Spring Workshops: Academic Approach to Head and Figure Painting

NOVOREALISM ART ACADEMY

Alexey Steele Grand Atelier Studio, Carson, CA

announces a figurative workshop series this Spring:

"ACADEMIC APPROACH TO HEAD AND FIGURE PAINTING"

Course Meets 8 Saturdays: March 17, 24, 31; April 21, 28; May 5, 12, 19 

class time 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Cost of the course: $400 (model fee is included)

Artists and Art students are invited.

Please register early to reserve your spot. Space is limited.

workshop in process

Overview: The Objective of the workshop is to introduce the participants to Alexey Steele's approach to painting a figure, based on his legacy of Russian Academic Tradition. Alexey will focus on his approach to working with live model as well as describe a vital integrated relationship of Form, Tone and Color essential in a successful execution of any painting and particularly figure. It shall encourage participants to study these three elements in depth after participation in the workshop.

There are a substantially diverse number of wonderful approaches to conveying life-like visual image shared through various workshops, books and systems by some remarkable artists of our time. Some of them perceived as radically different from one another, yet in fact outside "techniques" they all convey same core principles. Those "integrating" principles behind various individual approaches will be the main theme of the workshop. The central principle this workshop is intended to demonstrate and to train its participants in - is the key function of Value in connecting Form to Color. 
 

Classes consist of demo, live painting and critique.

In addition to the main objective, at this workshop students will have an opportunity to practice the development of their key decisions on a longer studies as we will book the same models for 2-3 consecutive sessions.  

List of the supplies will be send upon registration.

Please email Olga at classicalunderground@yahoo.com to sign up.  

    

       

   

Read an in-depth review of Alexey Steele workshop in

American Artist Workshop Magazine:

www.alexeysteele.com/Articles/AmericanArtist2010.pdf  

"Everyone knows what a powerful artistic force Alexey already is, but few, until this time, could have realized what a sensational and dynamic art instructor he makes as well." 

- George Malone, workshop participant    

Alexey Steele at the 1st Plein Air Convention & Expo

 Alexey is excited to see everyone at

1st Plein Air Convention & Expo

April 12-15, 2012

Red Rock Resort, Las Vegas

Saturday, April 14

11am - 6pm

Alexey will be a Featured Instructor at Zone 8

of the all day of painting on location
at Red Rock National Conservation Area

Sunday, April 15

is an official "Russian Day" at the convention
8am - 10am

Alexey will be part of a Special Double Demo

with a wonderful Russian Master and a current professor
at the Alexey's Alma Mater -
venerated Moscow State Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov
of The Russian Academy of Arts  -

Nikolai Dubovik

Join Alexey at the Convention  

and  

save $100 on registration  

through the special link below:  

http://pleinairconventionexpo.eventbee.com/discount?code=PACAS   

 

"Just can't wait for the Plain Air Convention! What an incredible group of some of the most spectacular masters in this crucially important for our realist movement field!

Plain Air experience is uniquely important for a development of Realist Art and to my personal overall artistic process, particularly to my studio figurative work. I consider experienced gained through continuous plain air painting being the backbone of my understanding of nature and the foundation of my artistic training. This is how my father, a Great Russian artist of Soviet Era Leonid Steele, began my formal lessons at age six. I always look at the great outdoors as my constant laboratory to study basic principles of our art form - compositional harmony of forms and shapes, the relation of values and colors in all their infinite variations as they defined by real-life light and space. Plain Air is always a great testing ground for my various visual and technical ideas. "

Alexey Steele   

For more information on the conference go to: http://www.pleinairconvention.com/index.php  

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 visit Alexey Steele website 

and gallery at  http://americanlegacyfinearts.com/   

Alexey Steele at the Los Angeles Fine Art Show January 18-22

January 18 - 22
Los Angeles Convention Center, West Hall B

 "NEW DAY" sepia on hand made paper 16" x 12"

part of the "Torn Beauty" Series


"LOVERS" oil on canvas 30"x24"

Alexey's gallery American Legacy Fine Art  is part of Los Angeles' landmark LA Fine Art Show January 19 - 22 at the LA Convention Center.  At the show the gallery will preview Alexey's new drawing series "Torn Beauty" as well as his new and exciting painting "Lovers."

Come see this new works at booth D-38

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Alexey at Fine Art Connoisseur Booth

At the same time, one of the main sponsors of the event, a prestigious Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, is exhibiting Alexey's portrait of its publisher Eric Rhoads - "Eric In White Scarf"

"Eric in White Scarf" oil on canvas 40" x 30"

Eric In White Scarf - fragment 

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At the Gala Opening night

Wednesday, January 18th (6 p.m. to 10 p.m.)

Alexey is doing a painting demonstration  

for Fine Art Connoisseur under exciting thematic title: 

"BEAUTY WINS: RECYCLING WAR"

Alexey Steele paints Anna Le in collaboration with

Victor Wilde and The Bohemian Society at the LA Fine Art Show.

"War is ugly. It is pain and death. We have a lot of it now and there is no end to it in sight. Yet, life always and inevitably wins with Beauty as its force... As we learn from conflicts past, Beauty is on the point of the spear of Life in its fight with Death... Beauty is both fighting and healing force of Life.

This is a lesson of Anna Le, a Vietnamese-American to be painted by Alexey Steele at the gala opening of LA Fine Art Show while wearing a Bohemian Society dress designed by Victor Wilde and made out of surplus parachute of the Vietnam War as well as the accessories reflecting Anna's story. 

We shall recycle the war not after its barbaric onslaught on real people, taken hostage by their politicians on any side of any conflict, but before it ever occurs. "

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Alexey will also do another demonstration

  on Friday, January 20, 4 - 7 pm. at the Fine Art Connoisseur booth (A2).    

   

 

working on the "Lovers"

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Alexey's friend and col league painter Tony Pro is doing a demo on Thursday, January the 19th 4pm - 7om and Saturday, the 21st 4pm - 7pm.

 

 

Alexey with the models for hist work "Lovers"  

 Come see one of the most vibrant Art event of the year right at the year's very beginning!  And don't forget to pick up a copy of the Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine with the article on Leonid Steele written by Peter Trippi.

  

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Information on the LA Fine Art Show:

General Admission $15 in advance, $20 at the door

January 19- 21 (Thursday - Saturday): 11 am - 7 pm

                       January 22 (Sunday):   11 am - 5 pm

Grand Opening Night Premier Party:

Wednesday, January 18 from 7 to 10 p.m. ($125 per person)

   Click here to purchase tickets online and receive a $5 discount; ticket also includes entry to the LA Art Show (Contemporary and Modern) and the IFPDA Fine Print Fair.  

Los Angeles Convention Center, West Hall B
1201 South Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90015

                    

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We look forward seeing you all!

  

 visit his website 

and gallery at www.americanlegacy.com  

  

www.thebohemiansociety.com

www.alexeysteele.com

www.novorealism.com

www.classicalunderground.com

Announcing: Live Figure and Head Painting Workshops with Alexey Steele this Winter

NOVOREALISM ART ACADEMY

Alexey Steele Grand Atelier Studio, Carson, CA

announces a figurative workshop series this winter:

"RUSSIAN ACADEMIC APPROACH TO HEAD AND FIGURE PAINTING"

Course Meets 8 Saturdays: January 7, 14, 28; February 4, 18, 25; March 3, 10

Please note new time: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Cost of the course: $400 for 8 sessions (model fee is included)

Artists and Art students are invited. 

Please register early to reserve your spot.

workshop in process

Overview: The Objective of the workshop is to introduce the participants to Alexey Steele's approach to painting a figure, based on his legacy of Russian Academic Tradition. Alexey will focus on his approach to working with live model as well as describe a vital integrated relationship of Form, Tone and Color essential in a successful execution of any painting and particularly figure.  It shall encourage participants to study these three elements in depth after participation in the workshop.  

There are a substantially diverse number of wonderful approaches to conveying life-like visual image shared through various workshops, books and systems by some remarkable artists of our time. Some of them perceived as radically different from one another, yet in fact outside "techniques" they all convey same core principles. Those "integrating" principles behind various individual approaches will be the main theme of the workshop.

The central principle this workshop is intended to demonstrate and to train its participants in - is the key function of Value in connecting Form to Color. 
 

Classes consist of demo, live painting and critique.

List of the supplies will be send upon registration.

Please email Olga at classicalunderground@yahoo.com to sign up.  

 

Read an in-deph review of Alexey Steele workshop in

American Artist Workshop Magazine:

www.alexeysteele.com/Articles/AmericanArtist2010.pdf

   

 visit his website 

and gallery at http://americanlegacyfinearts.com/  

       

"Everyone knows what a powerful artistic force Alexey already is, but few, until this time, could have realized what a sensational and dynamic art instructor he makes as well."

- George Malone, workshop participant

Announcing: Live Figure Painting Workshops with Alexey this Fall

NOVOREALISM ART ACADEMY

Alexey Steele Grand Atelier Studio, Carson, CA

announces a figurative workshop series this fall:

"ACADEMIC APPROACH TO FIGURE PAINTING"

Course Meets 6 Saturdays: October 22, 29; November 12, 19; December 3, 10

Time: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Cost of the course: $300 (model fee is included)

Artists and Art students are invited.

Please register early to reserve your spot. 

Overview: The Objective of the workshop is to introduce the participants to Alexey Steele's approach to painting a figure, based on his legacy of Russian Academic Tradition. Alexey will focus on his approach to working with live model as well as describe a vital integrated relationship of Form, Tone and Color essential in a successful execution of any painting and particularly figure. It shall encourage participants to study these three elements in depth after participation in the workshop.

There are a substantially diverse number of wonderful approaches to conveying life-like visual image shared through various workshops, books and systems by some remarkable artists of our time. Some of them perceived as radically different from one another, yet in fact outside "techniques" they all convey same core principles. Those "integrating" principles behind various individual approaches will be the main theme of the workshop.

The central principle this workshop is intended to demonstrate and to train its participants in - is the key function of Value in connecting Form to Color. 
 

Classes consist of demo, live painting and critique.

List of the supplies will be send upon registration.

Please email Olga at classicalunderground@yahoo.com to sign up.  

Water and Fire

Read an in-deph review of Alexey Steele workshop in

American Artist Workshop Magazine:

www.alexeysteele.com/Articles/AmericanArtist2010.pdf

My Public Commission for CSU Dominguez Hills

The unveiling of my new work “Learners of Dominguez: Howard, Jenika, Auburn, Chris, Ronald” - turned out an amazing  and personally inspiring experience. 

Here is some press about it::
http://www.csudhnews.com/2011/09/csu-dominguez-hills-unveils-final-commemorative-painting-for-50th-anniversary/

Newly Unveiled Artwork Captures the Soul of a Diverse Campus

The project carried a special significance to me as “Learners of Dominguez” represent to a very large degree my views on the role of ART in the contemporary society and on the direction of contemporary ART in the 21^st century. The painting is part of the NOVOREALISM project I launched and ideas I discuss with my friends in the web magazine www.novorealism.com

Painting Jenika and Auburn

Steele painted his work in a series of intense live sessions with the CSUDH students.

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Painting Auburn and Chris

Steele says that the emotional openness and engagement of the students made them "his co-authors."

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Painting Ronald

Ronald was the first person to see the finished painting as he was painted last.

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Official Unveiling with the President of CSUDH Millie Garcia

Official Unveiling with the President of CSU Dominguez Hills Millie Garcia at the Presidential Fall Convocation reception

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Millie Garcia and Alexey Steele with "Learners of Dominguez"

Official Unveiling with the President of CSU Dominguez Hills Millie Garcia at the Presidential Fall Convocation reception

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"Learners of Dominguez" oil on canvas, 15" x 60"

Alexey Steele's new painting commissioned by CSU Dominguez Hills to commemorate the 50th anniversary of one of the most diverse campuses in the nation.

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Workshop at Tucson: The Legacy of Russian Academic Tradition and Integration Approach to Figure, From Form to Color through Value.

Join Alexey Steele, an internationally acclaimed award-winning artist and a Signature Member of California Art Club, as he will share his approach on working with figure based on his legacy of the Russian Academic Tradition.

February 9 - 11, 2012
Tucson Art Academy
Tucson, Arizona
http://tucsonartacademy.com/Alexey%20Steele/AlexeySteeleClass2012.htm

Overview: The Object of the workshop is to introduce the participants to Alexey Steele’s approach to painting a figure, based on his legacy of Russian Academic Tradition. Alexey will focus on his approach to working with live model as part of his execution of multi-figure composition as well as describe a vital in his view integrated relationship of Form, Tone and Color essential in a successful execution of any painting and particularly figure. It shall encourage participants to study these three elements in depth after participation in the workshop.

There are a substantially diverse number of wonderful approaches to conveying life-like visual image shared through various workshops, books and systems by some remarkable artists of our time. Some of them perceived as radically different from one another, yet in fact outside “techniques” they all convey same core principles. Those “integrating” principles behind various individual approaches will be the main theme of the workshop.
The central principle this workshop is intended to demonstrate and to train its participants in - is the key function of Value in connecting Form to Color.
 
First day is drawing all day, highlighting the importance of a drawing – from laying in the forms to values. Second day – same pose into painting, demonstrating the direct connection of core perceptions from drawing to painting and from Form to Color through Value. Demo of drawing and painting with critique.