Technical Directive 17 August 2007 Completing a Work of Art How can you tell when a drawing or painting is complete? A DRAWING OR PAINTING IS COMPLETE WHEN IT MATCHES THE ARTIST’S VISION. This represents The First Three Steps at work. By achieving on paper or canvas exactly what was visualized, any artist will attain [...]
Technical Directive 14 September 2007 Speeding Up Their Training I have made many points throughout my instructor training materials, both in writing and on video, about speeding up the progress of students. The following are a number of those points for your reference: • Help the fast students first. The slow students know they are [...]
Technical Directive 15 September 2007 Your Instructor Training The purpose of the Instructor Academy is to make you into an expert instructor of The Gluck Method, beginning with learning how to teach and coach the initial portions of our children’s program. All training in the Academy is done under the supervision of a Staff Training [...]
Technical Directive 16 September 2007 How Good Can They Get? Our instruction works. It works for anyone, excepting only those unfortunate individuals with a history of heavy medical or street drug use. But I have experienced that even they improved when taught using The Gluck Method. Many factors enter into the equation of how competent [...]
Technical Directive 13 October 2007 The Bridge Between Worlds There are two truths on which we can all agree. One is that we live together in the material world; the other is that each of us possesses our own world of thought — call it the mind, the spiritual, call it anything you like. Each [...]
Technical Directive 14 October 2007 The Fundamentals of Fine Art - The Pyramid of Knowledge The most vital information about any subject is the fundamental knowledge upon which all else rests. Just as building a house takes knowledge, so does building a work of art. Originality of design comes from creativeness, skill in execution comes [...]
Technical Directive 16 October 2007 An Artist's Strength - The Discipline Process You know The First Three Steps of observing, deciding, and visualizing, and The Three Basic Principles of relating parts to other parts and/or the whole, working from large to small and cycling throughout the whole thing. These are the most important ideas to [...]
Technical Directive 17 October 2007 Coaching Our Fundamentals With Children Listed below are four fundamentals of The Gluck Method. Each represents a FUNDAMENTAL WAY OF WORKING to give students the confidence and competence needed to succeed as fine artists. They are: • The First Three Steps • The Three Basic Principles • What to do [...]
Technical Directive 18 October 2007 Our Dreams Create Our Future
Technical Directive 10 July 2008 Watercolor Materials Watercolor is a wonderful medium and can be lots of fun. With it an artist can quickly depict bright, cheerful, sunlit scenes with ease. However, watercolor is unforgiving, requiring that the artist fully understand his materials, and how to use them. Watercolor Paints In my experience I have [...]
