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Haverkamp comes from a family of artists – his grandfather, father, and two older brothers all work in the arts. Haverkamp is no stranger to Falls Church Arts and ArtSpace Falls Church he will be doing more demonstrations and weekend workshops on portrait painting in January and on painting the figure in April in the City for Falls Church Arts’ “Expanding the Arts” studio arts program.
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“It was great to have Seth and his wife Kat back in Falls Church again, if only for a short visit,” said Kevin Rechin, friend of the family and another successful artist/illustrator, who introduced Haverkamp to the diverse audience of artists and interested public, many of whom had never witnessed an artist demonstration. Van Steyn modeled for the event per Haverkamp’s request. More than 40 people assembled to watch the speedy and magical transformation of a blank canvas into a striking portrait study of Shaun van Steyn, outreach director for Falls Church Arts. 12, Haverkamp conducted a two-hour master portrait artist demonstration at ArtSpace Falls Church that was described as “performance art” by writer James George and “mesmerizing” by local resident and audience member Beth Peppe. Today, Wang devotes himself to his love of painting and aspires to create work that is inspirational and timeless.After his last appearance about two years ago, award-winning portrait artist Seth Haverkamp made a triumphant return to Falls Church this past week. Wang believes that a great work of art should speak for itself without the need for interpretation by pundits or explanation by its artist. Wang has been creating his own work in various genres, including still life, landscape, portraiture, and genre paintings with realistic representation. Since 2018, Wang took drawing classes under Gregory Dearth at Rosewood Arts Centre in Dayton, a still-life painting workshop under Cecilia Brendel at Olde Masters Galleria in Dayton, several workshops at Studio Incamminati in Philadelphia (figure drawing under Juliette Aristides, portrait painting under Lea Wight, and figure painting under Kerry Dunn), Robert Liberace portrait painting workshop in Nashville, and the drawing & painting class under Garin Baker at the Art Students League of New York. At each museum, Wang spent countless hours sketching and studying the composition, value, color, and brush strokes of the old masters. Wang also traveled to Europe several times to study original paintings housed in world famous museums such as the Louvre, Musée d’Orsay, Rijksmuseum, Alte Nationalgalerie, and Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister. A true believer of learning art from nature and the old masters, Wang began to study oil painting as a self-taught apprentice of old masters by rigorously copying their major works, including those by Caravaggio, Rubens, Velázquez, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Constable, and Renoir.
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In his spare time, he regularly frequented the National Gallery of Art and was inspired by the works of the old masters and, in particular, Rembrandt’s self portrait. in 2016, Wang decided to take evening classes on drawing and oil painting at Smithsonian Associates. When work brought him to Washington, D.C. Albert Wang had an unusual start to his artistic journey.