Workshops

Steve Huston Painting Workshop

Steve Huston is an established figurative painter whose works is highly sought after. Huston is known for his portayal of workers, including boxers and construction trade laborers, depicting their raw strength and grace. He focuses on the human form in action - usually engaged in, or resting from, hard physical labor. His work is influenced by John Singer Sargent and George Bellows.
After graduated from Pasadena’s Art Center College of Design in 1983, Huston established himself as a successful illustrator, commissioned by clients including Paramount Pictures, MGM, and Warner Brothers, etc. He began his fine art career in 1989 and became a well known artist. Huston also taught courses in life drawing, anatomy, and composition at the Art Center College of Design, Disney, Dreamworks SKG studios and private classes. Huston also received Best of Show placement in 1995, and Gold Medal in 2003 at the California Art Club Annual, Exhibition.

Description of the workshop

Steve Huston will take you through monochromatic, limited palette to a full palette in this 4 day painting workshop. Value, color, temperature and composition will be discussed. Steve Huston will lecture and demo during each day of the workshop.

May 14th to May 17th (9am - 4pm)

Fee: $650

* 3Kicks Fine Art Studio is holding this workshop conducted by Steve Huston. Please contact Steve Huston to reserve your space and for registering. *

Contact info : 4680 constoga circle, Bozeman mt. 59715 or call (406) 522-0906

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John Asaro Slide Presentation

John Asaro, the master figurative painter is known for his colorful and light filled paintings of the female figure. He studied with Donal Hord, San Diego; the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California; with Frank Reilly at the Art Students League, New York City; and architecture at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, Santa Monica, California. For more than twelve years, he created illustrations for Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, and Argosy magazines in Detroit, New York and Los Angeles.Asaro is a member

of the New York Illustrator's Club and California Art Club. He has been featured in articles in Art Talk, Southwest Art, The Santa Fean, Horizon, Focus/Santa Fe magazines and in a 1990 Lexus television commercial.

Description of the workshop

In this two hour slide presentation, John Asaro will take you from his journey of paintings of women and children in the sun or on a beach to his latest paintings of female nude. John will also share insights of his thinking process on each piece and how he approaches his paintings. John Asaro will shed some light on how he went from commercial art to painting full time as well.

"I PAINT WHAT I WANT TO SEE." - John Asaro

May 24th (1:00 pm - 3:00 pm)

Fee: $75 ($65 + $10 registration fee)

Sean Cheetham Painting Workshop

Sean is one of the most acclaimed young figurative painters today. He was recently featured in American Artist's Workshop magazine. He had his first one man exhibition with the Mendenhall Sobieski Gallery in 2006.

Description of the workshop

Sean Cheetham will take you step by step on how he develops his personal painting in this 2 days workshop. This workshop is great forboth illustrator or fine art painter seeking for realistic painting approach. Surface preparation followed with graphite drawing and acrylic wash will be demonstrated in the first day. Demo from life by Sean, palette mixing, painting technique will be introduced on the second day.

June 20th (5:00 - 10:00 pm)

June 21th (11:00 - 4:00 pm)

Fee: $260 ($250 + $10 registration fee)

Tim Solliday

Pastel Painting workshop

Born in Ottumwa, Iowa. Tim currently resides in Southern California, foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, Solliday has
been featured in numerous magazines, including American Artist, Art-Talk, International Artist and Southwest Art. He was the subject of a front page Los Angeles Times feature. He was also featured in Southwest Artist and Western Art Collector in July 2008.
Tim Solliday is a signature Member of the California Art Club and a member of the Laguna Art Association. He is represented by Altermann Galleries and Auctioneers, Santa Fe, New Mexicao, and New York City; Trailsides Gallery, Scottsdale Arizona and Jackson Hole, Wyoming; and Michael Hollis Fine Art, Los Angeles and South Pasadena, California.
Solliday has participated in the Laguna Beach Plein Air INvitational since its inception, placing second in 2001 and third in 2000. He also placed first in the landscape category of the 1993 Oil Painters of America competition, as well as in the California Art Club's 85th Annual Gold Medal Exhibition. Solliday was also part of the 2008 Masters of the West at Autry National Center in Los Angeles, California.

Description of the workshop

This will be a workshop on the use of pastels and the peculiarities of its use and how the textures affect color and shapes. Tim will go over many examples of his pastels with a slide show of his works followed by a short demo. Students will then work from a model or an outdoor sketch. Tim will discuss how different pastels colors affect each other.

"All well rounded artists should be schooled in at least three different mediums for getting different effects in the outcome of ideas and concepts in producing works of art." - Tim Solliday

July 12th (10 am - 5 pm)
Fee: $135 ($125 + $10 registration fee)