About
A passionate soul, a loving heart and an inquisive mind, Chouaieb Saidi is a full-life artist.
Throughout an extensive international artist career of over thirty years Mr. Saidi has created thousands of astonishing original works of fine arts around the world, including amazing portraits, figure, landscapes, street scenes and still-lives, as well as unique works of clothing, sculpture, 2D and 3D design. Mr. Saidi is renowned for his amazing public demonstrations of portraits’ drawing and painting from live-modeling, which he’s able to complete in record time of no longer than half an hour per portrait. In Paris France, where he performed for a decade as a Montmartre artist, Saidi was regarded as “one of Paris’s most distinguished portrait artists”.
Saidi was academically trained in visual arts and applied arts at one of the world oldest and most famous universities, the renowned Sorbonne University, Paris, where he completed a masters degree of applied arts and a doctorate of visual arts.
In USA thousands of Saidi’s portraits and paintings hang in the finest homes, corporates, galleries and several museums, including Lucy Laney Museum in Augusta, GA where one of his signature pieces hang in a highly secured setting. This art piece is titled “Universal Godfather of Soul, James Brown”, a (5x4ft) portrait painted in acrylic on canvas of the famous singer was displayed next to J. Brown coffin at his funeral ceremony in January 2007 and broadcasted on tv channels, magazines, newspapers and internet sites worldwide. This painting has won major awards. In 2008 Saidi was selected to creates a portrait from live-modeling of Miss America 2008, Kristin Hoagland.
Along an extended experience as a teacher of visual arts and design at college level, including the Art Institute of Atlanta, and Clark Atlanta University. Mr. Saidi is a reputable instructor of fine arts drawing & painting at various venues, including Callanwolde Fine Arts Center in Atlanta and Art Station in Stone Mountain Ga, as well as his own art studio in Decatur, GA. He facilitates workshops in drawing and painting of divers subjects mater, including portraiture, figure and plein-air landscape. “I enjoy sharing with my students a knowledge accumulation of tools, rules and principles of visual arts, and an expertise in most mediums and techniques of drawing and painting. I admire witnessing my students quickly progressing and developing their personal styles. I work with each student individually, no mater at what level they are. I believe “Talent is simply your willingness to learn and to figure things out”.
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Frequently asked questions
What is your typical process for working with a new student?
I start with new students at whatever level they are at. In many cases none experience makes learning easier and the progress faster. Students fallows an easy step by step learning and understanding of tools, principals and techniques of visual arts & design. Students will aquire a solid foundation of how to see like an artist, how to analyse like a scientist and how to draw and paint like a master, while developing their own personal style. I enjoy sharing with my students an accumulation of knowledge and expertise in visual arts, which I’ve acquired from my extended academic learning, my extensive experience of daily practice, and from my God given talent and passion for the arts.
What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
- Bachelors of fine arts, major Graphic design
from the ITAAUT; Technological Institut of Art, Design, Architecture and Urbanism, Tunis, Tunisia
- Diploma of clothing design
from AFPA; “Association de Formation Professionelle, Cherbourg, France”
- Masters of Visual arts, Major: Applied arts
from the Sorbonne University, Paris, France
- Doctorate of Visual Arts
from the Sorbonne University, Paris, France
Do you have a standard pricing system for your lessons? If so, please share the details here.
$25 for 2hrs sessions
$200 for a course of 8 sessions of 2hrs
What advice would you give a student looking to hire a teacher in your area of expertise?
1- Make sure you have passion, patience and a true willingness to learn, because “Talent is simply the willingness to figure it out” as described by Master painter David Leffell.
2- Look for an instructor who has a solid understanding of tools and principles of visual arts, mostly based on an academic extended training in the field. An instructor whose expertise shows through a mastery of various techniques of representational drawing and painting, where composition, light, space and expression are remarkably illustrated through a free melodic application of strokes and a symphonic use of color.
3- practice, practice and practice
What questions should students think through before talking to teachers about their needs?
Am I willing to learn ? Do I have enough passion, patience and perseverance to engage in the learning process?