Wednesday Mornings, 10 am – Noon
June 5 – July 31, 2013
(no class on July 3) Make-up class Aug 7
8-week sessions
AAI Members – $140, Non-Members – $155
Vance is an amazing artist and teacher who will work with you to help you discover what style and subject matter you want to pursue as a beginning artist. For those who have already been painting, Vance will help you to continue to grow and improve your skills. Sign up now as spaces are limited!
$155 Add to cart
Cost: Members – $150 – Non-members - $175
Ongoing 8-week sessions
Tuesday afternoons 1-4pm
Wednesday nights 6-9pm
Thursday afternoons 1-4pm
Emin, a Russian immigrant, has been teaching on Wednesday nights and now has been kind enough to add this daytime class. Emin teaches in a variety of mediums. Learn from a traditional classically trained European artist Emin Abbasov. Emin is an amazing artist and teacher who will help the individuals of all levels in this class with just about anything they will want to do. He teaches oil, acrylic, and charcoal. Emin will help with still life, landscapes, portraits, abstract, drawing, color, composition, tone and shape.
This is an opportunity you will not want to miss.
Emin Abbasov– painter, restorer, sculptor– received a Masters Degree Honors Diploma with High Qualification of Artist and Painter at M.M. Aliev Azerbaijan State Institute of Art, Baku City. He worked as an illustrator and theater artist for Cinema, LM Nizami Theater, and was also an Instructor of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture at an Art school in Belarus.
Accomplishments in Amarillo: Art Restoration Project at First Baptist Church Sanctuary; Winner of the David Beck Memorial Award for Excellence inTraditional Realism and Best of Southwest Exhibition; painted four Biblical Paintings sponsored by Leisa and Allen Durrett which are displayed at First Presbyterian Church; sculptured “Angel” for Milestone Company; painted an Icon for All Saints Church; painted “Prodigal Son” at St.Luke Presbyterian Church, sponsored by Dorothy Baggerly; teaching private lessons, as well as group classes; participant of Amarillo Museum of Art’s Exhibition 12X12.
$175 Add to cart
Guido Frick
Plein Air and Studio Oil Experience
Thursday – Saturday
May 9 – 11, 2013
Members – $500 Non-Members $550
($100 deposit to hold your spot in workshop)
Guido Frick is truly an outdoor painter. “It might sound overstated, but I really consider nature as my original studio. It is because of this belief, that I claim the whole American West as my own personal studio”. This German-born painter lives half of the year in Europe and travels the other half almost exclusively through America´s western states. In the early 1980´s he met with famous instructor and painter Sergei Bongart, and still considers this encounter as the most influential experience he has ever had as a painter. “Sergei truly opened my eyes and showed me the way”. By the 1970′s, Guido had already studied with Professor Karel Hodr from Prague, a well-respected impressionist painter and art teacher throughout Europe.
Soon Guido´s work was shown in exhibits in Germany, Switzerland, France and Italy, and most recently in England. He was published in “Maler sehen den Bodensee”, and in 1980 he won the Prix de Salon in Fontainbleau-Paris. “As a painter I do not like to be labeled. I am always crossing the borderline between impressionism and expressionism. In art there should be no border, no fences, no stop sign. I want to paint free and generous and be independent …I love the outdoors, in nature.” http://artmatch4u.com/
$550 Add to cart
Channel 7 Daybreak April 30, 2013
Clay Pottery at Amarillo Art Institute
Alexis Lavine
$295 Members $350 Non-Members
($100 deposit holds your spot for workshop)
We are excited to announce Alexis’s “Painting Creatively from Photographs” Watercolor Workshop, September 12-14, 2013, Thursday – Saturday, 9am – 5pm
Plan ahead for Alexis’ Watercolor workshop!
The focus here will be painting in a creative, personal, and expressive way from photographs -in other words freeing yourself from copying!! Demos will include specific lessons designed to give students new ideas, methods and inspirations for working in this manner. This is a good studio workshop and is designed for all levels of painters, from experienced beginners on up. Painters in all media are welcome. Daily demos and critiques and ample student painting time.
Alexis Says:
During my demonstrations, I talk to the students at length while I paint or draw, explaining what I am doing and why, what I am thinking, what I am deciding to do, what colors or techniques I am using, etc., and constantly inviting questions. Critiques are designed to be positive and constructive experiences; during critiques I emphasize the students’ strengths and offer suggestions to help them improve their work. During individual work time, I circulate among the students, offering help, suggestions, and information as needed. When I am teaching, I am there 100% for the students. I work very hard to give the students as much help, information, inspiration, and motivation as I can!
Alexis Lavine has devoted the last two decades to watercolor painting. Her award winning paintings have been included in numerous juried and gallery exhibitions, and they hang in private and corporate collections throughout the country, as well as overseas. Alexis divides her time between painting in her studio and painting outdoors on location.
Alexis is an enthusiastic art instructor, who teaches painting and drawing classes and workshops. She gives her students a sound background in technique and esthetics, encourages them to express their individuality through their art, and helps them to relax and enjoy their artistic pursuits.
Alexis’ watercolors are full of luminous color, rich shadows, and beautifully drawn shapes. With meticulous attention to composition, she crafts paintings that are descriptive and yet expressive, realistic and yet abstract. She lives and paints in central North Carolina, except during the winter, when she migrates to the Virgin Islands and paints lots of palm trees!
$350 Add to cart
Portrait, Still-Life, and Landscape, Power of Pastel Workshop
9am – 4pm
$300 Members – $340 Non-Members
$100 deposit holds your spot!
Plan ahead for Kathleen Cook’s, PSA summer workshop as Kathleen returns to Amarillo!
Please join Amarillo Art Institute as we welcome Kathleen, a pastel painter of color and light! A product of Amarillo High School, graduated from Amarillo College in 1969, and is considered one of America’s extraordinary pastel artists. We are excited as Kathleen returns to Amarillo to teach.
A professional artist for more than 40 years, Cook’s artwork has been featured on several magazine covers and in galleries throughout the nation. She has won numerous juried competitions. Kathleen writes, ‘I have been an artist for a long time and have grown in my understanding of what this life path means. An artist needs two lifetimes, one just to acquire the skills of learning the language of artistic expression…the How’s. How to see color, how to draw & paint, how to use the supplies. The second lifetime, and most important-I think, is trying to discover what we are trying to say with these abilities. It is not enough, to just have dexterity with media—one must have something to say…the Why’s & What’s. Why am I interested in this subject, what do I want others to know, what are my feelings that I am trying to express. The Why’s & What’s are limitless and unique for each artist…and they change as we mature as people, as we experience the joys and sorrows of human life.’
$340 Add to cart
Jack Sorenson-The Thinker
We would like to welcome Jack Sorenson back to Amarillo Art Institute this week. Jack has been a professional artist for twenty-four years and his paintings have been used as covers for more than sixty Western magazines. He is one of the best-selling artists for Leanin’!
Kids’ Summer Fun – Art Extravaganza Camps – June 11th – 13th $95
Kids’ Summer Fun – Art Extravaganza Camps – August 13th – 15th $95
Kids’ Summer Fun – Art Extravaganza Camps – July 23rd – 25th $95
Pam Allison – Weaving – Unraveling the Mysteries – May 1st – June 26, 2013 $150
Emin Abassov – Classical Painting Class – Ongoing $175
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