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In this unique workshop, Stacy will introduce students into the world of sketching on the streets.\u00a0Her travels have taken her\u00a0to\u00a0the streets of\u00a0the United States\u00a0and\u00a0Europe for years\u00a0armed only\u00a0with\u00a0a\u00a0sketchbook, drawing pen and travel watercolor kit to gather material as inspiration for studio paintings. Now she will give you all her secrets to traveling light and yet taking your art skills on the road.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Students will learn how important creating sketches and studying the pictures are. It is ideal to have that personal connection with the subject or place that you are working from. In a perfect situation, I will do sketches on location plus take pictures\u00a0 <\/span>creating the connection with your subject .<\/p>\n Day 1: Learn how to plan the composition shapes & values, study\u00a0the details and color.\u00a0<\/p>\n Stacy will guide the students through the process of creating sketches, value studies, color studies. Composition studies. With demos.<\/p>\n Day 2:<\/p>\n Students will create studies on their own and then Stacy will critique (students may watch or continue with their studies). Using photos and sketches from her trav<\/p>\n I will do a demo, using pictures and sketches, and creating studies to work from.<\/p>\n Day 3:\u00a0<\/p>\n A continuation of the previous day beginning with critique while students begin to paint.<\/p>\n With Stacy\u2019s warm and generous nature, everyone\u2014regardless of experience<\/em>\u2014will feel comfortable tackling this exciting subject matter.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n *There will be demonstrations and daily individual critiques; all levels are welcome<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_accordion _builder_version=”3.18.7″][et_pb_accordion_item title=”Materials List” _builder_version=”3.18.7″ open=”on”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][\/et_pb_accordion][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.18.7″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.18.7″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”3.18.7″][\/et_pb_divider][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.18.7″][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”3.18.7″ parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”3.18.7″]<\/p>\n Having grown up in the cosmopolitan city of Washington, D.C., Stacy Kamin has lived a life any aspiring artist would envy. Providence brought Stacy into the world with a mother who nurtured her interest in drawing and painting every step of the way. Noted artist and teacher, Jacqueline Kamin, indulged her child\u2019s art supply caprices and enrolled her in children\u2019s classes at the National Gallery at a very young age. Art was alive in this bright artistic spirit, and as Stacy herself says, \u201cCreating images from pencils and paint was like magic to me. I knew early on that I had to be an artist.\u201d<\/p>\n Stacy 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.<\/p>\n 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\u2019s 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\u2019s work.<\/p>\n Drawn to the dramatic effects of Rembrandt, Stacy sought out the instruction of two well-known masters of this knowledge\u2014David A Leffel and Sherrie McGraw. She credits their influence for the startling light that she is able to achieve in her own work. \u201cThey introduced me to Abstract Realism, a way of painting so rich that I can\u2019t imagine my education ever ending\u2014I will be a student of this great tradition my entire life.\u201d<\/p>\n This humility coupled with a selfless generosity led to a desire to teach. She presently teaches workshopsfor Bright Light Fine Art nationwide. Recently she taught a figure and still life painting workshop with David A Leffel and Sherrie McGraw at Scottsdale Artist School; in 2019 she conducted a portrait painting class in Noyer\u2019s France; and locally she teaches private workshops in Seal Beach.<\/p>\n In her own words Stacy describes this life-long obsession this way: \u201cI believe art is supposed to evoke emotions and feelings in human beings. When I see a great painting, it touches my soul. Even if I can\u2019t describe what I feel in words, a work of artaffects me profoundly. The reason I never ceasestudying is because the magic of capturing life on a flat surface continues to intrigue me. I want my own work to provoke thoughts and emotions for viewers, so that they too can experience the beauty that captivates me still.\u201d<\/p>\n