Painting Under the Tuscan

The Fine Arts League of the Carolinas is once again pleased to return to Italy with a trip to Tuscany between the dates of May 19 through May 27. Based in Lucignano, a small Medieval hill town located south of Florence, our guests will comfortably lodge just outside the town walls in old world Villas with kitchens, modern rooms with baths, and a swimming pool.

Lucignano is centrally located in the heart of the Chianti region for day excursions to surrounding Tuscan destinations. Our guests simply have to open their door and step out each morning to draw or paint the Tuscan landscape surrounded by Olive Groves and overlooking Cortona.

If a day trip is what you want, no worries, a member of The Fine Arts League staff will lead a visit to one of the surrounding towns to draw, paint or sightsee. Morning drawing and painting instruction is available and will be led by Fine Arts League instructors John Dempsey and Christopher Holt. Afternoon drawing or painting sessions are accompanied by founder Ben Long. Participants will be instructed in the rendering of the Italian landscape and architecture.

For more information, please contact the Fine Arts League of the Carolinas at (828) 252-5050.

SPRING CLASSES begin JANUARY 23rd 2012

Welcoming back - BEN LONG! Ben will be here for the 12 week Spring Semester at the Fine Arts League of the Carolinas, the school which he founded to teach Portrait Painting. We welcome the advanced Artist to join Ben along with other Master's Apprentice students from the Fine Arts League to share in the wisdom of a living Master. For more information on the Spring courses being offered at the Fine Arts League of the Carolinas, please visit our website at: www.FineArtsLeague.org or telephone: (828) 252-5050.

The Fine Arts League of the Carolinas is a small and very unique school dedicated to teaching in the style of the 'old masters'. We draw and paint from life. If you choose to become a full time Student, enrolling in our Master's Apprentice course - you will learn everything from mixing your own pigments, stretching your canvas, fundamental drawing, painting people and landscapes to staging and having your own gallery show.

One of our students, Renee Whisnant will have her Opening this coming Thursday, January 19th from 5 pm until 8 pm at the Fine Arts League Gallery in the Historic Grove Arcade in downtown Asheville, North Carolina. We welcome you to attend.

Into My Space, Paintings and Drawing by Renee Whisnant

Into MY SPACE

Paintings & Drawings

by Renee Whisnant

Opening Reception

Thursday January 19th 5-8 pm

The Fine Arts League Gallery, Grove Arcade

1 Page Ave., Ste. 115, Asheville, NC 28801

INFO:  (828) 252-5050 or

info@fineartsleague.org

SPRING 2012 ART CLASSES at the Fine Arts League of the Carolinas

FINE ARTS LEAGUE CLASS SCHEDULE — SPRING 2012

Spring Semester begins: January 23—April 20, 2012

MORNING: 10 AM TO 1 PM

Fresco/ Roger Nelson (Fridays 10 am - 5 pm)

Fundamental Drawing/ Mark Henry (Tuesdays & Thursdays 10 am - 1 pm)

Fundamental Painting/ Mark Henry (Tuesdays & Thursdays 10 am - 1 pm)

Anatomy/Michael Smith (Mondays & Wednesdays 10 am - 1 pm)

Etching/ John Dempsey (Fridays 10 am - 1 pm)

Cast Drawing/John Dempsey (Tuesdays & Thursdays 10 am - 1 pm)

Landscape/Still Life/Rebecca King (Mondays & Wednesdays 10 am - 1 pm)

Artistic Anatomy/Michael Smith (Mondays & Wednesdays 10 am - 1 pm)

Sculpture/Felix Valez (Fridays 10 am - 5 pm)

Portrait Drawing/John Dempsey (Tuesdays & Thursdays 10 am - 1 pm)

AFTERNOON: 2 PM TO 5 PM

 

Fresco/ Roger Nelson (continued from 10 am - 5 pm)

Figure and Portrait/John Dempsey-Ben Long (Mondays & Wednesdays 2 pm - 5 pm)

Landscape-Still Life John Mac Kah (Tuesdays & Wednesdays 2 pm - 5 pm)

Pastels/ Mark Henry (Fridays 2 pm - 5 pm)

Long Pose Figure/Roger Nelson (Thursdays 2 pm - 5 pm)

Materials/JP Sullivan (Mondays 2 pm - 5 pm)

Advanced Landscape/Still Life Painting/John Mac Kah (Wednesdays 2 pm - 5 pm)

Watercolor/Christopher Holt (Tuesdays 2 pm - 5 pm)

Long Pose Figure/Michael Smith (Mondays 2 pm - 5 pm)

Advanced Landscape/Still Life PaintingJohn Mac Kah (Mondays & Wednesdays 2 pm - 5 pm)

AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM: 4:30 - 6:30 PM

 

(Feb. 2, 9, 16, 23, 31)

CLASS 1:

Intermediate Oil Painting. Instructor: TBA (Thursdays 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm)

CLASS 2:

Sculpture. Instructor: TBA (Thursdays 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm)

(Jan.31, Feb.7, 14, 21, 28)

CLASS 1:

Fun With Fresco/Instructor: TBA (Tuesdays 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm)

CLASS 2:

Learn to Draw Anatomy like DaVinci/Instructor TBA (Tuesdays 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm)

EVENING CLASSES: 6 PM TO 9 PM

Portrait Painting/Roger Nelson (Thursdays 6 pm - 9 pm)

Anatomy/Michael Smith (Tuesdays & Wednesdays 6 pm - 9 pm)

Portrait Painting/Roger Nelson (Thursdays & Fridays 6 pm - 9 pm)

OPEN DRAWING

(Mondays & Thursdays 7- 9 PM)

Live Model

$5/FALC Students

$7/Public

For more information on classes, visit our website at www.FineArtsLeague.org or call (828) 252-5050

HOLIDAY EVENTS & MORE :: Fine Arts League of the Carolinas | MyNewsletterBuilder

HOLIDAY EVENTS & MORE :: Fine Arts League of the Carolinas | MyNewsletterBuilder

Storyteller - Sarah Larson

FINE ARTS LEAGUE of the CAROLINAS

invites you or your children or grandchildren to join

Storyteller - Sarah Larson

DATE: DECEMBER 21ST @ 7 PM

WHERE: Fine Arts League of the Carolinas Gallery

Historic Grove Arcade, 1 Page Ave., Asheville, NC 28801

Delicious Holiday Treats for children & adults will be served!

Cost: FREE -Donations or Love Offering Welcomed!

Sarah Larson is the Founder Director of Stories on Asheville’s Front Porch and a teacher of storytelling to over 3,000 adults.  Her stories are often of the universal and from the Global Village to delight, entertain, and bring awe and wonder. 

She was a member of the People to People Storytelling Delegation to South Africa.  Currently she teaches storytelling at the NCCCR College for Seniors and leads workshops on Using Storytelling to Improve Your Writing and on memoir.

She particularly enjoys telling to audiences who participate in the telling. 

An appreciator of narrative in written or oral form she encourages others to gather the threads of memory to tell their stories whether entertaining listening family members or by writing their memoirs. She has published her story in Memoir: bloomies & me.

“Our newspapers and history books record our nation’s story, 

but who if not you will give witness to yours?”

FINE ARTS LEAGUE of the CAROLINAS GALLERY

1 Page Avenue ~ Asheville, NC 28801 ~ (828) 252-5050 (School #) www.FineArtsLeague.org

Mark your Calendar

SPRING CLASSES for 2012

begin January 23rd, 2012

Registration is going on NOW!

To discover more about the course offerings, please refer to our website at: www.FineArtsLeague.org

or call (828) 252-5050

We welcome back the founder of the school, Ben Long

who will be teaching Portraiture

You may read more about Ben Long on our website and his site at:  www.benlongfineart.comhttp://www.benlongfineart.com/

After School Youth Classes are also offered for those ages 9 to 15. For a full listing of those classes, click on the tab Youth Classes for more information.

For those of you who are unaware of the school, please note that we are a non-profit art school dedicated to teaching in the style of the 'old masters' - classical realism.

We also have a Gallery located in downtown Asheville in the Historic Grove Arcade.

We look forward to seeing you!