Evening Programs offer artists the opportunity to concentrate on skill development in specific areas of realist drawing and painting. Students experience focused study in small, intensive groups led by professional artists. Courses and lectures are conducted at Studio Incamminati’s main studios in Center City, Philadelphia. Evening Program participants and alumni receive invitations to lectures and special events at Studio Incamminati. Each program runs for 12 consecutive weeks, with one extra week for any make-up days. Enrollment is limited to first-come, first-served.

Evening Program participants and alumni also receive invitations to lectures and special events at Studio Incamminati. All are welcome to join Professional Program artists in Open Studio sessions most Sundays from 1–4 p.m.

Painting the Portrait
Kerry Dunn
Mondays, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Jan. 9 - March 26

Tuition $499

A basic painting process - provided and followed in class - gives an ideal platform to further explore universal visual principles. Students analyze the subject of portraiture through the following concepts: shape, value, color, edges, paint handling and the conceptual understanding of light on form.

Students progress from linear drawing to blocking-in, tonal painting and finally to full color painting with poses ranging from 3 hours to 12 hours. Instruction is given at the students' easels and through demonstrations and lectures.

 Kerry Dunn, a instructor at Studio Incamminati, received a 2009 Portrait Society of America Certificate of Excellence. His works have been exhibited in numerous group exhibitions and hang in numerous collections.

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Figure Drawing in Graphite
Darren Kingsley
Tuesdays, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.

Jan. 10 - March 27
Tuition $499

The program goal is to offer artists the chance to push a drawing to the highest possible level in the time allotted. Students begin with one-hour, block-in drawings for the first day, learning to see the figure as a whole and to clearly develop proper proportions and gesture in a linear way.  From there, studentsl begin the long pose. This drawing is for eight nights and is developed to completion, starting with a loose gesture drawing and progressing to a highly finished, fully modelled figure drawing. Proper proportion, beautiful gesture, correct anatomy and an understanding of simple and complex forms are stressed throughout.

Darren Kingsley won the 2000 American Society of Classical Realism scholarship. His works hang in the Union League of Philadelphia as well as other numerous private collections.

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Alla Prima Painting
Natalie Italiano
Wednesdays, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Jan. 11 – March 28

Tuition $499

Alla Prima, also called “direct painting,” translates from the Italian as “at first go.” Characterized by expressive, painterly brushwork, Alla Prima paintings are completed wet-on-wet in one session.  During each class students complete several studies or one portrait. Exercises include both limited and full-color palettes. Concepts covered include: anatomical landmarks, basic planes of the head, values, color relationships, edges and paint handling. Concepts and methods of figurative painting taught at Studio Incamminati are covered including “grisaille,” “duo tone” and color study, and are explained by instructor demonstrations and examples. The goal of Alla Prima painting is to achieve a final look in one session and to develop a greater understanding and facility of painting process and editing.

Instructor Natalie Italiano studied with Nelson Shanks and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She received a Certificate of Excellence from the Portrait Society of America’s International Portrait Competition, and has been juried into numerous shows including the Salon International of the Greenhouse Gallery and c the Oil Painters of America Eastern Regional Exhibition. Her portrait and still life paintings are in numerous collections. She has completed 65 paintings for her current  project “One Hundred Alla Prima Portraits of American Teenagers”, which can be seen at  www.natalieitaliano.blogspot.com. 

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Color Studies: Still Life and Figure
JaFang Lu
Thursdays, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Jan.12 – March 29

Tuition $499

When the impressionists took their paint boxes outside to paint, they discovered that the shadows are not shades of brown and gray as had been painted by their predecessors. In the fleeting sunsets and sunrises, Monet discovered that the same haystack took on different colors and painted it the way he saw it.

At its core, one’s reaction to color is visceral and intuitive. How can one then systematically study and learn the use of color in painting? The best approach is through understanding color relationships. The best way to understand color relationships in the context of painting is through doing series of color studies.

Students discuss the concept, purpose, and process of color study in depth. More importantly students will have the opportunity to do many color studies. Initially, they will work from the same still life set ups together, so as to observe how they each paint the same set up differently and learn from each other. As they understand the process better, they will then move on to setting up their own still life arrangement and working from it. As the class progresses, we will discuss issues such as paint layering and treatment of edge relationships.

Jafang Lu was awarded a Merit Scholarship at the Art Students League of New York. She holds a Bachelors of Art from the City College of New York University.

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