Overview

This nationally recognized Fine Arts Training Online Program incorporates four courses to help you develop and unleash your full artistic potential in painting and drawing. You will begin with a foundation in the history of art. Understand the contexts in which art has been created over the centuries, learn to identify styles and techniques the artists have used, and cultivate your critical and analytical abilities. Move on to basic drawing and figure drawing. Explore the concepts of line, mass, form, perspective, value, and composition. Understand how the body's anatomy affects its external form and movement, and learn how to capture realistic and expressive portraits. Finally, pick up your paintbrush and study a systematic and time-honored approach to oil painting that enables you to capture proportion, perspective, and lighting in the world around you. 200 hours.

Upon successful completion of this program, students will:

  • Discuss and creatively explore the basic visual elements, and fundamental composition and visual communication techniques used by artists.
  • Represent in still life drawing the basic elements of form (line, plane, mass) in perspective and proportion.
  • Approach different kind of digital photo shoots, including still life, portraits, product photography, architecture, and action photography.
  • Represent through figure drawing the characteristic shapes and proportions of the human face and body in frontal, profile, and three-quarters views.
  • Develop a traditional approach to oil painting, making use of materials, drawing, underpainting, monochromatic palettes, and color harmonies, to create paintings with good value, perspective, lighting, and contrast.
  • Develop a systematic approach to watercolor painting, incorporating the use of materials, brushes, drawing, blocking, and underpainting, as well as such specific techniques as washes, glazes, scumbles, textures, and resists.
  • Develop a thorough approach to portrait painting, incorporating positioning and lighting of the subject, proportions and measures, underpaintings, light and shadow, flesh tones, texture and value.
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Course Fee: $1,395

Degree Program Locations
This degree is offered online