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Technical Directive 24 December 2002 Class Breaks & Giving Talks Instructors in our adult and teen classes give brief talks during break time. In our three-hour classes, a fifteen-minute break is announced at the one and a one half-hour mark. Encourage students to leave their work area during this time so they can return with [...]
Technical Directive 23 December 2002 Coaching Figure Drawing After having completed The Basic Drawing Course our students need to further develop their drawing skills until each can draw superbly. Simply completing the drawing course isn’t enough. This becomes abundantly clear when you see someone struggling on a Rembrandt portrait, trying in vain to duplicate it. [...]
Technical Directive 25 November 2002 Coaching Basic Tone Drawing Read the following with The Basic Tone Drawing Course Workbook at hand for easy reference. We are following in the footsteps of the great masters of the Italian Renaissance because they used the sequence of line/tone/color to train an apprentice. Our line drawing instruction dovetails to [...]
Technical Directive 24 November 2002 Coaching Basic Drawing Read the following with a Basic Drawing Course Workbook at hand for easy reference. We can group all of the instruction in Basic Drawing—sometimes called Line Drawing—into several sections: The first section begins with information about the role of a student, how best to succeed and the [...]
Technical Directive 19 April 2010 Coaching Beyond Your Training Level As you continue your training in the Academy you will acquire more and more knowledge of The Gluck Method and how to coach it. Only after you have completed the training for a particular part of The Method and have been given a pass by [...]
Technical Directive 22 April 2010 Coaching the Color Wheel to Children The majority of our children first learn about the color wheel when in watercolor. There is a specific, step-by-step way that I want you to coach this information to a child. To begin, explain to the student that they are going to learn how [...]
Technical Directive 10 April 1997 Improving How a Child Draws I just had a wonderful time watching my four-and-a-half year old grandson, Josh, in a children's class drawing a bird on a branch. He was doing just great, but then I noticed that he repeatedly drew and erased a wing because he couldn't get it [...]
Technical Directive 14 October 2002 Coaching The Gluck Method A ‘coach’ directs the training of others. An athlete’s success depends, in large part, on working with a good coach. I have adopted this same idea of coaching for the purpose of training fine artists. As far as I know we are the first fine art [...]
Technical Directive 14 October 2002 The Gluck Method There is no scarcity of art schools, art departments, private classes or working artists who advertise, “Art Instruction.” Many books can be found on the subject. So what makes us different? Mission: Renaissance is an organization of dedicated people with the common purpose of expanding the use [...]
Technical Directive 20 May 2007 The Reason We Teach A Case for the Traditional Basics of Fine Art When I started to teach I never thought I’d be helping people who showed no artistic ability whatsoever. I knew I could help those with some talent but others who lacked it wanted to learn, too. I [...]
