http://www.StephenCefalo.comHosted By:
Stephen Cefalo

When:
Saturday, June 27, 2009

Where:
Arkansas Sustainability Network Building
1419 South Main St.
Little Rock

Description:
An introduction to techniques for achieving more accuracy and solidity of form in your figures. The classes will include informative demonstrations by Stephen and hands-on instruction. Space is limited to ten participants. $200 for entire two-day workshop. Saturday June 27th and Sunday June 28th 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. 1419 S Main St, Little Rock ASN Bldg For more info, visit www.StephenCefalo.com

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(Not in order of how fun the shows were. That would be impossible.)

1. Fugazi, Savannah GA
2. Ramones and Rancid, Indianapolis, IN
3. Soophie Nun Squad, Bloomington, IN
4. Nine Pound Hammer, Lexington, KY
5. Blaster the Rocket Man and Warlord, Cornerstone 1996
6. Blaster the Rocket Man, Bloomington, IN
7. Bob Dylan, Little Rock, AR (Very special date with Amy.)
8. They Might Be Giants, Central Park, NYC
9. Subhumans, NYC (All by Myself)
10. Citizen Fish, NYC (By myself again.)
11. They Might be Giants, Bloomington, IN
12. Blaster the Rocket Boy, the skate ramp show, Cornerstone
13. Soophie Nun Squad, Brooklyn (The tennis racket show with no microphones that Steven Assael, his crazy model, and David Assael came to.)
14. White Stripes (with the Sempsrotts), Indianapolis, IN
15. Descendents, Atlanta, GA
16. The Damned, Blondie, and Cheap Trick, Hammerstein Ballroom, NYC
17. Joey Ramone's Birthday Bash, the Continental, NYC
18. The Huntingtons with Joey Ramone, CBGB, NYC
19. Joey Ramone, The Continental, NYC
20. Burlap to Cashmere (with the Crespos), NYC
21. Bouncing Souls, Jacksonville, FL
22. Gwar, Orlando, FL
23. Friends Forever, Savannah, GA
24. Captured By Robots, Savannah, GA
25. Man or Astro Man? and Damad, (The night Amy and I met.), Savannah, GA
26. Lifesavers Underground, (Mike Knott dumps giant can of pork and beans on audience and self wearing only black tights and gets kicked out of Cornerstone.)
27. Lifesavers Underground, (Mike knott dumps huge keg of water everywhere and shorts out the sound system.)
28. Mike Knott, Purple Door Fest, Somewhere in Pennsylvania.
29. Blaster the Rocket Boy, my outdoor high school graduation party, illuminated by house lamps and car headlights. Lexington, KY
30. Our wedding show with Blaster and Squad five-O, and Jellybean Planet, Evansville, IN
31. Soophie Nun Squad, Blaster the Rocket Boy, and the Smarties, Evansville, IN (Viv's first show in utero).
32. Swingin' Utters in a fancy rented out recreation building in the dead center of a fancy suburban Neighborhood, Lexington, KY
33. F.O.N. (my first punk show, 11 years old, someone's backyard), Newburgh, IN
34. Blaster the Rocket Man, abandoned department store, Indianapolis, IN

I come in at about 1:12, and appear on stage at the right of the post. I can really cut a rug.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEPmYE-3eSQ

Casts for drawing are hard to find, but I have found a few resources. Please let me know if you find any others.

I am fortunate to have found many locally at Art Outfitters in Little Rock, and you may have luck with them, although they have no website. They do have a myspace.

Art Outfitters on myspace And here's their other info: Art Outfitters (501) 374-4323 917 W 7th St Little Rock, AR 72201. I've listed links for ones I've found online that I thought looked good enough to draw from, that were interesting enough, and relatively affordable.

Giust Gallery

An online store with many good drawing casts


2nd Century Antinous Head

Bust of Caesar


2nd Century Torso

Marseillaise Head

Lincoln's Life Mask

Here are a few links to great on-line art books. Some of these are out-of-print classics. I'll post more as I find them.

Many Classic On-Line Art Books on StudioProducts.com

"The Painter In Oil" by Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst

"Biography Of Sir Alma-Tadema" by Vern Grosvenor Swanson, Ph.D.

"The Eclipse Of Classicism" by John William Godward

"William Bouguereau", a biography by Damien Bartoli


"Blackboard Sketchings", by Frederick Whitney 1908


"The Essentials of Lettering", by Thomas E. French and Robert MeikleJohn 1909

Online Art Books on the UPenn Archive

"What is Art?" by Leo Tolstoy



"Mornings in Florence" by John Ruskin


"Seven Discourses On Art" by Sir Joshua Reynolds


"The American Drawing Book: a Manual For the Ameteur, and a Basis of Study For the Professional Artist" by J.G. Chapman, 1870

"Memoirs of the Early Italian Painters" by Anna Jameson, 1890

"The Notebooks Of Leonardo Da Vinci", by Jean Paul Richter, 1883

"The Practice Of oil Painting And Of Drawing Associated With It", by Solomon J. Solomon, R.A. 1914


Also, here is a list of some that you can cut and paste into your browser:

Frank Duveneck

Heermann, Norbert, 1918. Frank Duveneck
http://www.archive.org/details/frankduveneck00heeruoft

http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/by_artist.php?id=391 (55 images)


William Merritt Chase

Roof, Katharine Metcalf, 1917. The life and art of William Merritt Chase
http://www.archive.org/details/lifeartofwilliam00roofiala

http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/by_artist.php?id=106 (293 images)


Winslow Homer

Cox, Kenyon, 1914. Winslow Homer
http://www.archive.org/details/winslowhomer00coxkuoft

http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/by_artist.php?id=91 (458 images)


George Inness

Inness, George Jr,, 1917. Life, Art and Letters of George Inness.
http://www.archive.org/details/lifeartandletter005237mbp

http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/by_artist.php?id=371 (181 images)


James McNeill Whistler (just the latest of many)

Hartmann, Sadakichi, 1910. The Whistler book; a monograph of the life and position in art of James McNeill Whistler
http://www.archive.org/details/whistlerbookmono00hartiala

Macfall, Haldane, [1906?] Whistler
http://www.archive.org/details/whistler00macfiala

http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/by_artist.php?id=428 (180 works)

Furst, Herbert, 1920. Frank Brangwyn, R.A (woodcuts)
http://www.archive.org/details/frankbrangwynra00braniala

Sparrow, Walter Shaw, 1915. A book of bridges (illustr. Brangwyn)
http://www.archive.org/details/bookofbridgesspa00sparrich

Brooklyn Museum, 1921 - Historical paintings of the Slavic nations
http://www.archive.org/details/historicalpainti00muchiala

Loomis, Andrew, 1951. Successful Drawing.
http://acid.noobgrinder.com/Loomis/Andrew%20Loomis%20-%20Successful%20Drawing.rar (direct download link)

Storey, G. A. The Theory and Practice of Perspective.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20165/20165-h.zip (direct download link)

Watson, Ernest W., 1955. How To Use Creative Perspective.
http://www.archive.org/details/howtousecreative036957mbp (poor scans)

Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1901. Applied perspective, for architects and painters.
http://www.archive.org/details/appliedperspecti00longrich

Miller, Leslie William, 1887. The essentials of perspective, with illustrations drawn by the author.
http://www.archive.org/details/essentialsofpers00mill

Great collection of scholarly articles on the history of perspective (Kim Veltman)
http://www.mmi.unimaas.nl/people/Veltman/publications.htmPerspective

Stephen Cefalo's Official Website

Born

1976





• Nurnberg, Germany
  

  
  

Education

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• Studio Incamminati, Summer Intensive Figure Painting with Nelson Shanks and Studio Incamminati instructors, Philadelphia, PA
  

  
  

2004






• M.F.A.
  Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
  

  
  

1999-2001






• Independent
  Study with Steven Assael, New York, NY
  

  
  

1999






• B.F.A.
  School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
  

  
  

Teaching

2006-Present

• Artist
  in Residence, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, AR
  

  
  

2004-2006






• Art
  Academy of Cincinnati, OH
  

  
  

Grants
/ Awards

2003-2004






• Grant
  in-aid-of research award
  

  
  

• Indiana
  University Arts and Science Scholarship
  

  
  

2003






• Dr. Harriet Mcneil Award of Distinction, Swope Art Museum,
  Terre Haute, IN
  

  
  

Selected
Solo Exhibitions

2008






• University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Encounters:Recent Paintings by Stephen Cefalo,Little Rock, AR
  

  2007
  
  

  
  

• Sarah
  Bain Gallery, Anaheim, CA

  
  

• Gallery
  Sorelle, Little Rock, AR

  
  

  2006
  
  

  
  

• The
  Carnegie Center for Visual and Performing Arts, Stephen
  Cefalo: Recent Works, Covington, KY
  

  
  

2004






• Indiana
  University Art Museum, Bloomington, Indiana
  

  
  

Selected
Group Exhibitions

2008




• Klaudia Marr Gallery, Still Lifes, Objects, and Other Narratives, Santa Fe, NM
  

  
  

• 2007

  
  

• Sarah
  Bain Gallery, Small Works, Anaheim, CA

  
  

• 2006

  
  

• Sarah
  Bain Gallery, Small Works, Anaheim, CA

  
  

• Klaudia Marr
  Gallery, 13th Annual Realism Invitational, Santa Fe, NM
  
  

  
  

• American
  Artists Professional League, Inc., Salmagundi Club,
  Seventy-Eighth Grand National Exhibition, New York, NY
  

  
  

• Ann
  Nathan Gallery, Winter Show, Chicago, IL
  

  
  

• The
  Ascent at Roebling's Bridge, Visions of the River,
  Covington, KY
  

  
  

• Florida
  State University Museum of Fine Arts, Deconstruction and
  Reconstruction: The Family, Experience,Tallahassee, FL
  

  
  

• Art
  Academy of Cincinnati, 19th Annual Minumental Exhibition,
  Cincinnati, OH
  

  
  

• Cincinnati
  Art Museum, Portrait Miniatures - Cincy Style,
  Cincinnati, OH
  

  
  

• Fort
  Wayne Museum of Art, 2006 Biennial: Contemporary American
  Realism, Fort Wayne, IN
  

  
  

2005




• Miller
  Gallery, Objects of Desire XIV, Cincinnati, OH
  

  
  

• The
  Pearlman Gallery, Art Academy of Cincinnati, West of Eden,
  Cincinnati, OH
  

  
  

• Miller
  Gallery, The Anniversary Show, Cincinnati, OH
  

  
  

• The
  Gallery at Northern Kentucky University, Re-Visions:
  Regional Painters, Highland Heights, KY
  

  
  

• Art
  Academy of Cincinnati, 18th Annual Minumental Exhibition,
  Cincinnati, OH
  

  
  

• University
  of Indianapolis, Interpretations of the Figure 2005,
  Indianapolis, IN
  

  
  

• Miller
  Gallery, The Nude Show: Heavenly Bodies, Cincinnati, OH
  
  

  
  

2004




• Koplin
  Del Rio Gallery, Drawings VII, West Hollywood, CA
  

  
  

• Circle
  Gallery, Go Figure Exhibition, Annapolis, MD
  

  
  

• Miller
  Gallery, Small Works, Cincinnati, OH
  

  
  

2003




• Swope
  Art Museum, 59th Annual Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition,
  (Juried by Mr. Lawrence Rinder, Curator of Contemporary Art,
  Whitney Museum of American Art), Terre Haute, IN
  

  
  

• SoFA
  Gallery, Indiana University, MFA Painting, Bloomington,
  IN
  

  
  

• Earlham
  College, Annual Earlham Invitational, Earlham, IN
  

  
  
  

Articles,
Publications

• Journal Santa Fe, "Found Objects", review of the artist's work with image of artwork, Santa Fe, NM, Friday, March 28, 2008
  

  
  

• Arkansas Democrat Gazette, "Personal Space: Stephen Cefalo", Interview with photograph, Little Rock, AR, Saturday, April 5, 2008
  

  
  

• The
  Artist's Magazine, "At
  Home With the Human Experience", Feature article, May 2007

  
  

• Arkansas
  Democrat Gazette, "New UALR Artist in Residence",
  photograph with headline and caption and image of artwork,
  Little Rock, AR, Saturday, September 9, 2006
  

  
  

• Cincinnati
  Enquirer, exhibition Review with photograph, Cincinnati,
  OH, Friday, April 7, 2006
  

  
  

• Los
  Angeles Times, exhibition review, Los Angeles, CA, Friday,
  August 27, 2004
  

  
  

• Savannah
  Morning News, exhibition review with photograph, Savannah,
  GA, Sunday, December 10, 2000
  

  
  

• Creative
  Loafing, exhibition review with photograph, Savannah, GA,
  December 15, 2000
  

  
  

• The
  Campus Chronicle, exhibition review, Savannah, GA,
  December 15, 2000
  
  

  
  

• Portfolio
  20, image selected for annual publication, New York, NY,
  1999
  

  
  

Media
Appearances, Presentations, Events

2007




• The
  Arts Scene, Arkansas
  Public Radio, interview hosted by Ann Nicholson, KUAR FM 89,
  June 2^nd,
  2007

  
  

  2006
  
  

  
  

• Miller
  Gallery, Artists On the Square demonstration, Stephen
  Cefalo: Figurative Narratives, Cincinnati, OH
  

  
  

2004






• Stephen
  F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX
  

  
  

• Northern
  Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
  

  
  

• Huntington
  College, Huntington, IN
  

  
  

• Franklin
  College, Franklin, IN
  

  
  

Private
and Public Collections

• Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  

  
  

• Art
  Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
  

  
  

• Cincinnati
  Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
  

  
  

• Mr.
  Gregory Smith, President of Art Academy of Cincinnati,
  Cincinnati, OH
  

  
  

• Florida
  State University Museum of Fine Art, Tallahassee, FL
  

• 
  The Howard A. and Judith Tullman Collection, Chicago, IL
  

I now have a blog on which I will post works in progress. Here, I'll be journaling throughout my process, and sharing my thoughts from the first sketches through the final product.

I welcome comments and critiques from all visitors.

Cefaloblog