"The proceeds from The Pasadena Showcase House of Design and the donations we receive allow us to fund three annual music programs, plus award gifts and grants to other nonprofit organizations that provide musically oriented programs including music therapy, music education, scholarships and the underwriting of concerts."
Here is a link to the Pasadena Showcase House: http://ping.fm/X5YLp
Here is a link to Rey Bustos' website:
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Link to Rey Bustos' Class at LAAFA: http://www.laafa.org/sessions/classes_details.php?id=63&class_id=2914&cat_id=3
(His book, Rey's Anatomy Notes from a Teacher, is available through LAAFA.)
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The creative process is inherently contemplative and naturally benefits from meditation. Meditation enhances not only the creative process but also the viewing process in specific ways—it helps to synchronize mind and body, right and left hemispheres of the brain, and our intuitive and intellectual abilities. The mindfulness and awareness practices found in meditation lead us to rest in our senses so we can glimpse things as they are and enjoy genuine spontaneity and pure, unselfconscious, expression. They also dissolve creative blockages and reveal the source of creativity and inspiration. This one day seminar will teach meditation and offer specific contemplative exercises and activities such as non-objective brush and ink painting designed to further awaken your creative and viewing processes. Instructor: Steven Saitzyk. Adjunct Professor of Humanities and Design Sciences, Art Center College of Design. International Director of Shambhala Art, a nonprofit arts education program designed to integrate meditation into the creative process. See: www.shambhalaart.org. He has completed a Buddhist Seminary and has practiced and taught meditation internationally for more than thirty years.
As a veteran artist and fine arts instructor, Nathan Fowkes has spent many years studying and teaching the use of charcoal as a drawing medium for portaiture. This workshop will be an instructive overview of the materials, techniques, and concepts for succesfull portrait drawing, it will include:
The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire explores the parallels between two great empires—the Aztec and the Roman. Celebrating the 2010 bicentennial of Mexican independence, the exhibition illuminates a dialogue between the New and Old Worlds that has shaped the modern contours of Mexico.
This focused exhibition examines just one facet of his prodigious talents: his activity in the field of sculpture. Ambitious and detailed plans for enormous equestrian monuments, which were never realized, can only be understood through his drawings. These fragile records are made even more precious by the fact that no work of sculpture can be definitively attributed to Leonardo.
This class will provide the student with a systematic approach to modeling a life-size portrait in clay. The use of calipers and triangulation will be emphasized in order to achieve an accurate portrait of the model. The use of photography and its application as reference for portraiture will be discussed.
#1001 - Basic Drawing Fundamentals with Eric Pedersen Saturday, 1:30pm - 4:30pm
This course introduces the fundamentals of drawing. How to hold a charcoal pencil, simple shapes, volumes, c-curves, s-curves, straights, edges, 4-value system, thumbnails, introductory composition, light sources, core shadows, reflective lights, are all covered in this course. This is an excellent course for students with little to no formal drawing training at all, or those wanting a refresher course in the basics.
#2002 - Basic Painting Fundamentals with Eric Pedersen Saturday, 1:30pm-4:30pm
Whether you have never painted before or consider yourself a more experienced painter, this beginner course is designed to teach you a simple (or perhaps new) way of painting. From the most basic techniques (how to stand, how to mix paint etc.), to descriptions of materials, and to more advanced ideas of comparative measurements, and color harmony this class serves as a guide to basic principles of painting. Based on a method of direct observation the student will begin to understand how to use simple two dimensional shapes (triangles, squares, rectangles, etc.) to create an illusion of a three dimensional object.
#1243 - Academic Portrait Drawing with Grigor Chilingarian Monday, 2pm-5pm
In this course we will be focusing on understanding the construction of the head. The class consists of five two-week poses. In each class we will apply what we have learned in the previous with additional information and goals. We will cover some anatomy of the features of the face, values, and forms.
These classes haven't started yet, so there is still time to sign up:
#2200 - Caricature Portrait Drawing and Painting with John Quinn Thursday, 7pm-10pm
Portrait caricature can be achieved through the graphic exaggeration or distortion of the subject’s face. In this class we will attempt to go a bit deeper by using drawing to investigate what is unique in each person’s face. Students will learn to develop caricature through an understanding of forms of the human face, the importance of balancing the relationships of forms and the impact this has on the operation of opposing forces in the portrait. Students will learn to use exaggeration to demonstrate the importance of the forms following their function. The class will begin with drawing and progress to painting (week 6) in a medium of the student’s choice. Drawing exercises will range from 30 seconds to 20 minutes, Painting exercises will be 3 hours.
#2390 - Alla Prima Figure Painting with Tony Pro, Thursday, 10am-1pm
