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!!

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

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

Meet Our New Figure Drawing and Painting Instructor - Terry Kelly

Please welcome our new instructor

Terry Kelly

Terry Kelly originally trained and worked as an architectural draughtsman in his native Australia and later Ireland. After moving to Los Angeles, he immersed himself in realism painting and drawing and moves effortlessly between precise rendering and abstraction. In addition to the Kline Academy, he teaches at the Art Center College of Design and Cal State L.A. He has a gallery in Pasadena. 

Terry instills sounds skills and understanding of materials through the tenets of knowledge, observation and practice. His teaching strengths include the ability to clearly verbalize his thought process from concept to final brushstroke. He believes that students should synthesize a process with methods that come naturally to the individual. This not only improves student understanding but lessens student frustration. 

Some of Terry's work

Academic Figure Drawing and Painting

with Terry Kelly

Every Saturday 10am-1pm / 2pm-5pm

Meet Our New Relief Sculpture Instructor - Gavin Gardner

Please welcome our new instructor 
Gavin Gardner

Gavin Gardner graduated in 2000 with a BFA in sculpture from the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT.  Gardner’s relief sculptures have won the Dexter Jones Award from the National Sculpture Society, and the Museum Award for sculpture from the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD.  

His commissioned works may be seen at Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church in Potomac, MD, at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, Smithsville, MD, and at the Baker Park Bandshell, Frederick, MD.  Many of his commissioned works are in private collections.  His work has been represented by galleries in California and from Virginia to New England.  Gavin Gardner specializes in figurative art.

His Relief Sculpture Workshop is coming soon!
Call or subscribe for more information!

Rebecca Dawson - Completion of Academic Figure Drawing Program

Rebecca Dawson successfully completed our Academic Figure Drawing Program with Brianna Lee!!

Rebecca started taking classes at Kline Academy in 2013. She understood that drawing was the first thing an artist must learn and important for success in every artistic discipline. Not only did she aim to become the next great figurative artist, but also she enjoyed the process of drawing.

Get more information about our figure drawing class and the certificate programs here!

New Kline Academy Website is UP!

New Year! New Website!

Kline Academy website has a new look!

Check it out and get more information!!

http://www.klineacademy.com

Landscape Painting Bootcamp at Kline Academy

Landscape Painting Bootcamp with Sharon Weaver

We had so much fun in her Landscape Painting Bootcamp!

Sharon started the workshop with demos

We had 4 stations for each subject: How to Paint Palm Trees, Water, Trees and Rocks

Sharon will have another bootcamp in 2016!

Subscribe and get more information!

CALLING FOR ENTRIES FOR THE WILSHIRE VERMONT

CALLING FOR ENTRIES FOR THE WILSHIRE VERMONT

Art Of Life Connected - art contest and exhibit

The community-driven artistic movement is designed to provide artists, photographers, and visionaries with a unique and highly visible platform to exhibit original creative pieces that reflect today's diverse, interconnected way of life.

This call for entries is open now through December 16, 2015.

Submit your vision of a #LifeConnected for a chance to have your artwork featured at one of the busiest intersections and retail/residential communities of Los Angeles and a First Place Prize of $1000.

Go to www.wilshirevermontla.com for more details.

Gavin Gardner Relief Sculpture Demo

Thank you all for coming to Gavin Gardner's Relief Sculpture Demo last night!

Gavin showed us many techniques and kindly answered all the questions we had for him.

Gavin starts with drawing, then put some cray on top

Ones he fills, he starts to work on some details

He did this within 3 hours!

 Gavin Gardner's Relief Sculpture Workshop starts

Tue., January 5th, 2016, 6:30pm-9:30pm

Visit our website for more information

*Relief Sculpture*

Relief offers the qualities of both 2-D and 3-D working methods. 

Ultimately it is also an illusion of roundness as it is in fact flattened and compressed. 

Therefore it is like painting. 

And yet the nuances of all forms are modeled. 

Thus it is also sculpture.