Kline Academy of Fine Art Blog: February 2016

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Meet Our New Figure Composition Workshop Instructor - Natalia Fabia

Please welcome our new instructor

Natalia Fabia

Natalia Fabia is of Polish descent and was raised in Southern California where she graduated from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Inspired by light, color, punk rock music, hot chicks and sparkles, Fabia is fascinated with “hookers”, which fuels her paintings of sultry women.

Her work has been featured in numerous gallery exhibitions including Thinkspace Gallery, M Modern and The Shooting Gallery. She has been featured in Angeleno, Juxtapoz, and New York Arts magazine as well as appearances on Miami Ink, Fox 11 News and Indie 103.1

Natalia's Work

Her 6 week workshop, "The Nitty Gritty of Figure Composition, Constructing Visual Language," begins Saturday., March 12th, 2pm -5pm. Let's bridge figure painting into narrative personal work!!

Saturday, February 20, 2016

Juliette Aristides: The Master Figurative Artist

Juliette Aristides

She is a gifted, passionate, intellectually stimulating artist and writer who seeks to understand and convey the human spirit through art. Ms. Aristides has spent the past ten years acquiring a rigorous education on the principles of classical realism. She began her studies in 1988 under Myron Barnstone in Design Systems.

She continued to study drawing and painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, then at The Atelier in Minneapolis in the tradition of Richard Lack. This work was followed two years of instruction at the National Academy in New York with Jacob Collins, where she received the Wilder Prize for Drawing and the Albert Hallgarten Traveling Scholarship. While also receiving instruction from Carlos Madrid, Juliette spent a year working with a small group of students at Jacob Collins' studio prior to becoming a founding member of the Water Street Studio in Brooklyn, New York.

Juliette's Work

Even her small demos are amazing...

Juliette is coming back to Kline Academy for her 3 Day Figure Painting Workshop

March 11th, 12th and 13th, 10am - 5pm, at Kline Academy of Fine Art

Visit www.klineacademy.com for more information if you're interested in

Saturday, February 13, 2016

Kline Academy Students' Up-coming Show

MAA Members Juried Exhibitions

Reflections

April 2 – April 30, 2016

Schomburg Gallery (Bergamot Station)

2525 Michigan Ave, E-3A Santa Monica, CA 90404

Tel: 310 453 5757

Opening Reception for Artists

Saturday, April 2, 2016

3:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Kline Academy Students' works will be exhibited at Schomburg Gallery

Artists include:

Nancy Milner, Bill Perkins and more

Why take classes at Kline Academy?

With the impressionists and later contemporary artists, classical painting techniques were practically abolished. Trends changed and rather then incorporating centuries of painting knowledge, art schools basically “threw the baby out with the bath water.” During the Renaissance, painting techniques were passed down from master to student.

Only in the past 5 or 10 years have there been a new group of private ateliers in America as well as some universities that are trying to teach figurative painting techniques that demonstrate the magic that can be produced with a glob of color and a simple brush.

Read more about our story: https://www.klineacademy.com/why-choose-kline

CHERYL KLINE

Cheryl Kline, founder and owner of Kline Academy is a working artist whose works are found in the collections of noted individuals and institutions around the world. She has won numerous awards including an Honorable mention from the Portrait Society of America and Salmagundi Club of New York. She studied with master artist Jan Saether at The Bruchion School of Realist Art the same building as Kline Academy is located today, and at The Florence Academy of Art in Italy. Kline has a Degree in Commercial Art from Woodbury University.

http://www.cherylkline.com