Mark McDonnell's Imaginative Costumed Quick Sketch is starting on April 13th

Mark McDonnell is teaching a class called Imaginative costumed quick sketch class which helps students on capturing gesture and to use their imagination to tell stories and take their drawings to another level. It is very fun class, don't pass this chance up!

Mark McDonnell's bio: he has worked as a character designer, a layout/set designer, prop designer, look development designer and as an instructor. Mark has instructed at The Animation Academy, The Walt Disney Company, Dreamworks, LAAFA and now at 3Kicks.

To register, please contact us at 3kicksfineartstudio@gmail.com or at 626.466.5043.

Charles Hu 3 mins quick sketch (real- time)

First 3Kicks Faculty Show

3Kicks would like to invite you to our first 3Kicksfaculty exhibition. The exhibition will have 15 artists' works(total around 45 pieces of artwork).

The artists:
Amy Yung
Bill Perkins
Charles Hu

Dan MacCaw
Edgar Sliva
Gary Meyer

Glen Orbik
Joseph Todorovitch
Richard Morris

Sergio Sanchez

Mark McDonnell

Sean Cheetham
Steve Huston

Tim Tien

Tim Solliday

The opening of the exhibition will be on Nov. 5th (Saturday) from 7pm to 10pm. The 64 pages catalog for this exhibition will be available for sale at the opening. If you would like to have the artists sign it, don't miss the opening!!!

Here is the link to the gallery and the exhibition http://www.gallerynucleus.com/gallery/exhibition/329

Mark your calender and come join us!!!

Best,

Charles Hu
Amy Yung

Edgar Silva's Manuelita painting step by step

Sean Cheetham's demo in the Head Painting class

New Winter 2011 class info

Winter Term

10 weeks courses

Jan. 10th 2011 -

Mar. 21st 2011

Special discount : 15 % off if you enroll in 3 classes or more

Referral discount: refer 1 - 2 students - 10% off one class

refer 3 or more students - 15% off one class

Class schedule

Timothy Tien - Still Life Painting
Monday 1:00 - 4:00 pm

Edgar Silva - Beginning Figure Painting
Monday 7:30 - 10:30 pm

Sean Cheetham - Advanced Portraiture Painting
Tuesday 12:30 - 5:30 pm

Sean Cheetham - Head Painting
Tuesday 7:30 - 10:30 pm Gary Meyer - Perspective Observational Drawing
Wednesday 7:30 - 10:30 pm


Richard Morris - Tonal Figure Drawing
Thursday 1:00 - 6:00 pm


Charles Hu - Gesture Drawing
Saturday 10:00 am - 1:00 pm


Charles Hu - Drawing Anatomy
Saturday 1:30 - 4:30 pm


Glen Orbik - Head Drawing
Saturday 5:00 - 8:00 pm


Workshop

Tim Solliday - Landscape Painting Workshop April 9th 10am - 5 pm

For more info on the classes, please visit http://3kickstudio.com/class.aspx

James Gurney Lecture

Back in October, James Gurney, creator of www.dinotopia.com and the creator of the best art blog on the internet was at 3Kicks doing 3 of his lectures. Students learned a lot and gained some insight into James's world of art thanks to the founder of Atelier Marchant, Matt Marchant.
These were what he covered:
-Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn’t Exist
-Color and light
-Pioneers of Plein Air

Gary Meyer Perspective class - 1st day

Gary Meyer 4 Days workshop updates

May 15th & 16th Painting from live model






May 14th, 2010
Cityscape & airplane demos








May 13th 2010
Composition lecture



Head demo