Thomas Kitts Visits Maestro M. J. Angel

Last week, Maestro M. J. Angel had dinner with the American landscape painter and authority on John Singer Sargent, Thomas Kitts. Thomas Kitts is the creator of the Advice on Painting from John Singer Sargent pdf that is regularly sent by the academy to the students of the Angel Academy of Art, Florence.

Maestro Kitts is in Italy to give one of his regular landscape-painting workshops.

From left to right: Maestro Michael John Angel, Lauralee Kitts, Thomas Kitts, Megan Byrne, Tom Byrne.

Alumna Update: Christina Mastrangelo

Angel Academy alumna Christina Mastrangelo won the Khole Award in the ARC's International Salon Competition for her triptych Know Not Thy Pending Fate, oil on canvas, 122 x 152.5 cm. (48 x 60 inches). In addition, the painting was given a merit award from the National Oil and Acrylic Painters' Society in the Spring 2015 International Online Competition.

Brava Christina!!

More Cesar Santos!

Angel Academy alumnus Cesar Santos has an article featuring him and his painting process included in October's issue of The Artist's Magazine.

It's available on-line. Take a look!

The Artist's Magazine, October 2015

Alumnus Update: Cesar Santos

Angel Academy of Art, Florence, alumnus and great friend Cesar Santos is working on a painting-demonstration DVD.

Alumnus Update: Francis O'Toole

Great painter and Angel Academy of Art, Florence, alumnus Francis O'Toole recently posted on his Facebook page:

Francis, let us know what you are doing these days: we would love to spread the word (also the great Gary Louis Smith!!)

Shane Wolf

In the last week of July, Angel Academy of Art alumnus Shane Wolf won the $5000 top prize in the first ever figure-painting competition given at the Academy of Realist Art, Boston. As well as Shane, from Angel’s, the ten competitors included instructors and students from Juliette Aristides’s academy in Seattle, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and a San Francisco academy.

https://www.facebook.com/academyofrealistartboston

The painting is on show at the Egeli Gallery in Provincetown.

Bravo, Shane!!!

Vicki Sullivan

Angel Academy’s recent student Vicki Sullivan’s painting Coming up Roses, a portrait of Actor Kerry Armstrong, has been selected for the Australian Black Swan Portrait prize.

http://www.blackswanprize.com.au/portraiture_prize/finalists.phtml?Photos_Category_ID=69&Photos_Category=2015&ParentCategoryID=2&ParentCategory=Portraiture+Prize+Finalists

Earlier this summer, Vicki gave a 5-day workshop on the Meldrum [tonalist] Method in Tuscany, outside Montalcino. She hopes to give it again in 2016.

website. vickisullivan.com