Announcing: Summer Art Classes @ Patris Studio

June Painting and Drawing Opportunities 
@ Patris Studio

Summer Painting Classes:


From Start To Finish

oil painting by Abigail VanCannon

Abigail VanCannon will be here in the studio for a June class series on Thursdays from 10 am - 1 pm. called from "Start to Finish."

Thursdays June 8, 15, 22, 29
10 am - 1 pm
$30 per class

Please RSVP and pay in advance for each class session in order to ensure 5 students minimum for class to be held.

Tuition may be sent to Abigail via Patris Studio, 3460 2nd Ave, Sac CA 95817

 click here to download flier



Continuing Beginner's Watercolor Class with Teresa Steinbach
Fridays in June
June 9, 16, 23, and 30
10 am to noon
$120 for 4 classes and includes materials
individual classes may be purchased as well.

Intro to Urban Plein Air Class
Patris will teach a beginning level class on the basics of urban plein air painting for artists interested in working on location in an urban setting.

Don't have the supplies or equipment?  No Problem!!! Materials, equipment and supplies provided!
Friday June 2
9:30 am - 1 pm
$40 per person  ($35 if you bring all your own supplies and equipment)

Scott Martin Abstract Figure Oil Painting Classes
Wednesdays 
10 - 1 pm
$35 

Using various techniques and methods, students will explore ways to interpret the human figure in a fresh, bold, and exciting way. 








Urban Plein Air, lunch and critique session hosted by Patris Studio and Gallery
PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE:

Friday June 23
9 am - 2 pm
free!
Join us for an urban plein air painting excursion around the Patris Studio, enjoy a no host lunch at a nearby restaurant, and then head back to the studio for an afternoon critique session and constructive conversation about the successes and  challenges of painting the urban landscape.
Contact Patris to register. 



Drawing Fundamentals Mini Workshop with Patris
"The Laws of Light"
July 8, 2017
10 am - 1 pm
$35

Fabulous workshop with Craig Nelson!

It was an honor to have highly acclaimed artist, author and teacher come to Patris Studio and teach a Quick Studies Workshop this April 2017.  Artists from near and far flocked to our bustling studio for the opportunity to study and learn from this modern master. 

Utilizing live models, still life set ups, and beautiful landscape photos, we painted  and painted and painted.  At the end of the day, we were tired but completely energized! 

Here's a quick studies demo by Craig, showing how he interprets the photo with lively brush work and impasto paint.  Just watching him paint is amazing!  We were all inspired to take on the challenges of the painting process after watching Craig's demo.

A very good workshop indeed.  We are hoping he will find time in his busy schedule to come back to Patris Studio again!

Announcing April 1 Figure Drawing Seminar

Join us! Painting Class Thursday March 23, 2017

Painting Class this Thursday with Kris Bybee filling in as our guest artist instructor while Abigail VanCannon is on maternity leave.  Bring your art supplies, a favorite photo, a work in progress or work from a still life provided by the studio.  

painting by Kris Bybee

Class time is 10 am to 2 pm

lunch break around noon

class fee: $35

Get inspired. Get rewired. Kris Bybee is a well known and popular instructor from the Sacramento area and a highly accomplished artist who has a wealth of knowledge and expertise to share with her students. 

Her resume includes:

 • Fine artist, exhibiting regionally since 1992

•  Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, Calif. Art instructor, 2011-present 

 • Art instructor, Cosumnes River College, Sacramento, (2000-2013) 

• Part-time instructor, California State University, Sacramento (1998, 2004) 

• Business owner, The Visual Studio, fine arts and graphic design (1995-present) 

Let's paint!

Marilyn Rose 2 Week Painting Class Starts March 2

click here to download suggested supply list

Rembrandt Special Dark Roast Coffee now available!

We have our first shipment of Rembrandt Special Dark roast coffee at Patris Studio.  It's my favorite!!  Full of flavor with a smooth finish and the perfect way to kick start my morning.  Our coffee is locally roasted, packed with flavor, and always fresh.  

Because everyone deserves a great cup of coffee!

 Crazy Artist Coffee Medium Roast and Rembrandt Special Dark roast available for pick up at Patris Studio.  $12 per bag. 

Drawing Fundamental Workshop with Patris March 11, 2017

First shipment of Crazy Artist Coffee has arrived at Patris Studio

Everyone deserves a great cup of coffee!
Patris Studio and Gallery is now featuring their own private label Crazy Artist Blend--available in medium and dark roast.  Freshly roasted by a local roasting company, we are currently featuring 2 blends:

• A medium roast with caramel undertones and a nice finish

• A dark European roast, rich and bold with a non bitter lingering aftertaste

Our first shipment of freshly roasted Crazy Artist Coffee has arrived and is available for pick up at Patris Studio and Gallery.  Get yours today--our supply is going quickly! 

Crazy Artist Coffee

available at Patris Studio and Gallery

$12 a bag

Get yours today!

Announcing: Craig Nelson Quick Studies Workshop April 7-9, 2017

Craig Nelson Quick Studies Workshop

painting by Craig Nelson

Patris Studio is honored to host nationally acclaimed and award-winning artist and teacher Craig Nelson for a Quick Studies workshop April 7 - 9, 2017.  Craig is the author of "60 Minutes to Better Painting" and teaches painting and drawing at he Academy of Art College in San Francisco, where he is the Department Director of Fine Art.

His Quick Studies Workshop will focus on the quick painting process, editing, building brush confidence, compositional variations,  and many other topics designed to help artists of all levels improve their general painting ability and skill levels.  Participants will work from a variety of source materials including still life set ups, photo reference, and live models. 

click here to download flier

painting by Craig Nelson

painting by Craig Nelson

                                             

Where: Patris Studio and Art Gallery”

3460 2^nd Avenue

Sacramento, CA 95817

Time: 10 am – 5 pm

Tuition: $395 (includes model fee)

 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.  

Balance due at beginning of workshop.

Registration and Cancellation Policy:

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

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  
click here to download flier

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.