Foundations of Art
Embark on your artistic journey with our expertly crafted Foundation Course, designed to cover the fundamentals of art. Currently, we offer courses on Colour Wheel, Value, Saturation, and Drawing. This page is updated regularly with new content as we continue to expand our offerings. Please watch the video to find out more.
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Kickstart your artistic journey with our Colour Wheel Course, the first in our Foundation Art Series. Perfect for beginners, this course offers five engaging activities: See the Description
Course Content: The Colour Wheel
Lessons 1 & 2: Creating Colour Wheels
Explore primary, secondary, and tertiary colours by crafting warm and cool colour wheels, and understanding colour bias.
Lesson 3: Colour Schemes with Van Gogh
Transform Van Gogh's Sunflowers using complementary colours to master colour schemes.
Lesson 4: Monochromatic Mastery
Recreate Picasso’s Crouching Woman, focusing on monochromatic schemes to enhance depth.
Lesson 5: Colour Temperature Techniques
Experiment with colour temperature to create a focal point, inspired by René Magritte.
Who Should Enroll: Ideal for beginners, homeschool parents, and primary teachers looking to enrich their art curriculum with foundational colour skills.
Advance your artistic journey with our Value Course, the second in our Foundation Art Series. Perfect for beginners, this course covers the essential concept of value in art.
Course Content: Mastering Value in Art
Lesson 1: Exploring Value Charts
Begin with creating segmented and graduated value charts to understand tints, shades, and the manipulation of lightness and darkness.
Lesson 2: Chiaroscuro in Baroque Art
Study Caravaggio's use of chiaroscuro to evoke drama, and create a value underpainting using black, white, and grey.
Lesson 3: Seeing and Applying Value
Learn to identify high and low values in paintings and apply value scales to a black and white landscape.
Lesson 4: The Art of Underpainting
Create an underpainting using burnt sienna for a Monet piece, focusing on value to build depth and structure.
Lesson 5: Adding Colour to Value
Apply colour to your Monet underpainting, maintaining established values to enhance your painting's dynamics.
Explore the vibrant world of colour in our Saturation Course, the third in our Foundation Art Series. Ideal for beginners and art enthusiasts, this course covers the use of saturation in Impressionism, Baroque, Pop Art, and Street Art. Through five hands-on lessons, students will learn to manipulate saturation to create depth and impact, from desaturation charts to Warhol-style pop posters.
Course Content: Mastering Saturation in Art
Lesson 1: Understanding Saturation and Desaturation
Create a desaturation chart to learn how to desaturate colours using grey and complementary colours, and understand their artistic impact.
Lesson 2: Depth with Desaturated Colours
Explore Edgar Alwin Payne's techniques to create the illusion of distance, and paint a eucalyptus scene with desaturated backgrounds.
Lesson 3: The Power of Vibrant Colours
Study the use of highly saturated colours by Paul Gauguin and the Fauvist movement, and recreate Matisse's "Woman with a Hat."
Lesson 4: Bold Colours in Pop and Street Art
Discover how Pop and Street Art utilise bold colours, and create a Warhol-style pop character poster with bright hues.
Lesson 5: Saturation in Impressionist and Baroque Art
Transform a simple line drawing into a Baroque-style painting, exploring the use of saturation in Impressionist and Baroque art.
Embark on a creative journey with our Drawing Course, designed for beginners and art enthusiasts eager to enhance their skills. This comprehensive course covers essential techniques, from the historical art of tracing used by masters like Leonardo da Vinci to the precision of grid-based drawing.
Course Content: Mastering Drawing
Lesson 1: The Art of Tracing
Discover tracing's historical significance, from da Vinci to Hockney, and its role in developing artistic skills.
Lesson 2: Mastering Grid-Based Drawing
Learn the grid method to enhance accuracy and proportion in your artwork, a technique used for centuries.
Lesson 3: The Art of Shading
Master shading techniques to add depth and realism, bringing your sketches to life.
Lesson 4: Creating Depth and Distance
Explore linear perspective and vanishing points to add realism and depth to your drawings.