Learn the power of highlights to sculpt the body. You will be introduced to the two essential tools of the artist: the silhouette and the highlight. We will work from a dark-colored figure and start by creating a black silhouette of the pose, then add white highlights to achieve realistic definitions of musculature.
Join us for an immersive beginner-friendly art course that focuses on drawing in the academic style, where you'll learn the foundational skills of drawing realistically using graphite. Creating a realistic drawing is an important artistic ability because it is visible proof that the artist has control, focus, and can persevere until an artwork is proportionally and tonally accurate with necessary details and textures. Pencil is the medium of choice because it showcases your skills without any “fluff” or distractions; it's why many colleges ask specifically for pencil drawings, and why art schools throughout the centuries have had their students use graphite for their artistic training.
You do not need drawing experience in order to join, although you may be more comfortable knowing the basics which is taught in the Essential Drawing Course.
Beginners welcome - no art experience needed.
This course presents an exciting opportunity to learn more about abstract art, where in six weeks, you’ll learn 15 components of abstract art as a visual language. Intuitive Abstract is perfect for you if you are intrigued by spontaneous art-making, want to enhance your creativity, explore your style, apply your intuition, and wish to expand into the direction of contemporary art. If large-scale abstract art is new for you, after this course, you will be confident to GO BIG on your own.
Beginners welcome - no art experience needed.
In this course you will be guided towards becoming an artist who is self-expressed and free with discovering your own ways in collage. As a medium, collage is very different from drawing or painting not just because the materials are scissors and colored paper but because it calls for expressive shortcuts (pun intended) instead of realism. For some students it is a challenge to be free from copying reality, so they will enjoy learning how to have more freedom with the human body and more radical use of color.