Academic Traditions

The range of Art courses we offer are based on professional training and fundamental fine arts disciplines: Drawing, Painting and Composition.

Our programme and methods primarily aims to lay the basis for fundamental academic knowledge and visual literacy, nurture a refined sense of artistic expression, cultivate a creative mindset and elevate our follower’s aesthetic taste.

We are not a simple entertainment art course. We are professionals, and we have a goal to reach professionalism with our students.

Drawing
  • Spatial thinking - axonometry
  • Engineering thinking - geometric bodies and perspective
  • ‘Geometric method’ of drawing - Anton Azbe, Pavel Chistyakov
  • The eye ‘formation’ and measurement skills - proportions, ratios
  • Mastery and sense of graphic techniques and mediums: pencil, charcoal, sanguine, Russian sauce, pastel, ink
  • Sense of tonality, flow of light, contrast, volume
  • Ability to perform sketches and long-term drawings
Painting
  • Sense of color - patterns and principles
  • Sense of ‘colorito’ and color unity
  • Pictorial-spatial relations of color, tone, contrast
  • Determination of the main color relationships and color state
  • Skills in painting techniques - alla-prima, step-by-step painting. Watercolor and Oil painting 
  • Palette, color mixture, sense of pigments and their properties
  • Ability to perform short-term ‘Études’ and long-term painting works
Composition
  • Formal-compositional thinking

  • Abstract and associative thinking

  • Understanding of basic concepts: format, structure, shape, space, center of interest

  • Understanding of basic principles: statics and dynamics, rhythm and arrhythmia, analogy and antithesis

  • Figurative thinking: impressions, images, states, sensations

  • Ability to select a subject - theme and motif, as well as find an artistic solution - structure, color, form

  • Stage-by-stage elaboration of formal searches, preparatory material and final work

Who is this course for?
Who is this course for?
Who is this course for?