Do check out Martinho's summer workshops at Angel Academy this summer:
WORKSHOP 1
METHODS OF CONTEMPORARY
PORTRAIT PAINTERS
15 - 26 JUNE 2015
Martinho and his students from Calgary on a recent visit to our Academy.
Wednesday, 20 May 2015
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.
METHODS OF CONTEMPORARY
Thursday, 23 April 2015
Losana and Llewellyn
(Written by Losana Boyd)
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Our copy of Claudio Coello’s “The Triumph of St. Augustine” has been presented to the Canonry of St. Leopold, a community of Augustinian Canons Regular in Long Island, New York. The original, painted in 1664 for the Augustinian monastery in Acalá de Henares, is now on display in Madrid’s Museo del Prado.
In developing our painting, we utilized as much as possible the methods and pigments that Coello would have used, beginning with a wash drawing in umber on a gessoed linen canvas prepared with a mid-range campitura, and building up successive layers of paint and glazes to encourage richness of depth and luminosity.
As co-collaborators on this painting for the Canonry, part of our motivation was to restore, to some degree, the former tradition of artists working together on larger scale projects. As Catholic artists, we also want to make available images from our great Catholic treasury of sacred art to parishoners who might not otherwise have the opportunity to see examples of these works.
Saturday, 11 April 2015
Martinho's mural of an Italian festival
AA alumnus and instructor Martinho Correia was commissioned by the Business Revitalization Zone of International Avenue in Calgary, Canada, to paint a mural of an Italian festival. Pulling from his experience of life in Italy, Martinho chose to paint a subject he knew well: The Flag Wavers of the Uffizi. The mural measures 8 x 16 feet and was painted with outdoor latex paint on plastic dibond panel. It will join seven other murals on the Avenue in celebration of the diversity of Calgary's cultural makeup.
He writes that the fun thing for him was that he had four assistants on this mural. Martinho painted the heads and hands, and each of the other artists worked on a particular part—flag specialist, background, statue specialist. "A really fun project," he writes.
We'll show an image of the completed mural after the unveiling on April 30.
Behind the scenes
A section of the long-pose colour-class in the drawing stage
(Photo by Jered Woznicki)
Thursday, 19 March 2015
Davide Barbini
Our current student, Davide Barbini, will be holding an exhibition from March 28 to April 26 at the Galleria Civica in Vittorio Veneto (near Venice). Check out the flyer below for more information. Bravo e Complimenti!!
Saturday, 7 March 2015
The Training of the 21st-century Representational Painter
Angel Academy's studio director, Michael John Angel, will be giving a talk (with 88 images) at the Ulster Festival of the Arts in Belfast on the 12th of March. The subject is The Training of the 21st-century Representational Painter, with digitally projected images of the stages of that training during the three-year programme at the Angel Academy, Florence, and will include examples of the great work being done by modern representational painters. These include Nelson Shanks, Richard Schmid, Donato Giancola, Roberto Ferri, Arantzazu Martínez, Rob Liberace, Juliette Aristides, Marina Dieul, Jeffrey Mims, Jacob Collins, Odd Nerdrum and others.
That same morning (the 12th), he is to be part of a panel discussion on modern art.
Saturday, 28 February 2015
The Maestro's Tour
Announcing our brand new video
The Maestro's Tour
See it now on our youtube channel:
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