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TESTIMONIALS
Extremely informative on all aspects, I felt very comfortable asking questions. I learnt a lot, more than at art school for four years!
Sarah Garton, Artist
It was an excellent course Martina, I am so appreciative of what you shared and provided.
I highly commend you on your tenacity, initiative and thoroughness in providing such an awesome informative course.
Thanks again. What I liked most was the awesome amount and depth of the very informative content.
I was just lapping up the information at ever class. All examples etc. provided – gave me so much to consider, I feel very grateful for everything Martina shared.
Corinne Lukeij
Martina is completely honest and prepared to share her vast knowledge with all fulfils. Her ability to form a cohesive unit out of strangers over a few short lessons is remarkable and I shall miss the comradeship greatly. I found the lessons most extensive and well worth the money.
Margaret Disch Hutton
“Even though I have been involved in art and design all my working life – I was amazed at the large gaps in my knowledge – the depth of information provided was excellent. Value for money.”
Jan Jervis, Design Lecturer QUT
Our art classes are enjoyed by total beginners to the advanced creative.
Do you know the difference between horizontal and vertical shadows ?...
There is an incredible amount of laws in art, for guidance and ways of learning how to apply them to every drawing or painting from the most expressionistic to realistic way creation.
Gold Coast Art Classes goes right into the more classical teaching of methods and techniques, which can be easily transferred into modern painting, illustration or even digital art.
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SHORT COURSES
DRAWING THE PORTRAIT
This course is one of our most popular ones, even for total beginners. You will be astonished to learn that there are such easy and amazing ways of clarifying the structure of a face.
Copying or drawing from life is a great way to gain practice, yet all too often beginners miss important features and bad habits have an easy way of sneaking in.
To draw a portrait becomes so much easier, ones you understand the basics of it and even more so when you are aware of the most common mistakes and how to avoid them.
- Learn to draw every part of the face on its own, step by step.
- Learn about the more hidden features of a face.
- Getting each part of the face proportionally correct.
- What most beginners do wrong and how to correct it.
- Where to begin when drawing a face and how to finish it.
Book early to avoid disappointment, as places are limited.
DRAWING THE HUMAN FORM
LINEAR PERSPECTIVE COURSE
Do you struggle with perspective in your paintings or drawings? This is a sweet short course giving the basics to get your paintings going the right way.
- 1 point or single point perspective
- viewing point, viewing angle and viewing height
- horizon line and picture plane
- foreshortening
- 2 point or double point perspective
- how to make objects like street lamps or window rows appear to reduce in size with distance
- shadow perspective and light reference
Book early as places are limited.
12 July - 16 August 2012
Thursdays 9.30am - 12noon / 6 weeks
20 August - 24 September 2012
Thursdays 6.30pm - 9pm / 6 weeks
2 May - 16 May 2012
Wednesdays from 6.30pm - 9pm
21 June - 5 July 2012
Thursdays 9.30am - 12noon
This page was last updated: May 16, 2012
This course start from the total basics on how to draw the human body and understanding its structure through easy step by step approaches and lots of visuals. For total beginners to intermediates.
- Drawing every part of the body proportionally correct
- What most beginners do wrong and how to avoid it
- Body structures
- How to avoid that a figure looks stiff
- How to define muscles
Book early as places are limited.
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SHADING PRINCIPLES
Most people don't know that there are shading laws which have to be applied for a realistic feel.You will learn about:
- shadows and cast shadows and their different properties
- what is the difference between horizontal and vertical cast shadows
- the laws of how colour reacts within cast shadows
- reflective light or backlighting and its importance etc.
- hard and soft edges within shadow
- Apply all knowledge by drawing from real life objects
Book early as places are limited.
18 April - 25 April 2012
Wednesday 6.30pm - 9pm
19 April - 26 April 2012
Thursdays 9.30am - 12noon
BRUSH STROKES & TEXTURAL BACKGROUNDS
Loads of fun and experimenting....
- learn a huge variety of different brush strokes
- apply brush strokes to create a series of small finished paintings
- learn to create different interesting textured undercoats for canvas paintings.
- the use of gesso, sand, various fabrics, embossing, impasto, glue, sponging, palette knife, organic materials, woven fabric, foil and the the use of stencils.
- learn how to create thumbnail for a larger painting
- apply as many textured techniques to a painting you have designed in your first lesson.
3 May - 24 May 2012
Thursdays 9.30am - 12noon
23 May - 13 June 2012
Wednesdays from 6.30 - 9pm
COMPOSITION & DESIGN PRINCIPLES
- composition
- the golden rule / golden section / divine section
- know the rules of manipulation and research on what viewers like and dislike.
- how you can attract a person into or out of a painting
- learn to create highly interesting thumbnails from a very boring still life to your very own design and idea and transfer it into a great painting. Forget about depending on other peoples references.
- create thumbnails
- apply your knowledge of composition to create a drawing of high interest and create your very first self-designed artwork.
31 May - 14 June 2012
Wednesdays from 6.30pm- 9pm
Have enough of copying other peoples work? Want to create your own?
This short course covers not only the importance of composition but teaches the means of creating your very own work.
Once you have understood the importance of composition, which has great power to manipulate the viewer and understand the elements of design, you will then learn how to take an ordinary still life or any other scene and create your very own painting from it.
Find a large amount of useful information within our Hints and Tips section, we have created for our students, both beginners and advanced.
We cover issues such as:
- Arts Business
- 100 Free Art E-Books
- Best Links to Get Your Art Online
- Australian Art Organisations
- Great Web Tools for Artists
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