Summer Courses

On-Site Painting

Credit hours: 3--Contact hours: 90

Instructor: Andrew Smaldone

Dept: Art and Design

Course Description: This course introduces beginning and advanced students to the formal and technical issues of on-site painting. Students will learn to accurately and creatively render from life. The class will address the challenges and benefits posed from working on-site. Taking advantage of the city of Florence and its environs students will work primarily on location in museums, gardens and other historic locations of interest to the instructor and students. For practical reasons students will be encouraged to use only water based colors though more advanced students may choose to further develop work done on location in other medium outside of class time.
on-site instructor:Andrew Smaldone
recent work by Andrew Smaldone

Andrew Smaldone, born 1978, received a BA in Fine Art in 2001 from The George Washington University, Washington D.C., and completed his MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London in 2005. He is the recipient of numerous awards including: finalist in the Italian Celeste Art Prize and The First London International Creative Competition (both 2008), finalist of the 2nd International Painting Prize “Arte Laguna” (2007), The Art Department Prize in Painting Dimock Gallery Washington D.C. (2001), and The Presidential Arts Scholarship to attend GWU (1997-2001). In addition he co-founded the artist run magazine ArtSEEN Journal in 2005, and has recently contributed to contemporary art publications such as / Seconds and Art Review.

student work from Smaldone class