Sadie Valeri Atelier Courses

Mastering Value and Color

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Sadie designed this series of oil painting exercises as an introduction to Indirect Method painting, in which many thin layers of paint are built up with small soft brushes on smooth wood panel to create detailed paintings of stunning realism. The instruction includes nuanced color theory, form modeling techniques, and edge control exercises that are beneficial to all painting methods. 

Alla Prima Peonies

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Starting with a colored under painting wash, Sadie shares every step for how she creates a one-day painting of a beautiful arrangement of pink peonies and white roses. 

Figure Drawing (Charcoal)

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Sadie teaches her classical approach to figure drawing in this comprehensive demonstration as she works from the live model on an 8-hour pose with chalk and charcoal on toned paper. 

Bargue Plate Drawing (Graphite)

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The most in-depth Bargue Plate classical drawing course available online. In this 8-week course our instructor demonstrates every step of making a detailed graphite Bargue plate copy, resulting in a drawing that sets the gold standard for contemporary atelier training.Instructor Ian Hurtado Zafra spent over 100 hours creating this drawing, and we’ve edited it into eight watchable video lessons. The entire process is documented from beginning to end, including hi-resolution closeups of Ian’s masterful graphite shading technique in more detail than is observable even in person. Sadie’s voiceover narration describes the process, goals, and concepts behind this most fundamental exercise of historic art training.

Cast Drawing (Charcoal)

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Working from Michelangelo’s Giuliano de’ Medici portrait bust, Sadie shares timeless principles for capturing proportion and light in her clear, descriptive teaching style. These techniques for creating believable, light-filled drawings can be applied to any subject, and your drawing ability will improve significantly through experiencing this traditional historic training. 

Introduction to Classical Drawing (Graphite)

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Learn how to draw accurate proportions and smooth shading in this 8-week course. Each lesson introduces exercises for developing hand dexterity and visual perception. Sadie’s lessons are easily understood by the beginner and result in dramatic skill advancement for artists of all levels.

Advanced Still Life Painting: Venus

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Sadie paints ethereal, subtle layers using Indirect method to create her masterful Dutch-Master-inspired still life paintings of crumpled wax paper, often spending weeks on a single small painting.Before attempting a more complex still life with Indirect method, We recommend completing the Mastering Value and Color with Indirect Method course, in which you will paint a value sphere and a single brown egg to learn all the steps of this meticulous and highly technical method. 

Introduction to Oil Painting (Direct Method)

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Suitable for absolute beginners, this course teaches how to start oil painting, first with just one brush and one color, then moving on to create a complete oil painting in color, using Direct Method which is the most accessible method for beginners. By demonstrating simple steps and offering plenty of tips and encouragement, Sadie helps the beginning artist enjoy oil painting on their very first try. 

Cast Drawing (Graphite)

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Learn how to create a cast drawing to historic levels of excellence. This 8-week course also includes the 8-week Intro to Classical Drawing and the 8-week Bargue Plate Drawing courses, so students of all levels who work through all the lessons are well-prepared to execute their own masterful cast drawing.

Portrait Painting from Master Copy and from Life

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Sadie paints a master copy of a head study by Van Dyck, and then paints a portrait of her husband, Nowell, using the same technique.

Common Errors in Still Life Painting (Direct Method)

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Experience the whole process of creating a direct-method oil painting over the course of 3 to 4 days, from drawing and underpainting through to the final color layers. Learn how much time to spend on an underpainting, how to plan the progress of a painting, and what goes into creating a compelling illusion. Sadie paints two paintings of the same subject: The first demonstrating methods that create a foundation for artistic growth, and the other demonstrating common errors of technique and judgment that can block an artist’s development. Direct Method OverviewDirect Method: Line DrawingDirect Method: Oil TransferDirect Method: Grisaille UnderpaintingDirect Method: First Color LayerDirect Method: Second Color and Finish

Still Life Painting

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In this 3-hour video course Sadie demonstrates her method for creating a layered, indirect oil painting, working in the tradition of the Dutch Masters of still life.Before attempting a more complex still life with Indirect method, We recommend completing the Mastering Value and Color with Indirect Method course, in which you will paint a value sphere and a single brown egg to learn all the steps of this meticulous and highly technical method. 

Glazing and Scumbling with Oil Paint

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Create luminosity, depth, and surface variation in your paintings. Learn Sadie’s advanced painting techniques for building up thick impastos of paint with lush textural marks, and creating even more texture by applying a glaze over a dry scumble. Sadie also discusses the properties of lead white that give it a wider range of effects than other white pigments. 

Alla Prima Roses

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Watch Sadie Valeri paint a bouquet of white and peach roses with high-definition close-ups of her color mixing and brushstrokes, including detailed voice over explanation of the whole process. 

Drapery Drawing (Charcoal)

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Shade a draped sheet with chalk and charcoal to a high level of refinement, following classical methods. Sadie’s demonstration shows how she creates a drawing of a white sheet tacked on her studio wall.