Who this course is for

• Adults and teenagers who want to learn realistic painting and acrylic painting
• Those applicants who want to enter art higher education institutions
• Artists and designers who want to improve their skills
• For creative people and self-development
• Painting lessons are suitable for beginners
• For colorists, to develop a sense of color

What you will learn

• At the courses of painting you will learn to work with such materials as acrylic and oil.
• You’ll learn the basic principles and laws of composition, color harmony.
• You will experiment with texture, you will understand the notions of reflex and warmth-coldness.
• You will feel the peculiarities of work with palette knife, flat and round brushes
• Master the principles of glaze and pastose painting.
• Master sculpture of form with the brush stroke and generalization with the broad brush.

What is important to know when going to a painting course or drawing school?
The most important thing is that there are two main types of art studios and schools. Based on this it will be easier for you to navigate what is right for you.

Option 1
The most common approach to running a class is entertainment-artistic.

It is aimed at quick results, vivid impressions of the classes, and is similar to a master class that introduces a person to some of the skills of painting and drawing. In such schools painting is taught by means of reproductions and photographs. Each person is chosen a photographic reproduction of a painting or landscape, and the main task is to copy it on canvas. Intermediate stages of the course may be creative assignments such as abstract painting.

Option 2

Another less common way of conducting classes is the academic approach to painting. It is aimed at long-term work, creative development and practicing the technique and skill of the artist.

At such classes one learns painting exclusively from life so that a person could define himself/herself what to paint and how to paint. The course starts with the display of simple geometric figures and fabrics, creating still lifes, writing draperies, practicing the technique of painting on productions with antique busts. Later, students take a course in painting a portrait from life, and the ultimate goal is the plasticity of the person. Thus, work on still lifes and plaster heads helps to understand the basic principles and laws of painting, and work on the human image sharpens the skill of the artist. The intermediate stages of the courses are lectures on composition theory and anatomy.

Approach one is easy, but superficial
Approach two – laborious, but the most effective
So we focus on the second approach. Although, we will not neglect good copying and creative assignments either.

Where we start

A basic oil and acrylic painting course is designed for those starting from scratch as well as for creative people who want to improve their level.

Painting grisaille drapery
We break down the basics of composition and organization of color patches
Still lifes.
Staging with plasters and busts
Pictorial portraits of people.
Plastics of a person in full-length.
An important point, the painting course runs inseparably from the drawing course. Without good drawing there is no painting as such (in the classical sense of the word). So classes will be held in a complex with the basics of constructing form and space in drawing.