Painting with acrylics

Painting Butterflies

 

Evening Stroll on Beach

So we were so busy with classes, art shows and new animals at the farm that TIME slipped up on me!

But not to worry! The following are images of what our painters have been creating and they have been busy!

Whether you are experienced, a total beginner, 5 years old or 105, you will leave with a beautiful painting in just 2 hours!

Piglet in Acrylics

Acrylics are water soluable, easy to clean off of you (not your clothes) and dry quickly. That means you can paint oiver areas you may not like or add to areas that you have already painted!



So from Farm animals to insects, to beautiful scenes, to abstracts.......well we are painting it all!

Southern Magnolia

Realistic flowers to Pop Art Pets!

Scroll down a bit further and you can ssee what ASA can been doing with the MIchael's Store on Caital Blvd. in Raleigh!

Want to join in? Email us at artclasses@artstudentacademy OR visit us on the web at www.ArtStudentAcademy.com and check out the calendar!

Pop Art Pets

Classes by ASA at Michael's!

 

January art classes

OK, December was crazy!
Now we''re ending the first week of January and have already had our first series of Saturday painting classes.
The January calendar is up so be sure and check out the acrylic and watercolor classes that we have scheduled-one is bound to capture your imagination!
The winter children's classes continue with an emphasis on painting and sculpture so if you have a child between the ages of 5 and 16, join us!

Jan 5 classes

HALLOWEEN-the Haunted House!

I was pleased to see parents painting with their children at our October 27, 10-12 class! The subject was HALLOWEEN of course and it was the "Haunted House."  This is one of those paintings that starts the same for everyone but the details are what set it apart...amazing what everyone (including parents!) sees or remembers about Halloween that makes their painting special and unique!
Check out the results below!

Results from the "Haunted House!"

Tonight-Peace sign or skateboard!

Easy, fun, a great parent child class for Friday the 13th! 6:30-8:30

http://artstudentacademy.com/Skateboard-Peace-Signs.html

Summer art camp fun!

Paint, ponies, colors, goats, beautiful weather, garden flowers, dogs, watercolor, more dogs, snacktimes, acrylic paint, spin art, tree climbing....huh? Yep-That's what's happening at our Kids Painting Art camp at Art Student Academy this week!
Take a few minutes and see the fun here!:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECX-JNgRi70

Art Camp at Art Student Academy

Rejuvenation and inspiration for YOU!

People are always asking us "How do you get your inspiration?" and often we have to think about it because it is not some amazing POP that comes to mind. It is more of a moment, a day or an afternoon of either a new location or catching the light from something familiar.

View from our window

A recent trip to the Chesapeake and a stay at the Inn at Tabbs Creek B & B sparked not only a feeling of relaxation but the tell tale feelings of inspiration! Creativity or "ideas" can strike in a moment or accumulate. Everyone has creative moments.....but not all people take advantage of them!

Is there a scene in anything we saw that our students would like to paint?  Or a subject? Absolutely!

The Iris

Our inspiration for not only our art but what we can share with our students is the subject in many of our classes. We want it to spark YOUR interest and love of painting.

We are successful when we show you HOW to take that scene or subject or abstract idea and turn it into a reality.

Now, that's inspiration!

What we do for Painting inspirations

Learning to paint by watching us, learning our tips and techniques and seeing the finished results are just one part of your painting journey!

 In all of our classes, our participants will hear us say things like "When you painting you are sculpting your image!" or "look at the lights and darks on your subject!" or "You will never look at clouds the same way again after this class...."


We do that because sometimes we get so involved in our day to day activities that we forget to look at the very things we want to paint. A waterfall, a butterfly on a flower, the soft eyes of a favorite pet.....everything deserves more than a fleeting glance!

So make a point of spending some time each day really looking at something beautiful! Then when we paint it, you'll have a finished vision in mind!

Summer Art Camps for kids!

With summer coming and our busy schedule we are setting up at our Franklinton area studio for the summer art camps!
In a nutshell, there will be two camps. One will specialize in Painting and the other in Sculpture.
With both camps, we'll work both inside and out and develop new skills, abilities, confidence and above all.....we'll have fun!

 http://www.artstudentacademy.com/Summer-Program.html

Painting Camp: 

June 11-15

A great opportunity for kids to explore watercolors, acrylics and oil paint, paint a still life and a self portrait, and study a famous artist’s techniques.

Ages 8-11, 9:30 am-12pm $130.00

Ages 12-15, 1:00 pm-3:30 pm $130.00

  

Sculpture Camp:

July 23-27

A fun week working in 3 dimensional sculpture where we'll work with Sculpey clay, air dried clay and molds, duct tape, textures and metallic patinas to create unique works of art!

Ages 8-11, 9:30 am-12:00 noon $130.00

Ages 12-15, 1:00 pm-3:30 pm $130.00

Taking it outside!

Working inside the studio

Join us and register online!

Look what we did with Watercolor!

 On a wet, stormy Saturday, more than a dozen participants gathered to paint glorious morning glories in watercolor!

People enjoy Steve's easy going style of teaching and the end results were incredible sparkles of color on a gray day!

Wonderful job and wonderful memories!

The Valentine Tree!

AH, the Valentine Tree!

Paint your own or paint with your significant other and combine the two! Make it your own and have fun! Do something totally different than the usual :-)

We have as many as 8 classes scheduled through Feb 14 with this playful theme so join us! Only a few spots left and some times are filled. Several are BYOB classes and several are at our other location at the Twisted Vine Wine Shop!

See the classes with this link:
http://www.artstudentacademy.com/Getting-Started-Dates-and-Times.html

BYOB art class tonight!

A double choice!

Come and paint "the Red Door" or "Through the Garden Gate!"  (sign up for the red door and just choose the other painting to do at the class!)These have been super fun classes for our participants and a request was made for a choice tonight so here it is!

Through the Garden Gate

The Red Door

All supplies included. $30.00 for one participant-$45.00 if you bring a friend! (Friends don't let friends paint alone!)

Tulipmania! (in acrylics)

It might still be January but on this cold sunny Saturday, we painted TULIPS in acrylic paint!

Long time friends shared a bottle of wine, a 9 year worked with her arm in a sling and a charming young man decided painting tulips was OK since his was going as a gift to his grandma!

There is no doubt that tulips have been THE flower of choice over the centuries! Well, maybe the rose, but something about vivid colors and tall straight stems....a great job from this group!

Paint your Pet all day classes!

a few of the participants

This past Saturday we held our popular  "Paint your Pet class twice! Once from 10-noon and the afternoon session from 1-3. The results were stunning!

The animals painted ranged from dogs to cats to polar bears and wolves...and it doesn't get much more diverse than that!

Max's beautiful work!

Lauren's green eyed wonder!

Two more classes next week include Dec 20 "Paint like Picaso"  
from 7-9 (an art and wine class) and Dec 21 "Cardinal in the Snow"!    (Feel free to BYOB to this one!) Cider and coffee available.

Painting Sunsets over water

Painting Sunsets over water results!

This group of student's expertise ranged from "I haven't painted since 1990" to "I've taken a few classes." But my oh my, look what they created!

Using acrylic paints and under the direction of owners/instructors Steve Filarsky and Theresa Brown...well, the results speak for themselves.

No one outgrows "Show and Tell!"

How to paint Children in the SNOW!

A table of hard at work painters!

 Well no two ways about it-Painting children in the snow is fun! The topic was fun, the wine and coffee were great and several of the participants were moms with their adult daughters!

How fun is that? We will offer the same class again after the New Year.

One set of mom and daughter

Another set of mom and daughter!

Amazing SNOW class!

A group ranging in ages from 7 to into their 50's all sat and painted their snow scenes and what a pleasure their creativity was!

Although we had one major painting to work from, each student added their own twist-a hard thing to do at first!
The results, from snow covered tobacco barns to Christmas cottages,  speak for themselves!

Painting Snow Scenes!

Snow-ah, there's something about a cold, muffled winter day with 16 inches of snow blanketing the ground........well maybe 2-3 inches..... :-).

Depending on your viewpoint and where you live, snow covered buildings and scenes are a popular subject matter! And what better way to embrace it than in a beautiful, picturesque scene that you have painted yourself? 
Our class, "Painting Snow Scenes" for tonight  from 6-8 pm is full but don't worry-we will offer another soon!

You are right! Snow is not all white!

Loved how this turned out!

Paint Your Pet fundraiser!

What fun we had on Saturday Nov 5 at the Orange County Animal Services facility with our participants painting their pets!

And to see a short video clip check here:

Paint Your Pet at Orange County Animal Services

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-xzPsq4ZsA

"Through the Garden Gate" Students Rock!

 A series of images from our "Through the Garden Gate" class! So much fun as none of the students thought, at first, they could paint Steve's display painting!

This class was held at the Twisted Vine Wine Shop in Wake Forest.

Remember-we can come to you!

Questions about our classes? Just contact us!

Steve teaching the class

Rebecca was happy

Cindy relaxed and had a great time!

Karen never thought she could do this!

I am SO pleased!

Ok, You're right, it looks good!

Allan zipped right through his painting!

1 day 2 classes-amazing results!

Field of Pumpkins class October 29, 2011

 "Field of Pumpkins" was a delightful class that had participants scurrying into the warmth of the Wake Forest Frame Shop from the cold, pelting rain that dampened Saturday morning!

All ages created beautiful, realistic pumpkins from our painting and even examined a real pumpkin to get the feel of the shape and ridges. The results speak for themselves.

This morning class ran from 10-12:00 and we worked in acrylic paint.

Colors of Fall class, October 29

The afternoon class, from 1:00-3:00, "Colors of Fall" was also a big hit! Working from our original painting, students embraced the bright colors of fall and their amazing paintings of a  maple tree by a lake were stunning!

Our students rock! We raise the bar on your creativity!