Seattle Atelier

School for Perceptual Painting. Opened, October 9, 2014 by Michael Lane. Lane attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where he studied under Arthur DeCosta and following PAFA he was the studio assistant/apprentice to Nelson Shanks in Andalusia, PA. Lane was also a professor at DigiPen in Redmond, WA, specializing in figure drawing, linear perspective and human and animal anatomy in the BFA program.nThis program is meant to train painters perceptual ability through the classroom methods employed by Whistler, Carolus Duran, Jean-Jacques Henner and William Merrit Chase, i.e., sight-size, alla prima only. Having a full indoor-outdoor program and large classroom dedicated to these kinds of pursuits is a labor of love (as this limits class sizes considerably). All the better for the students.nMichael Lane is known as a generous teacher who has helped local art establishments. He taught full-time year round at Gage Academy of Art for five years and at The Juliette Aristides Classical Atelier (where his DeCosta lessons transformed the curriculum). For a year and a half he ran a free drop-in at the Seattle Utrecht art supply store (on behalf on Gage) and conceived and started the Gage Academy “Drink and Draw” nights at Capitol Cider,. He’s been a volunteer at Path with Art (teaching art to the Seattle homeless population) and at Village Theatre in Issaquah, volunteering as a set designer and painting instructor in the Kid’s Stage program.