16th – 27th January 2012
Atelier Canova is please to announce Andrea J Smith will be conducting painting workshops in Melbourne, Australia during January 2012. The Nicholas Building workshops will run for 10 days over two weeks and consist of two parts – still life painting in the morning and portrait painting in the afternoon. Students may choose to do either or both of the classes offered. On the first day of the course, there will be an introductory materials lecture and slideshow of the history of each genre on the first day of the course.
Students of all skill levels are encouraged to participate, although all applicants are requested to send a brief CV and a portfolio of five images to assist with the structuring and the layout of the class. Student numbers will be kept low – a maximum of five students per still life class, and a maximum of four students for the portrait class.
All materials are included in the tuition cost, excluding brushes and soaps (for cleaning brushes).
For further information about the course structure and materials provided to you please refer to the brochure. For enrollment or more information please send an email to info@ateliercanova.com.
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Atelier Canova is proud to announce it will be hosting an exhibition and sale of works by Andrea J. Smith on Saturday May 28th. The exhibition will include: still lifes, portraits, landscapes & cityscapes, figure painting and drawings.
There will also be a display of work by some of our students, and the opportunity for visitors to learn more about the school and our courses.
The gallery will be open to the public from 11.00 until 18.00.
Examples of some of the work that will be exhibited can be found on our facebook page: www.facebook.com/Atelier-canova
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I’m proud to be part of this year’s Artists For Africa exhibition. Held at Oakham Gallery in London, this will be the second time I’ve been involved in this event. This time I will have around ten paintings, mostly still lifes and a portrait painted specifically for the show. So please come along and show your support, the opening reception is 6.30pm-8pm on the 23rd February 2010.
Oakham Gallery
27 Bury Street
London
Artist's for Africa exhibition
I thought I’d share this painting with you. It is a painting that I did when I first moved to Rome after the studio started to take shape and my school was getting on its feet. I guess I felt like I still hadn’t settled in quite yet and I still had one foot in America and one foot in Italy. Anyway, it is a painting of me and my little buddy Frank, swimming along together. No prizes for guessing who is who… Frank is the cute little blue one, always by my side!!
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The original plan was to send it to London for my show in February but now I can’t part with it…
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A few months ago American Artist Magazine came to visit me in the studio to follow up on a limited colour palette method. View the article online here.
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The butcher gave Frank a bone and I put down on a tea-towel so he wouldn’t dirty up everything. But I guess he wasn’t interested in eating it right there and then so he tried to hide it. He spent 40 minutes (while I was sitting at the computer) pushing his mattress, the blankets, his towel and the tea-towel into a mini mountain so that no-one could find it!!!
Poor baby… he needs a back yard! Or a sandpit in my lounge room!!
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Welcome to my first blog! I’ll be posting information about Atelier Canova classes, workshops, painting tours to the country, and all things related to art and living in Rome. Please feel free to comment and discuss things with me, or even suggest things you’d like to know about.
Regards,
Andrea
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