Showing posts with label atelier. Show all posts
Showing posts with label atelier. Show all posts

Monday, July 10, 2023

 Here are some recent works: (If you would like a more frequent updates, please see my Instagram under my name, or my FB under my name, where I am much more active).


"The Empty Vase," by Sandra Galda, 18 x 24 inches, oil on canvas


I won the First Prize at the Honor's Show At the St. Augustine Art Association, 
St. Augustine, Florida.



                                     "The Kitchen Bouquet," by Sandra Galda, 24 x 30 inches. 




"The Daily Grind," by Sandra Galda, oil on canvas, 20" x 24"


Thursday, August 27, 2020

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

Friday, January 10, 2020

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





Wednesday, February 13, 2019

All's well in the Atelier in the High School at Bradford Christian Academy!

Hello!
 Have not been keeping up with posting here, so here are a few pics of ongoing work in the atelier, we are in our 4th year! 
We are the only approved atelier that takes place in a high school, or any school as far as I know. We are certified for a second year by the Art Renewal Center. 
more later! 









Thursday, January 25, 2018

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!


Visit again soon! 


Wednesday, October 18, 2017

High School Atelier in its third year!

The high school atelier is in its third year! 

The atelier class is held all year long during regular school hours, as a class in Bradford Christian Academy,(http://bradfordchristianacademy.org/). This is an amazing school, check them out. I am so pleased to be able to teach this subject. The results are awesome! 
Check out https://www.facebook.com/SandraGaldaArt/ to see what we are up to!




We began the year again with some Bargue work.


We are just finishing some value studies, one above. In our next projects we will be leaving sight size and working more relationally, using comparative strategies. 
More later!




Tuesday, April 5, 2016

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




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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

In process: Running Cast drawing exercise

In Process: "Running Cast" drawing exercise by Sandra Galda

Here is today's work on the running cast project.  More to do on this one, I am learning lots!  I stand on a taped on "X" on the floor and wear a dedicated pair of shoes that stay in the studio so I can stand in the exact spot and exact height, stare at the cast, then walk up to the paper and draw.  Repeat almost endlessly,try to reprduce image perfectly......  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. Thanks for looking, tell me what you think-leave a comment! Paintings by Sandra Galda are copyrighted. Scroll down this page for more art!