We have moved to Florida!

Hi all, 

A post to update my news! We have moved to Florida! I now will be teaching in my new state! I have been busy painting and reorganizing the studio and its teaching activities. I love the weather and the beautiful landscapes, seascapes, trees, flowers and weather! I have many folks here who are very eager to learn the Boston School painting I teach and practice. I am still an approved Art Renewal Center atelier, https://www.artrenewal.org/Atelier/Index/10172 and I hope to have images soon of my teaching activities in the sunny south! 

Please check back as the fall semester gets underway. Please also be patient, as the pandemic restrictions have affected all of us in our business!

Thanks, 

Sandra

New Year! Art Renewal Approved again!

Happy New Year!

Looking forward to another year of drawing and painting! I enjoy my atelier teaching and work, and I just love painting! I can loose track of hours when painting, I am happily lost in the work, a certain sign that this is my passion!  I often look and the clock and am surprised I have passed so much time at painting, having thought I had only begun.

My atelier has been Art Renewal center approved again and our seal of approval is below! I highly recommend visiting their website clicking HERE, and view my atelier page clicking HERE!

Below are a few picture of an oil painting this year from my atelier. I especially love (my student has not completed it yet, but I love the process) :

And here is an interesting article to read: HERE.

That's all for now, thanks for visiting! ---Sandra

November updates!

Fall Atelier is in session, you can track my students and my work at the Art Renewal Center at this link as usual:

https://www.artrenewal.org/ateliers/atelier-of-sandra-galda-in-the-high-school-at-bradford-christian-academy/10172

Here are two works of my own, almost finished!

Brazilian Black Pot and Rolls, by Sandra Galda 22 x 28 inches oil on canvas

Pink Peonies in Old Silver, by Sandra Galda, 22 x 28 inches, oil on canvas

January at the Atelier in the High School at Bradford Christian School

January at the

Atelier in the High School

at Bradford Christian School

Happy New Year! 

If you have been following this blog, you know that I am in my third year of teaching atelier in a private high-school. I've been sharing with the students traditional academic and Boston School training.  It has been a joy to see students employ time-tested atelier lessons and see great results in their artwork. None of the students have had any formal atelier training before they enter the class. It is amazing how effective standard atelier exercises can transform a young student's art, even from the first exercise.

Below I will share a few of this years results. 

I am also excited that our Atelier in the High School at Bradford Christian Academy has been accepted as an approved atelier school, by the Art Renewal Center!!!!!  

We are told that we have the distinction of being the first atelier ever held in a high school. 

Enjoy some of the pictures by our students! 

A copy a master work project, using a Robert Douglas Hunter painting in black and white. 

 Charcoal cast drawings.

copy a masterwork sketch

color spotting exercise

My profile picture!

https://youtu.be/zEqvyKgks4o

https://youtu.be/zEqvyKgks4o

Visit again soon! 

The Value of Value Spotting

 The Value of Value Spotting

                     In my high school Atelier I devised a warm up exercise to engage the students in an exercise that seems to be driving home the value of value spotting.  It is one of many critical elements in the creation of a sound image. It is part of our craft, which when executed well, attracts a viewer to your painting from across the room.

                    Before my students begin painting their still lifes each session, they must take turns working on their timed ongoing value sketch. It is run like a game and it is fun. They are translating, from a printed full color masterwork, a value sketch based on the spotting of values the master artist used.  It is refining their recognition of a good distribution of value, and helping them to distill out of the full color image the value relationships present.  I am hoping this exercise will carry over to how they explain values in their own full color paintings when they compose and look at their still lifes, "..four times for every one time," that they put the brush to canvas!
-Sandra Galda

If interested in purchasing any of my available art on this blog, contact my email address sgalda@aol.com or use the PayPal button if included in the post. Small works are signed in full on the back of the painting. All works priced and sold without framing unless by special arrangement with buyer. Thanks for looking, tell me what you think-leave a comment! Paintings by Sandra Galda are copyrighted. Scroll down this page for more art!

Updates, teaching, magazine article

 Since the last post I have some news on my art activities! 

-In May my very first atelier student completed  cast bust drawing. This adult student stated he had never had any previous formal art training.  He came to draw a couple hours about 2-3x a month after his day job, for about 7 months.  Here is a picture of his completed charcoal cast drawing:

July found me on an almost two week trip to Italy with my husband, Pompeii, Naples, Rome, Florence, and Venice.  I saw so much great art and historic points of interest.

In September I began teaching at a local private prep/high school Atelier Studies and Art and Design/Theater set class.  Below are four of the many students I am teaching at the high school.

In November my husband and I spent 18 days traveling working and sightseeing in Melbourne, Australia, and London, England. I saw so much art and points of interest my eyes were sore.  What a
wonderful year.

Finally, I must mention the Magazine article I was included in for the November issue of Northshore Magazine. They wrote an article on food and art and some local artists who have painted food in many of their paintings! 

  Its been a great year.  I hope to post more often, life has been so busy.  I am thrilled to be teaching my high school students the Boston School of painting, and will post some of their great work soon.  I am still taking in some training under Paul Ingbretson's guidance at Ingbretson Studios, he is such a great artist and teacher!
more to come,
Sandra Galda

If interested in purchasing any of my available art on this blog, contact my email address sgalda@aol.com or use the PayPal button if included in the post. Small works are signed in full on the back of the painting. All works priced and sold without framing unless by special arrangement with buyer. Thanks for looking, tell me what you think-leave a comment! Paintings by Sandra Galda are copyrighted. Scroll down this page for more art!