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Tier Two - Core Study - Building Your Painting Foundation

There are fundamental painting techniques and concepts that apply to the discipline of painting. Regardless of what style or genre you wish to explore, there needs to be a foundation for the artist to build on. This Core Study is it!

  • The Core creates the foundation and provides you with a powerful framework of concepts to continue your artistic journey.
  • Explore the most valuable principles of art!
  • Over 60 art lessons!
  • Complete 27 painting studies that incorporate these important concepts.
  • Over 150 hrs. of video demonstrations and multiple interactive student/teacher forums!
  • The Core can be taken as a sequential progressive course OR you can take one class at a time...the choice is yours... See details below.
 The core painting program is built on the primary concepts od traditional art theory and techniques.

Important Points...

  • The color studies in Tier One are helpful prerequisites for the Core and are highly suggested.
  • The Core is ongoing, students may enroll at any time.
  • Students have 12 months to complete the course from the date of their enrollment.
  • The classroom is open 24/7 - 365 days per year.
  • The course is self paced, students work within their own schedules.
  • Paintings are taught in Acrylic - Traditions Artist Acrylic brand. This is a fine art grade acrylic of the highest quality.
  • Course supply list and surface suggestions are provided upon registration.
  • Course supplies are often industry standard. The instructors will be teaching and demonstrating with certain brushes and standard tools. No guarantee is made if students choose to use substitutes.
  • Surfaces are standard canvas or masonite.
  • Course fee for the Core - $350. U.S.
  • Budget helper - A payment plan is available in our shopping cart.
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For the motivated or self starting artist who enjoys working on their own, the following online art classes may be taken as individual independent studies. As mentioned before, for students who need instructor input and evaluation, it is strongly recommended that the Core, taught as a sequential progressive course may better serve your needs.
These Individual Classes will open as they are completed

Core Study #1 - Craftsmanship: For The Beginner

Surface preparation, artists tools and materials.The goals are to prepare and train the student for painting on several traditional and standard surfaces. Proper preparation of surfaces and maintenance of materials and the correct use of standard artist’s tools and the application of finishes are covered. Painting exercises are varied and also include the creation of multiple transparent stains relative to wood types. - Painting Exercises

BUY NOW - Online Class fee - $29.95

Core Study #2 - Introduction to Value:

Training the new artist to see value. It is invaluable regardless of skill level. Learn to build a correct ten value gray scale, and train the eye to see values. Discover how value plays a major role in the understanding of art. Through the concept of Notan, artists also learn to apply values to create relationships between light and dark. The Mexican sunset painting exercise also helps the student understand the effects of transparent color and the effects it has when placed over light and dark under-paintings. Buy Now - Online Class fee - $29.95

Core Study #3 - Three Dimension and Form:

Discover ways to make objects appear three dimensional. Create the illusion of space and mass with correct value placement relative to light source. learn to place correct values on different forms such as spheres, cubes, cylinders, and cones, and learn how necessary this is to illustrate 3D mass on a two dimensional surface. Take your artwork to a new level with a greater understanding of form and value placement and how it relates to light and contrast. Online Class fee - $29.95

Core Study #4 - Proofing, Value Sketch and Still Life Study:

Introduction to still life painting and light source. Discover form relative to light source with a monochromatic under painting. Explore both an umber and gray scale under-painting. In this class, the student will learn how to trouble shoot the design elements prior to painting with proofing exercises and by rendering a graphite pencil shading. This course also teaches the student how to render a grouping of objects, establish value relationships, create depth and dimension in still life painting. Online Class fee - $49.95

Core Study #5 - Color Schemes, Low, Mid and High Key Paintings

Learn about color schemes and how they can be used to enhance your compositions. This workshop also teaches you to paint on light, medium and dark backgrounds and how to adjust the color palette to suit the values of each. Discover how the value of a background can affect the mood, and overall impression of a painting. This class is valuable for any artist wanting to create additional drama in their paintings. Reinforce your blending techniques too!Online Class fee - $49.95

Core Study #6 - Blending Methods 1 - Differences in blending Techniques , Indirect and Direct methods for rendering form:

Learn the differences between ‘wet on wet’ and ‘wet on dry’ blending methods. Learn to use a combination of Indirect and Direct methods to render the form of an object. Discover how casual blending styles can also be used to portray a more 'painterly' style of art. Students will learn brush control, brush loading techniques and how controlled brush pressure affects the desired result. Two small painting studies are completed. Online Class fee - $29.95

Core Study #7 - Blending Methods 2 - Direct application ‘wet on wet’ used for Creating Form

Direct painting is commonly known as alla prima or premier coup painting. This is a painting method that applies strokes of paint in one sitting, with the intention of letting it be the final application. There is no over-painting after the first layer of paint dries. This technique was made popular by the impressionistic painters of the nineteenth century. It renders a more 'painterly' style of art. In this course, students will paint a country landscape painting after the style of the English landscape artist John Constable. Online Class fee - $29.95

Core Study #8 - Blending Methods 3 - Refined Blending used for Creating Form

Refined Blending is a formal and disciplined method of paint application. Often used in photo realistic styles of painting. Both direct and indirect applications are combined to render form. This style of blending is quite structured. Initial layers are usually created by blending together opaque values using a controlled form of blending referred to as 'refined'. When the initial layers are dried, subsequent layers of opaque and transparent pigments render the final object. Online Class fee - $29.95

Core Study #9 - Blending Methods 4 - Indirect Application and Blocking-In used for Creating Form

Block & Blend is a combination of both indirect and direct painting methods. A majority of artists combine both applications to create a single painting. This style of blending also renders a painterly style of brushwork. The second study in this course explores the true Indirect Painting Method:Learn the paint application made popular by the Old Masters. Multiple layers of paint are applied to create form, depth and luminosity. Online Class fee - $29.95

Core Study #10 - Painting Techniques - A Variety of 13 Painting Techniques

Learn Multiple Painting Techniques –Dry Brushing, Detailing, Scumbling, Washes, Scribbling, Wipe Out, Sfumato, Crosshatching, Glazing, Outlining, Mottling, Stippling, Houding, Petit Loc: In this course, a wide range of painting techniques are taught and will prepare the student for creative exploration. These techniques help the student develop their own independent painting styles. Brush handling, brush pressure, brush loading and execution are incorporated into each lesson while the student works towards the desired result. Five paintings. Online Class fee - $59.95

Core Study #11 - Understanding Color Temperature when painting small still life objects

Discover the role of a cool or warm temperature light source and how this relates to the final painting and the choice of color palette and background. In this class, three different paintings will be completed. Temperature contrasts help the artist create depth and dimension and create the mood by controlling the temperature of the light source. Online Class fee - $39.95

Core Study #12 - Color Temperature in Landscape painting

Color Temperature in Landscape painting - Discover how color temperature in nature can be used to establish a focal area and create depth and dimension. Learn how the use of warm and cool color contrast to help establish distance, atmosphere and overall mood. Color temperature also plays an important role in creating movement and energy in a painting and the student learns to use this to their advantage to create emphasis and attention. Online Class fee - $29.95

Core Study #13 - Understanding the Language of Color

Understanding the Language of Color - In order to be an artist in control of mixing and your color palette, you need to understand the properties of color. In this course we discover the meaning and application of Intensity in painting. Explore the color property of Chroma and how fully saturated or dull color can be used to establish space and depth within the composition as well as open the possibilities for mixing a wide variety of colors. Online Class fee - $29.95

Core Class #14 - Controlling the Dimensions of Color

Explore color Intensity and how it directly helps to establish color relationships for depth and creating a sense of space with in the picture plane. The goal of this course is to learn a practical application where intensity is controlled while painting a fruit still life to illustrate depth and dimension relative to the light source. Online Class fee - $29.95

Core Class #15 - Creating Depth & Dimension with Perspective

Using correct perspective gives your paintings depth, making them seem more realistic. Linear Perspective is vitally important for artists who wish to explore realism. The basic laws of linear perspective are covered through the applications used to create a landscape painting.

Online Class fee - $29.95

Core Class #16 – Creating Depth & Dimension with Shadows

Creating Depth & Dimension - Shadows: Discover the illusion of three dimension. Understand the properties of simple and complex shadows and how they affect the illusion of space.

Online Class fee - $29.95

Core Class #17 – Historical Decorative Art Techniques - Strokes & Scrolls

Explore the brush work and learn brush control necessary to create historical ornamentation. Complete three different paintings and several exercises to render this fluid and rhythmic art form.

Online Class fee - $59.95