Monday Portraits

Another batch of four hour portraits from the Monday afternoon session.

Leeanna Chipana

Katie Engberg

Adrienne Stanger

Audrey Rodriguez

Joseph Loomis

Michelle Palatnik

Sarah Bird

Jacob Collins

Rick Piloco

¨The Modern Atelier¨ at Whistler House Museum of Art

"The Modern Atelier" show at Whistler House Museum of Art is an exhibition featuring paintings by Todd Casey, Carla Crawford, Angela Cunningham, Gregory Mortenson, and Travis Seymour, all of whom attended Water Street Atelier in the past.

The show in Lowell, MA features works done by each artist using the methods of the modern atelier and GCA. It opened January 12th and will continue until February 23rd; if you are in the Lowell area you should take a look! To find more information, check out the Whistler House website.

GRAND CENTRAL ACADEMY ANNOUNCES FIRST OPEN STUDIO NIGHT!

Over 100 student works on display including drawings, paintings, and sculpture

Students of The Grand Central Academy of Art (GCA) will be holding their first open studio event Thursday, February 21st, 2013 from 6-8pm. The event will showcase an array of full-time and part-time student work including drawings, paintings, and sculpture, offering a unique chance to see inside the daily life of an atelier.  This student-run event and exhibition will take place at Grand Central Academy, 20 W 44th St, 6th floor, New York, NY, 10036.

Anthony Baus, 2011, graphite on paper, 18” x 24”

The GCA Open Studio Night was created by students in a spirit of community to encourage relationships among artists working in a realist mode in New York, and to provide a glimpse of the working methods, philosophy and studio environment that support a traditional art education. The forty-five students of the Water Street Atelier (GCA’s full-time program) and dozens more from the school’s part-time courses will contribute works charting the course of the academy’s four-year curriculum – from graphite cast drawings to month-long figure paintings in oil, demonstrating the academy’s rigorous methodology and commitment to working from life. Finished paintings, drawings, and sculpture – as well as current works-in-progress – will be displayed in the academy’s four studios located in the historic General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen building. Other works on display will include still-life and portrait paintings, figure and portrait sculptures, as well as landscapes from the prestigious Hudson River Fellowship.

The Grand Central Academy of Art Open Studio Night
Thursday, February 21, 2013, 6-8pm
Grand Central Academy of Art
20 W 44th Street, 6th floor
New York, NY 10036

The Grand Central Academy of Art Open Studio Night is a free event and open to the general public. Refreshments will be served. A selection of works will be available for purchase.

The event will coincide with the open studio night of the Beaux-Arts Atelier (BAA), an intensive architecture program based on the pedagogy of the École des Beaux-Arts. The BAA is also located in the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen on the third floor. More information can be found at http://www.beauxartsatelier.org/

Katie Whipple Portrait Sketch - Sketch Demo and Upcoming Class

Katie Whipple's upcoming Saturday class on portrait sketching is an excellent addition to our Saturday class line up at GCA, beginning in February. Here are some shots of Ms. Whipple's most recent portrait sketch last Monday -

Finished - 4 hours 

The class will run every Saturday, from 9-12 AM, on a bimonthly track. The course description reads; " Each Saturday we will tackle the challenging, yet incredibly fun, task of the quick portrait sketch. Using whichever medium you choose (oil paint, graphite, or charcoal) we will work to gain a comprehensive understanding of the portrait focusing on accurate drawing and sound structure to quickly record a likeness of character. In a three-hour model session, time is the biggest obstacle. We will focus on working quickly, but with intention, determining what information is essential to record an accurate likeness and create a solid head."

To find out more, visit this page.

Beaux-Arts Atelier - Call for Applications

Our friends downstairs in the Beaux-Arts Atelier, the architectural and classical sister school to GCA, are opening a call for applications for the oncoming year. If you have an interest in classical architecture, the program comes highly recommended. The work they produce is a great source of inspiration for those of us in the GCA.

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The Beaux-Arts Atelier is pleased to announce a call for applications for the 2013-2014 year. The academic year runs from September to June, and is divided into five six-week terms and a one-week travel term in Rome. Applications are due March 1, 2013.

The BAA is an intensive program in the study of classical architecture, art, and design following the method of the École des Beaux-Arts. Students receive in-depth instruction in an atelier setting while pursuing coursework in observational drawing, architectural drafting, systematic design methodology, the classical orders, geometry and proportion, traditional methods of architectural wash rendering and drawing, the history and theory of classical architecture, and modeling and sculpting. Students conduct detailed studies of New York City’s architectural masterpieces through on-site observation and field drawing. In addition, field trips are conducted to leading architecture, decorating, and craftsman studios during each term.

Financial assistance is available to accepted applicants according to merit and need and is made possible by the generosity of the following contributors:

The Richard H. Driehaus Charitable Lead Trust offers assistance to accepted applicants on the basis of merit and need. Recipients bear the title of Driehaus Scholar. 

Appleton/Zeluck Scholarship: This scholarship will award $10,000 to a competitive Southern California student, practitioner, or other qualified resident. 

Northern California Regional Chapter Scholarship: This $7,500 scholarship will be awarded to a student hailing from Northern California to pursue study for the 2013-2014 year. 

Taconic Builders, Inc. Scholarship: A $5,000 scholarship will be awarded to an accepted applicant who has demonstrated interest in the building arts. 

Les Métalliers Champenois Scholarship: A $5,000 scholarship will be awarded to a worthy accepted applicant and is accompanied by an associated apprenticeship with the renowned metalwork firm Les Métalliers Campenois. 

The Newington-Cropsey Cultural Studies Center Classical Design Prize: A $2,000 prize will be awarded to an outstanding student who demonstrates special regard for the human ideals informing the classical tradition. 

For further information, including courses descriptions and multimedia, please visit us online or contact the education department at education@classicist.org, (212) 730-9646 x100. 

Field Trip to the NY Historical Society

Last Monday the core class student body took an afternoon field trip to the NY Historical Society, where we were treated to a private lecture and sketching tour of the exhibition Nature and the American Vision: The Hudson River School. Linda Ferber, Vice President and Director of the Museum division for the Historical Society, and Jacob Collins kindly spoke and answered questions relating to the paintings and their history.

 

 It was a fascinating opportunity to get up close to blockbuster Hudson River School works such as The Course of Empire by Thomas Cole, Donner Lake from the Summit by Albert Bierstadt, and other North American, South American, European and Arctic works from 19th century American luminaries. Even better to be surrounded by fellow artists and historians!

Edward Minoff in Fine Art Connoisseur

Edward Minoff, a GCA core program instructor, is featured in an article of this month's issue of Fine Art Connoisseur.

The article, entitled "An Artist Catches His Own Wave", includes a six page spread with reproductions of Minoff's portrait drawings and landscape sketches. Check it out next time you're at the magazine stand!

GCA Student Work - Fall 2012

Here are some assorted pieces from the past few months of the core program.

Adrienne Stanger

Adrienne Stanger

Alexandro Berrios

Allison Parker

Allison Parker

Andrew Bonneau

Connor de Jong

Anthony Baus

Anthony Baus

Devin Cecil-Wishing

Joseph Loomis

Joseph Loomis 

Katie Whipple

Liz Beard

Liz Beard

Patrick Byrnes

Patrick Byrnes

Rodrigo Mateo

Rodrigo Mateo

Sally Cochrane

Sally Cochrane

Sarah Bird

Sarah Bird

Susan Wu

Susan Wu

Susan Wu

The Art of Painting - Scott Waddell's New Tutorial Video

"The Art of Painting: An In-Depth Look at How an Artist Thinks and Sees" is Scott Waddell's most recent downloadable tutorial video, covering the creation of two drawings and several new oil paintings while describing techniques and strategies useful to artists of all skill levels. Scott is an instructor in the core program covering cast and figure work, as well as in the evening classes and summer workshops.

This tutorial covers the essential concepts necessary to create realistic figurative paintings, including topics such as perspective, anatomy, color, color-mixing and the interaction between light and form. The production values are very high and the the complexities of light and and visual depiction are broken down into a clear and lucid manner.

If you are interested to learn more, please visit Scott's website

Monday Portraits

4 hour portrait sketches from the Monday session -

Adrienne Stanger

Liz Beard

Rick Piloco

Sally Cochrane

Edward Minoff