Your drawing and painting lessons are divided into six-lessons and include all the initial art supplies and materials you will need to learn how to draw and how to oil paint. Each of your drawing lessons will receive a customized art instructor critique in order to help you improve and expand as you progress. This Learn to Draw and Learn to Oil Paint  Art Course is $995.00 USD if we provide a digital camera along with the other art textbooks and initial art supplies and $895.00 USD if you already have a suitable digital camera. Click for complete details on list below:
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Same drawing and painting lessons, divided into six-lessons but only two critiques by your teacher instead of six for those with lower budgets available. This Budget Learn to Draw and Learn to Oil Paint  Art Course is $695.00 USD if we provide a digital camera along with the other art textbooks and initial art supplies and $595.00 USD if you already have a suitable digital camera and don't need one from us.
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This is the CRAFTS ART COURSE for those who do not need the full art course in learning to draw and paint but rather want to focus on design, drawing, color theory, composition and perspective as underlying basic principles of design and drawing and color to sketch, visualize and design their stained glass, glass mosaics, fused glass, tile mosaics, jewelry design, pottery & other visual crafts. This Craftperson's Art Course is $695.00 USD if we provide a digital camera along with the other art textbooks and initial art supplies and $595.00 USD if you already have a suitable digital camera.
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Some students do not want to work in oil paints or cannot (example: people with chemical sensitivities to oils and their solvents). We have students studying in watercolors, colored pencil and acrylics. Some students want different subject matter. We have one student want whose course is aimed at superhero and robot/monster realistic comics. Write me an email describing your needs and I can propose a custom course for you. The cost of this Custom Art Course is the same as the Original Oil Painting Art Course and the Budget Art Course above. The only difference is that we customize the art textbooks, the art supplies and do the Critiques in your selected media.
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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.

Barry Waldman, Your Teacher