Community to Celebrate Year of the Tiger with Art Workshop

Fred Adell, world-renowned wildlife artist, will lead a family-friendly painting workshop for all ages on Saturday, October 1, 2022, as part of the Year of the Tiger celebrations.

Curious about the world around you? About your inner creative process? Come as you are to a painting workshop for all ages.

A donation of $10 per person is requested to cover painting supplies and workshop costs. Workshop space is limited, RSVP required.

Beginners welcome. Families encouraged! For more information and to RSVP, visit: http://fredadell.eventbrite.com.

Fred Adell is New York City's premier local wildlife artist. Fred, like his home town, never seems to sleep. Working hard, alone at his easel, on his doors, or on the walls of his apartment, Fred paints his nature.

"I was about seven or eight when I started drawing and painting," says Fred reflecting on the origins of his art style. "My father said that he knew I was artistic even before then, observing the creations I made with Lego pieces!"

"By that time, I was also fascinated by animals, and began my artistic career by copying photos and book illustrations (of all kinds of animals). "After a while I started sketching from life, such as my aunt's cats, and of course zoo animals, as well as mounted specimens in the American Museum of Natural History." In commenting on his life-long love of sketching in museums, especially the Museum of Natural History, Fred says, "I also drew (and still do) skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

Fred's sculptures, like his paintings, are rich in texture and primordial in color, suggesting a deep relationship with the nature of the animal depicted, which has the interesting effect of inviting the viewer ever closer into the "nature" being created by this artist.

As an artist, Fred is vibrant and expressive, and the animation that stirs his soul is the same that directs his brushstrokes -- putting paint to canvas with an exuberance reflecting back and forth unselfconsciously from painting to viewer. "Growing up with a disability (Cerebral Palsy), I was shy and socially awkward, and felt more comfortable around animals, so I suppose that empathy has been reflected in my artwork."

If one has the least little bit of childlike surrender left in this grown-up world, bring it to Fred's upcoming workshop on October 1st.

For more information about Fred's artwork, visit hist website at https://www.fredadell.com/.