TRAINS & TOWERSSKETCH PAINTINGS Every finished Faigin painting is preceded by studies, in sketchbooks and on large sheets of watercolor paper, in which the artist’s final ideas and compositions are developed. These unframed sketch paintings are looser, more spontaneous, and reveal the artist’s thinking process in developing his final, finished train...
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MEET the EDUCATOR Faigin teaching the first program at Gage, Summer 1990. Gary Faigin has a long and distinguished career as a fine art instructor who combines classical principles of fine art, Western art history, unique demonstrations and visually-comprehensive lectures into his studio teaching practice. Faigin taught for many...
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FACIAL EXPRESSIONS for CG ARTISTS Known as the “Face Doctor,” Faigin has been investigating the artistic depiction of facial expression for over four decades. His 1990 book, “The Artist’s Complete Guide to Facial Expression,” is the standard work on the subject, used throughout the CG industry, and consulted as...
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GAGE | Fine Art Workshops Faigin demonstrates sketching the portrait in oil. Photo by Anna Shapiro Gary Faigin teaches several specialized drawing and painting weekend and week-long workshops each year at the Gage facility on Capitol Hill in Seattle, and at remote locations around the Northwest. With workshops focused on...
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GAGE ACADEMY OF ART Gage, the largest art academy in the Northwest, is located on Capitol Hill in Seattle. With a vision of opening a contemporary art school that taught the classical principles of fine art, in 1989, Faigin co-founded Gage Academy of Art in partnership with his...
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DRAWINGS | Still Lifes Charcoal is the simplest of all media, simply a piece of wood that has been burned in a vacuum and carbonized. Charcoal drawing can be very close to painting when used in a tonal manner , and many of Faigin’s painting series have begun with a series of charcoal...
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GAGE | Art History Tours Faigin tours the home and studio of Joaquim Sorolla in Madrid, during the Gage Art Tour in Spain, 2011. “I totally enjoyed every minute of the tour. It was like art history, general history, bible study, gossip and art all rolled into one… Tour Participant,...
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GAGE | Faigin Still Life Atelier “The Water Cycle,” 30″x40″, oil on canvas, 2016 Since the Renaissance, ambitious young artists have sought to apprentice under master artists in their studios. The word “atelier” means studio in French and, at Gage, following this same tradition, well-known professional artists offer concentrated study...
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GAGE | Evening Lecture Series Faigin presents his “Drawing the Features of the Head” lecture series every Spring quarter. Carrying on the lecture tradition of Art Student League master art instructors, such as George Bridgman and Robert Beverly Hale, on an annual basis, Gary Faigin presents his entertaining, accessible and...
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PAINTINGS | City of Billboards The City of Billboard series features urban landscapes with looming, often impossibly-large billboards, seen in fragments, whose real meaning is obscure. For Faigin, the paintings of billboards create pictures within pictures, effectively replacing the sky.
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