Painting Fundamentals: Fine Art Lesson Book

By Bfa Ma V Hadady and BFA MA Hadady

Welcome to Painting Fundamentals: Fine Art Painting Lesson Book featuring six (6) representational style step-by-step tutorials that details painting essentials from inception to finish. Enjoy exploring fine art painting at your own pace and time. Lessons cover: the Rogue River, a figurative (domestic cat) still life, a still life with floral elements, a floral sketch featuring crystal glass, a simple lighthouse architecture study in a child's theme, and a regatta marine seascape.V. HADADY-HAMILTON, BFA, MA, is a third generation classically trained painter who began practicing formalized painting in 1974. Currently, Hadady shows regionally, if not nationally, and paints while occasionally providing formal academic instruction at charter arts schools, public schools, and a commercial studio. The artist obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art Studio from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico. There, among several scholars, the artist studied under noted writers, artists, and photographers while sitting in critiques by Julian Schnabel (filmmaker/artist) and the late Joan Brown (artist). Hadady has received recognition by the National Museum of Women in the Arts Archive on Women Artists, Washington, D.C., a division of The Smithsonian. The artist has shown in Berkeley, San Francisco, Santa Rosa, multiple Silicon Valley venues, and Davis, California regions. She has pieces in private and corporate collections. The artist has entered into competitions and won sweeping regional class/division awards. Hadady's watercolor California Valley was scheduled into the KVIE Art Auction 2010 (Sacramento Public Television) with an on-air time that opened the three-day event, September 24-26. The artist has enjoyed several solo shows: a collection of +30 works completed within a year, Beneath Moving Sun and Air (October 2013, Lodi), a collection of +20 patron favored works (April 2014, Davis), a period collection titled Transitions (June 2015, Lodi), and a comprehensive collection of +50 coastal themed works titled Coastal Waters West (May-June, 2016, Santa Rosa). She has enjoyed solo shows in Downtown Davis, California during 2nd Friday ArtAbout. Hadady enjoyed her first solo commercial gallery show during Fall 2016. In 2018 she joined the California Art Club, and enjoyed inclusion of three (3) works into two (2) separate group shows by early 2019. Her work titled Squeaky and the er'e unfinished Victorian was accepted into a national juried exhibition at The Haggin Museum. In 2018, before the Docent Council, Hadady presented a 30-minute slide discussion, A Painter's Day, at The Haggin Museum. Since 2013, Hadady has published several fine art instructional practice books and continues to release components of her extensive independent educational work, Painting Fundamentals. She has written four (4) lesson plans, commercially published (Grumbacher, Chartpak, Inc.), for international instructor use. During 2010, one of the artist's quotes was included in Art Studio Door Signs by Jerry Saltz (T. Ward, ed.). During early 2013, the artist wrote, produced, and directed The DownTown Gallery, an 8-minute film short that features her prior studio gallery. With over 20 completed short films, the artist has solo written, directed and produced an independent featurette film Olympia, released early 2014. After being named Official Artist of Residence by the Miracle Mile Improvement District in 2012, in 2013, the artist was named Visual Arts Chair by the Stockton is Magnificent, Inc. not-for-profit organization. Hadady consults and assists in the organization and development of arts organizations. In 2016 Hadady juried the Annual Membership Show at the Lodi Community Art Center and spoke on her findings for their Speaker Series. During 2016-17, the artist founded San Joaquin Art Market (SJAM) to educate businesses on the business-of-art. Ongoing updates may be viewed at www.GalleryPreviewOnline.com.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 198558414X
• ISBN13: 9781985584143
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 62 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.0" x 10.0"