Hudson Valley Artist Les Castellanos New Paltz New York Master Painter and Educator Les Castellanos offers year-round private instruction in painting and drawing. Mr.Castellanos was born in Peru and joined his family in New York at the age of eleven. He gratuated from The School of Visual Arts with an Illustration degree in 1994. He has received awards from the Art Students League, The Society of Illustrators, and The Art Director's Club.
In 1996 he was a Recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award which allowed him to enroll in Graduate school . During that time, Mr. Castellanos was a guest instructor at The School for the Visual Arts and was also part of an arts program for children at P.S. 22 funded in part by the New York Academy of Figurative Art, where he completed his Masters Degree.