Art Studio Simi Valley Near Me

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I have been coming here for about 4 years. Shahin is an expert at what he does and teaches. I love painting at his studio and learning new techniques. I highly recommend it for anyone trying to learn how to oil paint.

Shahin is the best art teacher anyone could ask for. I found his studio online in high school and spent a couple years there before I had to leave for college. He makes sure you learn oil painting. He is not only wise, knowledgeable, a great teacher and artist, but also funny and sarcastic which makes a 4 hour session go by super fast. Sticking with this class long term doesn’t only teach you oil painting but also teaches patience and perseverance that will help in other aspects of life. I’m a medical student now training to become a surgeon and he has helped to teach me patience and hard work. I’m sooo glad I met Shahin and learned his techniques. They stick with you forever because they’re practical and simple. Thank you Shahin!!!

When I came to this studio I was a bit skeptical due to the fact that it wasn’t located within a business location. The place grew on me from the very first day. The drive to the studio is so very pleasant, the location is green and gorgeous and it relaxes me just to get to here. The studio is large and very easily accessible. You don’t feel you’re entering a home, you are entering a very warm and arrlile atmosphere. The teaching begins on the first day. You get to work on this panel with many colors that you can’t really name and with a very limited color palette you learn to reproduce each and every color there. It’s so fun and once you see how well you have matched these colors you already feel differently about yourself. Your first project is a real no nonesense oil painting. Drawing and painting are combined into one single entity which at first I wasn’t comfortable with but now I wouldn’t have it any other way. I’m at my fourth project so far and I’ve been here for a bit m...

If it were not for the offer of a bite of an apple by a homeless French painter on banks of Paris” Seine River, Topanga Canyon might not have its newest art studio.

Shahin Mojtabai, instructor and owner of the new Shishkin Art Studio, School of Realism on Topanga Canyon Boulevard, said it was a childhood encounter with the painter that changed his life. A self-admitted spoiled child, Mojtabai said he would not finish his meal if he thought what was on his plate looked like leftovers. He would never accept a drink from anyone”s glass. That”s why he knows something important happened that day by the Seine.

“I stopped and watched a couple of painters at work. One of the painters, I remember, had a long and almost scary face. He was skinny and tall and when he approached me, he was smiling. His teeth are still fresh in my memory: long and almost gum-less,” Mojtabai said. “Then, with a half-eaten apple in his hand he reached over and without saying a word, I felt him call for me to grab it. It was like voila, the seed of my love for critical realism was planted.”

Now Mojtabai would like to do the same for his students, although perhaps he won”t be using an apple. Named for the Russian realist painter Ivan Shishkin, Shishkin studio will be a place where anyone can learn to paint the ordinary and observable world in a realistic and objective style, according to Mojtabai. He said talent is not a requirement.

“Talent doesn”t play such a role,” he said. “It”s the skill of life (that”s important). Life is about becoming more sensitive to our environment. Talent means that someone could already be more sensitive.”

Mojtabai, 43, has 14 years experience under his belt as a painter and teacher, and is accepting new students of almost all ages, although anyone interested should be at least 10 years old.

Sahel Javanshir of Tarzana is one of Mojtabai”s adult students. Although she has had other teachers, for the past three years she has been coming to Mojtabai.