Our Instructor Brianna Lee's Current Show in Laguna Beach

Big congratulations to our figure drawing/painting instructor Brianna Lee!  

Her work is now hanging at Dawson Cole fine art in Laguna Beach.

"We had a great turn out and I am so honored to have been a part of this." 
-- Brianna Lee

Dawson Cole fine art

326 Glenneyre St, Laguna Beach, CA 92651

(888) 972-5543

Kline Academy students in a group show in Abbot Kinney

Opening Reception: Thursday, November 13, 2014

6:30-9:30pm

Featured Artist:

Daniela Schweitzer

Marianne Roberts

Yana Dei

Terri Burris

Susie McKay Krieser

Sheri Sinclair 

Ilan Dei Venice

1650 Abbott Kinney Blvd

Venice, CA90291

310.729.2713

What is Munsell Color System?

Regarding "The Munsell Color System" A workshop with Graydon Parrish

 by CHERYL KLINE

Last weekend, we were fortunate to host one of the best figurative artists I have ever met, Graydon Parrish. Graydon's work can be found in many public collections including the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Butler Art Institute and the Blanton Museum of Art as well as the personal collections of Michael Huffington, Christopher Forbes and Carmen Dell'Orefice. 

Graydon is known for his acute knowledge of the "Munsell Color System." This system is a color space that specifies colors based on three color dimensions: hue, value (lightness), and chroma (color purity). There are large books by Munsell with color chips which help you to locate the exact colors for your paintings.

Learning to mix the perfect skin tone... 

Our workshop was geared specifically to mixing more accurate skin tones. By bracketing, (see image at right) with your hues, and concentrating on the value first and then in a grid like manner, work across to find the correct chroma. We started with a neutral: 3 parts ivory black and one part raw or burnt umber. Mix together and then mix for example a value of 5 or find the value of the skin tone you are trying to mix. In the second column is Yellow Ochre with Burnt Umber at the bottom, white at the top and the 3rd column is Windsor Quinacridrone Red at the bottom, mixed with white in the middle to the correct value. Then mixing horizontally, a neutral, yellow and a pink, we found our perfect skin tone match to a color chip Graydon gave us. If you would like to know more about "bracketing" to mix colors, come by one of our classical painting classes for a demo.

Painting an Orb is harder than you think!

On the last project, Graydon had us all mix a particular skin tone based on one of the color chips from the book. He gave us all a half orb which we tacked onto our canvas and painted the orb one solid color. He wanted us to see how light and shadow affect a form and how the hue, value and chroma changes with the light. We mixed, using the bracket system above, several variations of local color, half tones and shadows. Then it was our turn to create the three dimensional illusion.

This is my painting on the right.

How will this information change my painting or teaching?

First, I have to say, never stop learning. If we keep setting the bar higher and higher for ourselves, the sky is the limit. This workshop reminded me how gray and neutral most of our skin tones really are and that on the spectrum of color they occupy a very narrow range in hue, value and chroma, mostly neutrals. I personally mix color instinctively since I have been painting for so many years and as an art director on press runs, my job was to correct color. So to teach a student color mixing, I have a new tool to use to explain how to find the perfect match.

There was much, much more to this workshop...too much information to put into a short email, but I wanted those of you who could not make it to the evening demo or the weekend event, to know a little bit of what we learned.

  
 At Kline Academy, we will teach you foundational skills to reach your artistic goals... and then we may challenge you to break the rules to see what happens and find your unique view of the world.

Graydon Parrish Finally at Kline Academy!!

Graydon Parrish's Munsell Color System Workshop 

was just...

A MIND-BLOWING
EXPERIENCE!!

Graydon Parrish

It was all about COLOR this weekend!

We hosted Graydon Parrish, a master realist painter living in Austin, Texas, for the Musell Color System Workshop over the weekend. He has remodeled color theories by Albert Munsell and Josef Albers to fit traditional painting methods, and this time, he applied the system to painting skin tones for this workshop at Kline Academy.

  

Munsell Color Theory is based on a three-dimensional model, in which each color is comprised of three attributes of hue (color itself), value (lightness/darkness) and chroma (color saturation/brilliance)

a three-dimensional model in which each color is comprised of three attributes of hue (color itself), value (lightness/darkness) and chroma (color saturation or brilliance) - See more at: http://munsell.com/about-munsell-color/how-color-notation-works/#sthash.F6m0O8nX.dpuf

is based on a three-dimensional model in which each color is comprised of three attributes of hue (color itself), value (lightness/darkness) and chroma (color saturation or brilliance) - See more at: http://munsell.com/about-munsell-color/how-color-notation-works/#sthash.F6m0O8nX.dpuf

At the Friday Demo Night, Parrish used the color scanner, which identifies the nearest color tone(!!), and created guests' skin tones. 

is based on a three-dimensional model in which each color is comprised of three attributes of hue (color itself), value (lightness/darkness) and chroma (color saturation or brilliance) - See more at: http://munsell.com/about-munsell-color/how-color-notation-works/#sthash.F6m0O8nX.dpuf

is based on a three-dimensional model in which each color is comprised of three attributes of hue (color itself), value (lightness/darkness) and chroma (color saturation or brilliance) - See more at: http://munsell.com/about-munsell-color/how-color-notation-works/#sthash.F6m0O8nX.dpuf

is based on a three-dimensional model in which each color is comprised of three attributes of hue (color itself), value (lightness/darkness) and chroma (color saturation or brilliance) - See more at: http://munsell.com/about-munsell-color/how-color-notation-works/#sthash.F6m0O8nX.dpuf

Titanium White, Ivory Black, Yellow Ochre, Permanent Alizarin Crimson, and Burnt Umber create hundreds of colors!

WOW!

 "What distinguishes my system is that I make strings of single chromas combined with single hues. I analyze what I am going to paint, find its notation, then mix up strings to cover the range. Reilly's method used cadmiums, way out of flesh range. A string of cad orange brought down with burnt umber/alizarin crimson shifts not only in value, but in hue and chroma as well, making it hard to predict. Reilly too recommended the addition of neutral greys to kill the chroma, but this causes the hues to shift as well. This is something Reilly never mentioned."

 - Graydon Parrish


Now you can't paint the same again!

Cheryl Kline's Solo Exhibition Opening Reception: Clouds got in my way

A big congrats to our master sky-scape painter Cheryl Kline on her solo exhibition opening night at Lahaina galleries in Newport Beach last Saturday!

The show will be on for another a couple of weeks, check it out and dive into the sky!

 

She already sold those two following paintings at the opening night!

Lahaina Galleries

Fashion Island, 1173 Newport Center Drive
below Cheescake Factory - Street level
Newport Beach, CA 92660

Steven Assael's Narrative Figure Painting Workshop

This workshop was just a phenomena!!

Over the weekend, we hosted Steven Assael, an American painter recognized nationally as one of the leading representational figurative artists of his generation, for his 3 day Narrative Figure Painting workshop at Kline Academy.

For those of you who missed the workshop last weekend and the live demo Friday evening, we are sorry to tell you that you missed an amazing event. Drama and emotion are captured and applied with each fan brush stroke. He slaps down a huge hunk of paint and then feathers it to comply with his impression. Bright, bold colors, slapping the surface then caressing the board with a feather soft touch. Chaos becomes a masterpiece. Amazing process.

 

 

We had over 40 people came over for his live demo night where he showed a very dynamic painting technique!

 

Steven's demo of Vanessa

Steven also showed many of his sketches and drawings, and they were just stunning!

 

Steven and the model Vanessa

We will definitely have him back at Kline Academy soon! Subscribe now and keep your eyes on the email!

Kline Academy of Fine Art presents... 

EARNING A LIVING AS AN ARTIST

A Panel Discussion on how 5 LA artists

have been earning a living doing what they love.

Friday, September 12th, 7 - 9pm 

Cost: FREE  

RSVP PLEASE: artist@klineacademy.com
Limited seating,  

Panel Artists:  

Gus Harper, Cheryl Kline, Tanya Ragir, Doug Smith, Norton Wisdom

Friday evening's discussion is designed to provide an opportunity to hear how 5 working artists are making a living at their craft. How did they get started? How did they get into their first gallery? What types of marketing have they tried and what worked and what didn't? What are they doing now for promotion? What is the best advice for emerging artists to help them succeed? The idea behind this discussion is to give the emerging artist, at whatever age or level of skills, some hope. Hope and living proof that it is possible to achieve your dream of becoming a successful artist and making a good living at it! Later we will open it up to questions from the audience. 

Gus Harper finds landscapes within natural objects and reflects the Southern California abundance. His work ranges from wall size interchangeable grid paintings to dreamy portraits.

Harper's work has been shown across the country and also featured in film and television shows. Harper maintains a studio at the Santa Monica Airport.

Cheryl Kline is known for her dramatic paintings of the sky (and Founder and Owner of Kline Academy). She is in collections around the world as well as celebrity collections; Oprah Winfrey, Halle Berry and others. She's won numerous awards and is writing her first book on Portrait painting. 

Tanya Ragir is an award winning contemporary figurative sculptor based in Los Angeles. Her medium ranges from clay to cast resin and bronze. Her body of work is both compelling and iconic, with sometimes cultural,  political, or sexual overtones. She is featured in notable museum collections all over the world.

Doug Smith combines the exuberance of abstract expressionism and the arresting intimacy of the realistically familiar in his contemporary landscape paintings. He has exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States and an exhibition in Moscow.

Norton Wisdom is a performance artist and painter. He has been painting to live music  with bands and has performed around the world. His paintings and sculptures can be found in the permanent collections of notable museums.

Cheryl Kline's Solo Exhibition "Clouds got in my way"

Cheryl Kline 

"Clouds got in my way" 

 Solo Exhibition

 Opening Reception - Saturday, October 11th

4pm to 7pm

Do not miss this new collection of paintings by Cheryl Kline

 

Lahaina Galleries

Fashion Island, 1173 Newport Center Drive
below Cheescake Factory - Street level
Newport Beach, CA 92660

 

Kindly RSVP (949) 721-9117

"Loosen You Up!" Scott Yeskel's Contemporary Painting Bootcamp

Scott's second workshop "Contemporary Painting Bootcamp"

made another blast!!

This time, they worked at 4 different stations throughout the day on:

 Pure abstract, Deconstructing the landscape, 

Contemporary Figure with a live model and Objects of Interest...

Students created over 180 paintings in one day!

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