Sunday, December 13, 2009
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- Mike Kloepfer
- Arvada, Colorado, United States
- Mike Kloepfer is an award-winning professional artist with a career spanning three decades. He has done over a thousand professional portraits and over 8,000 professional caricatures, for collectors from every continent on earth.
Mike has an Associates degree in Commercial Art. He received formal training in figure and portraiture in the Aristides Classical Atelier, at the Gage Academy of Fine Art in Seattle.
His art has received numerous honors, including a purchase award nomination in 2004 from the Art Renewal Center in New York. Mike and his artwork have appeared in articles in The Artist’s Magazine, and the book Classical Drawing Atelier by Juliette Aristides.
Mike teaches classes, workshops, and private students in the Denver area. Mike is the founder of the Caricature Artist’s Pow-WOW!!! a forum of local and national caricature artists.
Mike has been a professional musician since the age of 13, travelling and playing all over the country in bands ranging from Jazz, to Celtic rock, Barbershop, Rock and Folk. Mike currently plays with the acoustic rock band Ironwood Rain, and teaches guitar in Colorado.
Links to Realist Art related sites
- JULIETTE ARISTIDES, my teacher, mentor, and inspiration; an incredible artist.
- 'CLASSICAL DRAWING ATELIER', Juliette's book; included in the book is a reproduction of one of my drawings from the Atelier.
- GAGE ACADEMY OF ART (fromerly SAFA,) where I studied under some of the greatest instructors in the country.
- ART RENEWAL CENTER - Raising the standard and rallying the forces of Realist Art in the modern age.
In the Classcial Atelier 2004
An old pic of me at the Academy working on my cast drawing - which won 1st place. This photo appeared in the November 2004 issue of Artist's Magazine article on the Classical Atelier and the importance of drawing skills. Dig the long hair, the beard and the earring.
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Nature's Design 2002
Watercolor, 9x12"
Starky
Starky, my favorite dolphin, critiques a sketch.Photo by Loran Wlodarski