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Freeman's Auction and Studio Incamminati - Opening Reception April 15, 2011
Studio Incamminati instructors Lea Wight and Natalie Italiano Studio Incamminati is having a week long celebration of art at Freeman's Auction in Philadelphia, 1808 Chestnut Street, April 15-21, 2011....
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Nelson Shanks Demonstration at Freeman's Auction April 2011
Nelson Shanks gave a demonstration at Freeman's auction this week as part of the weeklong celebration of Studio Incamminati at Freeman's. This included an exhibition of Studio Incamminati art work, a...
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David Shevlino at Rosenfeld Gallery
Philadelphia artist David Shevlino will have a show of paintings and drawings at the Rosenfeld Gallery in May. The opening reception is Sunday, May 1, from 12 until 5pm. The exhibition continues until...
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Jen Hagen's Level 1 Color Study Class
This is a color study set up from yesterday's Level 1 Color Study class, taught by Jen Hagen. Jen assisting Simmy Pell with a color study of two blocks. Students will complete 2 studies during this...
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Bridging the Gap Studio Incamminati attends Opening Reception for ACOPAL...
On an early Wednesday afternoon Studio Incamminati students and instructors visited the opening in Grammercy Park , New York of the recently formed ACOPAL organization. This group began as the idea...
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Nelson Shanks Exhibit at the State Museum in Russia
Katya Hald painting at the Repin Academy. Nelson's painting in progress is on the right.Nelson and Leona Shanks paint at Repin's Academy in St. Petersburg.Alexander, Leona, Nelson and Annalisa Shanks...
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Remembering Claudio Bravo 1936-2011
"Circe" by Claudio Bravo, oil on canvas, 1986 Claudio Bravo, a Chilean-born artist whose technically dazzling trompe-l’oeil paintings of paper-wrapped packages and draped cloth blended hyperrealism and...
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Article 17
Paintings fron top counter-clockwise: Peter Kelsey, Katya Held, Rob Goodman Well, here we are, in the fall of 2011, already into the second month of the school year. Three new Fellowships were awarded...
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Where are you?
I have had many discussions with artists over the years, especially here at Incamminati, about their personal dialogue with themselves, about themselves, as artists, as persons. Perhaps a few do not...
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Article 15
Why do we paint?A friend and colleague of mine once observed that I like to have fun…..that is absolutely the truth. I have often said to students that if you are not having fun, you are doing...
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How To Paint
Oops…..sorry….I hope you didn’t think that this was going to be a cheap discourse on how to do a sketch of Obama….or how to draw eyes perfectly each time.I was thinking more about how to get truly...
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Hello, I'll Be Your Waiter This Evening.......Even Though I Am A Highly...
The Soul Stirrers Oil on canvas 30" x 40"So........how to sustain oneself as an artist? Lots of ways.....you're an artist....get creative. Sure, there is always the gallery approach, which I have...
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Why Realism?
The other day I was listening to Philadelphia's public radio station, WHYY, and Lloyd Swartz was giving a review of the Willem de Kooning exhibit at the MoMA in New York. He quoted the artist as...
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Nelson Shanks: "The Portrait as Fine Art"
This is a seven minute video of Nelson Shanks talking about portrait painting. Enjoy! Happy Holidays and a creative and Happy New Year from Studio Incamminati.
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The sweet sounds of artistic success
Recently, Studio Incamminati and the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra celebrated another successful year filled with visual arts creation and education and musical education and performance. They joined...
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Do Re Mi
I have been thinking about the importance of the basics, and how we practice them here at Incamminati over and over. A level one student does one-minute gestures all first semester and even into the...
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Fun, Fun, FUN!!!!!!!!!!
"Sometimes I'm working on a film and someone will ask me if I'm having fun. And I'm tempted to tell them the truth: No, absolutely not. Having no fun here at all. You know what's going to be fun? When...
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That's the wrong color!!!!!!! ??????????
“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.” Alice Walker,author of The Color Purple "I have observed a number of works which actually lead one...
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Article 6
Stealing this idea from my own blog(http://robinfreyblog.blogspot.com/):"It is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life, and it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without...
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Article 5
OMG!!!!!!I just had the most in-depth, lengthy fantabulous phone conversation with Nelson, about FINISHING A PAINTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have known Nelson since 1987 when I met him at the Art...
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