"There’s no
way
your
paintings can’t
improve
after
this course"
"I’ve been painting on my own for a while and thought I was doing okay. Now that I’m taking this course I see so many things I can learn from that will make my work so much better. This is the stuff you can’t get in art school anymore, sadly. There’s no way your paintings can’t improve after this course. That’s how strongly I feel about it." ... Bob Akers., Crystal Lake, IL, United States
"...really superb"
"I find your courses really superb in two ways: first they are very complete and comprehensive, and second they go straight to the point, to the essentials. Both my wife and I paint and we both agree that these art instruction courses are one of the best sources of education for people who want to learn to paint in a direct or alla prima style" Bernado Martin, Alicante, Spain.
Erika is
following
her dream
"This course is truly well run, professionally handled -- and I can only echo the great comments of other students: I am glad, I enrolled in this course!! I got so much out of it already -- lots of explanations, areas to study up on, other artists to learn from. AND I am not at the end of the course, yet. I am getting more and more confident and bold enough to follow my dream -- to become a proficient and sensitive artist.
Erika, USA, 2009
"...already noticed
improvement
in
my work"
"In my opinion, your material is the best I have found. It builds the basics, from the ground up, recognizing that there are no short cuts.....Your course puts all the right info into one package, and even more important, it gives me an organized, building block way to get these things into my head, and I have already noticed an improvement in my work," George, USA
The Beginner Academy Course is a program of self-study art classes for beginners. You get 20 of the 55 art course units from the Building Blocks of the Full Academy Course, which give you all the basic foundation topics a beginner need to know about, whether your prefer to paint in oils, acrylics, watercolors or pastels. Once you have mastered the Beginner course you can upgrade to the Full Course.
The Beginner Academy Course includes all of the following:
20 Self-Study
Painting Courses
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Each course is in PDF format (what is PDF?) so you can download and read them on your computer, or you can print them out on your home printer to use in your studio. You can put the printouts into a binder and if you get paint on a page, don't worry, unlike a book you can easily print out a clean copy!
The Beginner course units include:
a step-by-step series of lessons and assignments to gradually build your foundation skills in painting, so you learn better and do not get frustrated by a lack of progress
all the important and useful information gathered over the years from the author's personal library of over a hundred art books
all the tips and tricks the author has learned during his years of study with master artists
490 printable pages of
painting instruction in
easy to read format.
Each painting course contains about 15 - 20 pages of concentrated information covering a specific topic in painting in a high degree of detail, in a special easy-to-read proprietary format called Information Maps®.
75 Assignments
Each art course unit contains four to ten learning assignments to help you practice and assimilate the information. If you follow them as directed you will soon notice a change in your art work.
SPECIAL OFFER (for a limited time)
Buy the Beginner program now and get six months free membership of the online campus and free course updates for six months, a $60 value.
Online Campus
You have access to the Online Campus for six months, where you can upload your assignments and discuss your work with other students to comment, as well as display your art work for critique by other students. Working with other students can help get you motivated, and you will learn a lot from each other's efforts.
Free Monthly Course Updates
All updates to our course materials for a period of six months.
Audrey H
USA
"I bought the Full course last year and have been slowly working my way through it - painting, thinking, looking. I find it straight forward and practical. It is full of essential information on techniques and materials that you won’t find elsewhere, certainly not scattered at various sites on the internet! My husband is an amateur photographer and also has used concepts from this excellent course. I find the photos of paintings placed throughout the course "worth a thousand words" because as artists we remember things better when we have visualized them. Painting is a complex endeavor! No wonder it is a life-long pursuit. With the help of these logically presented courses, you can’t help but make progress in your art work. I highly recommend them."
Beginner Course Units
The Beginner Academy Course gives you all the beginner course units from the 9 Visual Music & PoetryT Building Blocks
- painting knowledge & techniques you won't find anywhere else. You will get all these painting lesson course units for oil painting, acrylic painting, and watercolor painting:
Color Unit 1 - Key Concepts
Color Unit 2 - Palettes and Basic Pigments
Design & Composition Unit 1 - Space Division
Drawing Unit 1 - Gesture
Drawing Unit 2 - Accuracy
Drawing Unit 3 - Contour
Drawing Unit 4 - Putting It All Together
Notan Unit 1 - Mass Notan 1
Notan Unit 2 - Mass Notan 2
Observation Unit 1 - Values
Observation Unit 2 - Color
Process Unit 1- Alla Prima Painting Process
Process Unit 1- Watercolor Step-by-Step
Process Unit 2 - Planning Your Learning Program
Process Unit 3-1 - Paints & Pigments
Process Unit 3-2 - Painting Supports
Process Unit 4 - Studio Equipment
Process Unit 6-1 - Plein Air Painting Equipment
Process Unit 6-2 - Lightweight Painting Supports
Visual Poetry & Music Unit 1 - The Visual Music & Poetry Model
How much does all this cost?
The Beginner Academy Program is less than the cost of just a one week workshop with a professional artist that would cost you around US$2000 if you include the cost of tuition, travel and lodgings. Instead you get one year of self-study material instead of just one week's worth!
Beginner Course
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Jacqueline
Spain
"The material is very well presented and easy to understand - no lengthy explanations but short and condensed paragraphs with a load of very valuable information. Along with plenty of illustrations, this makes it a fun and easy study."
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