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Standard Drill IC.3

Standard Routine Drill Standard Drill IC.3 Accepting Payments - Credit Card Drill Setup: The Trainee and Coach sit at a table across from one another. The Coach has a copy of this drill in hand. Drill Procedure: “What Do You Do?”: This drill is specifically designed to ensure understanding and ability to follow the Standard [...]

Standard Drill IC.2

Standard Routine Drill Standard Drill IC.2 Inventory Control – Art Supply Sales – Online Students Drill Setup: The Trainee and Coach sit at a table across from one another. The Coach has a copy of this drill in hand. Drill Procedure: “What Do You Do?”: This drill is specifically designed to ensure understanding and ability [...]

Standard Drill IC.1

Standard Routine Drill Standard Drill IC.1 Inventory Control – Receiving Supplies Drill Setup: The Trainee and Coach sit at a table across from one another. The Coach has a copy of this drill in hand. Drill Procedure: “What Do You Do?”: This drill is specifically designed to ensure understanding and ability to follow the Standard [...]

The Torch Has Been Passed to a New Generation

The Torch Has Been Passed to a New Generation A special letter from the Executive Director to all staff at Mission: Renaissance upon the passing of our Founder, Larry Gluck, on September 29th, 2016 Dear Group Member, Throughout our lives, if we are fortunate, we encounter one or two very special individuals who, through [...]

Coaching Beginning Oil Painting

Technical Directive 26 November 2002 Coaching Beginning Painting   Read the following with The Beginning Oil Painting Course Workbook at hand for easy reference. I CANNOT EMPHASIZE ENOUGH THE NEED FOR MISSION: RENAISSANCE INSTRUCTORS TO COACH EVERY SINGLE STUDENT TO GAIN CONTROL OVER OILS. ALL INSTRUCTORS MUST BE TRAINED WITH AUTHORITY IN EVERY POINT OF [...]

Coaching The Cup Drill and The Rack

Technical Directive 5 January 2015 Coaching The Cup Drill and The Rack Most students on the Beginning Oil Painting Course learning to handle oil paints have quite a mountain to climb. It is quite a challenging experience for many. The first thing to do is to make certain the students become completely familiar with how [...]

A Big Painting Trap

Technical Directive 15 December 2014 A Big Painting Trap When attempting to create beautiful illusions of the real world, most painters, due to a lack of proper past instruction, fall into a trap from which they seldom escape. Working on their tones and trying to make them more real looking, they overdo the contrast. They [...]

Squinting and Painting

Technical Directive 9 February 2015 Squinting and Painting I’ve noticed many students are either not squinting often enough or improperly doing so when painting. Squinting with one’s EYES ALMOST ENTIRELY CLOSED isn’t something one learns on the Basic Tone Course and then afterward does once in a while. Squinting is a vital and necessary way [...]

Instructors Code

Mission: Renaissance. Standard Operating Policy 6 NOVEMBER 2017 All Instructors INSTRUCTORS CODE The following Instructor’s Code was enacted as standard policy on November 6, 2017 by unanimous decision of the Program Directors and Senior Management staff of Mission: Renaissance. These codes build a solid framework for all instructors to follow in delivering Uniform Instruction to [...]

Standard Drill 8.1

The Gluck Method Instructor Training Standard Drill 8.1 References: Larry Gluck's Basic Tone Drawing Course; Lighting (pages 8-10) Video: Standard Lighting Drill Setup: The Staff Training Officer (or assigned Coach) and the Trainee are in the Academy at an empty set up stand with a lamp and lamp stand close to hand.  The Trainee [...]