Fine Arts Training (200 hours)

Course Overview/Description

 

Our brand new fine arts training program incorporates four courses to help you develop and unleash your full artistic potential in painting and drawing.

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.

Each of these courses features ample opportunity for feedback and critique, and with the help of instructors who are accomplished artists themselves, your artistic talents will blossom fully.

Course Objectives

Upon successful completion of this program, students will:

o Develop an understanding of the materials and techniques used in drawings, paintings, prints, and sculptures.
o Identify and discuss key turning points in the history of art and their impact on styles and techniques.
o Knowledgably analyze and discuss art with different historical periods and art movements including Classical Greece and Rome, Renaissance, Baroque, Romanticism, Impressionism, and early 20th century styles.
o Build a foundation in drawing skills by creating and submitting for feedback more than twenty still life drawings.
o Set up a drawing studio for still life work and handle drawing materials appropriately (pencil, drawing board), developing a good basic drawing technique.
o Identify and represent in drawing the basic elements of form (line, plane, mass) and the fundamental geometrical shapes of subjects.
o Build a foundation in life drawing skills by creating and submitting for feedback more than twenty figure drawings.
o See and apply in your drawing the standard measurements and proportions of the human figure.
o See and apply in your figure drawing the characteristic shapes and proportions of the human skeleton.
o Learn a step by step method for oil painting that will provide a foundation for all your future work.
o Use basic drawing skills as effective preparation for oil painting compositions.
o Create preparatory pencil sketches demonstrating perspective, shading, and contour.

Course Outline

I. History of Art
• Lesson 1: The Language of Art
• Lesson 2: Looking at Nature
• Lesson 3: Art and the Human Body
• Lesson 4: Art and the Social Realm
• Lesson 5: Art and Religion
• Lesson 6: Art and the Politics of Power

II. Drawing I
• Lesson 1: Seeing Things Together
• Lesson 2: Representing Form
• Lesson 3: Structural Lines
• Lesson 4: Light Part, Dark Part
• Lesson 5: Adding Value
• Lesson 6: Composition and Depth

III. Figure Drawing
• Lesson 1: Measurements and Proportions
• Lesson 2: The Human Skeleton
• Lesson 3: Muscles and Anatomy
• Lesson 4: The Portrait
• Lesson 5: Volume, Perspective, and Shading
• Lesson 6: Composition and Expression

IV. Painting I
• Lesson 1: Preliminary Drawing
• Lesson 2: Materials, Workspace, and Canvas
• Lesson 3: Light and Value
• Lesson 4: Combining Color in Paint
• Lesson 5: Painting Techniques
• Lesson 6: Making a Painting

Prerequisites/Audience

There are no specific prerequisite skills for this program; however, basic drawing experience is recommended.

The intended audience for this program is students seeking an education in Fine Arts.

PC Requirements/Materials Included

This course is compatible with Windows Vista Operating System.

Computer Requirements
A computer with an Internet connection (28.8 Kbs modem or faster).

Materials Required
Students should have access to these materials:

• Oil paints
o Cadmium Yellow Medium
o Naples Yellow (Hue)
o Yellow Ochre
o Cadmium Orange
o Cadmium Red Medium
o Cadmium Red Deep
o Burnt Sienna
o Burnt Umber
o Permanent Green Light
o Sap Green
o Cerulean Blue
o Ultramarine Blue
o Ivory Black

• 6 8x10 pre-stretched/primed canvases, gesso, 3 flat brushes: ¼" flat, ½" flat, palette knife – metal, odorless mineral spirits, stand oil, turpenoid natural, brush cleaning jar (Silcoil), wood table, jars, paint box, rags, metal-lid trash can.

• 1 package of soft vine charcoal, 3 charcoal pencils (HB, 2B and 4B) sharpener for charcoal (a small pad of sandpaper-like quality), razor blades for sharpening charcoal pencils, 4 pencils (2H, 2B, 4B, and 6B) pencil sharpener, 1 kneaded eraser, 2-3 pencil erasers (Magic Rub or Staedler Mars Plastic are good options), 1 drawing/sketch pad, 8 1/2 " x 11" or preferably 18" x 24," tracing paper, one roll of Kraft paper, one wardrobe mirror.

• A digital camera or scanner to capture your work digitally for submission.

• An easel is optional but recommended.

Instructor Bio

Carolina Caycedo is an emerging contemporary artist whose most recent exhibitions were at Blow de la Barra in London, UK, and Galeria Comercial in Puerto Rico. Her fine art and photography collections have been written about in The New York Times, Artfacts.net, Artecontexto, The Nation, and Art Dispatches. Photography from Carolina's bartering project, entitled "Daytoday," was featured at the Whitney Museum of Art in New York City. Carolina has given talks about art at The Whitney Museum in New York, The Art, Memory, and City Seminar in Bogota, and the National University in Bogota. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Contemporary Artists Center in Massachusetts and at Foraneza in Puerto Rico. Carolina was born in London and educated in Colombia. She earned her BA in Fine Arts from Los Andes University.
Notable Exhibitions: "Locomotion" (2006) Blow de la Barra, London, UK; "La Nina" (2006) Galeria Comercial, San Juan, Puerto Rico; "Solo Under" (2005) Galeria Comercial, San Juan, Puerto Rico; "Break It" (2005) Ibid Projects, Vilnius, Lithuania; "Sonidos De Una Cuidad" (2003) Alianza Francesa Norte, Bogota, Columbia; "Break Dance Season" (2003) Espacio La Rebeca, Bogota, Columbia; "Dia Bandera. 24/7" (2002) Wall Gallery, London, UK ; "Daytoday" (2002) Secession, Vienna, Austria.

Jordon Schranz is a New York-based fine artist and designer whose work has been shown at various New York City exhibits such as "Art World," "Small Works," and "The Unseen." His solo art exhibitions include "Punk Rock and Riots," EXPGallery, Chicago, IL (in collaboration with Marie Evelyn) and "Arrivals and Departures," at the Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, where he is a featured artist. His artistic direction is in working with recreated memories and perceived images. Jordon is currently leading the development of a Fine Arts program at Sessions. When not creating visual art, he is also a member of a touring free jazz trio. Jordon earned his BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art.

Anki King is a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based artist whose work has recently been shown at The Katonah Museum of Art, Tokio Metropolitan Museum, and Chasama Gallery and featured in Black Book magazine, Viking magazine, and The New York Times. Anki studied drawing, composition, and painting at Gran Videregaende Skole, Gran Videregaende Skole, and Oslo Tegne og Maleskole in Norway. In the U.S., Anki has worked at the Art Students League of New York and served as model coordinator for art classes. Born and raised in Norway, Anki's artwork has also appeared at the Norwegian Artists in New York exhibit at the Trygve Lie Gallery. Her paintings have been featured in the independent movie The Trade and on the album cover for the group Funkhouse.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

1. How do I register?
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2. How much do the courses cost?
The fee is in the pink box at the top of the page.

3. Can I register for courses if I live outside the United States?
Yes you can!

4. Do I ever have go to the school I register with?
All of our courses are delivered entirely online, so you never have to go to a class or travel to the school.

5. How long does it take to complete a course?
All of our courses are self-paced and open enrollment. You can start and finish the course at your own pace. When you register for a course, you are given 180 days (6 months) to complete the course. If you need more time, extensions are available.

6. Do I have to buy additional materials?
All materials are included. The cost of materials is covered by your tuition. GES ships all materials via UPS ground service upon registration.

7. Can I get financial aid?
GES courses are non-credit courses, so they do not qualify for federal aid. In some states, vocational rehab or workforce development boards will pay for qualified students to take our courses.

• GES provides a loan opportunity for students. Simply go to www.collegeloanapplication.com to apply for an easier qualifying loan at a slightly higher rate. Click here for more information on this loan program.

8. What happens when I complete the course?
Upon successful completion of the course, you will be awarded a certificate of completion from the school with which you registered. You must obtain a final passing grade of 70% or greater to be awarded a certificate.

9. Am I guaranteed a job?
GES courses will provide you with the skills you need to obtain an entry-level position in most cases. We do not provide direct job placement services, but our instructors will help you build your resume and are available to give advice on finding your first job. Instructors will also be available to use as a professional reference upon completion of the course. Potential students should always do research on the job market in their area before registering.

10. Who will be my instructor?
Instant Mentoring enables 24x7 access to certified instructors and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). Instructors are Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCTs), all possessing instructional backgrounds. In addition to providing content expertise, our Mentors facilitate interaction and enhance the overall learning experience.

11. What do I have to have in order to take an online course, and what are the system requirements?
In order to take our online courses, you must have access to a computer and the Internet (a normal dial-up connection is fine). You can access the course contents from any Web-enabled computer. There are no necessary plug-ins. You do not have to use the same computer to log-in to the course every time. We recommend that you have a word-processing program (Microsoft Word is best) and the latest version of Internet Explorer.

12. Can I use a Macintosh computer for this course?
We do not formally support our courseware on the Macintosh platform. If you choose to try to use the courses on a Macintosh, you need to be aware that they will not have full functionality, specifically within the Authorware simulations and the supplied files. However, if you are a Macintosh user and make use of a Windows emulator, Authorware simulations and supplied files may function. Since we do not test with Macintosh or Windows emulators, we cannot guarantee our courses on the Macintosh platform.

13. How can I get more information on the course?
All of the information we have is available online under our course catalog (www.gatlineducation.com). If you have questions that are not answered online, please feel free to email us at courseinfo@gatlineducation.com or call 817-870-2870. We will answer your questions promptly.