ron lemen
February 12th, 2007, 01:44 PM
Hello again. I have been bad and snuck off again before giving thanks to the CA people, and getting back to anyone who has asked in the past about our school.
We, Vanessa and I both thank you guys at CA for the workshop and the great times again, I just wish we had more time to have more great times together. Next time...
Vanessa and I both started our studio in need of moving forward with our lives, doing what we love to do and in our own environment. We have the time we need to do our freelance work effectively, and teach the classes the way we know best to teach them. Studio2ndstreet.com to check our current line up. We are growing every day and we are affiliating ourselves with some interesting places...that coming soon...
As with any art community, as Encinitas is trying to become, the more diversity there is and more quality art there is, the community can only grow and thrive within its artistic richness. We are definitely more and more about the community as we develop our studio/atelier...I would like not to call it a school since we offer no degrees. We will at one point offer a certificate of some kind, we just dont know what catagory yet that will fall under. We have yet to talk with a few individuals first before we make any sort of announcement of this sort.
We do student shows as often as we can to show the public our student works and their progress., and we try showing them around our community as well as other local art communities.
We have a developing program rooted in what would be deemed the classic atelier system, although I have added quite a bit to this system, splitting the drawing into two parts, drawing from life for foundation and what you would call fine art, and drawing the figure for illustration. The training is very different in both, but grounded in the same philosophies and tool sets, just, one exploits certain parameters, while the other exploits others...
My wife and I have designed a system that not only breaks down how to see, but how to use your tools and the broad scope of how those tools work, from the old masters up through to modernism and the idea of how the canvas is explored through the working process, the tools, and how the thinking or the philosophy of the movement created the spark for what influenced their choices in the workings of the tools, as well as how technology has influenced the arts and the artists.
We have classes in both traditional and digital mediums. We are moving towards working with a few companies, I am hoping in a sponsorship sort of way, giving us a chance to show off the latest of the mediums we are teaching through. We do not have a 3D program or sculpting program, although there is some thoughts in the far future to involve these curriculums into our system.
I have a 10 month cycle that is broken up periodically with workshops that we have with outside artists. In the near future we plan on having JP Targete, Bill Perkins, David Coleman, Steven Kleopher, Yimaukun. Beyond that, our list is rich and deep with amazing artists coming to offer their knowledge and teach us what they can within a contained amount of time. We are picking great artists who can teach very well, and who are at the top of the game in the working industries. THis part I will expand upon as I talk with a few others, in hopes of making this an amazing part of our program.
We have contacts with job placing in our growing client base. We work in the illustration and conceptual fields, as well as show in the galleries around Southern California. We help place our students who are very serious about their future in art, in the field they are working towards. We have workshops in the nuts and bolts of what you need to have and know to get into the industries, and our working experience is very beneficial in our teaching of the professional classes, the illustration, sequential story telling and the conceptual design classes we offer.
We have an amazing student base who all help, support and kick each other in the butt to produce, and study, as often as they can together in groups. I have found that to be a big part of what makes our studio very different, although the artists in training are competing for the same jobs, they are very supportive of one another and the work they each do. THat is the sign of a mature artist, and we have a great group of them.
There are apartments near by, within a mile of the studio, rent is moderate to fair for living, but that is in So-CaL standards that tend to be high anyway. Roommates are a good thing to have and if you can go in together on a place, it obviously saves you in cost.
Our costs are reasonable for our classes, most all of them are $175 per, that is an 8 week/3 hr class or a 4 week/6 hour class. We break between every 8 week session for 2 weeks, 1 week is a makeup week, the other is for instructor sanity. Then after my 10 month cycle we break for 4 weeks as well as December we break for the full month, but, during Thursday evenings we have a $15 open figure drawing workshop, lately it has been elaborate costumes, although we switch it up with nude, quicksketch, etc.
I will be teaching night painting workshops, and digital quick sketching on location workshops throughout the summer, at different on site locations, that should be pretty interesting. Vanessa is doing materials workshops for oil painters periodically throughout the summer, and again, we have the incredible lineup of fine art, art history, illustrator, gallery owners coming to do workshops and seminars for you, the art public. Anyone can come to those, we are not that private or exclusive.
Check out our site at studio2ndstreet.com
and if you have any questions, I will be back once a week to check up on this thread, and post some of our recent student works when I get them shot and transfered to the my HD....:)
Thanks for reading through....
Ron
We, Vanessa and I both thank you guys at CA for the workshop and the great times again, I just wish we had more time to have more great times together. Next time...
Vanessa and I both started our studio in need of moving forward with our lives, doing what we love to do and in our own environment. We have the time we need to do our freelance work effectively, and teach the classes the way we know best to teach them. Studio2ndstreet.com to check our current line up. We are growing every day and we are affiliating ourselves with some interesting places...that coming soon...
As with any art community, as Encinitas is trying to become, the more diversity there is and more quality art there is, the community can only grow and thrive within its artistic richness. We are definitely more and more about the community as we develop our studio/atelier...I would like not to call it a school since we offer no degrees. We will at one point offer a certificate of some kind, we just dont know what catagory yet that will fall under. We have yet to talk with a few individuals first before we make any sort of announcement of this sort.
We do student shows as often as we can to show the public our student works and their progress., and we try showing them around our community as well as other local art communities.
We have a developing program rooted in what would be deemed the classic atelier system, although I have added quite a bit to this system, splitting the drawing into two parts, drawing from life for foundation and what you would call fine art, and drawing the figure for illustration. The training is very different in both, but grounded in the same philosophies and tool sets, just, one exploits certain parameters, while the other exploits others...
My wife and I have designed a system that not only breaks down how to see, but how to use your tools and the broad scope of how those tools work, from the old masters up through to modernism and the idea of how the canvas is explored through the working process, the tools, and how the thinking or the philosophy of the movement created the spark for what influenced their choices in the workings of the tools, as well as how technology has influenced the arts and the artists.
We have classes in both traditional and digital mediums. We are moving towards working with a few companies, I am hoping in a sponsorship sort of way, giving us a chance to show off the latest of the mediums we are teaching through. We do not have a 3D program or sculpting program, although there is some thoughts in the far future to involve these curriculums into our system.
I have a 10 month cycle that is broken up periodically with workshops that we have with outside artists. In the near future we plan on having JP Targete, Bill Perkins, David Coleman, Steven Kleopher, Yimaukun. Beyond that, our list is rich and deep with amazing artists coming to offer their knowledge and teach us what they can within a contained amount of time. We are picking great artists who can teach very well, and who are at the top of the game in the working industries. THis part I will expand upon as I talk with a few others, in hopes of making this an amazing part of our program.
We have contacts with job placing in our growing client base. We work in the illustration and conceptual fields, as well as show in the galleries around Southern California. We help place our students who are very serious about their future in art, in the field they are working towards. We have workshops in the nuts and bolts of what you need to have and know to get into the industries, and our working experience is very beneficial in our teaching of the professional classes, the illustration, sequential story telling and the conceptual design classes we offer.
We have an amazing student base who all help, support and kick each other in the butt to produce, and study, as often as they can together in groups. I have found that to be a big part of what makes our studio very different, although the artists in training are competing for the same jobs, they are very supportive of one another and the work they each do. THat is the sign of a mature artist, and we have a great group of them.
There are apartments near by, within a mile of the studio, rent is moderate to fair for living, but that is in So-CaL standards that tend to be high anyway. Roommates are a good thing to have and if you can go in together on a place, it obviously saves you in cost.
Our costs are reasonable for our classes, most all of them are $175 per, that is an 8 week/3 hr class or a 4 week/6 hour class. We break between every 8 week session for 2 weeks, 1 week is a makeup week, the other is for instructor sanity. Then after my 10 month cycle we break for 4 weeks as well as December we break for the full month, but, during Thursday evenings we have a $15 open figure drawing workshop, lately it has been elaborate costumes, although we switch it up with nude, quicksketch, etc.
I will be teaching night painting workshops, and digital quick sketching on location workshops throughout the summer, at different on site locations, that should be pretty interesting. Vanessa is doing materials workshops for oil painters periodically throughout the summer, and again, we have the incredible lineup of fine art, art history, illustrator, gallery owners coming to do workshops and seminars for you, the art public. Anyone can come to those, we are not that private or exclusive.
Check out our site at studio2ndstreet.com
and if you have any questions, I will be back once a week to check up on this thread, and post some of our recent student works when I get them shot and transfered to the my HD....:)
Thanks for reading through....
Ron