Description

• Target audience?

This course is addressed to all levels, especially beginners, advanced students, and anyone who aspires to a professional career in fine arts, architecture, or applied arts.

• Academic year/Holidays:

Classes will run yearly from September until July 31st. There will be two weeks of Christmas holidays and one week of Easter holidays.

• Duration/commitment:

A 3-hour weekly class covers the foundation drawing and painting syllabus monthly. We recommend a minimum commitment of 3 months(12-13 weeks) for all beginners. During this period, you will cover the foundational aspects of Drawing and Painting. In the last week, you will have a full review and assessment of your work. This process will help reinforce and cultivate your critical view.

• Attendance capacity:

Classes are limited to a maximum attendance of 8-10 students. The students’ levels will be mixed, thus offering further development opportunities through a collaborative spirit and the advantage of observing more advanced artworks.

• Timetable: 

You will choose a one-time slot from the following days:

Tuesdays: 10-1 pm, 2-5 pm, 6-9 pm

Wednesdays: 10-1 pm, 2-5 pm, 6-9 pm

• Structure of the classes:

Each class session is structured to provide a comprehensive learning experience. It begins with your teacher’s 20 to 30-minute demonstration of the theoretical/technical background, emphasizing the key elements of form, tonal values, colour, texture, proportion, and abstract perception. Following the demonstration, there will be a 15-minute Q&A session. The remaining time is dedicated to your practice. Your tutor provides continuous feedback, corrections, and regular revisions of the theoretical material. While you practice, your tutor will constantly provide feedback and corrections for the rest of the class. The theoretical material will be frequently revised. As a result, everyone benefits, whether beginner or advanced. The last 10-15 minutes will be dedicated to cleaning your materials to assist with the schedule. Students are responsible for their materials and must take them home. We will store only their drawings or paintings for the time needed to finish them.

Students are responsible for their materials and must take them home. We will store only their drawings or paintings for the time needed to finish them.

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• Materials

 

-DRAWING MATERIALS

• Willow charcoal -Talens (thick): 1 Box of 12 x Thick Sticks (7-9mm)
• (the mm refers to the diameter of the stick).
• Paper: Fabriano 4 Cartridge 200 gsm 50 x 70cm NOT SMOOTH (SKU FA4C02193)
• Auto Lock Retractable Blade – you can find them in any  DIY SHOP
• Putty rubber: Faber-Castell’s Kneadable Eraser
• Hard eraser white STAEDTLER Mars Plastic Eraser
• Charcoal fixative spray 

-PAINTING MATERIALS

Essential colour list.

• Titanium white,
• Ivory black,
• lemon yellow, cadmium yellow,
• cadmium red, carmine red, red vermilion,
• cobalt blue, ultramarine blue, cerulean blue,
• yellow ochre
• Burnt Sienna, raw umber
• Viridian green.

• Brushes:

Generally divided into two categories:

• • synthetic (fine stroke, precision, increased control) and
  • natural bristle brushes( bristle hogs, which create less precise strokes and carry more colour load).

You will need a bit of both “worlds”(synthetic and bristle hogs). These come in various sizes, numbers, and shapes.

1. 1. 1. 8-10 flats. (half synthetic – half bristles)
      2. 2 round synthetic brushes.
      3. Add a couple of white bristle spalter brushes for priming paper.

• Paper: Specially designed to sustain wet medium, 50×70 cm size. (Cartridge paper more than 300 gsm, Canson, Montval, Strathmore, etc).
• Gesso primer
• Palette knifes
• Aluminium foil: 45cm width.
• Masking tape:
• Kitchen roll:
• Soap:

For more detailed information on the materials please click here

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• General notes:

Some of the above materials are directly linked to help you gain an idea and roughly a price estimate. Furthermore, the subsequent websites indicate places where you can find many art materials. The list is not extensive, and Drawing Values do not show affiliation or profit from any store links listed.

Great Art, Jackson’s Art, Atlantis Art, CassArt, London Graphics, Cornelissen, Rkburt, Art Discount