Intensive OIL 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 oil 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 – An assortment of artist’s pencils to use with each of your
drawing lessons.
Oil Starter Set –
Just what you need when you start learning how to paint in
oils. Twenty-six tubes of oil 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, 12x16 pad of canvases. These are not stretched
canvases which you can buy yourself later as you progress as
an artist ...these are canvas sheets for study and practice.
What you are NOT supplied with: – The
oil
kit supplied is intended to be, as the
oil
STARTER kit. One of my students painted 40” by 60” oil
paintings as he took the course. 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.
At Pratt
University in Brooklyn, where I studied, some students spent
as much for art supplies as they did for tuition.
A Complete Description of Each Lesson Below:
Lesson 1: Drawing 101: Drawing & Form
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Drawing Art textbook – a heavily
illustrated 224-page art textbook
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2nd Art Textbook: Your total
overview art textbook of setting up your studio,
all about paints, brushes
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Supplemental mini lessons
pertaining to form (found on our Web site)
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Autofocus digital camera
(or equivalent substitute compatible with your
computer)
(students who have a digital camera with over 1
Megapixel imaging get a deduction of $100.00 for the cost
of the camera we usually supply from their
enrollment cost)
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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
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Pad paper Canson Classic art
paper (50 sheets – 14 inches by 17 inches)
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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.
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Lesson 2: Drawing 102:
Lesson 2 Assignment:
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Draw a still life (Black
and white) from assigned image
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Draw a landscape (Black
and white) from assigned image
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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
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Lesson 3: Color Theory 101
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Color
theory art textbook
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Starter Oil Kit in wood box supplied with this first color lesson and needed for following lessons
... contains
26 colors in 12 ml tubes, 4 brushes, 2 pencils,
a sharpener, eraser, and palette.
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6 Rounds and Bright Brush set
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6 Bristle Brush set
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Pad of Canvas
Sheets
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Lesson 3
assignment and critique
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Additional brush sets to supplement those in
Wood Boxed Kit described above
Lesson 3 Assignment:
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Lesson 4: Color 102, Color Mixing
Lesson 4 Assignment:
Do the color mixing
exercises on specified pages in the Lesson Art Textbook
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Lesson 5: Composition 101
- Composition art textbook and shipping
- Lesson 5 assignment and critique
Lesson 5 Assignment:
- Assignment : Analyze 2 paintings in your Composition Art Textbook
or those on your Lesson Assignment on your school web site folder
specified in your Lesson Assignment\
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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,
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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
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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
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Lesson 9:
Perspective 102
(Color perspective, furthers your study of perspective and
now
color perspective (aerial perspective) plus mood)
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Lesson 10: Still Life 101 (pencil)
- Still life Art Pencil
Textbook includes shipping
- Lesson 10 assignment and critique
Lesson 10 Assignment:
- Draw and paint a single apple
- Draw and paint a single other object of your own
(supply photo) or from still life book
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Lesson 11: Still Life 102 (color)
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Lesson 12: Landscape 101 Drawing
- Drawing Landscapes textbook
and shipping supplied
- Lesson 12 assignment and critique
Lesson 12 Assignment:
- Assignment Part I1: Draw a single tree
- Assignment Part II: Draw a single large rock or
boulder
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Lesson 13: Landscape 102 Painting
- Painting Landscapes Art Textbook
and shipping supplied
- Lesson 13 assignment and critique
Lesson 13 Assignment:
- Paint color landscape thumbnails by combining above
objects and some more (grass, road, fence – whatever)
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Lesson 14: Landscape 103 Painting (INCLUDES NEW
LARGER SETS OF Oil Paints, Oil Brushes & Painting Surfaces)
- No new art textbook with this lesson
- Wood Boxed Oil
Set with built in easel, larger Oil tubes (larger than those sent with Lesson 3)
for balance of course
- Larger oil canvases then first set (sent with Lesson 3)
- Additional Brush
Sets
- Lesson 14 assignment and critique
Lesson 14 Assignment:
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Paint a full size color landscape you composed in the
last lesson and we discussed in your Lesson 13 Critique
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Lesson 15: Figure 101
- Figure Drawing Art textbook
(Anatomy) and shipping
- Lesson 15 assignment and critique
Lesson 15 Assignment:
- Draw several figures, one to a drawing in black and
white
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Lesson 16: Figure 102
- Figure Painting
in Oils Art textbook 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)
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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.
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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.)
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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
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Lesson 20: Portrait 101
- Portrait drawing Art textbook
(The Artist's Complete Guide to Drawing the Head, Maugham and
shipping
- 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.
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Lesson 21: Portrait 102
- Portrait Art textbook
(Paint People in Oil with Lee Hammond)
- Lesson 21 assignment and critique
Lesson 21 Assignment:
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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.
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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.
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Lesson 23: Getting Ready for Your Masterpiece
(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.
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Lesson 24: Graduation Painting- Subject of Your Choice
- No new Art
Textbook but there is shipping of your CD and Certificate described
below
- 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.
In
addition to
Critique of your Lesson
24 Assignment you will receive a CD with all your Lesson Critiques,
Next Step Suggestions, Certificate and shipping |
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Intensive Art Course with Camera Click on "BUY NOW" button or
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Note: Students are given 48 Months to complete
the 24 Lesson Oil Intensive Art Course.
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