Announcing: Guest Artist Teaching Series

Patris Studio and Gallery is proud to present our Guest Artist Teaching Series in February and March on Thursdays from 10 am - 2 pm.  Three very prominent and highly acclaimed artists will offer students of all artistic levels a series of art classes that explore different approaches, techniques and styles.

• Thursdays February 16 - March 23, 2016
• 10 am - 2 pm
• $35 per class
• bring your lunch or snack and regular art supplies 
• contact Patris for more details, questions, or info

Our series begins with Leslie Toms

teaching February 16 and February 23, 2017
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Color, light and luscious painterly brushstrokes have long characterized the works of California artist, Leslie Toms. The intense color and sunlight of the west coast, along with the influence of the Society of Six, Bay Area Figurative painters and other contemporary northern California artists, gives her art its singular character.

She has studied with some illustrious painters: Wolf Kahn, Gregory Kondos, Charles Sovek, Harrold Gregor, Joseph Raffael, Ann Toulmin Roth, Jerald Silva, Wayne Thiebaud and others. She counts among her friends some of California’s best painters.

Our 2nd Guest Artist is Marilyn Rose

teaching on March 2 and March 9, 2017

painting by Marilyn Rose

Says Marilyn, "I have been an artist from my earliest recollections, but life took me elsewhere and I lived it to the fullest. In midlife I returned to my art studies and began my never-ending and all-absorbing quest to learn all I could and become the best artist I can be.

In classes, workshops or from books, I studied drawing, values, design, brush and knife technique; color theory and practice, figure, portraits, landscape, still life, graphic arts, photography; anything I could find to aid me in my creative journey.

Some twenty years later, I am still running to catch up, always studying and it is a joyous adventure, whether alone in my studio, in the field with friends, or in the classrooms where I either teach or learn….sometimes both at once."

Marilyn has had the opportunity to study landscape, portrait, figure and still life painting with some of the nation's top artists including Ray Roberts, Gil Dellinger, Ned Mueller, Terry Miura, Craig Nelson, Brian Blood, Brian Mark Taylor, Camille Przewodek, Michael Siegel.

Our 3rd Guest Artist is Kristine Bybee

teaching March 16 and March 23, 2017

painting by Kristine Bybee

I believe that color is similar to the vibrations in music. The color’s sound can radiate across the room and vibrate around a viewer much the way music does for the listener, and like music; this tone can alter and even heal the spirit. Like any art form, painting is about craftsmanship and the study of the more formal aspects of painting as well as the spiritual. This study is always unfolding and changing. I appreciate the study, discipline, and the craft of making art because of this process of unfoldment. However, each time a new question is asked, more questions arise, and the journey goes on, ever farther, ever deeper.

This travel is never taken alone; though sometimes it is lonely sit in a studio without a friend or a teacher. Fortunately, I share these travels with other artists ... And, we all strive, juggle our schedules, and keep traveling to an unseen but satisfying destination together. 

We are announcing the Winning Name: "The Crazy Artist Blend”, submitted by the Monday afternoon Clothed Long Pose group! Congrats to you all! Prize will be shared among the group.

This Incredible coffee will soon be available as whole bean or ground, at Patris Studio and online through the Studio's website, Instagram and Facebook, shipped anywhere in the Continental U.S. All proceeds support the studio! Try some and think about switching your household's daily coffee to ”the Crazy Artist blend!"

Patris Weekly Drawing Class

Patris Studio and Gallery presents

a Weekly

Drawing Class

Time:

Thursdays

9:30 am – 10:45 am

Location: 

Patris Studio and Gallery

3460 2^nd Avenue, Sacramento

Fee:

$36 for a 3-week pack or $15 per class

Join Patris to learn, practice and hone your drawing skills.  If your drawings resemble sticks more than objects, this class is for you.  These drawing classes will introduce foundational skills in close study, observation, technique, line, tonal values ad perspective—all with Patris’ down-to-earth teaching style and gentle guidance. 

No experience needed.

For more info, contact Patris

Call or text: 916 397-8958

email:   artist_patris@yahoo.com

Derek Penix Workshop Registration Open!

painting by Derek Penix

This workshop will help artists intepret photos in a fresh and lively manner, using bold brushwork to simplify and compose the subject matter.  Derek Penix will present a whole new way of looking and working from source material to help artists retain that fresh vision they want to convey on canvas.


Derek Penix Workshop
March 3-5, 2017
click here to download flier with more info or contact Patris for questions.

Announcing: Painting the Figure Simply and Beautifully in Watercolor with Robert Regis Dvorak

Patris Studio and Gallery presents
"Painting the Figure 
Simply and Beautifully in Watercolor" 
with Robert Regis Dvorak

Watercolor by Robert Regis Dvorak

February 25, 2017
10 am - 5 pm

Please click here for more information
Please click here to download materials list

Robert Regis Dvorak has been a practicing artist for 28 years. He presents seminars in drawing, watercolor painting, creativity and selling art for the University of California, San Francisco State University, community colleges and art galleries.

Announcing: Derek Penix "Fresh and Powerful Painting from Photos" workshop

Loosen Up! Seeing, Simplifying and Expression  
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painting by Derek Penix

You know how challenging it can be sometimes to retain that fresh and spontaneous quality when making a painting from photographic reference?

Check out this upcoming workshop with Derek Penix and learn his techniques and ideas on keeping the painting fresh and lively while working from photographs.

 "Fresh and Powerful Painting From Photos" 
with Derek Penix

Workshop dates: March 3 - 5, 2017
 10 am – 5 pm  
Tuition:   $395

painting by Derek Penix

This workshop is for adults from beginner to advanced.  The workshop will consist of one-onone instruction, demonstrations, critiques, and plenty of time for painting.  Students will use oils to paint from photographs. The mornings will consist of Penix giving a demo and the remaining time dedicated to students painting.

 Penix will cover topics such as the power of warm and cool, complementaries, harmony, edges, shapequality, variety, simplifying, and loosening brushwork.  There will be a strong emphasis on seeing in terms of mass and shape relationships.  Penix will cover how fear can ultimately keep you from expression.

• Where: Patris Studio and Art Gallery 3460 2nd Avenue Sacramento, CA 95817 

• Tuition: $395 

•  Registration: Contact Patris at artist_patris@yahoo.com to register and send in a $200 deposit to hold your space. Checks made payable to Patris and sent to studio address.     

Cancellation Policy: Please see cancellation policy at https://db.tt/8gz3jkNg

Instructor Bio:

Over the years Penix's work has changed greatly and continues to evolve with each painting. "I never want to be stuck painting only one way or only one subject matter. Variety is the spice of life and is especially that way for me with painting." 

Penix has had the opportunity to work under Quang Ho and later with C.W. Mundy. "They have helped me as an artist immensely. I am so thankful that they have been willing to feed into my life as they have."  

Penix has been recognized in many national competitions and publications. Even at a young age Penix was recognized in Southwest Art Magazine's “21 Under 31” artist competition in 2010, and Oklahoma Magazine's "40 Under 40" in 2014. To date, Penix's most notable and recent award has been the 2016 "Gold Medal Award" from Oil Painters of America 25th National Juried Exhibition, boasting a $30,000 prize. Penix currently lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Announcing: MIchael Siegel Still Life and Portrait workshop

Announcing Master artist Michael Siegel Still Life and Portrait workshop in Sacramento, CA. 

Come study with Michael Siegel, who trained privately with the legendary David Leffel.  Artists can choose to paint portrait, still life, or both themes during this workshop.  Individual still life set ups, inspiring models, top notch instruction and demos in a beautiful, spacious studio setting ensure that every artist has a quality workshop experience.

Contact Patris today and register for the Michael Siegel workshop 

Announcing: Portrait Drawing and Head Construction 1-day workshop

Portrait Drawing & Head Construction 

One Day Workshop 

with Marco Ospina 

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Join Marco for this one day Portrait Drawing Workshop. This session will cover the basics of the portrait drawing process with a mix of lecture, demo and exercises. This workshop will help students learn basic portrait techniques and gain proficiency in their own work.

     

drawing by Marco Ospina

Topics Include:
Basic anatomy of the skull, identifying bony landmarks and form giving muscles.

 A ‘block-in’ or detailed outline, using careful shading to suggest the unique forms of the portrait.

 Features, proportions and placement

Students will have the opportunity to study from a variety of source materials, including a live model.

Materials: Students are encourage to work with charcoal on regular drawing paper. Newsprint paper and charcoal pencils are also good. Bring kneaded eraser

Drawing by Marco Ospina

Where: Patris Studio - 3460 2nd Ave, 
Sacramento, CA 95817

When: Saturday January 28. 2017 - 10:00 am - 3:00pm (45 minute lunch break)

Cost: $70 (includes model fees and hand-outs) 

To Register: Contact Patris at artist_patris@yahoo.com

 For Information: Contact Marco Ospina at marcoaospina@gmail.com

Workshop Registration and Cancellation Policy

Patris Studio and Art Gallery

3460 2^nd Avenue

Sacramento, CA 95817

http://patrisstudiogallery.blogspot.com

Registration Policy for Workshops

Registrations are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.

A 50% deposit of workshop tuition is due at the time of registration for all workshops. Early registration is strongly encouraged, as many workshops fill quickly. Please also be aware that workshops with insufficient enrollment at the thirty day deadline may be cancelled so it is important to register before that time if possible.

Remaining balance to be paid at beginning of workshop.

Registration is accepted in the form of cash, personal checks, traveler's checks, money-orders, Visa, MasterCard.   Please note that all credit card transactions have a $5 processing fee.

Refund and Cancellation Policy for Workshops

Cancellations can be made up to 30 days prior to workshop date and deposit fully refunded minus a $25 cancellation fee.

If you cancel 29 days before the start date of a workshop, the Studio will retain half of your deposit as a cancellation fee and keep half as a credit in your account for 12 months. This credit may only be used towards another workshop scheduled within the 12 month period from workshop date.  After 12 months, the deposit is forfeited.

There are no refunds for no-shows or for early withdrawal after a workshop begins.

·         If workshop is cancelled by the instructor or Patris Studio, all fees will be 100% fully refunded to participants.

·         Model fees, if any, are extra and depend on the number of students.

·         While we make every effort to ensure all workshops proceed as planned, the studio reserves the right to cancel any workshop due to insufficient enrollment. In this case, all workshop fees are fully refunded.

Holiday schedule for December 2017

Happy Holidays to all!

Here's our December 2017 Holiday Schedule for events, workshops, figure drawing/painting open studios and classes:


Gratitude Party 
and Holiday Celebration
Dec. 8, 2017 


Holiday Sale:

• Thursday Dec. 8:     during the party
• Friday Dec 9:          1 pm - 8 pm
• 2nd Saturday Dec.   10: 1 pm - 10 pm

Salvatore Victor Figure Drawing Seminar

Saturday December 10  

10 am - 2 pm

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Figure Drawing/Painting Open Studio Sessions 

All sessions as scheduled through December 20 

No sessions the week of Dec. 25 - January 1, 2017

Weekly Classes 

please check with each instructor for individual holiday schedules

Announcing: 4-week Beginning Watercolor Class with Teresa Steinbach

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 4 –week Beginning Watercolor Class

With Teresa Steinbach

When: 10 am – noon

4 Fridays in January: 1/6, 1/13/, 1/20, 1/27

Cost: $120 for 4-week session

Or $40 drop in

Where: Patris Studio and Art Gallery

3460 2^nd Avenue

Sacramento, CA 95817

Supplies: All materials provided. We will work small to start and a little bigger towards

the end of the 4 week session.

To register:

please email Patris at

artist_patris@yahoo.com or call

(916) 397-8958

Special Holiday Gallery Sale!

Patris Studio and Gallery 

SPECIAL HOLIDAY SALE HOURS: 

• November 9, 2016  12 pm - 6 pm
• November 10, 2016 1 pm - 10 pm
• November 11, 2016 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Find unique and one of a kind holiday art gifts at special prices during our holiday sale! 

This holiday season, give the gift of art. Stay local. Shop local. Find small treasures that will last a lifetime. 

Patris Studio and Gallery is proud to partner with the Sacramento Visual Arts Collaborative to bring you this treasure trove of small works by local artists.

Space available in the upcoming David Shevlino workshop!

Space still available in the Sacramento workshop. Sign up now!

Partial workshop days available!

We still have a few spaces left in the upcoming David Shevlino workshop this Dec. 1-4.  Come study with master artist David Shevlino in Northern California.  David is a highly sought after workshop instructor around the nation and is known for his down-to-earth teaching style.  His paintings are infused with energy and expressive brushwork.  Workshop participants across the country find new meaning and  inspiration in their work after studying with him.

Sign up today and join us for this fabulous west coast workshop with David Shevlino!
Contatct Patris for more info and details.
Click here to download the flier and details.

Announcing: Salvatore Victor Gesture Drawing Seminar

David Shevlino Figure Painting Workshop: Dec. 1-4, 2016

We still have a few spots left in the upcoming David Shevlino figure painting workshop on December 1-4 2016.

Sign up now to reserve your spot and study with modern master David Shevlino.  In this workshop, you'll practice loose expressive brushwork, color mixing, value work, edge control and so much more.

We'll work alla prima from live models everyday and everyone will have the opportunity to study, learn and paint 6 hour poses -- a rare treat to have a model pose for that long in one setting!

So get your brushes, canvas, and paints ready and head our way for another fantastic workshop at the studio.  Your painting skills and knowledge base are sure to expand under the teaching of David Shevlino.

Click here to download flier with more info and details. 

Patris Studio and Gallery: The New Chapter

I write this on Thursday October 27, 2016. My angel investor and I now own Patris Studio and Gallery.  It is exactly 2 months to the very day that Micah, the realtor,  texted me that the building was going up for sale.  It is a miracle story and I am humbled and grateful that my life's dream to have Patris Studio and Gallery in Oak Park has been granted. 

 During these last two months I often prayed and poured out my tears to the Lord, my mom and Terre Johnson up in the heavenly realms and asked them for wisdom, advice and miracles to happen.

From all practical points of view, it looked like the end of Patris Studio and Gallery in Oak Park.  I didn't qualify to buy the building, I didn't have the money.  I was unable to find another studio in Oak Park no matter where I looked.  Was this the end?

I walked into church one Sunday morning, devastated at the multiple offers coming in to purchase the building.  I saw this image on the screen and knew it was time to step out in faith and trust God to do a miracle as he did in the past for David when he triumphed over Goliath. I was up against a Goliath-sized situation, but I believed that the battle for my studio could be won from the Heavenly realms. 

And on this day, Sept. 27, 2016 the heavens opened up and grace poured down like rain upon me. 

In 2012, I moved into this amazing building owned by Terre Johnson and Michael Luna.  They became my art patrons and gave me the opportunity to turn this historic building into a thriving, vibrant art center.  I will be forever grateful to both Michael and Terre for allowing me to achieve my lifes' dream.
Thank you. 

Art Revealed Show: Patris Studio and Art Gallery

The "Art Revealed Show" with Gayle Rappaport Weiland interviewing Patris

Way back in June of this year, Gayle asked me to be her guest on the Art Revealed show for sometime in October.  I've known Gayle a long time and thought this would be a fun thing to do.  I wasn't sure what my "Art Reveal" would be at that time, but thought "Oh something clever will come to mind as we get closer to the filming day."  I was busy with the studio, summer travel plans, and just trying to keep up with the day to day activities at the studio.

As the filming day neared in October, Gayle called me and I shared with her that I just saw the For Sale sign pounded into the ground outside my studio.  The Patris Studio and Gallery was being sold and I myself was not able to purchase it.  Gayle and I brainstormed ideas, and both agreed the show had to go on.

When the camera crew showed up to begin filming that October afternoon, I hugged Gayle and said, "You are never going to believe this. I have something very exciting to reveal on the "Art Revealed" show today.

Click here to see what Oak Park artist Patris is revealing on this episode of "Art Revealed."

I watched from inside the Patris Studio as they put up the FOR SALE sign

 

Patti Miller, better known as Patris Miller, stands by one of her paintings in her studio in Oak Park. Erika D. Smith esmith@sacbee.com

BY ERIKA D. SMITH

esmith@sacbee.com

Patti “Patris” Miller is known around Oak Park as the optimist. The slight woman with the can-do attitude who, for years, has approached every seemingly intractable task in the rags-to-riches neighborhood with a smile on her face.

But the day we met at Old Soul, her eyes were sad. Troubled even.

Within a few days, she knew a sign would be going up outside of her art studio on Second Avenue, a business she has run for almost five years in a neighborhood where she has lived for 25 years.

“For sale,” it says. What it really says is, “priced out.”

Patris Studio Gallery is about to become the latest victim of gentrification. The owners of her building are selling it, not really for profit, but for personal reasons. No matter, it’s a bittersweet pill to swallow for Miller, who moved to Oak Park back when it was overrun by drug dealers and helped lead efforts to revitalize it.

“I saw the beauty in Oak Park and now everybody sees it,” she said.

Miller is truly a victim of her own success, as are so many of the people who worked so hard and contributed so much to infuse a depressed Oak Park with new businesses and energy, only to see longtime, mostly black and brown residents being forced to leave as rents skyrocket. That’s the inescapable, double-edged sword of gentrification.

Miller isn’t black. She’s a white woman who grew up in Montana.

But if I’ve learned anything about Oak Park, it’s that it’s a neighborhood that while, yes, wasmost recently home to black Sacramentans, also has housed an eclectic mix of people of all races and ethnicities. In her time here, Miller has earned her right to call the neighborhood home.

Fresh out of college in Minneapolis in 1986, she moved to Fair Oaks at the urging of her aunt. She landed a job as a teacher for Rio Linda School District helping the children of Asian refugees. It was work she had done in college, but Miller wasn’t much of a suburbanite.

“My heart was really in the city, in the inner city,” she said. “It just so happened that this whole area was inner city at that time.”

She started renting a room in Oak Park in 1991. She loved the neighborhood so much that she bought a condemned crack house in 1996 and, along with her husband, began refurbishing it.

“The sign on the door was like, do not enter. And I’m like, we’re buying this one.”

Miller also started volunteering at a church that had a gang outreach program. Eventually, she got involved with efforts to reduce crime in the neighborhood. Lots of neighbors were banding together to establish a drug-free zone.

Her efforts evolved into stints on neighborhood advisory committees, some strategic planning panels and membership in the Oak Park business association. She joined the group that helped bring supermarket Food Source to the food desert that was on Stockton Boulevard, and she organized Oak Park’s first multicultural festival.

Back then, drug houses were on almost every corner and Miller swears women couldn’t walk down the street because people “would think you’re a prostitute.”

“We were all kind of in this challenge of trying to make our neighborhood livable,” she said. “There were a lot of friendships started.”

But Miller’s mother died in of cancer in 1997, only in her 60s. Miller began thinking about her own life and what she wanted to be known for.

“I thought, I could become an artist and use my art to showcase how beautiful I see Oak Park as.”

So she started taking art classes at Sacramento City College and went to part-time at her job. That took her to midtown, where she studied with a master artist for years, until he retired and she took over his art studio at S and 12th streets.

The desire to return to Oak Park, not just to live, but to work, led to the risky business decision to close the midtown studio and open it at the corner of 35th Street and Second Avenue.

The was no trendy La Venadita taco joint across the street then. Nor were there pricey apartments. A lot of things were on the verge of happening, but getting art students to venture just a few miles from midtown required a whole lot of convincing.

While packing, she found her old “PR binder” – a now dusty packet of documents that she stocked full of good news about Oak Park. It was the only way she could convince potential art students to come down.

“I had the map,” she said, pointing at a printout. “See, it’s not that far, really. It’s not that far.”

Also, in that binder? Her artist statement about her commitment to the neighborhood. It culminated in her “Oak Park Treasures” series – less midlife crisis than a legitimate open-ended collection of paintings of scenes in the neighborhood and just outside its boundaries.

In 2003, The Sacramento Bee captured part of Miller’s process as she dabbed green onto canvas, adding detail to the trees towering beyond the old Oak Park library building near McClatchy Park library. Over the years, she often has been seen on a sidewalk, standing over an easel.

Last week, Miller read aloud what she once wrote. “My greatest aspiration is to support the renaissance of this neighborhood and invite others to enjoy the treasures of Oak Park.”

The irony.

Miller’s not mad about it. She is a little sad, though. A GoFundMe page has been set up to help save her studio.  click here to visit the Go Fund Me Page

“I understand there are forces beyond my control, but I’m still going to hang onto my vision as much as I can.”

Miller paused, watching her two small dogs weave through the studio cluttered with paintings and easels to bark and chase the shadow of a man on the sidewalk.

“My vision as an artist is to be not just an artist for myself, but an art resource for the greater community. How do I balance wanting to stay in the neighborhood, but maybe being priced out of my neighborhood?”

Erika D. Smith: 916-321-1185, @Erika_D_Smith

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/erika-d-smith/article100075152.html#storylink=cpy

Go Fund Me is still trending "Save Patris Studio!"

Read the exciting updates and news by clicking on the link below to go to our Go Fund Me page.  

https://www.gofundme.com/2n8xgexd

Please consider if you'd like to join us in supporting this campaign and join in the story that will be told in it's fullness once everything is finalized.

We are continuing to move forward and figure out how to bring this amazing story to it's complete grand finale!  Stay tuned for the gratitude party and come celebrate with us.  Date and time to be determined.

Here's a short video that so beautifully captures what Patris Studio and Gallery is about: artists, music, community, friendships, a place where people can connect with their creative side and with each other.

https://funds.gofundme.com/dashboard

Paint and Sip: Dia de los Muertos Paint and Sip event

Paint and Sip: Dia de los Muertos Paint and Sip event: Click here to sign up and pay on eventbrite DATE AND TIME Thursday, October 20, 2016 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM LOCATION Patris St...

Ignat Ignatov Portrait Painting workshop this weekend

Setting up the studio in preparation for Ignat Ignatov's portrait painting demo.  His demo will kick off our 3-day alla prima portait painting workshop.  We are so excited to have this internationally known artist come up from LA to teach us!

Some of Ignat's demos are available for artists to see.  His amazing use of color, expressive brushwork, and technical skills combine together to create these gorgeous portraits.  His own DVD is available for purchase as well.

Some more examples of his demos for students to see and learn from.  This will be a fantastic 3 days of learning from such a highly accomplished artist.