L'Atelier aux Couleurs

[http://www.acartacademy.com l'Atelier aux Couleurs: the Art Academy] , also known as the "Tin Barn School", is an art school in California, founded by [Camille Przewodek studied with Henry Hensche at the Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown, Massachusetts from 1980 to 1985. She also studied with Jove Wang from 2001 to 2006 and with Cedric Egeli from 2000 to 2005. She has also studied with Dan Gerhartz, Mark Daily, Peggi Kroll-Roberts and Ray Roberts. She is a signature member of the Laguna Plein Air Painters, the Oil Painters of America, the American Impressionist Society and an artist member of the California Art Club. ] Camille Przewodek and [Carole Gray-Weihman was born in 1967 in Northern California. In 1999, she merged painting studios with Camille Przewodek. The studio, "l'Atelier aux Couleurs" became an art space for teaching, painting, and selling their work. In 2002, she founded l'Atelier aux Couleurs: Plein Air Painting Tours in Petaluma, California. In 2003, she co-founded with Camille Przewodek, l'Atelier aux Couleurs: the Art Academy, "A Master Plein Air Program" in Petaluma, California. In 2004, she took on the position of San Francisco & Northern Ca. Regional Editor for "Plein Air" Magazine, currently known as "Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine". She has studied portrait painting with renowned master painters Cedric Egeli and his wife Joanette, former students of Henry Hensche, at their home in Edgewater, Maryland and at the Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown Massachusetts since 1999. She studied landscape painting with master painter Joseph Mendez, former student of Sergei Bongart, in Southern California and in Madrid, Spain from 2000-2003. On occasion, she attended still-life painting sessions locally with Frank Gannon, another former student of Henry Hensche. She has also studied at the Scottsdale Artists' School Off-Site Workshops with Gay Faulkenberry, Jean Perry, George Strickland, Peggi Kroll-Roberts, Ray Roberts, Skip Whitcomb, Kenn Backhaus and John Budicin. She has also extensively studied the "Hawthorne-Hensche Principle" with her mentor, Camille Przewodek , also a former student of Henry Hensche, from 1996 to 2006. ] Carole Gray-Weihman in 2003. The school is housed in the old downtown section of Petaluma, California in the actual painting studio that they share. In 2007, artist [Alfredo Tofanelli was born in 1957. He's an Italian-American native of northern California who received his Fine Arts degree from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. While at Art Center he studied under Craig Nelson, Peter Liashkov, Dan McCaw and John Asaro. More recently he has studied with Plein Air Painters of America members Joseph Mendez, Ken Backhaus, Skip Whitcomb, Ray Roberts and also Peggi Kroll-Roberts. For the past two years he has been studying color with Camille Przewodek and Carole Gray-Weihman in Petaluma where he now has his studio. ] Alfredo Tofanelli became a partner.

[http://www.acartacademy.com L'atelier aux Couleurs: the Art Academy] is unique in that it only offers painting classes and workshops by experienced premier plein air painters of today- painters of a diverse background, some who are classically trained and others who have been protégés of well known master painters.

L’atelier aux Couleurs workshops focus on painting landscapes, still-lifes and models from life, so attention is placed primarily on painting en plein air. Their workshops take place on location painting landscapes, village or town scenes and an occasional model or still-life outdoors. At times, emphasis is on indoor models or still-lifes with either artificial or natural light.

The workshop instructors strive to teach newcomers as well as experienced painters their own approach to painting en plein air. The teachers at l'Atelier aux Couleurs concentrate on working individually with students in order to maximize individual learning. Students come away more aware of surroundings, the effect of light and its movement, color shifts of warm and cool, and how design occurs naturally. The instructors’ focus is utilizing value, color, soft and hard edges, using the correct color palette for the conditions of the day and time, simplifying nature and seeing the big shapes, and various visual approaches to aid in producing a successful painting. For the advanced student that has a firm grasp of the mechanics of painting, the instructors will demonstrate the important elements of mood, passion and attitude that make a good painting even better. The students of l'Atelier aux Couleurs learn to see the big picture, knowing exactly what it is he or she is trying to achieve with their painting. Their goal is to not only provide the student with the highest caliber instruction, but also inspiration and a maintained level of excitement for painting that will carry them far beyond their workshop experiences.

Visiting Master Painters who have taught and continue to teach at l'Atelier aux Couleurs: Skip Whitcomb, Ray Roberts, Peggi Kroll-Roberts, Gay Faulkenberry and John Ebersberger.

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