Online Art School 6 Lesson
ACRYLIC Course Outline
Learn How To Draw and How To Paint in Acrylics

Your drawing lessons are divided into a six-lesson curriculum and include all the initial art supplies and materials you will need to learn how to draw and how to draw and to paint. in Acrylics. Once you have registered and completed the enrollment questionnaire, your 10 textbooks, digital camera, personal access code to the students’ area, and your materials kit will be mailed to you. Note if you have a digital camera, the course is $100.00 less.

Normally, we ask you to allow up to 15 days for your drawing lessons package to arrive. Since this is a new course, it might take longer to gather the Acrylic specific art textbooks and supplies.

A Revolutionary Idea in Teaching Drawing & Painting

A detailed description of the Full Drawing & Painting Art Course follows, but the key to our having students in Japan, China, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Mallorca, Grand Cayman, Great Britain, Canada as well as all over the USA is a digital camera. The student uses the camera to take digital photographs of their assigned lesson artwork and attach those photos to an email to the school. We can then prepare detailed comments, hand drawn and painted in Acrylics of how-you-could-have-done-it better critiques that are posted to your Personal WEB Folder for you to review 24 hours a day/7 days a week/365 days a year

Painting and Drawing Lessons Outline

1. Learn how to draw light, shade and form.
2. Painting techniques for composition and color theory.
3. How to draw and paint still lifes and perspective in Acrylics .
4. Learn how to draw a landscape and Acrylic painting techniques for landscapes.
5. Learn how to sketch and how to paint figures and portraits in Acrylics.
6. Your Masterpiece! Your graduation painting on the subject of your choice.
   Graduation! Upon graduation you will receive a certificate of completion and a CD-ROM that includes all of your drawing lessons, all critiques, and some vital “next steps” insights to help you continue to progress.

(Directions and specifications are detailed in each drawing lesson in your personal Web folder.)

All of your Critiques are drawn or Acrylic painted in response to your assignment artwork sent for each lesson.

You have up to 30 months (2-1/2 years) to complete the art course.

Art Instructor Critiques

Each of your drawing lessons will receive a customized art instructor critique in order to help you improve and expand as you learn how to draw and how to paint in Acrylics. Critiques will use the following format:

• Your digital camera image.
• Art Instructor’s comments.
• Instructor’s visual suggestions for improvement.
• Links to images and/or information on the Web that you will find useful.
• Possible animations to clarify points and offer instruction.

Art critiques are cumulative, printable and will remain on the site at the online art school for three years. You will also receive a CD-ROM copy of all critiques upon graduation. Art critiques can be placed in a common area where other students can learn from them, or in a private area for only your viewing.

Click here to view a sample art critique.

Included In Your Student Enrollment Kit

Your art materials and art textbooks in your student enrollment kit includes what you need to start your learning path. You are always free to purchase additional art materials (such as larger painting surfaces or alternate brushes, etc.) if you choose.

Art Textbooks: 10 Textbooks For Each Drawing Lesson – The basic text you’ll use is entitled “The Acrylics Book.” There are also nine other art texts included that cover the various drawing and painting techniques such as: basic drawing, composition and color theory, how to paint in Acrylics (applying and mixing paints), still life and perspective, landscapes, and figures.

Digital Camera: You’ll use the digital camera to take photographs of your completed art lessons and email them to your art instructor. A Digital Camera is included in your kit (unless you have one already, then the cost of the digital camera is deducted from the enrollment fee. While completing your enrollment questionnaire, you will be asked questions about your computer’s capabilities so that a compatible camera can be mailed to you. If you have any questions about the use or setup of the camera, please don’t hesitate to ask.

• 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.

On Enrolling, we will set up your Personal Home Index Page on the school web site where you will receive:

- Your Lesson Assignments
- Your Lesson Critiques of the work you send in
- Online Mini Lessons to supplement your Art Textbooks

Then, we send you your Student Enrollment Kit with all your Art Textbooks and initial Art Supplies

Your Lesson Plan and details follow:

An overview of Acrylic Techniques Art Textbook for use throughout the course precedes the course

Lesson 1; Drawing and Form
Art Textbook on Drawing and Form
Drawing Set
Drawing Pad
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Lesson 2 Composition and Color Theory
Art Textbook on Composition in Art
Art Textbook on Color Theory
Acrylic Paint Set in a Wood Carrying Box
Acrylic Pad
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Lesson 3: Perspective and Still Life
Art Textbook on Creative Perspective for Artists and Illustrators
Art Textbook on Acrylic Still Life
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Lesson 4: Landscape Drawing and Painting
Art Textbook on Landscape Drawing
Art Textbook on Acrylic Landscape Painting Techniques
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Lesson 5 Drawing and Painting the Figure
Art Textbook on Anatomy
Art Textbook on Figure Painting (oil techniques-no acrylic text available)
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Lesson 6: Graduation Painting- Subject of Your Choice
No New Art Textbook: use all previously supplied above
 

Prerequisites

There are certain skills you will need to possess or obtain prior to registering for our online art school. These skills are to ensure that you are able to fully interact with your art instructor as you learn how to draw and how to oil paint.

You should have:

• Unlimited use of a computer with Internet access.
• A computer with a CD-ROM drive.
• A monitor capable with VGA or Super VGA ability.
• The ability to send and receive emails with attachments.
• High speed Internet access – if possible. Dial-up access is acceptable, but will slow your progress in viewing your critiques.

I will show you how to:

• Use your new digital camera.
• Upload and send images of your artwork from your camera.

Enroll by clicking "BUY NOW" button below for full course WITH a Digital Camera we supply with your art textbooks and art supplies.

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...or ... Enroll by clicking on the next  "BUY NOW" button below for full course WITHOUT a Digital Camera (saves you $100.00).  We do supply art textbooks and art supplies. Critiques, etc.

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