If you're looking to launch a rewarding new hobby, this course is your ideal starting point. It covers all fundamental techniques that artists use to draw freely from their imagination or from real-world observation. By the end of this intensive course, even someone with no prior experience will be able to paint a portrait and compose an original artwork from the ground up.
Course Schedule and Lessons:
- Day 1: The Cezanne Lesson
- Mastering color mixing to achieve desired tones
- Day 2: The Silhouette Lesson
- Learning to assess proper proportions, fit your drawing to the paper dimensions, and develop eye-hand coordination
- Day 3: The Escher Lesson
- Mastering how to shade three fundamental 3D shapes: the sphere, cylinder, and rectangular block
- Day 4: The Durer Lesson
- Understanding isometric, reverse, and Renaissance perspective principles; includes practical outdoor sketching sessions
- Day 5: The Degas Lesson
- A detailed lecture on how three-dimensional space has been represented on two-dimensional surfaces throughout art history, covering general compositional principles and schemes, followed by hands-on studies
- Day 6: The Miro Lesson
- Exploring key composition concepts such as line, shape, visual weight, movement, and spatial relationships between objects. A brief lecture on abstract art history introduces this lesson
- Day 6: The Chardin Lesson, Part One
- Learning the fundamentals of still life composition and beginning your still life project
- Day 7: The Chardin Lesson, Part Two
- Developing and completing your still life artwork, learning professional finishing techniques
- Day 8: The Michelangelo Lesson
- Studying human proportions and essential aspects of human anatomy, culminating in a series of sketches from both wooden and live models
- Day 9: The Holbein Lesson
- Learning facial proportions and drawing classical alabaster heads to develop precision
- Day 10: The Serov Lesson
- Creating a dynamic portrait painting from a live model
- Day 11: The Gauguin Lesson, Part One
- Creating a composition featuring one or several human figures from initial concept to successful completion
This final lesson synthesizes everything learned throughout the entire course.
This course is available for "remote" learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). Classes will take place with a "Live" instructor at the date/times listed below.
Upon registration, the instructor will send along additional information about how to log-on and participate in the class.
