NON-4-Year-Schools: Howabout Daily Workshops, Instructional Institutions, Ateliers?

[Nomnom De Guerre]

Hi! :(

I don't need no numbers or none of that other fancy book learnin'
Books is better for lickin' than readin' I says

But when I stick a pencil or brush onto some paper and wiggle it and guess what came out: a sadness mistake :(
then I think:

what I need is a year or two or three of nothing but daily art instruction

but I search and search
and find nothing but art programs at colleges


But then you came into my life
stroking your silky beard
cuddling me against your belly as it pulsated with incessant gurgling

and as i stuck my nose daintily in your bellybutton i asked,

"So where do I go then, if all I want is art? I'll move there! Just tell me. And not twice a day out of week, but every every every day?, until I am Raphael. What kind of places do that?"

locally there is nothing that can possibly fill a schedule like that.

the colors i don't know how to mix vortex in the tears i shed over empty canvas

i hate pink lemonade but like regular lemonade what is the deal with that do you think that makes me homophobic :(

Ok bye :)

i love you :assspank:

[Elwell]

You can start with the Art Renewal Center's list of ateliers (http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/atelier_list.asp). I'm not a fan of everything the ARC does, but their school list isn't as doctrinaire as the rest of the site.

[Maxine Schacker]

You will also find 3 and 4 year programs still offered by art schools that give diplomas rather than degrees. These schools will offer full immersion in studio art. Many of them have posted on this thread...as I remember, there's one in NYC, one in Philadelphia, several in California.
Good luck!

[Nomnom De Guerre]

Thank you both you are nice people :geekg:

Wow, so many at that list of Ateliers. :) I will take forever to pick one.

I will search around some more for those schools you mention, Maxine.

I read about one called the Gnomon School, but it seems like maybe it's more for people who already know how to draw and paint and just want to transfer that to digital/3D stuff - I don't know. :(
Is that the kind of place you're talking about?

Actually as I reread their website, someplace like that but with an orientation towards fine art, illustration and supplementary experimentation with media and design would be exactly like what I'm after.

But just because I've thought it up in my brainmeats doesn't mean that such a place could really exist. :(


I've found one called "the Society of Figurative Arts" in Dallas, run by Mentler - the work produced is so cool! I'd love to go there. But then I read their website and it seems like they only have a few classes per week. :( I need something daily. As-close-to from 9 AM to 9 PM every single day as possible. :(

[Nomnom De Guerre]

I found another cool-looking place:

The Entertainment Art Academy (i have some books by the guy who runs it, Matessi)

but :oneye:
it looks like they've been closed for a few years >:|

but it seems like a place like what i'm after did exist at one point :shrug:

[Maxine Schacker]

They still exist! Go through the old threads and you'll find the schools I was thinking of...I know there's a really good one in NY (maybe in Long Island City) that teaches Russian Academic method.

Where do you live?

[Nomnom De Guerre]

Hi, thanks for the reply!

Entertainment Art Academy still exists? I went to the webpage and they said that they're not in session - as of nearly two years ago. :( Is there some other way I've got to get in touch with them?

I'll keep looking through the old threads but there are so many - it'll be a while. :lounge:

I live in Melbourne Florida. :\

[Nomnom De Guerre]

I don't expect that anybody should care, but I'm just in a mood right now and the anonymity of the internet means that I have no reason not to clamor shamelessly for attention if it might be even slightly helpful:

looking at good art makes me want to die because i can't do it. i need comprehensive and intensive instruction starting before the end of the year or i will go insane and not in the fun way but in the whoops-i-ate-my-fingers-off way

i'm getting nowhere working out of books at home :(
i've got to find someplace to go and learn and when i search - google, the forum, whatever - i don't get any place that seems to be anything like what i'm after.

nobody here has any ideas, nobody knows about anything?


:patriot::mouse::patriot:

if i die then all the shoes i bought will have been in vain what a tragedy

[Elwell]

The highest concentration of the sort of schools your looking for are in New York (because it's the historic art/media capital) and Southern California (because it's the entertainment capital). In NY, there's the Art Students League, The Grand Central Academy, Bridgeview School of Art, etc, and continuing ed/evening classes at SVA, Pratt, and Parsons. In SoCal there's Watts Atelier, The Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art, Studio Encinitas, the California Art Institute, etc.
There are plenty of good programs elsewhere, but those two areas will offer the most choices. Of course, cost of living is also higher in those areas.

[Nomnom De Guerre]

well howdy everybody :(
:)

thanks so much for all the great suggestions!

Okay, I've checked up on most of these links.
Of those which do not have portfolio requirements (LAAFA, ASLNYC, et. al.) which do you think most consistently present instruction in life drawing which has a "constructivist" focus, like for example Vilppu's style? I don't want to go somewhere that's going to have me drawing grids and copying what I see square-by-square, or anything overly academic. I'm hoping that I can find instruction in drawing which will be applicable to animation.

I've looked through the faculty/student galleries to get an answer to this question but it's hard to tell from finished works :(

I might've missed a good option somewhere in there, but right now it's looking like either LAAFA or ASLNYC are the best bets.

Okay thanks bye :( :) :( :) :( :)