Tuesday, 26 May 2015

The Da Vinci Initiative (sponsored by the ARC)

One student of the programme, 17-year-old Yeats Ihrig, has gotten media attention for his style, focus and precision gained from his time in the Vosler Young Artists' Studio. As one of the five winner in the Smithsonian's Teen Portrait Competition, Yeats is now taking his artistic skill to the Angel Academy of Art in Florence, Italy.

Many of the student drawings are roughly based on the Bargue-Gérôme Drawing Course, a complete reprint of a famous last 19th century drawing course. It contains 200 masterful lithographs of subjects for copying, The Da Vinci Initiative has prepared a Bargue Plate lesson plan for high school art students if you are interested in this teaching method for your classroom.

Saturday, 23 May 2015

Nicole Lalande

Nicole started as a student at the Angel Academy and has now worked as an instructor for the past four years. She independently practices landscape painting and has a passion for painting outdoors.

Painting at Settignano from last year's plein air summer workshop with Nicole and her students.

Here's a work in progress right next to the Arno River.

If you are interested in Nicole's landscape workshop this summer, do enquire at:

INFO.ANGEL@ANGELARTSCHOOL.COM

LANDSCAPE PAINTING IN AND AROUND FLORENCE

WITH NICOLE LALANDE

15 - 26 JUNE 2015

Wednesday, 20 May 2015

September Landscaping Workshop

Two alumni, Tom Byrne and Llewellyn Matthews, are taking a small group landscape painting in September. It should be fun!! Sign up!!

Florence Festival in Calgary

Martinho Correia, an AAA alumnus and instructor, has just finished an important mural with a Florentine theme on a main downtown road in Calgary, Canada.