Classes ~ Andreeva Portrait Academy

Classes Offered by the Portrait Academy

Acrylic ~ Clay ~ Drawing ~ Egg Tempera ~ Oil ~ Pastel ~ Pastel and Mixed Media ~ Traditional and Water Soluble Oil ~ Watercolor ~

Acrylic

Andrew Tift

Photorealistic Portraiture in Charcoal and Acrylic
Photorealistic Portraiture in Charcoal and Acrylic Andrew Tift will be teaching photorealist portraiture and examining the relationship between photography and painting. He w… Read more

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Clay

Laura Orchard

Human Anatomy in Clay™ For Artists- Exploring the Arm and Hand
Each student will be using a Professional Maniken skeleton for this class. They will be guided through diagrams and demonstrations to understand the function and form of each… Read more

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Drawing

	Kevin Gorges	Still Life Drawing with Casts A basic goal of art training is to see well. One of the most effective and traditional means of accomplishing this is cast drawing. It allows the student to focus entirely on … Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Michael Grimaldi	Figure Drawing This course will sequentially present fundamental and advanced concepts of visual perception and their application to drawing from direct observation. A thorough understanding… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Michael Grimaldi	An Introduction to Constructive Anatomy While striving for an naturalistic representation of the visual field, an intelligent and selective application of anatomy and perspective is essential towards the expres… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Geoffrey Laurence	Artists' Anatomy Course This is an anatomy course specifically for artists who are interested in using the figure in their work. Since the 15th century, artists have relied on a thorough understandin… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Geoffrey Laurence	Expressive Life Drawing To draw successfully, we need to connect with our subconscious energy, as well as our conscious or intellectual center. As we progress through a series of specific exercises a… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Leah Lopez	The Beauty of Portrait Drawing from Life There is an inherent beauty and spontaneity that comes when drawing from life. Drawing a portrait model from life enables an artist to see and capture a line, a quality, a ch… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Juan Martinez	Portrait Drawing: Capturing Likeness and Creating Form in Tones This workshop explores and develops the most important part of portraiture; the likeness. Working in either graphite pencil or carbon pencil, students will learn a “tonal”… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Juan Martinez	The Human Figure: Classical Subject, Classical Method This workshop explores the ever changing, engaging landscape of the human form. Working in graphite pencil or carbon pencil, Students will use a “tonal” drawing method whi… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Sherrie McGraw	The Mystery of Figure Drawing Revealed Drawing has long been recognized as the most basic foundation for the painter. The reason is simple: drawing teaches one to see. Seeing in the way an artist sees is different … Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Anthony Ryder	Figure Drawing in Pencil In this 5-day figure drawing workshop, Class time will be divided between lectures, demonstrations and drawing from the model. Mr. Ryder will demonstrate how to capture the g… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Anthony Ryder	Portrait Drawing in Pencil In this 5-day portrait drawing workshop, students will complete three to four portrait drawings. Mr. Ryder will give a 90 minute drawing demonstration each morning, and stude… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Timothy Stotz	Figure Drawing- EVENING CLASS “Technique is nothing but the level of joy in your playing. So, we watch and play with the form, not the technique.” Timothy Stotz The phenomenal presence and truth-to… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Timothy Stotz	Portrait Drawing February Program – Portrait Drawing and Painting This month-long workshop is a rare opportunity for beginners, serious students and emerging artists to study portraiture w… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Dan Thompson	Portrait Drawing ... Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Ryan Wurmser	Portrait Drawing in Charcoal Description coming soon… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Henry Yan	Figure Drawing with Charcoal This workshop will focus on both short and long pose charcoal drawings from life models. Different techniques mentioned in my book (Henry Yan’s Figure Drawing-Techniques and… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.

Egg Tempera

Koo Schadler

Egg Tempera Painting Workshop
Old as the Egyptians and most famous during the Renaissance, egg tempera painting is becoming increasingly popular with artists today. Tempera has unsurpassed luminosity. Do… Read more

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Oil

	Kurt Anderson	Painting the Figure and Flowers The focus will be on figurative and portrait painting in oils, but also integrated into this unique workshop will be artist Kurt Anderson’s insights into his specialty: flor… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Juliette Aristides	Figure Painting Learn to create timeless figure paintings in the tradition of the old masters. This one week intensive workshop focuses on the elements of figure painting and guides the stud… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Margaret Baumgaertner	Creating a Timeless Oil Portrait This 5 day workshop will cover all portions of the portrait process. The class will cover the placement of the head on canvas, gridding and drawing a linear “cartoon”, massing… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Ned Bittinger	Everything You Wanted to Know about Portrait Painting but were Afraid to Ask Have you wondered if there are secrets to painting a likeness that painters jealously guard? All will be revealed in this workshop with Award-winning painter, Ned Bittinger. ... Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Jill Carver	Plein Air Landscape in Oil- Salado, Texas *April 6-8, 2009* This three-day class focusing on painting outdoors in oil will be held at various locations in and around Salado. Students will be expected to have… Read more Apr. 6 - Apr. 8, 2009 - Show schedule
	Warren Chang	Portraiture Using Underpainting and a Limited Palette This one-week course will cover figure and portrait painting, starting with working in a monochrome oil wash moving on to working in a limited oil palette and extended limited… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Max Ginsburg	Seeing Form- Painting a Head from Life in Oil This workshop will concentrate on painting a head from life in a traditional, realistic manner. The objective will be to see the unique form of the model and not to rely on p… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Michael Grimaldi	Oil Painting from Life This course will present critical concepts of visual perception and their application to understanding and developing the preliminary stages of a painting from direct observ… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Qiang Huang	Still Life Oil Painting- Salado, Texas This class will be held at our Salado, Texas location February 21-23, 2009. Qiang’s “fine art” approach to still-life painting will be demonstrated with particul… Read more Feb. 21 - Feb. 23, 2009 - Show schedule
	David Jon Kassan	“Investigating the Rhythm and Emotion of the Modern Portrait” The focus of this course will be on advanced life painting and drawing methods to investigate the underlying rhythm, expression and emotion of the modern portrait. Students wi… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Linda Kyser Smith	The Impressionist Portrait Learn the secret of painting jewel-toned images using only four colors from master colorist Linda Kyser Smith. The course welcomes beginners to professionals and will be taugh… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Geoffrey Laurence	Painting in the Venetian Tradition During this painting course, based on the layering techniques of the Venice school of the 15th and 16th centuries, we will be exploring the possibilities of indirect painting…. Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	David Leffel	Portrait Oil Painting Oil painting, the most forgiving of the painting mediums, appears to be the least understood. This workshop will attempt to explain the basics for the advanced or intermediate… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Leah Lopez	The Beauty of Still Life in Oil Still life painting in oil is a wonderful way to explore the beauty of working from life while learning how to apply paint that adds a supple brilliancy to a painting. Leah w… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Carol Marine	A Painting a Day- Salado, Texas *January 26-30, June 1-5, and September 28-October 2, 2009* *Please note that this class will be held at our new school at Salado, Texas. We hope to have more inform… Read more Jan. 26 - Jan. 30, 2009 - Show schedule
	Juan Martinez	Alla Prima Oil Portrait Sketch Workshop Juan Martinez, Alla Prima Oil Portrait Sketch workshop As the name “alla prima” suggests (it means “at the first” or “at once” in Italian) the workshop will con… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Juan Martinez	Still Life Painting in Oil: A Primer in Color, Texture and Composition Still life is the best arena to learn about color, texture, and rendering in paint. “Rendering” in this case means making things look the way they truly do in nature. That… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Marvin Mattelson	A Classical Approach to Contemporary Portraiture Marvin believes in a logical approach to painting that yields consistent and repeatable results. This logical method acts to improve his students’ ability to realize their c… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Sherrie McGraw	The Still Life in Oil Learning to paint—no matter what the subject matter happens to be—is the same for every subject. And although the commercial element is always quick to create a problem … Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Sherrie McGraw	Painting the Figure and Portrait using Chiaroscuro McGraw says:”Most artists’ desire to paint comes from a generous place, one of wanting to share his or her vision of beauty with another.” This generosity finds fruition when… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Catherine Prescott	The Dramatic Portrait: Working on a Dark Ground The Italian word “chiaroscuro” means light/dark and is employed most strongly in the work of Caravaggio. The Dutch Baroque painters used it as seen in the paintings of Re… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Tony Pro	Painting the Alla Prima Portrait- My Way This workshop will cover the principles of painting the portrait wet into wet in one to two sittings. Getting the essence of the likeness and making a simple statement with pa… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Lynne Riding	From the Field to the Studio -Developing Depth in Landscape Painting ... Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Lynne Riding	Painting in Oils- For the Beginner This class will build confidence in dealing with painterly issues, such as basic mixing, the quality of paint application and the various methods of painting. Glazing, wet int… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Anthony Ryder	Portrait Painting in Oil During this two-week painting workshop, students complete one portrait, following along as Mr. Ryder demonstrates each step of the painting process with two-hour demonstration… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Timothy Stotz	Defining Likeness and Character in Oil This two-week workshop introduces the instructor’s contemporary-classical vocabulary, and examines the visual and natural design concepts that define portraiture: likeness a… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Dan Thompson	Long Pose Portrait Drawing and Painting Workshop In his class, Long Pose Drawing and Painting Workshop, Dan Thompson explores the complexity of the forms of the face built upon a sense of the body’s pose and character. T… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Jean-Paul Tibbles	Oil Painting Workshop This class will be an informal, four-day workshop with Jean-Paul Tibbles. In the mornings, Jean-Paul will demonstrate his technique, and in the afternoons students will paint … Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	John C. Traynor	Creating Light and Atmosphere in Still Life and Portrait Painting John C Traynor is known for the sense of light and atmosphere he creates in his paintings. In this week long class of still life painting and/or portrait painting students wil… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Michelle Tully	Portrait Painting February Program – Portrait Drawing and Painting This month-long workshop is a rare opportunity for beginners, serious students and emerging artists to study portraiture w… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Michelle Tully	Exploring Form and Color in Portraiture This two-week workshop is an opportunity for beginners, serious students and emerging artists to benefit from Michelle Tully’s daily critique and lectures on portraiture, whil… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Michelle Tully	An Introduction to Still Life Painting- EVENING CLASS This one-week class is a unique opportunity for art students of all levels to investigate the principles of light, color, form and composition in still life painting with the … Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Yuqi Wang	Mastering Color and Composition with Oil Mr. Wang’s autumn 2007 visit to Santa Fe will be divided into three sessions: four weeks of portrait painting, a week of landscape painting, and four weeks of advanced portrait painting. Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Yuqi Wang	Mastering Color and Composition: Landscapes In this Landscape class, Mr. Wang will accompany students to various painting sites in Santa Fe where he will paint alongside participants, give short demonstrations, and talk… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Yuqi Wang	Mastering Color and Composition: Advanced Portraiture In this class for advanced students, Yuqi will divide his time between painting from the model alongside students and giving individual critiques. Students will be working on… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Yuqi Wang	Mastering Color and Composition: Portraits During this portrait class, Yuqi will do a demonstration that addresses composition and the initial decisions needed to begin a painting. Throughout the rest of the course, Yu… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Rick Weaver	Master Portrait Painting Intensive Using the Master methodology of separating drawing and color as its base, this course challenges students to reinvision their own painting process by studying the underlying a… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Anita Louise West	Landscape in Oil: Outdoors and In Learn how to gather images through photography, drawing and painting outside plein air. Then bring these into the studio to do larger more impactful work from them. Your wor… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Dawn Whitelaw	Capturing the Essence of a Portrait in Oil The class will center on the experience of painting from life. Key points of emphasis will be on drawing, massing in values, edges, and color harmony using a three-color palette. Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Henry Wingate	Exploring the Development of an Oil Portrait The five-day workshop will concentrate on painting a head and shoulders portrait from life. Each day will consist of two three-hour sessions of painting from a model. Primary focus will be on color, value, form and drawing. Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Henry Wingate	Still Life in Oil ... Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Ryan Wurmser	Plein Air Landscape Painting Workshop I Painting a field study (plein air painting) is an exercise in observing natural phenomena and then organizing a composition based on a visual concept that supports it. The pai… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Ryan Wurmser	Plein Air Landscape Painting Workshop II Painting a field study (plein air painting) is an exercise in observing natural phenomena and then organizing a composition based on a visual concept that supports it. The pai… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Ryan Wurmser	Plein Air Landscape Painting Workshop III Painting a field study (plein air painting) is an exercise in observing natural phenomena and then organizing a composition based on a visual concept that supports it. The pai… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Shuqiao Zhou	Portrait Painting in the Russian Tradition This workshop follows in the continuous academic tradition of painting that was the hallmark of Russian art training at the turn of the last century. The foundational premise … Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.

Pastel

	Judith Carducci	Still Life in Pastel Judy Carducci’s five day pastel workshop will include lecture and demonstration each morning, followed by a student painting sessions with a critique at each student’s ind… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Judith Carducci	Pastel Portraiture from Life Judy Carducci’s Pastel Portraiture from life will cover a variety of topics over the three day duration of the class. The basic outline of the class will be to cover certain… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Judith Carducci	Pastel Portraiture from Life- 5 day Judy Carducci’s five day pastel workshop will include lecture and demonstration each morning, followed by a student painting sessions with a critique at each student’s ind… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	D LaRue Mahlke	Painting the Moods of the Landscape in Pastel ~ Outdoors and In Studio - Salado, Texas *March 7-9, 2009* The sky sets the stage for the landscape; it is the light which keys all that is below it. Day One of this workshop will cover how to block in and … Read more Mar. 7 - Mar. 9, 2009 - Show schedule

Pastel and Mixed Media

Robert Carsten

Paint Great!-Concept and Process Equals Content
This exciting, intensive workshop is designed for all levels working in any two-dimensional medium who wish to work with a process that inspires the development of ideas, and … Read more

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Traditional and Water Soluble Oil

McCreery Jordan

Still Life Painting in Oil
McCreery’s still lives are, above all, studies in beauty. Whether or not a particular still life has a narrative attached to it, all of the elements in her still lives are i… Read more

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Watercolor

	Jane Angelhart	A Direct Approach to Watercolor Portraits This weeklong workshop is a comprehensive class on painting a portrait in watercolor. Beginners to advanced levels will learn warm-up exercises … Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Lisa Coddington	Botanical Watercolor II Lisa Coddington will introduce students to this beautiful art form. Classes combine demonstrations of watercolor glazing technique and reviewing traditional reproductions t… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Lisa Coddington	Botanical Watercolor Lisa Coddington will introduce students to this beautiful art form. Classes combine demonstrations of watercolor glazing technique and reviewing traditional reproductions t… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Lisa Coddington	Botanical Watercolor III Lisa Coddington will introduce students to this beautiful art form. Classes combine demonstrations of watercolor glazing technique and reviewing traditional reproductions t… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Jeanne Hyland	The Costumed Figure in Watercolor A fun and challenging class to explore working from live costumed and propped models. It’s more realistic today to paint from clothed subjects. We’ll set up a different mo… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Jeanne Hyland	Portrait in Watercolor Designed to expose artists to skills, strategies and multiple watercolor techniques for painting from a live portrait subject, this class will add to your “tool chest” for… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Jeanne Hyland	Still Life in Watercolor Capture the essence of your special subject with new skills and strategies by increasing your “bag of tricks”. The class explores the materials, techniques, spontaneity an… Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Paul McCormack	Watercolor Portrait Workshop Mr. McCormack demonstrates all the techniques and principles needed to execute a watercolor portrait with a luminous glow. Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.
	Stan Miller	Painting the Landscape in Watercolor Even though we will be painting on location every day, the role of finding, creating and designing a good painting will have first priority throughout this workshop. Where … Read more This class has no available sessions. Please email us if you are interested.