Artists Seminar: Painting Krishna Art

NEW VRINDABAN COMMUNITY

The International Society for Krishna Consciousness
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder - Acharya Rd 1 Box 319Moundsville, WV  26041   www.newvrindaban.com      (304) 845-9591 
 
 
DATE:                                     September 13 – 22, 2010
 
TIME:                                     10:00 am – 6:00 pm
 
LOCATION:                          New Vrindaban Community, located south of Moundsville – Wheeling, off Route 250
 
FEE:                                        To be determined
 
NAME OF EVENT:               Artists’ seminar: Painting Krishna Art
 
CONTACT PERSON:           Malati Dasi   PHONE NUMBER:               (304) 845-9591 E-MAIL:                                 mail@newvrindaban.com WEB SITE:                             http://www.newvrindaban.com/ DESCRIPTION:                               
 
Renowned artists Miriam Briks and Kevin Yee will teach the unique style of combining classical western Renaissance techniques and Eastern proportion guidelines from the ancient Vedic scriptures from India.  The Vedas are the oldest scriptures known to man, and they include sections on many fine and applied arts, including art, music, dance and architecture.  This blend of East and West is unprecedented. 
 
Lodging and vegetarian meals will be available.  The seminar will be from 10:00 am – 6:00 pm daily.  During the morning, students will focus on figure drawing.  In the afternoon, students will work on an individual painting of Lord Krishna, including both figure and landscape techniques.  Individual paintings will progress from a thumbnail sketch, to development drawing, to tonal drawing, to color sketch, to studies, and to photographing models for references for the paintings. 
 
Briks graduated from the School of Art and Design in New York and studied figurative painting and drawing extensively at the Art Students League of New York. For the next six years she worked as an illustrator and art teacher with the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust in Los Angeles and Florence, Italy. She furthered her studies at the Academy of Art in Sienna.  Originally trained in classical art, Briks began exhibiting her work in Paris, Italy and England.  Her work has been seen in American Art Review, Southwest Art, Architectural Digest, California Homes, San Diego Magazine, and Aspen Catalogue. 
Kevin Yee graduated with a degree in Fine Art from California State University at Fullerton.  He then began illustration work for the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust in Los Angeles and Florence, Italy.  Yee studied techniques such as fresco and egg tempera at the Academy of Art in Sienna and the Florence Academy of Art.  Over the next twelve years, he painted over three hundred oils.  Many of those paintings still hang chateaus and villas in France, Italy, England, South Africa, and India.