Art Courses For Youth & Adults

Sessions 1. Kinds of brushes (by hair, by shape) and their application. Type of canvas, sizing, priming for different mediums. Type of paper for different mediums and techniques. Practice.

Session 2. Drawing materials and techniques: pencils, charcoals, sauces, pastels, ink, erasers etc. Dry and wet application, blending with a variety of mediums. Practice.

Session 3-4. Type of paints, binders, dispersants, additives. Safety and health concerns. Types of pigments: organic, inorganic, mineral, and man-made. Natural pigments vs. manufactured.

Session 5. Preparing a binder of the student’s choice and making paints from raw pigments and prepared binder.

Sessions 1.  One-point perspective. Basics, distance in perspective, arches in perspective. Practice.

Session 2. Two-point perspective. Basic forms in perspective. Interior and perspective. Practice.

Session 3. Hills and stairs in perspective. Buildings and cityscapes. Practice.

Session 4. Towers in perspective. Drawing lighthouse. Practice.

Session 5. Air and colour perspective. Practice.

Session 6. Tilted objects in perspective. Still Life practice.

Sessions 1. Landscapes. Key principles for a successful landscape painting, colour choice and choice of point of view. Landscape techniques and principles in art history. Contemporary landscape. What to avoid. How to work from life and from photos. Practice.

Session 2. Portraits. Key art principles for portraits. Portraits in the past and contemporary portraits. Choice of light, colours, and composition.

Session 3. Still lives. Key art principles for still lives. Old-fashioned and contemporary still lives. Practice.

Session 4. Conceptual art. Key art principles and rules to express imagination. Practice.

Session 5. Abstract painting. Key art principles for abstract art. Practice.

Sessions 1-2. Types of composition, importance of composition, balanced and unbalanced composition. Movement in composition. How to use composition to emphasize artistic ideas. Colour composition. How to use colour composition in different techniques.

Session 3. Practice Composition for a still life.

Session 4. Practice Composition for a landscape.

Session 5. Practice Composition that speaks.

Sessions 1. Cube and its derivatives., Outlines, monochrome shading, colour shading.

Sessions 2. Cylinder. Outlines, monochrome shading, colour shading.

Session 3. Cone and pyramid. Outlines, monochrome shading, colour shading.

Session 4. Sphere. Outlines, monochrome shading, colour shading.

Session 5. Transparent objects.Outlines, monochrome shading.

Sessions 1. Facial proportions, guidelines, perspective and different angles. Practice.

Sessions 2. Eyes. Key attributes and different angles. Practice.

Session 3. Nose. Key attributes and different angles. Practice.

Session 4. Lips. Key attributes and different angles. Practice.

Session 5. Head and Hair. Key attributes and different angles. Practice.

Sessions 1. Still Life principles, choosing objects, light, and composition, depth, light and shadows.

Sessions 2. Still life in gouache. Fruits.

Session 3. Still life in watercolours. Glass objects.

Session 4. Still life in gouache. Metal objects.

Session 5. Still life in gouache. Drapery.

Sessions 1.  Primary and Secondary colours, their nature, retina and brain processing of colours, warm and cold colours, myths and reality. Tints and shades.When and how mixing colours works in different mediums. Opacity, pigment compositions etc.

Sessions 2. Monochrome painting. Practice: Still Life.

Session 3. Mixing colours on a palette and directly on the work. Practice: portrait palette.

Session 4. Choosing colours for light, shadows and cast shadows. Practice. Flower.

Session 5. Choosing colours for night scenes. Practice. Night Landscape.

Sessions 1-2.  Drawing a still life from life.

Sessions 3-4. Painting flowers from life in watercolour.

Session 5. Painting a landscape from life, principles of speed painting.