Nikita Budkov in California Art Club Newsletter, Fall 2018

It has long been observed that talent is an all too common commodity, and that talent alone can almost never lead to success. In fact, undisciplined or misdirected talent can …

Nikita Budkov in Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art Blog Post, October 2018

On the evening of September 29, 2018 Our LAAFA Alumnus – Nikita Budkov had his first solo show with us here at LAAFA!  His show was titled, “Nikita: The Song …

Ramon Hurtado in Southwest Art, September 2017

Julie Bell in American Art Collector February 2018 Issue

Michael Obermeyer Featured in Southwest Art Magazine April 2018

EARLY IN THE 20th century, distinguished landscape painters began pouring into Laguna Beach, CA, to capture its seven-mile coastline, turquoise-blue water, and pounding surf.

Julie Bell Featured in Fine Art Connoisseur Summer 2017

Christopher Cook in CAC Newsletter Spring 2016

Nikita Budkov in Plein Air Today Online Magazine Publication, November 2017

American Legacy Fine Arts in Pasadena, California, recently opened a splendid exhibition of plein air works by some of the most collected and celebrated painters in the United States. Who’s …

Michael Obermeyer in Southwest Art Magazine October 2017 Issue

A LITTLE OVER a century ago, a burgeoning colony of plein-air painters began populating Laguna Beach, so en­raptured were they by its unparalleled beauty and light.

John Cosby in Western Art & Architecture Magazine, 2017

In Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, cemetery, on a grey, sleety morning, Joe Paquet stood at his French easel. The cemetery offered the best view of the subject Paquet had come to paint: …