Sight-Size Intensive
with Julie BeckAugust 22-23: 2-Day Online Workshop, 9:30am - 3pm
Lunch 12-12:30pm
To see is the student’s first and last concern. Without a well-trained eye a student can never rise above mediocrity. If there ever was a secret of the old masters, it surely was their extraordinary ability to see.
– Richard F. Lack
Wethersfield Academy for the Arts
The Academy embraces several art disciplines where students, working directly with professional artists, are guided and encouraged to develop their unique gifts and talents. We provide opportunities in art classes, workshops, and art lectures for the novice through the professional to benefit from study, apprenticeship, exhibition and performance, and to promote the arts in the best classical tradition for enjoyment and inspiration.
We encourage all artists to hone their drawing abilities as this is the beginning of your skill set as an artist. Thus, our Charles Bargue inspired classical drawing classes are a way to develop drawing exactly what you see; your sight-size understanding. The process requires patience but is rewarding. Join our studio community in developing this knowledge.
CALL TO ARTISTS: Please see the Prospectus below for our 2020 Fine Art Challenge Competition for a total of $5000 in prizes. The Challenge is to paint the theme "A Sense of Place". Please register early.
Community Building Event
Best Lemonade Stand Sign Contest
Figure Drawing
with Tyler BerryAug. 27-30; 4-Day Workshop 9:30 am-4:30 pm
Textures and Special Effects in Oil Painting
with Julie BeckSept. 11, One-Day Online Demo 9:30am - 3:30pm
Lunch 12:30 - 12:30
The Tonalist Landscape in Oils
with Dennis SheehanSept. 19-22, 2020; 4-Day Workshop, 9:30am - 4:30pm
Still Life in Oils on Copper
with Ben Shamback5-Day Workshop 9:30 am-4:30 pm
Portrait Alla Prima
with Sandra Sanchez3-Day Workshop 9:30 am-4:30 pm
Plein Air: Bringing the Outside In
with Paul Batch3-Day Workshop 9:30 am-4:30 pm
Please note this workshop is being moved to March 2021
Still Life Workshop in Oils
with Carlo Russo4-Day Workshop 9:30 am-4:30 pm
Please note this workshop is being moved to Sept. 2021
Gift Certificates for Art Classes or Workshops
Events
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Submit August
Call to Artists
2020 FINE ART CHALLENGE COMPETITION & SHOW
Theme: A Sense of Place
Awards: $5000 total
August 30, 2020 deadline
Application (Download PDF)
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June
A Sense of Place
pmA Conversation with Peter Trippi, Zoey Frank, Arthur Haywood, Richard Scott and Betty Standish
with Co-Hosts: Betty Standish and Peter Trippi
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