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

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! 

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!

Some of my student's artwork---School's out for the summer!

Some of my student artwork

from my high school atelier :

 

All of these student works, except for a few by an 11th grader,  are created by 9th and 10th graders!  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was very impressed with the student work and their efforts at learning to see and use the strategies of the Boston School and academy style instruction to capture the visual image. It was hard to squeeze down the excellent atelier experience I enjoyed for approx. 6 years at Ingbretson Studio with my teacher Paul Ingbretson.........but the kids did get a taste of the training.  The last shot is of me in one of the rooms.

Now that school is out, I hope to work more on some of my works in process!
--Sandra



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Beatrix's Roses by Sandra Galda (Juried into NAA Regional show)

"Beatrix's Roses" by Sandra Galda

12x13 inches oil on linen

This oil painting was juried into the Newburyport Art Association's 2014 Regional Juried Show, April 25-May 25, 2014. I spent many long hours on this one, one of many exercises I have worked on in the Ingbretson Studios where I am training in the Boston School of painting.  

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Oil sketches and updates

 

Brown Paper study "Beatrix's Roses" by Sandra Galda

 

"Beatrix's Roses" black and white oil study by Sandra Galda

8"x10" stretched canvas

 

Outdoor with Ingbretson Studios  -my setup and small oil

 Merrimack River oil sketch by Sandra Galda

8"x10" cradled hardboard

The past month or so has been very busy and I have not been producing small daily works to post.  Instead, here is some of the artwork I have been doing. I am working on a still life following and learning the process taught at Ingbretson studios, it takes much longer. I painted the small landscape sketch (riverscape?) a couple weeks ago. It was an outdoor painting day at the studio, many of the students participated and we had beautiful weather. I took a good picture of it with my camera, maybe I will finish it someday.

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In show at the Guild: "Peter's Garden Lunch"

 "Peter's Garden Lunch" by Sandra Galda

16"x20" oil on masonite

I am very happy this painting I completed last summer (2010)  was just juried into a show at The Guild of Boston Artists, I delivered it to the gallery yesterday! The show,  the Annual Regional Painting Competition for non-artist members, ( I am only a student member);  runs October 1 - 23, 2011.  I feel the excellent training offered with Paul Ingbretson at his studios, Ingbretson Studios, is helping me to produce much better art. I hope for even better results in my art the longer I study under Paul's wonderful guidance!  If interested in purchasing this, or 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!

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!

In Process: "Tea With Foxy Whiskered Gentleman" and "Summer Snack" and a video on art

In Process: "Tea With Foxy Whiskered Gentleman" by Sandra Galda

8"x10" oil on gessoboard

A peek into my next larger painting!  This is what a painting looks like after the first few passes of the brush  :) Below is a daily painting with a paypal button and a first of 4 videos that are on utube now concerning beauty in art.  Many of the sentiments reflect my attitudes towards art today. I am learning to make beautiful art at the Imgbretson Studios. (scroll down to click pause on my music playing widget if you want to veiw this video here on my blog without the background music)

"Summer Snack" by Sandra Galda

6"x6" oil on raymar camvas board

If interested in purchasing this, or 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!