Why a  Budget Art Course & What Is It?
 

The Interactive Art School (IAS) offers a totally WEB based art course. You work at home or some in their office at your own pace. Most of your study and practice is done away from the computer using your Lesson Assignments and suggested practice plus  the art textbooks supplied and directions from your teacher supplied online.

 

How it works:
1. You enroll by secure credit card (we don’t process your  credit card, it is done off our site by Authorize.net)
2. We send you 10 heavily illustrated how-to-draw-&-paint art textbooks, initial art supplies and a digital camera and set up a Personal Home Page for you on the school WEB site.
3. You get your 6 Lesson Assignments and sometimes special eLesson supplements to your art textbooks on your Personal WEB Home Page on the school WEB site.
4. As you complete each Lesson Assignment, you email digital images of your artwork to the school for review and online critiques.
5. Your teacher then reviews your artwork and does a drawn/painted Critique showing you how you could improve, tells you where you need to get more information from your textbooks or online eLessons and posts that Critique to your WEB folder for you to review 24/7/365
6. In the full course, you get  6 Lesson Assignments and 6 Critiques
7. A four year art course at a leading Art University (like Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NYC where I received my BFA Degree) can now take four years and cost over $100,000 USD. We have devised a more affordable mini art education that you have up to 30 months to do at home at your own pace.
8. The problem still voiced by many considering the IAS Art Course is the $995 for the full 6 Lesson Art Course ($895 if you already have a proper digital camera and don’t need us to send you one) is the cost.
9. So here’s the idea for a lower cost approach – Critiques are only done for the first lesson to help you with a jump-start the next Critique is for the last Lesson. You self –learn on the middle four lessons from the teacher’s directions, the Lesson Assignments 2-4 and the 8 art textbooks supplied for those Lessons.
10. The textbooks and Lesson Assignments are carefully constructed to supply you with the underlying principles of picture making.
11. I also believe students learn, they are not taught. If you have the discipline to read your art textbooks and follow the teacher’s Lesson Assignments, you can save about 40% taking this course.

 

Cost Comparisons:
Full Course   Partial Self-Taught Course  Savings
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$995 USD with camera  $595 USD with camera  $400
$895 USD no camera  $495 USD no camera  $400

 

We have students all over the world (Japan, China, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Mallorca, Grand Cayman, Great Britain, Canada as well as all over the USA) plus years of teaching distance art courses (at Famous Artists’ Schools)  and “live” classes in classrooms at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, Fairfield University in Connecticut, USA and in private art classes. We have found that by supplying a structure of Lessons that go through the same process taught at major art universities but with more step-by-step dense art textbooks and more hands-on art critiques, students can learn to draw and paint. To be sure, every student learns at a different pace and some need more “hand-holding” than others This course gives you a choice of what suits your needs and budget.

 

“Can I learn to draw and paint?”. . . you may ask – Only you can answer that. Do you have the time and dedication to sweat and study?

 

I had a teacher at Pratt that said “paint 200 pictures and you’ll be a painter”.

 

Everybody is different – Vermeer painted 1 or 2 pictures a year while Van Gogh did 200 a year. Some people study very little and grow by painting, others struggle and struggle. Only you can tell and you have to try to find out. I’m not saying this is easy nor would I promise riches and fame as some others do. These courses are for people who want to learn to draw and paint. All the underlying principles of western realistic painting are covered. This is not a “you put a dab of blue here . . . . and smear a tree here” art course. These lessons and the carefully selected art textbooks are structured on:

 

1. How to draw light, shade and form.
2. Painting techniques for composition and color theory.
3. How to oil paint with still life and perspective.
4. Learn how to draw a landscape and painting techniques for landscapes.
5. Learn how to sketch and how to oil paint figures (portraits, animals, etc.)
6. Your Masterpiece! Your graduation painting on the subject of your choice.

 

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.