Art Lesson Details

When you choose to take art lessons from the Interactive Art School, all the materials you’ll need to learn to draw are included in your tuition. Whether you opt for enrolling in the complete course, or ordering individual art lessons as you have time to complete them, you’ll receive everything you need to learn how to draw and how to oil paint.

Here is an itemized outline of the art supplies that are included with your online art school tuition:

Lesson 1: Drawing and Form

• Drawing Art textbook – a heavily illustrated 224-page art textbook
• Supplemental mini lessons pertaining to form (found on our Web site)
• HP PhotoSmart 120 digital camera (or equivalent substitute compatible with your computer)
• 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 2: Composition and Color Theory

• Composition textbook
• Color Theory textbook
• Oil Kit supplied with this first color lesson and  needed for following lessons:
  26 Color Oil Kit, with brushes, etc. in wood box and Pad of Canvas Sheets
• Lesson 2 assignment and homework

When you complete your assignment I will also post my personally prepared image and lesson critique to your Web folder.

Lesson 3: Perspective and Still Life

• Still Life art textbook
• Perspective textbook
• Lesson 3 assignment and homework

When you complete your assignment I will also post my personally prepared image and lesson critique to your Web folder.

Lesson 4: Landscape Drawing and Painting

• Drawing Landscapes textbook
• Painting Landscapes textbook
• Lesson 4 assignment and homework

When you complete your assignment I will also post my personally prepared image and lesson critique to your Web folder.

Lesson 5: Drawing and Painting the Figure

• Anatomy textbook
• Figure Painting textbook
• Lesson 5 assignment and homework

When you complete your assignment I will also post my personally prepared image and lesson critique to your Web folder.

Lesson 6: Graduation Painting- Subject of Your Choice

• 432-page heavily illustrated art textbook pertaining to all aspects of oil painting, watercolor, organizing your art materials, and using your art materials
• Lesson 6 assignment and homework

When you complete your assignment I will also post my personally prepared image and lesson critique to your Web folder.

After your Lesson 6 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.

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