Sketching, Drawing and Painting

Sketching, Drawing and Painting
Supported Home Study
Course Summary

Reach Your Potential in the Field of Art
Talent alone is not enough! Learn the skills to achieve more in the competitive world of art.

No doubt, you already have some basic talent, and yet, the fact that you are reading this suggests you are striving to improve. The vast majority of successful artists have undergone some formal training so why not improve your chances of ‘making it' in this competitive field?

Get started today, and you can earn your Sketching, Drawing and Painting Diploma in as little as six months, or take up to two years, if you prefer - the choice is yours.

Sketching, Drawing and Painting Course Outline

Open learning improves career prospects and earnings
Study at home learning to pursue a career in Sketching, Drawing and Painting.

If you want a career in Sketching, Drawing and Painting, our tutor supported open distance learning Sketching, Drawing and Painting course provides the necessary knowledge, skills and qualification without disrupting your current lifestyle.

Drawing:

• The connection between drawing and seeing
• Using the right and left hemispheres of your brain
• Using pure contour drawing
• Negative spaces and positive forms
• Perspective and proportion
• Formal versus informal perspective
• Proportion in portrait drawing
• The value of logical lights and shadows
• The colour wheel
• The first steps in colour drawing

Pastels:

• The beauty of pastels
• The tools of the trade
• Putting down a base
• Strokes: the building blocks of colour
• Blending for a smooth finish
• Details and edges
• Illuminating your vision with light
• Putting it all together
• Where and how you paint
• The freedom to experiment

Watercolours:

• Setting up the painter's studio
• Materials and tools
• Drawing: the foundation of watercolour
• Techniques of watercolour
• Painting with two colours
• Examples in "wash"
• Theory and practice in colour
• Colour mixing in watercolour
• "Dry"and "Wet" watercolours
• Practice techniques

Acrylics:

• Blending for flawless transitions
• Dry-brushing for texture
• Layering with thin washes
• Using an airbrush; using a palette knife
• Glazing and layering techniques
• Combining thick and thin layers
• Creating texture
• Detailing with dry-brush and hatching

Oils:

• Mixing your oil colours
• Using a brush and knife
• Projects to improve your painting technique
• Determining colour value
• Brightening or dulling intensity
• Identifying and changing colour temperature
• Mixing colourful greys

Sketching, Drawing and Painting Career Opportunities

Most artists establish themselves by working on their own and selling their artwork in order to attract an income for themselves. Artists work may also be sold through art shops and galleries.

Whilst establishing themselves as artists, many new artists have other part time work that they do whilst they are working on their portfolios. Typical other work that artists do may include working in areas such as art galleries, managing projects and community art work.

Artists often find valuable work as ‘resident' artists working within a hospital, old folks home or a prison, where they may run workshops for the patients as part of their therapy.