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Introducing you to a workshop/course to be presented at Bapea by friend and colleague Philip Altmann.
Mindfulness is an awareness strategy of particular interest to the artist in reinforcing an unwavering commitment to their practice.

“ … A work of art is a concrete spiritual manifestation. In the exterior world only the physical aspect of an object strikes us. The spirit is hidden, mysterious, and we have to make an effort to reveal it.”
Citation: Albert Gleizes, French artist, theoretician and philosopher who influenced the School of Paris and in 1912 co-authored the first major treatise on Cubism, Du “Cubisme”.

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Life Drawing class

Meet the challenge of drawing the shapes you’ve always struggled with! Drawing in proportion with good form and structure is a lot easier than you think. You’ll quickly develop your modelling skills through a comprehensive overview of drawing approaches to the figure.

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SALA Art Cafe

Every Sunday afternoon for the duration of SALA Festival 2013 Bapëa Art School & Studios presented Bapëa Art Café with artist-talks and live music. Visual artists on this year’s SALA program exhibiting in the locality discuss their work to a backdrop of innovative music performed by top jazz students from the Elder Conservatorium in Adelaide.

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Big Flesh: Master class Figure and Portrait Painting in oils

5 day summer workshop The content of this workshop is painting the figure and portrait from observation. Big Flesh focuses on physical, gestural processes, brushwork and refined chromatic movement within the representational rendering of the subject. To achieve these outcomes, Big Flesh looks towards large-scale canvases emphasising major fundamental shapes that establish relationships between form, texture and surface in painting…