School
Dates: Monday - Friday, June 2 – 6, 2008
Time: 8:45am – 12:30pm (instructor present 5 days)
Fee: $400
Explore the painting and drawing methods used by Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Jasper Cropsey and later painters like Frederic Church, Albert Bierstadt and George Inness to produce their masterpieces.
Exploring how they were trained, learn how artists’ work in the field shaped their studio practice through technical demonstrations, discussion, and hands-on experience. Analysis of Claudian and Rosan composition and the impact of a particularly American empiricism of observation, informed partly by military and scientific exploration on these pictorial armatures are discussed, as well as connections to religion, literature, and science. The working methods of Hudson River School artists are explained and demonstrated, from the sketchbook drawing to the painted sketch and from thence to finished studio pictures, including pigments and mediums; the production of hand-ground paint; the use of imprimature and grisaille underpainting methods, glazing and impasto. Enrollment limited to 10 students per workshop.
Frederick Brosen
 Watercolor in Central Park
Dates: Monday - Friday, June 9 - 13, 2008
Time: 8:45am - 12:30pm
Price: $400
The subtle nuance and expressive flexibility of watercolor painting makes it an ideal medium for landscape and cityscape subject matter. Working over an initial graphite drawing, students are taught to layer transparent washes of pure color in developing light, mass and texture within a painting. Each class will commence with a lecture or demonstration, or both, taking the student through the entire process of creating a painting. This workshop will be held outdoors at readily accessible sites in Central Park.
Frederick Brosen’s watercolors have been the subject of numerous one-person exhibitions at galleries and museums across the country, most recently at Hirschl and Adler Modern (October 2007) and at The Museum of The City of New York (November 2005 - March 2006). In 2005 a book of his New York City paintings, Still New York, with essays by Ric Burns and Alan Feuer, was published by Vendome Press. He has taught numerous classes at The Art Students League and the National Academy of Design.
Ephraim Rubenstein
Color Spot Oil Painting
 Dates: Monday - Friday, June 23 - 27, 2008
Time: 8:45am - 12:30pm
(Mr. Rubenstein will end his instruction at 12:30 pm. The studio and model will remain available to students until 4:30 pm.)
Price: $475
Color spot oil painting is a method of direct painting developed in the early decades of the twentieth century by Charles Hawthorne and later by his student and assistant, Edwin Dickinson. Although aspects of color spot painting go all the way back to Baroque painting, Hawthorne and Dickinson were the first to organize entire canvases and elaborate compositions by means of the color spot.
A color spot is a piece of color, large or small, that has been observed and abstracted from the appearance of nature and applied directly to the white canvas in discrete notes. Color spot painting is as direct a method as exists––you aim to hit the mark right at first, and not go back (or go back as little as possible) so as not to destroy the integrity of the network of spots.
This workshop will provide an intensive introduction to color spot painting, emphasizing the role of the viewfinder, the plumb line, the relationship between the object and its environment, and how to set up the initial key of the painting.
Enrollment is limited to 10 students.
For more information on Mr. Rubenstein and his work, go to www.ephraimrubenstein.com.
 Vladimir Aituganov
Mosaic Workshop
Section 1: Monday - Friday, July 14 - 18, 2008
Section 2: Monday - Friday, July 21 - 25, 2008
Time: 8:45am - 12:30pm (instructor present all five days)
Fee per section: $480 (includes $80 fee for materials)*
Fee for both sections: $720 (includes $120 fee for materials)
Enrollment limited to 10 students per workshop.
The grand art of mosaics, which has existed for thousands of years, was used by the ancient Greeks to decorate their walls, floors, tables, benches, fountains, and pools. Made of marble, ceramic tiles, semi-precious stones, and smalti, mosaics are luminous, lightproof, water and temperature resistant, and allow artists infinite possibilities to design unique and long-lasting creations in their own expressive style, from realism to abstract. This week-long workshop will guide students through all the various steps needed to complete their own one foot square mosaic, from the cartoon drawing to final installation. Most materials needed for the workshop will be provided, but participants must bring their own tools (as described in the workshop's materials list, available in the League's main office).
Born and trained in Russia, Vladimir Aituganov immigrated to the United States in 1991, where he became an American citizen, and established his studio. He is known as a master of mosaic and painting in Russia, France, and the United States and has had numerous solo exhibitions throughout the US and Europe. His majestic mosaic murals for churches have had the great distinction of being declared Russian Icons, and his paintings, drawings and mosaics are in many private and public collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, The Patterson Museum of New Jersey, and the Russian Mission to the United Nations in New York City. For more information go to www.aituganov.com.
* Important - please note, for these workshops:
ALL students MUST pay the materials fee.
Withdrawals/Refunds
Withdrawals done less than 2 weeks prior to workshop: student forfeits the $80 materials fee and receives only 75% of $400 class fee.
Withdrawals done between 1 month and 2 weeks prior to workshop: student will receive $80 materials fee plus 75% of $400 class fee.
Withdrawals done more than a month in advance: student will receive a full refund.
Frederick Brosen
 The Art of Transparent Watercolor (Workshop and Demonstration)
Dates:
Section 1: Monday - Friday, September 8 - 12, 2008
Section 2: Monday - Friday, November 10 -14, 2008
Time: 8:45am - 12:30pm
Price: $400
The subtle nuance and expressive flexibility of watercolor painting makes it an ideal medium for landscape and cityscape subject matter. Working over an initial graphite drawing, students are taught to layer transparent washes of pure color in developing light, mass and texture within a painting. Each class will commence with a lecture or demonstration, or both, taking the student through the entire process of creating a painting.
The September workshop will be held outdoors at readily accessible sites along the Hudson River in Manhattan. The November workshop will be held in the studio and will feature late fall subjects appropriate to the season.
Frederick Brosen’s watercolors have been the subject of numerous one-person exhibitions at galleries and museums across the country, most recently at Hirschl and Adler Modern (October 2007) and at The Museum of The City of New York (November 2005 - March 2006). In 2005, a book of his New York City paintings, Still New York, with essays by Ric Burns and Alan Feuer, was published by Vendome Press. He has taught numerous classes at The Art Students League and the National Academy of Design.
Ephraim Rubenstein
Color Spot Oil Painting
Dates: Monday - Friday, October 20 - 24, 2008
Time: 8:45am - 12:30pm
Price: $400
Color spot oil painting is a method of direct painting developed in the early decades of the twentieth century by Charles Hawthorne and later by his student and assistant, Edwin Dickinson. Although aspects of color spot painting go all the way back to Baroque painting, Hawthorne and Dickinson were the first to organize entire canvases and elaborate compositions by means of the color spot.
A color spot is a piece of color, large or small, that has been observed and abstracted from the appearance of nature and applied directly to the white canvas in discrete notes. Color spot painting is as direct a method as exists––you aim to hit the mark right at first, and not go back (or go back as little as possible) so as not to destroy the integrity of the network of spots.
This workshop will provide an intensive introduction to color spot painting, emphasizing the role of the viewfinder, the plumb line, the relationship between the object and its environment, and how to set up the initial key of the painting.
Enrollment is limited to 10 students.
For more information on Mr. Rubenstein and his work, go to www.ephraimrubenstein.com.
Peter Cox
The Figure: Structure and Composition in Oils, Part 1
 Dates: Monday - Friday, October 27 - 31, 2008
Time: 8:45am - 12:30pm
Price: $400
A one-week intensive study of rendering the human figure in traditional painting media, this course will enable students to better analyze and interpret the structure of the model and the uniqueness of individual features to create a solid figure. Instructor present every day. Enrollment is limited to 10 students.
The Figure: Structure and Composition in Oils, Part 2
Dates: Monday - Friday, November 3 - 7, 2008
Time: 8:45am - 12:30pm
Price: $400
A one-week intensive study of rendering the human head in traditional painting media, this course will enable students to better analyze and interpret the structure of the model and the uniqueness of individual features to create a solid "working portrait." Enrollment is limited to 10 students.
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