Atelier Stockholm

Open house May 25, 13:00-16:00

Fri, 10 May 2013 10:02:48 -0400

Welcome to our OPEN HOUSE at Atelier Stockholm - The Swedish Academy of Realistic Art (SARA)

May 25th 2013, 13:00-16:00

Come and spend some times with us at our school in Bergshamra Gård, in Bergshamra, Stockholm, Sweden. Meet our students and faculty. See student and faculty work in an exhibition, see a portrait demonstration, and learn about our program. Share our vision!

The school is located in a beautiful national park by Brunnsviken, just 11 minutes from T-centralen (red line towards Mörby) and a short walk from Bergshamra Södra subway exit.

Ateier Stockholm is a fine art school teaching realistic painting and drawing using long established techniques inherited down through history, as well as contemporary methods. Our unique education attracts students not only from Sweden, but from all around the world. Read more about the education on the SARA-website.

For more information, please contact us:

Telephone: (0)8 730 44 71 or email: info@atelierstockholm.se
SARA – Atelier Stockholm, Pipers väg 165, 17073 Solna, Bergshamra

Paul Tobin workshop

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 05:59:22 -0400

Approach to Rivendell (2012), by Paul Tobin

Paul Tobin spent a couple of days in April at SARA, and gave a lecture greatly appreciated both by students who leans towards working in concept art, and by students with a focus on fine art.

Paul Tobbin

Tobin is based in Wellington, New Zealand, and have been working for the better part of 10 years at Weta Workshop as a concept designer. His works with the Chronicles of Narnia, King Kong, Avatar, The Hobbit, District 9 and Tin Tin probably rings a bell for anyone interested in concept art, film or gaming.

Tobins road to his position at Weta Workshop hasn’t been the most classical one. After failing to gain entrance to any art schools, Tobin eventually pursued Ancient History and Medieval English at Victoria University Wellington, after which he travelled abroad for three years to pursue his interest in exploring and working as a volunteer archeologist. It’s obvious to the eye how his deep interest in history, society and archeology has influenced his work. Arriving back in NZ he enrolled at Massey University’s School of Design, where he spent the next four years specialising in graphic design and illustration and began building his portfolio for Weta.

Sherlock Holmes vs The White Fox Woman (2010), by Paul Tobin for Coilhouse Magazine

The motive behind bringing Tobin the school was to broaden the students horizons, and underline what elements of design which fine art can learn to apply from the world of concept art.

Miles Johnston, a SARA-student from England, spontanous reaction after the workshop is that…
- Paul has extensive experience working within the movie industry so he was able to give us a unique and exciting insight into a possible career outlet for the skills we learn at school. It was fun to put more focus on working from our imagination and definitely a challenge. Paul’s sharp eye for design was inspiring and it was a pleasure to participate!

When not working for Weta and travelling to give lectures, Tobin recently produced his first book in collaboration with 27 artists called “White Cloud Words” - An Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy Art from Aotearoa New Zealand.

We had an amazing time with Paul, and hope to see him again!

Visit his official website to keep up to date with his great work!

OPEN HOUSE - MAY 25TH, 13:00-16:00

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:22:34 -0400

Come and spend a few minutes or hours with us at our beautiful school in Bergshamra Gård in Bergshamra. Meet our students and faculty. See student and faculty work. Learn about our program. Share our vision!

APPLICATION DEADLINE FALL TERM 2013 - MAY 1ST!

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:21:00 -0400

Don’t forget that the application deadline for the Fall term 2013 is on May 1st!

NEW WEBSITE!

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 06:49:00 -0400

Visit our new website! We are very excited about our new website and hope you will enjoy looking through it. There are tons of new pictures of life at our magical school. In addition to examples of student work there are pictures of the school environment and the students at work and at play. Check it out:

http://www.atelierstockholm.se/

MAX PATTE Sculpture Workshop June 3-June 14, 2013

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 05:50:00 -0400

SARA Students Portrait Painting Group

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 09:06:31 -0500

The students at SARA have created their own after school portrait painting group. After classes are done on Tuesdays and Thursdays they stay and paint for three hours. They take turns modeling for each other and sometimes friends volunteer. Such an ambitious bunch!

Fredagsmys! (Swedish word used to describe cozy Friday evenings) We have them every week at SARA : )

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 05:08:15 -0500

On Friday nights at SARA we like to sauna after class and then watch a movie. Last week Friday we watched Team America. This past Friday we watched Richard Schmid’s The Captain’s Portrait. It was very inspiring and fun!

Chinese New Year dumpling making party at SARA!

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 09:59:16 -0500

Chinese New Year dumpling making party at SARA!

Daniel Bilmes Portrait Painting Summer Workshop

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:28:17 -0500

SARA instructor honored with important commission!

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 10:15:00 -0500

Bååtska Palatset Oskarsalen Ceiling Mural

When Bååtska Palace of Stockholm was constructed in 1662 one of the great halls for celebrations - now named the Oskar hall after the Swedish King Oskar I - was designed and built to exhibit a large ceiling mural surrounded by elaborate plaster decorations and reliefs some 9 meters up from the floor. The ceiling of the monumental hall, with its rich ornamentation, is very impressive. However, the space reserved for the ceiling mural, measuring 4meters by 7meters, was never filled. For nearly 400 years it sat empty, waiting it seems, until now.

The Swedish Academy of Realist Art - Atelier Stockholm is pleased and honored to announce that one of its founders, Sanna Tomac, has been commissioned to create a painting for the ceiling and complete the decoration of the hall. To receive this important commission is a tremendous honor. In addition, it is the kind of exciting project a true painter dreams about. Every fine artist, especially when admiring a ceiling mural in one of Europe’s beautiful palaces or churches, has imagined what it would be like to create such a tremendous project. It is something that few contemporary painters will ever experience. Far fewer still, if any, will have an opportunity like this one, since there are probably not too many original, unfinished Baroque palace ceilings in the world waiting to be completed. This commission is, in fact, a dream come true and the commissioners could not have chosen a finer artist to complete this important project.

Congratulations, Sanna! We couldn’t be more proud.

Visit to the National Museum: Pride and Prejudice

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 05:12:00 -0500

This Friday we decided to make a school excursion to the National Museum for one of the current exhibitions “Pride and Prejudice”.

The exhibition focused on French and Swedish female artists from the 18th and 19th century. Besides displaying some beautiful paintings the exhibition also had a lot of interesting historical facts about what life was like as a female artist during a time when women’s rights where very poor.

It was very difficult for female artists to even get accepted into an academy of art and even then they where in the shadows of the male artists. The exhibition casts light on these women and finally gives them the attention they deserve.

Pride and Prejudice runs until the 20th of January 2013.

The National Museum will be closing down for renovation on the 3rd of February 2013 for several years so be sure to visit it a lot before it closes!

For more information about the National Museum in Stockholm visit http://www.nationalmuseum.se/

Auction Houses in Stockholm

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 06:07:02 -0500

Every six months, the two major auction houses in Stockholm hold a classic art auction. Both Bukowskis and Stockholm’s Auktionsverk have viewings before the auctions and they are open to the public. They display some truly amazing works of art raging from Paintings, sculptures, etchings and drawings by masters like Anders Zorn and Peder Mørk Mønsted.

If you are a fan of art of any kind and close to Stockholm you have to make the trip! The two houses are in walking distance from eachother. They also both have high resolution images of the all the catalogues up on their respective websites.

Bukowskis: http://www.bukowskis.com/

THE CLASSIC SALE IN STOCKHOLM

AUCTION: DECEMBER 4 – 7

Viewing: Nov 28. – Dec 3, 11 am. – 6 pm.

Berzelii Park 1, Stockholm

Stockholms Auktionsverk: http://auktionsverket.se/

Fine Art & Antiques

Viewing 23 Nov-2 Dec

Auction 4-6 Dec

Peder Mørk Mønsted’s amazing painting is on display at Stockholms Auktionsverk.

Anders Zorn’s incredible watercolor can be seen at Bukowskis.

More Work in Progress

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 10:17:16 -0500

Here are photos of some of the school assignments currently being worked on by our students.

Kate is at the drawing stage of her Bargue copy done with charcoal.

Lise is blocking in the values in her first cast painting! Only three colours are used to start out with to make the introduction to oil painting go a little bit smoother, black, white and raw umber.

Miles Johnston putting some finishing touches on his charcoal and chalk cast drawing.

Theodora Capat working on the biggest still life in Atelier Stockholm history!

A close up of Theodora’s still life.

Vanessa’s still life is looking great!

Staffan’s charcoal and chalk cast study.

Sebastian’s charcoal and chalk cast study.

Frank Top working on a still life with living fruits, often times the fruits need to be replaced after a while.

Ville Ericsson, a fourth year student is working on his own composition.

Long pose

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 07:44:04 -0500

We recently finished a 5 week pose at school, here are some of the finished drawings by our students!

Ville Ericsson, graphite on paper.

Frank Top, charcoal and chalk on toned paper.

Pedram Fazelzadeh, charcoal and chalk on toned paper.

Miles Johnston, charcoal and chalk on toned paper.

Pernilla Persson Workshop November 2012

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 07:26:18 -0500

Pernilla Persson came back to school again to hold one of her workshops! This workshop focused on constructive figure drawing and anatomy. Using a live model, Pernilla demonstrated her techniques to convey the figure quickly and efficiently and how to really understand the form of the human figure.

For more information about Pernilla Persson check out our other posts about her:

http://atelierstockholm.tumblr.com/post/11108117880/anatomy-workshop-with-pernilla-persson

http://atelierstockholm.tumblr.com/post/21560327871/pernilla-persson-anatomy-workshop

It was fantastic to have Pernilla at the school again and we eagerly look forward to the next workshop!

SARA is having an exhibition at Galleri Sjöhästen in Nyköping....

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 15:04:21 -0500

SARA is having an exhibition at Galleri Sjöhästen in Nyköping. The show opens on Saturday, the 10th of November from 11:00-15:00. The exhibition includes work from Sanna Tomac, Hans-Peter Szameit, Amanda Fletcher, Alexander Novoselov and students from SARA.

At 11:30 during the opening Hans-Peter Szameit, co-founder of the school, will give a presentation about SARA and the exhibition.

The show

will run from the 10th of November to the 24th.

So be sure to check it out if you have the chance, it will be a fantastic show!

Galleri Sjöhästen
Stora Torget 1, 611 32 Nyköping
0155-28 78 11, 070-771 58 89

OPEN:
Wed-Fri 15:00-18:00 / Sat 11:00-15:00
Extra open sunday 11/11 @ 11:00 - 15:00

http://www.gallerisjohasten.net/

Halloween party 2012!

Sun, 28 Oct 2012 09:36:20 -0400

Here are some photos from the annual SARA Halloween party!

Tove and Karin with some very sharp teeth.

Vanessa looking very creepy with Ville.

Almost the whole school was decorated with all manners of scary things.

Waiting for the bar to open!

Beer pong!

Frank and Miles dressed as… eachother!

More Sketchbooks

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 07:55:00 -0400

Hello everyone! It seems like people enjoyed the last sketchbook blog post, so here are some more pages from some of our students sketchbooks!

By Miles Johnston

By Pedram Fazelzadeh

By Ville Ericsson

By Ville Ericsson

By Ville Ericsson

By Miles Johnston

By Frank Top

By Frank Top

By Frank Top

By Miles Johnston

By Miles Johnston

By Miles Johnston

Cheers!

Work in Progress

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:51:42 -0400

Hello everyone!

We would like to show you some work in progress assignments currently being made by the students. Because the pace that students progress is quite individual most assignments are usually at different stages from one another.

We hope you enjoy this snapshot of a day at Atelier Stockholm!

A cast study in charcoal and chalk by Miles Johnston.

Another cast study in charcoal and chalk by Lise Steenari.

And one more by William Hartland Brown!

An homage to Star Wars V done in oils by Ville Ericsson.

Sebastian and Staffan’s cast studies.

More cast studies! These are usually the types of casts students work on as their second cast assignment, in charcoal.

A still life painting in progress by Theodora Capat, oils on canvas.

Vanessa Hedman’s still life! Oils on canvas.

Some of the new students working hard on the Bargues, down in the trenches!