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... a Creative Being

Sasha is an accomplished, multi disciplinary Fine Artist with a wealth of professional portfolios, experience and expertise. She brings her visionary and creative spirit to everything she does.

Vision & Mission

The creative disciplines have documented history throughout time. These interdisciplinary mediums have been the visual representation of culture, belief systems and events.

With the world currently in a highly informed disarray, ART and her message can quietly assume leadership at the helm of an unattended ship where a Collective Creative Consciousness can take root and flourish.

Sasha and her team of like minded individuals, growing with every transaction, is poised to bring some dynamic progression to the world of Fine Art and complimentary disciplines. Deeply conscious messages, through the sophisticated languages of the ARTS, can help form and shape future generation philosophies.

CREATIVE COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS.

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Workshops and Courses

We learn the academic & technical skill sets, producing consistently high quality artworks throughout the structured courses.

It's a journey of learning how to OBSERVE * INTERNALISE * DECIDE * RENDER

Medium properties, techniques, personalised mark making and expression is encouraged and endorsed throughout.

Deeply profound relationships are forged in the process of intensive learning. Group dynamics play a vital role in the developmental process. Knowledge and skills development is guided expertly by Sasha and her well oiled understanding of the many elements that create successful Fine Art.

Participants are encouraged to start with Foundation Phase 1 and move through the ranks of development. It's a structured journey which is refined by 30X years' experience as a pioneer teaching Artist.

* Foundation Phase #1 (3x months)

* Foundation Phase #2 (3x Months)

* Concept development & Visual language (2X months) - getting to grips with 'seeing', perceiving and translating in accordance with personal and / or informed dictates.

* Pallet knife Painting (3X months) - learning the magnificent capabilities of our new tool, alongside colour theories.

* Painting (ongoing) - multiple tools, techniques, expanding knowledge of the medium with progressive focus.

* 'Exhibition readiness' - guided production of Artwork for Sasha Fabris Studios curated group exhibitions.

* 'SUMMER BOXES' program. Over the summer months in Zagreb, Sasha offers group workshops as 'drop in' options for regular students and for Art curious residents of the dormitory loft which forms part of the Sasha Fabris Studios portfolio.

* ‘Creations with Whiskey and Wine'- Once off Special Occasion sessions.

* Months of Mediums (Exploring possibilities 1X medium per month - ongoing)

* ‘Drop in’ sessions are welcome when there is space in a class.

Pen and Ink drawing

Sasha always starts with pen and Ink as a medium as it is the best way of entering the ‘portal’ of learning the skill sets required to produce FINE ART. Once these skill sets are established, all mediums become more accessible. From this point of established observation and translation perspectives, flexibility in furthering the depth of technical advancement is offered with guided understanding of group strengths.

Foundation Phase 1
( 3X Months )

(1X 2,5hour session / week for the month @ Euro 70/ month)

Here we cover academic drawing skills. We learn how to develop confidence in the Pen and liquid mediums. Because we cannot ‘rub out’, the medium supports an escalation of skill sets which can and will be applied to all mediums.

How to approach all subject matter – OBSERVE*INTERNALISE*DECIDE*RENDER; Expressive mark making; drawing techniques; measuring skills; active proportion configurations; creating volume and form through tonal value; deciding on focus; critical analysis through the Still life & Landscape genre’s.

We learn the 'Magic of liquid Ink'. There is so much vitality in the medium. We test the boundaries, learn how to use layers and build dimension with translucent luminosity.

We learn to critically analyse artworks. These are vital skills which again develop the senses we need as visual 'beings'.

Exhibition readiness
(3x months)

(1X 2,5hour session / week for the month @ Euro 70/ month)

Drop in sessions @ Euro 20/ session

In this course, we learn the arts of designing a group exhibition, developing concepts relative to the group and individual, producing exhibition quality work, presentation (framing, mounting, display), and hanging the show. We need to package the exhibition in keeping with the overall concept, complete marketing portfolios and advertise the event in order to attract our desired audience to a successful event. Hosting an event has many hidden agendas, these are all covered in the course. Skills are developed through the exposure to different mediums and applications. The course is complex and invigarating.

Foundation Phase 2
( 3X Months )

(1X 2,5hour session / week for the month @ Euro 70/ month)

Bringing the learned skill sets in from Foundation Phase 1, students advance their understanding of medium, physiology and analysis of subject matter in a much more focused and intense way. We continue to explore the ‘Magic of Ink’ working with different ways of capturing the essence of our subject matter. There is much more focus on measuring skills and skeletal structures which dictate how the body is ‘bolted together’, how it moves, how bones, muscles, flesh and articulations change the shape and forms we observe. Creating a ‘likeness’ demands a more observant and scientific approach to understanding how shapes and features shift and change under the various gravitational forces, perspectives, movements, surrounding objects / textures and lighting. In this Course, we cover Figure Study and Portraiture genre’s. The course is intense and fascinating. Many levels of understanding develop here as fundamental criteria for the beginning of a more Discursive application to the conceptualisation of relevant commentary in future Artworks.

Individual or group tuition classes for Practicing Artists, School or University Art students.
(Ongoing)

(1X 2,5hour session / week for the month @ Euro 70/ month for a group)

(1X 3hour session per individual session @ Euro 40/ session)

Here Sasha will work with the Artist’s current work and course curriculum from the relevant Institutions to endorse and elevate the understanding and end results for their existing work / courses.

'MONTHS of Mediums' format works under this banner. Here we work with various mediums and conceptually selected reference. It's a great way to learn different aspects of Art making and start understanding how and why we choose to use specific mediums to portray / express different subject matter.

Body Mapping
( 3X Months )

(1X 2,5hour session / week for the month @ Euro 70/ month)

Once Foundation Phase 2 is complete, students who have completed the Pen and Ink course work, can start with either ‘BODY MAPPING’ or new Courses in Charcoal, Acrylic paint, Oil paint or mixed media.

In this course we bring our learned skills from Foundation 1&2 into a domain of personal expression and content. Deep introspection and application of these dimensions determine the development of personal visual language.

Each student goes on a journey of discovery looking for and finding definition to abstract thought, responses to their worlds and ways to express this in a more relevant way – entry into the discourse of documenting content.

New mediums are introduced to be more conscious and expressive of content. These mediums will be introduced in accordance with how the group has developed.

CREATIONS WITH WHISKEY & WINE
(Casual 1X group sessions to order)

(1X 3hour session for a group of minimum 5 @ Euro 35/person)

These groups are either a group of friends looking for an interesting way to use their ‘down time’ or to create an interesting event for a special occasion.

Painting, Inking or drawing with good vibes, music, whiskey and wine! We either do 1X large communal piece or individual pieces. This will be the decision of the organizer.

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Artists in the fold

Please watch this space... Individual portfolios of all those committed to Workshop courses, teaching staff and exchange program participants will be developed and show cased here. For now, the pieces you see are all Sasha's work. Her new pieces will only be published once her solo show is up.