 This is an advanced drawing, painting and art theory course that is free for anyone who is interested in learning the material. You will be introduced to complex ideas like color perspective (the way colors change at a distance) and different techniques from batik or oil paints, stencils to graphite pencils. If you want to kick your drawing and painting skills up a notch, the lessons here will help.
Some art theory for an introduction
Line Drawings Versus Paintings
A history of pictures
Painting techniques through early history
Claude Monet and the impressionists
Use of patterns
Sketching as a technique
Composition and its tricks and boundaries
Drawing: In the beginning was the line
line abstractions
Drawing a perfectly straight line
Creating textures with lines
Creating illusions with perspective
Advanced perspective
Shadow perspective
Areas, Surfaces and Planes
Textures
Silhouette
Shapes and space relations
Composition and Perspective Together
Movement
Drawing Materials
Prehistoric Drawing Materials
Graphite
Pigments and Inks
Brushes
Pens and nibs
Drawing technique
Drawing position
Chinese method for holding a brush
Drawing hand positions
Charcoal and pen hand positions
Filling in spaces
Using tone
Colored paper
Reverse techniques
Enlarging and reducing images
Form
Human Anatomy
Muscles
Human Body Proportions
Proportions in men, women and children
Skeleton and superficial muscles
Drawing the head
How to draw eyes
How to draw the mouth
How to draw hands
How to draw feet
Figure drawing
Foreshortening in figure drawing
Poses in figure drawing
portrait drawing
Drawing animals - anatomy
Movement in animals
How animals move continued
How to draw birds
How to draw birds continued
How to draw plants
How to draw trees
How to draw trees continued
How to draw flowers
Drawing architecture
Drawing architecture continued
Landscape drawing
Taking in a landscape
Drawing still lifes
Caricatures
Lettering
lettering continued
Abstract Art
Abstract art as emotion made visible
Abstractions of shapes and colors
Trying to understand abstract art
The Drawing
Studies versus sketches
The castle study continued
Castle study continued
Sgraffito
Sgraffito and plaster
Sgraffito and color
Sgraffito and texture
Sgraffito process
Mosaics
Mosaic techniques
Mosaic techniques continued
Positioning the tesserae
Batik
Batik dyes
Batik designs
Applying batik wax
Printing
Linoleum cuts
Etching
Copper engraving
Printing techniques concluded
History of the technique of painting
Color and painting
Color mixing
Warm and cold colors
Color as substance
Colors, pigments and glazes
pigments colors
specific pigments
Yellows
Reds
Greens
Orange, Violet and Brown
Black and white
Painting Grounds
How Paper is Made
Mounting Paper and Painting on Wood
Painting on Canvas, Linen and Other Cloths
How to Stretch Canvas
Priming a Canvas
Using Binders in Paints
Mixing Pigments and Binders
Tragacanth and Albumen
Casein, resin and mastic
Damar, turpentine and wax
Linseed oil
Lime and waterglass
The technique of painting
Watercolor painting
Managing brushes and paper while painting
Watercolor technique continued
Oil painting
Beginning an Oil painting
Oil painting techniques
Glue color painting
Glue color painting continued
Ways to use glue paint
Painting in tempura
Painting fat on lean
Mixed techniques
Subject matter for mixed technique
Pastels
Pastel paper
Finishing pastels
Fresco
Steps of creating a fresco
Color perspective
Light, Color and Distance
Color Composition
Surrounding Color
Color composition techniques
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