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Stacy Kamin – The Bones of a Painting (Online); Fridays, December 1 & 8, 2023
This class was held in the past and is no longer available for registration. Please view our Online Course Catalog for current class listings.
Date: Fridays, December 1 & 8, 2023 Time: 10:00 AM-12:00 PM Pacific Time, 1:00-3:00 PM Eastern Time/6:00-8:00 PM UK Time Level: All Medium: Oil or acrylic
Learn the core elements of painting with StacyKamin in this 2-week class. Stacy will show you how to begin a painting, master massing techniques, create strong shadows, and set up exciting still life compositions. Start your artistic journey with a solid foundation and watch your artwork come to life!
Stacy Kamin studied illustration and traditional animation at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, earning a BA in 2000. After graduation, she interned with a small animation company long enough to realize that illustration was not her calling, although a fascination with capturing movement was. This she would explore through line and paint as a fine artist. Having grown up in the cosmopolitan city of Washington, D. C., Stacy Kamin has lived a life any aspiring artist would envy. Providence brought her into the world with a mother who nurtured Stacy’s interest in drawing and painting every step of the way. Noted artist and teacher, Jacqueline Kamin, indulged her child’s art supply caprices and enrolled her in children’s classes at the National Gallery at a very young age. Art was alive in this bright artistic spirit, and as Stacy herself says, “Creating images from pencils and paint was like magic to me. I knew early on that I had to be an artist.” She joined her family in Los Angeles and there found a well-respected Chinese artist, Shuqiao Zhou, to mentor her privately for six years. Zhou’s teachers came from the great Russian lineage of Ilya Repin and Valentin Serov, and through this expressive tradition, imparted a love of paint that is still a hallmark of Stacy’s work. Drawn to the dramatic effects of Rembrandt, Stacy sought out the instruction of two well-known masters of this knowledge—David A Leffel and Sherrie McGraw. She credits their influence for the startling light that she is able to achieve in her own work. “They introduced me to Abstract Realism, a way of painting so rich that I can’t imagine my education ever ending—I will be a student of this great tradition for my entire life.” www.stacykamin.com