TAFA sets stage for 360 West Weddings Photo Shoot
It’s all about “location, location, location!’ And for the 360 West Weddings Spring 2015 edition, TAFA is prime real estate. Photographer Ralph Lauer set up shop in TAFA’s studio and gallery space – the perfect spot for hip, urban, artsy wedding photos. The luminous light in TAFA’s soon-to-open gallery makes the perfect backdrop for the beautiful bride. TAFA […]
Arttalk Conversation: Composition
Tuesday afternoons, nestled between figure drawing and Anatomy class, TAFA students gather together for Arttalk – informal meetings to discuss realist art. This semester the main topic of conversation is composition. Each week a theme for composition is drawn randomly – last week it was the lofty, “Creation of Man.” Students Michael Pianta and Shelly Hubel demonstrated direction of movement through figurative images. The original compositions […]
Portrait Anatomy and Drawing Lab
TAFA Evening Courses Begin! Our day-time program is underway with 18 students this term! However, beginning next week on January 20th, 2015, TAFA is offering 11-week evening courses on Tuesdays from 6.30pm-8.30pm and Thursdays from 6pm-9pm. Tuesday Portrait Anatomy: This course is designed for artists – both painters and sculptors – to learn the fundamentals of […]
Harvard Magazine Publishes Director’s Painting
Our Director Ron Cheek had his painting Woman with a Burden published in the Harvard Medicine summer issue. The painting appears as a full-page entry in the article “Body Language.” Mr. Cheek painted Woman with a Burden in 2010 from a live model at the TAFA studio. The article talks about personal stories of people in the […]
Douglas B. Clark Studio Tour
Tuesday afternoon TAFA students visited the home and studio of artist Douglas B. Clark. Doug showed his bronze animal sculptures and talked to us about the tools and methods of sculpture. He also shared his collection of Indian art along with his impressive collection of paintings by himself, his father, local artists and friends. These images are of Doug’s clay sculptures that will be cast […]
Ann Ekstrom Studio Visit
Last week the TAFA ARTTALK group toured the studio of Texas artist Ann Ekstrom, a second generation painter in Fort Worth. TAFA students enjoyed seeing her colorful, realist-style paintings of objects hanging throughout her art studio that was once a grocery store. Ann spoke about her intimate connection to color and the objects represented in her paintings. She mentioned technical details about paint materials which the students […]
TAFA visits Oklahoma City Museum of Art
This past summer TAFA students and guests visited the Oklahoma City Museum of Art to see the exhibit Gods & Heros: Masterpieces from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris (http://www.okcmoa.com/see/exhibitions/gods-and-heroes/). The exhibit showcased the Ecole des Beaux Arts paintings and drawings by masters including Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, François Boucher, and William Bouguereau, among others. The students […]
Monday Drawing Lab…
Our first Figure Drawing Lab was held last night! It was a dynamic action pose that we chose. Our students explored new approaches and mediums like this sepia and sanguine drawing from Micael Pianta. The figure drawing lab is open to all levels of ability and experience. Be a part of the TAFA community and come […]
Anatomical Figure Drawing!
Spend your evenings at TAFA … Beginning this week TAFA is offering an 11 week evening course on Monday/Wednesday from 6.30pm-8.30pm. The format is as follows: Monday Figure Drawing Lab: the Figure Lab is designed to compliment the Anatomy course and it is a non-instructed time for artists to draw from the figure for multi-day poses that will […]
TAFA Art Talk!
Tuesday evenings the TAFA studio becomes our version of the Salon-era café. Sitting in the middle of the studio and sharing drinks and snacks, we—the students, faculty, and local artists—discuss issues related to contemporary realist art. Topics of discussion arise organically most weeks, but once in a while we start off with a plan. Someone might […]