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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
In the Studio we will be painting the same composition over several days to create a good,
finished still life and model. Subjects will be local models, 4-5 students per model, and regional
themed still lifes.

OUTDOORS we will make repeat trips to a painting spot, probably three destinations, three days
per spot.

All the tools and skills which Daud will be teaching will have the purpose of improving the artists’
command of creating the illusion of space. These lessons will include:
1. How to better see and use warm and cool color in both landscape and interiors.
2. How to plan a composition that will be most effective for the artist’s intentions and preferences
3. How to command the hardness and softness of the silhouette edges to create space in a
painting.
4. Reasons for different paint surface textures, and brushstroke direction over the forms.
5. When to use layering on the form.
6. How to get the best possible results in a short time.

Daud intends to demonstrate and discuss:
How he and the Russian Academy approaches drawing and composition
How to lay out the compositional masses in a piece
How to look for the compositional lines most important in the figure
Russian Academy’s theories of warm and cool color, both in landscape and in the studio
The practical and theoretical differences in approaching plein air and in-studio painting projects
How to build the figure as taught at the Repin Academy
How to work on composition beginning from the blank page
Working with light and shadow, in both painting and drawing
His understanding of where art is today, and how the current situation of realism versus abstract
art relates.

DAUD AKHRIEV'S BIO:
Daud Akhriev was born in the former Soviet Union in 1959. He studied classical painting and
drawing for 14 years, eight of them in St. Petersburg, Russia. In that city he received his masters
degree with honors from the Repin Institute, under the tutelage of the late Piotr Fomin.

In 1991 he emigrated to Chattanooga, Tennessee and has remained there since. Akhriev, now a
U.S. citizen, spends his summers painting landscapes throughout the world with his artist wife
and son. During the rest of the year Ahkriev paints in his Chattanooga studio.

In 2007 Akhriev won an award of excellence from Oil Painters of America, and Second Place in
the Greenhouse Gallery’s Salon International, in San Antonio, TX. Greenhouse has twice
included Akhriev’s work in International Masters, an invitational exhibition. In 1993 the Hunter
Museum of American Art presented a solo exhibition of Akhriev’s work. His is on regular exhibit at
Miller Galleries located in both Cincinnati Ohio and Winter Park Florida. In April, 2006, Miller
Gallery presented a solo exhibition of Akhriev’s work. He also has paintings at Turtle Gallery on
Deer Isle, Maine. The Chattanooga Symphony and Opera Guild honored Akhriev as one of
Chattanooga’s master artists in Music and Masterpieces, 2006. He has participated in group
shows in New York, London, Zurich, Oslo and around the Southeastern United States. 2006
Group shows included Oil Painters of America annual juried show in Mazula Montana
(International Artist award of Excellence), and “Salon International” at Greenhouse Gallery in San
Antonio (awarded Juror’s top 50 and Honorable Mention), and a show in Almaty, Kazakhstan with
two colleagues from St. Petersburg, Russia.

Akhriev is trained in monumental public art, and has four murals in Chattanooga: the Collegedale
Seventh-Day Adventist Church, the Samaritan Center and St. Peter’s Episcopal Church.
Akhriev has taught summer courses in landscape for the Florence Academy of Art, in Florence,
Italy. In 2003, Akhriev and his wife were Artists in Residence at the Robert M MacNamara
Foundation in Westport Island, Maine, for six weeks. He has taken small groups of painting
students to students in Tuscany in 2004-2006. The University of Tennessee Chattanooga has
invited him to be a guest instructor in their painting program.

Artists Magazine featured Akhriev in the February, 2006 issue. His work is in two books in
English. Daud Akhriev, Stylistic Pluralism was published in 2002 by CommonPlace publishing. He
is also featured in Traditions Rediscovered, the Finley Collection of Russian Art. Akhriev’s
drawings are in several books about the Repin Institute, both in Russian and in Chinese.

For more information on Daud Akhriev, or to see examples of his works visit
www.daudakhriev.com

YOUR GUIDE:
Micaiah Hardison founded Bravura Academy to unite the world's best oil painters with earnest students seeking advanced instruction. He strives to inspire students and instructors with an authentic Andalucian experience in these magical landscapes steeped in history.
Micaiah lives and paints in Arcos and directs all workshops as your bilingual guide.
www.micaiah.net

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