Already Painting But Want to Improve ?

The idea: You send a digital image of one painting and get a Professional One-On-One Critique of your work and suggestions for future improvement.

There is no course to take, you do not enroll in one of our art courses. You send in a digital photo of on of your paintings and I do a One-On-One hand painted Critique of your painting. This is for people who are well along in their study and practice of oil painting, but feel they need more direction at the point they are at.

Art Instructor Critiques

Your painting will receive a customized art instructor critique in order to help you improve and expand as you learn how to draw and how to oil paint. Critiques will use the following format:

• Your digital camera image.
• Art Instructor’s comments (words).
• Instructor’s visual (hand painted oils by me) with 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.
• Possibly I will add links to Online Mini Lessons on the school site that will help you with issues I feel you need more information on
• I may recommend art textbooks that you might consider buying that will help you improve in areas my review of your work indicates you may need more information on.

Art critiques are posted to your Personal Page on the school site for you to see 24/7/365. They are printable and will remain on the site at the online art school for three years..

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A Revolutionary Idea in Teaching Drawing & Painting

A detailed description of the One-On-One Critique of one of your paintings follows, but the key to our having students in 20 countries (Australia, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Grand Cayman, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mallorca, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, St. Vincent and the Grenadines (West Indies), Uganda, United Arab Emirates (Bahrain) as well as all over the USA) is a digital camera. The student uses the camera to take digital photographs of their painting and attaches those photo to an email to the school. We can then prepare detailed comments, hand drawn and painted how-you-could-have-done-it better critiques that are posted to your Personal WEB Page for you to review 24 hours a day/7 days a week/365 days a year

• NO art textbooks are supplied for these one-on-one Online Critiques of your work – You send us a digital image of your painting and we do a Critique and post it to your Personal Page on the school site.
  
• Digital Camera – You’ll use the digital camera to take photographs of your completed art lessons and email them to your art instructor.  While completing your enrollment questionnaire, you will be asked questions about your computer’s capabilities and your digital camera or scanner. If you have any questions about the use or setup of the camera, please don’t hesitate to ask. We also have online Mini Lessons about using your digital camera
  
• Art Supplies – No art supplies are supplied for these one-on-one Online Critiques.

About Your Teacher

I am an exhibited painter, have taught as an Assistant  and Associate Professor, Instructor and Lecturer at 2 Universities and at Famous Artists' School and over the WEB taught students in 16 countries from this web site since 2001. More details are at: Your instructor on this WEB site. Two of my paintings are below and more are at: http://www.bridgemillartcenter.com/Paintings.html
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Prerequisites

There are things you will need to possess or obtain prior to registering for a single critique of your painting. These skills are to ensure that you are able to fully interact with your art instructor as you learn how to improve your drawing and  oil painting

You should have:

• A digital camera or scanner to digitize (shoot digitally) your paintings and attached the digitized images to an email to me to have your Critique done and posted to your Personal Page on the school web site.
• Your camera should have Auto-Focus so the image you send is sharp
• If you do not have a digital camera we can supply one at extra cost
  A digital scanner can be used if you have one instead of a digital camera
• The issues with digital scanners is the size they can scan (some people paint really large) and wet oil paintings and scanners are an issue, but scanners can do very sharp scans if your dry oil paintings fit the scanner imaging area.
• 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 can help you to:

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

To Contact me:

barry@bridgemillartcenter.com

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