AVAILABLE PRIVATE CLASSES FOR PROFESSIONAL AND NON-PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS

INSTRUCTOR: Peter M. Eller – BFA and MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute
STUDIO: 2339 Third street #22, San Francisco, CA 94107; phone/fax 415-776- 4986
e-mail: pell52@earthlink.net; pell52@petereller.net; website: www.petereller.net

1. Drawing class for beginners – non-professional: Have Fun with Drawing Techniques and break the barriers
   10 sessions x 3 hours each. $400.00
   Goal: Break the barriers of drawing abilities to express yourself in visual language.
2. Drawing class for beginners – Basics for professionals #1
   10 sessions X 3 hours each : $420.00 including one class with a model. Class is limited to 5 students.
   Goal: Achieve knowledge of basic visual language-object, subject, concept and form, composition and drawings skills in still life and landscape.
3. Drawing class for beginners – Basics for professionals #2
   10 sessions X 3 hours each: $420.00 including one class with a model. Class is limited to 5 students.
   Goal: Achieve knowledge of the basic visual language-object, subject, concept and form, composition and drawings skills in portrait.
4. Drawing class for beginners – Basics for professionals #3
   10 sessions X 3 hours each: $420.00 including one class with a model. Class is limited to 5 students.
   Goal: Achieve knowledge of the basic visual language - object, subject, concept and form, composition and drawings skills in portrait and figure, basic colors, anatomy, skeleton and figure dynamics.
5. Painting for professionals – 3 students maximum
   10 sessions x 3 hours $600.00
   Goal: Developing your unique style.
6. Critique seminar One on One sessions
   This meeting is by appointment only for 1 to 3 hours. $50.00 per hour.
   Bring your work, or invite me to your studio. The discussion-tutorial is to discover the way for you to reach your next level of developing your art.
7. Consulting time for art students, candidates for art colleges and academies in Drawing, Painting and Sculpture. One on one sessions. $50.00 per hour.

About the Instructor

Peter Eller is a well-known San Francisco artist who works in oil painting, mixed media and sculptures in traditional and nontraditional materials. His works hang in many private collections as well as a number of corporate, commercial and industrial properties and museums. His most recent major shows ware at the prestigious Chicago Old Town Show in June and Tempe, AZ in December 2007. He participates in-group art exhibits throughout California, nationwide and abroad.

Before receiving his master’s degree from the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), he was in the art world and he had already sold many paintings and sculptures here and in Europe. He began his art training in Soviet-controlled Bulgaria, acquiring a comprehensive knowledge of materials and techniques in the tradition of Old-World craftsmen–masters. Later he escaped into Western Europe and America, seeking personal and artistic freedom. He serves as a Professor of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture at the University of San Francisco, and also teaches private students.

ANNOUNCEMENT – NEW CLASS FOR NON-PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS

A MESSAGE FROM THE TEACHER

I am offering a class for non-professional artists who want to escalate their power to create and communicate through their art. In this class we will pursue three vital questions:

1. Why? What is motivating or has motivated you to create this particular piece of an art? What idea must the final work convey? The Concept, the Idea the Content
2. How? How can you use your knowledge and skill to present that concept? The Form
3. What? What is the real subject? What must the final work include – or exclude? The Subject

A first glance at any work of art tells us a lot about its time period by what we call “style”. But the keystone artistic achievements, from the Lascaux caves to present day art, testify to the great artist’s knowledge of human perception. In this sense, art is a science, derived from the nature of the human eye and the human brain. We will study that science and integrate it into each student’s personal style.

The elements of the artistic visual language are simple – line, form, space, color, texture, shape. Whatever your style, you speak to the viewer using these artistic language elements. You will learn how to select and modify those elements to achieve your purpose.

This class will enhance your ability to answer the three key questions; it will give you the specific skills to make your work coherent, compelling and meaningful to the observer.

CLASS DESCRIPTION

This class is for students who are looking to break through barriers in creating art. The student only needs to bring his/her own interest and curiosity, passion and existing level of experience and skill. All beginning students have unseen, and generally unidentified, barriers of fear or discomfort around their art. Peter’s goal is to help identify and break through these fear barriers of each student. In this class, the less self-conscious an artist is, the more freely he or she can express his/her vision of the world. This will be a fun, experimental and entertaining class because students will proceed creating their art on their own way while beginning to integrate instructions on technique and perspective from the instructor.

In addition, many students experimenting with art have learned bad habits, which are then reinforced by repeating them over and over. Peter wants to identify and break some of the bad habits he observes, while at the same time eliciting from each student a clearer sense of defining their own personal style in their art.

For the first several class sessions, students will work on their pieces under Peter’s skilled guidance, and for the last several sessions, Peter will more actively introduce technical aspects to their methods, while helping guide the students to develop their own voice.

Any media are welcome – watercolor / oil / acrylic / mono print / pastel / collage ...

2008 CLASS SCHEDULE

Two Class Sessions Available

DATES
March 11 to May 13
Tuesdays from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Or
March 12 – May 14
Wednesdays from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm

MAXIMUM CLASS SIZE – 15 persons

LOCATION – the first class will be held at my studio: 2339 Third Street #22 San Francisco, CA 94107 Following classes will be held at a SF location, TBD

PARKING – Non-metered street parking is readily available on 3rd Street and Illinois Street between 20th and 22nd streets.

PREREQUISITE – Please bring 3 to 5 recent works in any medium to the studio at the day of the first meeting. Call 415 939- 0895 to make an appointment for a free initial consultation with the teacher.

COST – $400.00 per person for all 10 classes, which includes two sessions with a model. Price is due in full at the first class session. Additional cost for extra hours with a model, if required. You will receive individual and group instruction as you work on one or more new projects.

INTENSIVE CLASSES FOR PROFESSIONALS:
DRAWING FOR BEGINNERS #1, #2, and #3

Short Term Semester for Beginners #1 –Spring 2008

Course Description: Limited to 5 students This intensive course is equivalent to one complete semester in regular art college curriculum. It is concerned with developing creative and technical skills in drawing.

Attendance Policy: Please be responsible. Attendance is MANDATORY. Work must be done in the studio and supported with your homework. Extra time for homework, exercises and sketches is required. (around 3 hours per week)

Requirements: Portfolio, Homework, ongoing Sketchbook Attitude and Attendance, and Active Critique Participation are important attributes for the success of the course

The impulse to draw, to make a mark, is as natural as the impulse to talk.
—R. Kamler

To cancel a class: Must be an Emergency, or scheduled at least three days in advance to gain credit. Consult with instructor.

Syllabus

The schedule is subject to change, due to field trips, guest lectures, shifting directions. The course is limited to 5 students, including one session a figure model.

PLEASE CONTACT THE INSTRUCTOR FOR MORE DETAILS ABOUT THIS CLASS

Class Materials

Paper: 19" x 24" White Drawing Paper. Pad of 100 sheets, regular surface, 100 lb.
9" x 12' White Drawing Paper. Pad of 100 sheets regular surface, 100 lb.
19" x 24" black construction paper.

Pencils: 2-3 each - 2B, HB, H, Ebony, one White Prismacolor.

Charcoal: Small box compressed charcoal, 2 pkg. Vine charcoal, 6B charcoal pencils

Erasers: One gum and two Staedler erasers, one Chamois Cloth.

Ink: 1 oz. bottle of black, waterproof India ink, and one bamboo pen; Crow quill pen and range of nibs for it.

Brushes: 1 each – small round, medium round, medium flat.

Misc: Small set color pastel, small set watercolor, felt tip pens, spray fixative, Tackle box to carry your equipment, small hand mirror, Drawing board,(a masonite board large enough to carry 24” x 18” pads( Portfolio to carry drawings, Masking tape.