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Intensive ACRYLIC Painting
24 Lesson Art Course

Some prospective students have asked for an intensive immersion in learning to draw and to paint. They haven't the time or budget to fly around the world to the major art schools with their $100,000 cost for a four year art school enrollment plus the living costs to stay there.

This course does not pretend to equal a four year art school. There are no liberal arts components: Great Books Course, Sociology Course and the other liberal arts education components of a degree granting Fine Art College art course.

But there is a step by step plan structured into this intense course to allow a student to learn much of what they need to have a solid education in drawing and painting.

How long will it take? Depends on your available time. If a student can drop everything else, read the art textbooks and online supplemental eLessons on our school WEB site, and practice the exercises, then do the Lesson Assignments we post to their Personal Home Index Page on the school WEB site, the course could be done in 24 weeks.

For others, 24 months would be appropriate allowing time for real life, family friends, colds and the rest of the stuff life is made of.

We allow up to 48 months (4 years) for the completion of this Intensive Art Course in learning to draw and paint.

Will I be a painter when I am done? Nobody knows. How hard are you willing to work? How good a student are you - can you keep your nose in the Art textbooks supplied and read them and reread them till you get it (along with the help I supply in my hand drawn and hand painted critiques I post to your Personal Home Index page (to see a sample Critique click here).

I once had a teacher who said "paint 200 paintings and you will be a painter" - a good one, a medium one, but some kind of painter. There is also the old saying "Art is 90 percent perspiration and 10% inspiration". This is hard work and you can answer your own question about whether you can learn to draw and learn to paint.

  • Supplies and Art Textbooks: Art Textbooks are described below in each Lesson books are supplied for in the course outline at the end of this page

  • Art Supplies – When you learn how to draw and how to acrylic paint, it is imperative that you have the proper art supplies. That is why you will receive an array of materials. Included in your student’s package will be:
     

  • Drawing Starter Kit – A tremendous assortment of artist’s pencils to use with each of your drawing lessons.
     
  • Acrylics Starter Set – Just what you need when you start learning how to paint in acrylics. Twenty-six tubes of acrylic color, three specialty pencils, a sharpener, an eraser, four brushes, a putty eraser, a palette for color mixing, and a wooden carrying case. 
  • Drawing Pads – You’ll also receive a 50-sheet, 14x17 drawing pad as well as a 10-sheet, a pad of 12" × 15¾"  acrylic painting sheets.
     
  • What you are NOT supplied with: – The acrylic kit supplied is intended to be, as the acrylic STARTER kit. One of my students painted 40” by 60” oil paintings as he took the course.
     
  • At Pratt University in Brooklyn, where I studied, some students spent as much for art supplies as they did for tuition We could not possibly supply everyone with enough paint to do large and to do many paintings.
     
  • Art supplies are expensive, even student grade. The course would be insanely priced to cover all students’ needs, like the 40 X 60 guy. We supply a STARTER kit and the student buys, and learns to buy what they need as they progress through the course.


Barry Waldman, Your Teacher

A Complete Description of Each Lesson Below:

Lesson 1: Drawing 101: Drawing & Form

  • Drawing Art textbook – a heavily illustrated 224-page art textbook
  • 2nd Art Textbook 432 pages of studio setup and paint, brushes comprehensive "Bible" of painting basics
  • Supplemental mini lessons pertaining to form (found on our Web site)
  • General drawing set including:
    • Assortment of artist's pencils:
    • 3 Charcoal Pencils (varying degrees of hardness)
    • 3 Compressed Graphite Art Sticks
    • 1 Soft Graphite Pencil
    • 1 Water Soluble Graphite pencil
    • 1 White Charcoal Pencil
    • 1 Soft Sketch Pencil
  • Pad paper Canson Classic art paper (50 sheets – 14 inches by 17 inches)
  • Lesson 1 assignment and homework

You also receive a personal Web folder on the school’s Web site where you will receive information pertaining to Lesson 1. When you complete your assignment I will also post my personally prepared image and lesson critique to your Web folder.

Lesson 1 Assignment:

  • Part 1: Draw the Basic Form image on the site

  • Part 2: Draw anything, it can be a copy of a drawing in your
    drawing textbook or anything you can photograph, draw and email the photos to me*

* Note in any assignment, where possible it would produce the most effective critique if I had your drawing or painting for any lesson along with a photograph of what you drew or painted.

Lesson 2: Drawing 102:

·        Lesson 2 assignment and critique

Lesson 2 Assignment:

  • Draw a still life (Black and white) from assigned image

  • Draw a landscape (Black and white) from assigned image

  • Draw a building  (Black and white) from assigned image

Note – there is no textbook with this Lesson 2, you will still be working from your Lesson 1 Drawing Textbook

Lesson 3: Color Theory 101

  • Color theory art textbook

  • Starter Acrylic Kit in wood box supplied with this first color lesson and needed for following lessons and includes:

  • Pad of Acyrlic Canvas Sheets (for roughs)

  • Five Acrylic Board Canvases (for finished paintings) 11" X 14"

  • Lesson 3 assignment and critique

Lesson 3 Assignment:

  • Paint the color wheel in your Color Theory Art Textbook

  • Paint the spheres in your Color Theory Art Textbook

Lesson 4: Color 102, Color Mixing

  • · Color Mixing Art Textbook

  • · Lesson 3 assignment and critique

Lesson 4 Assignment:
Do the color mixing exercises on specified pages in the Lesson Art Textbook

Lesson 5: Composition 101 (Composition textbook, Lesson Assignment & Critique)

  • Composition art textbook and shipping
  • Lesson 5 assignment and critique

Lesson 5 Assignment:

  • Assignment: Analyze 2 paintings in your Composition Art Textbook

Lesson 6: Composition 102

  • No new art textbook, no shipping
  • Lesson 6 assignment and critique

Lesson 6 Assignment:

  • Do your own compositions in Pencil Thumbnails your choice, room, landscape, still life, do several variations, change viewpoint, make different objects or areas the focal point ...if you base this on a photo or magazine image, please send me a digital picture of your reference file AND your Assignment artwork,

Lesson 7: Composition 103

  • Lesson 7 assignment and critique no new art textbook, no shipping)

Lesson 7 Assignment:

  • Assignment : Do your own compositions in Color Thumbnails
    your choice, room, landscape, still life

Lesson 8: Perspective 101 (black and white pencil)

  • Perspective art textbook
  • Lesson 8 assignment and critique

Lesson 8 Assignment:

  • Do a black and white room
  • Do a black and white building

Lesson 9: Perspective 102
(Color perspective, furthers your study of perspective and now color perspective plus mood)

  • Color perspective online eLesson on Aerial Perspective, no new books, no shipping
  • Lesson 9 assignment and critique

    Lesson 9 Assignment:
  • Do color room (can be same you did in black and white prior lesson or new room)
  • Do color building  (can be same you did in black and white prior lesson or new building)
  • As always, send digital photos of subject you worked from AND digital photos of your Lesson Assignment artwork

Lesson 10: Still Life 101 (pencil)

  • Still life art pencil textbook
  • Lesson 10 assignment and critique

Lesson 10 Assignment:

  • Draw a single apple
  • Draw a single other object of your own (supply photo) or from still life book

Lesson 11: Still Life 102 (color)

  • Still Life Color Art Textbook

  • Lesson 11 assignment and critique

    Lesson 11 Assignment:

  • Do color thumbnails to compose your apple and second object from above in a color painting color
  • Select a thumbnail and paint the still life

Lesson 12: Landscape 101 Drawing

  • Drawing Landscapes textbook
  • Lesson 12 assignment and critique

Lesson 12 Assignment:

  • Assignment Part I: Draw a single  tree
  • Assignment Part II: Draw a single large rock or boulder

Lesson 13: Landscape 102 Painting

  • Painting Landscapes Art Textbook
  • Lesson 13 assignment and critique

Lesson 13 Assignment:

  • Paint color landscape thumbnails by combining above objects and some more (grass, road, fence – whatever)

Lesson 14: Landscape 103 Painting

  • No new art textbook with this lesson
  • Lesson 14 assignment and critique

Lesson 14 Assignment:

  • Paint a full size color landscape you composed in the last lesson and we discussed in your Lesson 13 Critique

Lesson 15: Figure 101

  • Figure Drawing Art textbook (Anatomy) supplied
  • Lesson 15 assignment and critique

Lesson 15 Assignment:

  • Draw several figures, one to a drawing in black and white

Lesson 16: Figure 102

  • Figure Painting Art  textbook (No good ones in Acrylics--this oil painting based figure painting book suits better than Acrylic figure books available...includes shipping
  • Lesson 16 assignment and critique

Lesson 16 Assignment:

  • Paint figures in color – single figures – 1 or 2 on separate figures on separate canvases (include image you worked from and your paintings of each one)

Lesson 17: Figure 103

  • No new Art  textbook for this Lesson – review your composition and figure art textbooks from prior assignments
  • Lesson 17 assignment and critique

Lesson 17 Assignment:

  • Paint nude color figures together in a well composed scene in several thumbnails, choose the best thumbnail and then do a full painting  (include image(s) you worked from and an image of your Lesson Assignment painting as well. You can paint the nudes in your Anatomy or Figure Painting textbooks.

Lesson 18: Figure 104 Drapery on people

  • Drapery on people Art Textbook
  • Lesson 18 assignment and critique

Lesson 18 Assignment:

  • Draw figures together with drapery on them
  • Assignment: Paint draped figures (include
    digital images of your thumbnails and the image(s) you worked from and an image of your Lesson Assignment painting as well.

Lesson 19: Figure 105

  • No new Art  textbook & no shipping
  • Student combines and reviews previous lessons and textbooks on composition drapery and figure.
  • Lesson 19 assignment and critique

Lesson 19 Assignment:

  • Assignment: Paint color figures together in a well composed scene with drapery on the figures

Lesson 20: Portrait 101

  • Portrait  drawing Art textbook
  • Lesson 20 assignment and critique

Lesson 20 Assignment:

  • Assignment: Draw some portraits (include image(s) you worked from and an image(s) of your Lesson Assignment drawing as well.

Lesson 21: Portrait 102

  • Portrait Art textbook
  • Lesson 21 assignment and critique

Lesson 21 Assignment:

  • Paint a head  or two (separate canvasses--not a full composition, just the head (from life, from a photo, from a magazine (send copies of photos with your emailed final Lesson 21 painting.

Lesson 22: Portrait 103

  • No new Art  textbook , student reviews composition, drapery, figure art textbooks and critiques of those prior subjects plus an online eLesson preparatory to this assignment
  • Lesson 22 assignment and critique

Lesson 22 Assignment:

  • Paint a well composed portrait , not just a head but with head and shoulders or more of the figure and in a setting (from life, from a photo, from a magazine (send copies of photos with your emailed final Lesson 22 painting.

Lesson 23: Getting Ready for Your Masterpiece (your Masterpiece is the last Lesson: Lesson 24)

  • No Art textbook , no shipping
  • Lesson 23 assignment and critique

Lesson 23 Assignment:

  • A series of thumbnails and some next step larger sketches of your proposed Masterpiece for Lesson 24 ...let's work together to prepare for that by applying all you have learned about form, composition, technique, color theory and perspective, etc. As always: (include
    image(s) you worked from and an
    image(s) of your Lesson Assignment color sketches as well.

Lesson 24: Graduation Painting- Subject of Your Choice

  • No new Art Textbook but there is shipping of your CD and Certificate described below at no extra cost to you with conclusion of this Lesson and the whole course!
  • Lesson 24 assignment and critique
  • Paint anything you choose to paint based on Lesson 23 preparation stage

After your Lesson 24 critique is posted to your Web folder, you will receive a Certificate of Completion and CD with all your lessons and lesson critiques. Your CD will also contain my recommendations for the next steps in continuing your artistic development.

Includes Lesson Assignment, Critique, CD Preparation, Next Step Suggestions, Certificate and shipping

To enroll in the 24 Lesson Acrylic Art Course with Camera Click on "BUY NOW" button on top below or if you have Digital Camera that takes images over 1 megapixel per image you can use the second "BUY NOW" button below which deducts $100.00 USD to enroll (or contact me at barry@bridgemillartcenter.com for customized enrollment options in 24 Lesson Intensive Acrylic Art Course with your desired options).
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