School and ART and new studios are starting!

Wow, where did the month of August go? Kids are already back in school!
Panic mode-must get out newsletters!

So THIS week our after school classes begin, http://www.artstudentacademy.com/After-School-Classes.html  
We have some new and exciting programs for the kids, so sign up for September now!

The weekend of Sept 7 and 8 is the Wake Forest Artist Guild tour. I can't call it a studio tour as it will all be concentrated in downtown Wake Forest, but I will be there painting portraits and showing the art room to parents both days!

We're expanding  a few of our art courses to include a serious classical training course at our Franklinton studio. It won't be a course for everyone as it is does NOT involve creativity-it involves discipline...lol, the way it used to be taught actually back in the Old Masters Day. We'll keep you posted!

We've added a smaller studio to our mini-farm...or maybe I should call it an Art Compound? What with our large art studio, the 2 story woodworking shop and now the smaller studio (re-purposed 12 x 20 storage building!) we'll need to re-think our parking areas!  Read all about the studios on my other blog: (http://www.mtheresabrown.blogspot.com/)

Shed being positioned after moving

Fall is a time for  art shows for us as well so it's incredibly busy! But we always find time for your questions....new 2 hour classes coming up on the calendar on our webpage!


STAY TUNED FOR UPDATES and
Have a Safe and Great LABOR DAY!

Our working art studio

Girls Just want to have fun!

Girls just want to have fun!

Ok, we let guys in too :-) Stay tuned-we have plenty of them!

BLuejays, kingfishers and cardinal class! Steve's paintings

Kingfisher-oil-SFilarsky

Bluejay-oil-SFilarsky

Goldfinch oil SFilarsky

 How can you not like these little guys?

Steve created all of these, in oil, on small 4 x 6 or 5 x 7 canvases. Just stunning! And you can do the same thing! We'll use acrylics rather than oils but the colors are the same and you can enjoy the fun that comes with photographing them at your feeders for more inspiration!

winter house wren-oil-SFilarsky

Join us in Wed Sept 14 from 6-8 pm
for Birds, birds, birds!

Sept 10 classes! CReatures of the Sea and Colorful Beach Scenes!

Our last CREATURES of the SEA was so popular, we are squeezing it in again before our fall lineup! Add COLORFUL BEACH SCENES and you have a wonderful day of painting and thinking "days of summer!"

Proudly add the American flag to your beach scene!

And since the tenth anniversary of Sept 11 is the same weekend, we will also offer the option of including our American Flag in the scenes as a reminder of how much we owe our country and our freedoms to paint as we choose! Here are just two images  you can use in our afternoon class! 1-3 pm
http://artstudentacademy.com/Colors-at-the-Beach.html

Now just add some red, white and blue Adirondack chairs!

What was created in our last Creatures of the Sea class? Well, lots of dolphins but don't forget that there are Sea Otters, whales (well a lot of tails!)

 fish from your fish tank, seahorses, an octopus and even a shark if you want to paint one!
http://artstudentacademy.com/Creatures-of-the-Sea.html   from 10-noon

One of several amazing dolphins from our last class!