Gary Meyer Workshop Nov 1 & 2 '08

3Kicks Fine Art Studio is proud to announce the well known Art Center professor, Gary Meyer is doing a painting workshop at 3Kicks. Gary Meyer has worked on the first Star War movie in his earlier years of career. His clients also include major motion picture studios, theme parks, aircraft companies, advertising agencies, Apple computer, and Levis. He is a special advisor to the Illustration department chair at Art Center College of Design. http://garymeyerillustration.com

The workshop is on Nov. 1st and Nov 2nd. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.3kickstudio.com/ or contact us at 626 466 5043 or contact@3kickstudio.com

Bill Perkins Watercolor Painting workshop Oct. 12th, 2008

Bill Perkins, a well known artist did a two day costume and landscape watercolor workshop at 3Kicks on Oct. 11th and 12th. Bill has worked as a concept artist, production designer, layout artist, art director and storyboard artist for companies like Walt Disney Feature Animation, Warner Brothers, Dreamworks, ILM, and 9th Ray Studio.







Bill started out the workshop with a slide presentation and explanation on values and contrast.






Time to do demo on live model.











On the second day, it was time to go out and do a landscape! Students met up at a park in Pasadena at 10am with all their gears.




Students gathering around Bill for a lecture under the sun.

3 Kicks Fine Art Studio Fall '08 Session Brochure

Joseph Todorovitch Workshop Jun 20-22 '08

Joseph Todorovitch Workshop
June 20th - June 22nd

Joseph Todorovitch is a young contemporary painter who has developed a reputation for his highly representational figure paintings. Joseph has just received the First Honor Award and People's Choice Award at the 2008 Portrait Society of American International Portrait Competition.
http://www.pr.com/press-release/80906

His work is a culmination of these forces with a deep respect for the knowledge and sensitivities of the past. Joseph has been able to sift through the vast amount of information, be selective, and utilize what's necessary to achieve an impact that speaks about a personal experience with his subjects. His paintings emote, and convey a care and sensitivity that is reminiscent of the naturalist painters of the 19th century. Utilizing subtle value and temperature shifts, fine draftsmanship, and pure intuition, Joseph weaves a world of breathable air and psychological nuance in his work.

Description of workshop

Painting a figure from life and discuss choices for setting up the pose, composition, color harmony, lighting, pacing, and bringing the painting to a decent level of resolve. Joseph will explain his approach and demonstrate by painting along and illustrating his ideas about the approach. The workshop will consist of three six hour sessions in consecutive days. Previous drawing experience is highly recommended.

For more information, please visit http://www.3kickstudio.com or contact@3kickstudio.com.

Space is limited, please sign up early.

Dan McCaw Workshop May 25 '08

3 Kicks Fine Art Studio Summer '08 Session Brochure

Hello Everyone,

I would like to announce the new fine art school, 3Kicks Fine Art Studio I opened in the center of Pasadena is going into our second semester. In this coming semester-summer (May 16th to August 10th), we have added more workshops and classes.

We are honored to have many great artists doing workshops at 3Kicks. Dan McCaw is doing a slide presentation on May 25th. Sean Cheetham will be doing a 3 day painting workshop on May 16th to 18th. We also have Joseph Todorovitch doing a 3 day painting workshop as well.
For our 10 week courses, I will be teaching a Figure Drawing class and a Head Drawing class. Edgar Silva will be teaching a Beginning Figure Painting class and an advanced Figure Painting Class.

For more information about our classes and registration, please visit us at http://www.3kickstudio.com or contact us at contact@3kickstudio.com

Best,

Charles Hu
3Kicks Fine Art Studio