Art Renewal Center^™

Gary Christensen Interview Published on 14 February, 2020

Skill-Based Art: A Learning Resource for Art Students & Artist-Teachers has recently published an interview with former president of The ASCR and close friend of Richard Lack, Gary Christensen. Gary and fellow members of The ASCR were the first organisation to create publications that documented the Classical Realist movement which ultimately educated the public about the fine tradition of picture making and its respective artists. Gary is also the author of Richard F. Lack: Catalogue Raisonné. Topics covered include, Gary’s career in commercial art, discovering Classical Realism and Mr. Lack, co-founding The ASCR, the process of publishing the Catalogue Raisonné, as well as Mr. Lack’s working methods and Gary’s personal recollection and memories of his time with Mr. Lack.

To listen to the podcast, please click here. 

ARCALM Stephen Jesic News Published on 13 February, 2020

ARCALM Stephen Jesic's painting of "Morning Reflections" has won the Grand Prize in International Artist Magazine’s Challenge #115, Wildlife. It is currently published in their current #131 Feb/March issue and also in an upcoming issue in American Art Collector.

The painting has also won Best in Show and an Award of Excellence in the Artist for Conservation's 2019 International Exhibition of Nature in Art.

To learn more about the International Exhibit of Nature in Art visit http://www.artistsforconservation.org/news-media/news/2019-exhibit-award-winners.

ARCALM Gayle Madeira Wins Award Published on 12 February, 2020

Congratulations to ARC Associate Living Master Gayle Madeira for winning the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Medal of Honor Award in Oil/Acrylics for her painting "Young American".

The Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, founded in 1896, is a national organization to promote and advance the work of professional women artists.

To learn more, please click here. 

Tina Garrett Flesh Tones Workshop Published on 11 February, 2020

All levels are welcome to this 5-Day Flesh Tones Workshop for Oil Painters with ARC Associate Living Master, Tina Garrett. Tina started oil painting in 2012 and shares with her students the practical methods she uses in her award-winning portraiture to help artists make the best paintings they have ever made. 

Throughout this 30-hour master class, students will study flesh tones in multiple lighting scenarios including varied complexions and ethnicities, 'underwater’ light, and painted faces. Tina will demonstrate at least three starting methods: Accurate Color Wash, Open Grisaille, and Value Block-In each morning, and students will paint from the live model each afternoon, with individual critique and one-on-one guidance from Tina offered throughout.

Tina will share her practical strategies to creating an accurate color palette, understanding values, temperature and how they create form, as well as two simple techniques for accurate drawing. Students will focus intently on the creation of an accurate palette. Tina will demonstrate the processes she employs in all her works, focusing on composition, values, chroma, edges, and mark-making. Additionally, she will demonstrate how to control your palette for accurate values and color and give key strategies for portrait artists, including detailed instruction on client contracts and relations, PR/marketing, social media, and how to price your work.

The workshop runs from August 3 -7, 2020 at the Dutch Atelier of Realist Art, 17 Pascalstraat, Haarlem, Netherlands.

To learn more, please visit https://www.dutchartatelier.com/tina-garrett-flesh-tones.html.

ARC Gallery List Published on 10 February, 2020

The Art Renewal Center has recently added a list of representational art galleries to the website. Some of these businesses focus solely on Contemporary Realism and others carry a wide variety of works including Contemporary Realism, but in some cases also antique or Modernist work and even glasswork, woodwork, ceramics and other forms of merchandise. However, the one thing all these galleries have in common is that they support 21st Century Representational Art and include works by living artists who paint and/or sculpt in the traditional method.

The goal of this list is to help connect clients, galleries and artists to one another for the benefit of all!

If you know of additional galleries that sell or exhibit Representational Art by living artists, please contact us so that we can include them in this listing.

To view the gallery list, click here.