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Drawing and Painting from Life, Portfolio Development for Young Adults
 “One of the principal goals as an artist is to capture and communicate intuitive responses to a subject, carefully and sensitively, whether I am working from a model, landscape or still life. Successful work conveys not only the reality that the artist confronts but the very personal reaction that is inspired by that reality.”
“I want my students to develop the tools they will need to express their own feelings and concepts through their work. The information and techniques to which they are exposed will be classical, whether we are working in charcoal, graphite, silverpoint, pastel, watercolor or oil monoprints, and they will progress from line and tone to limited and full color work. But my ultimate goal will be to enable each student to execute personal and independent statements through their work.”
Wendy Shalen has taught figure and landscape drawing and painting to adults and teens for more than 25 years. She also teaches a Portfolio Development Drawing class to high school students and adult landscape painting workshops at the Silvermine Guild School of Art in New Canaan, Connecticut.
She is a graduate of Brandeis University, where she majored in Art History and studied at the Art Students League in the late 1970s with Daniel Greene, Harvey Dinnerstein and Robert Beverly Hale and privately with Burton Silverman.
She has exhibited at Allan Stone Gallery in New York City, in London at Abbot & Holder and in Martha’s Vineyard at the Carol Craven Gallery and at Gardner-Colby. She is currently a member of Art/Place, a cooperative gallery in Southport, Connecticut. Her studio is located in Waccabuc, New York. Her work can be seen on her Web site: www.wendyshalen.com.
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