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Technical Directive 26 April 2007 Drawing Basics for Children All new students enroll on Drawing Basics for Children. Our goal is to teach a student to draw relatively well for their age. It is not expected that a student learn to draw as well as an adult on my Basic Line Drawing Course, but they [...]
Course Abbreviations The Gluck Method® provides a step-by-step program for children and adults that follows a specific instructional pattern that produces results. This pattern is followed by students from the beginning and each progresses at their own rate of learning. As students achieve benchmarks we make certain to validate their accomplishments by printing and presenting them [...]
"Coaching the Cup Drill"
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Technical Directive 14 November 2014 The Beginning Tones Must be Right Read the following with The Basic Tone Drawing Course Workbook at hand for easy reference. Recently, while observing students applying the Adult Tech in the training academy, I noticed these two glaring errors: POORLY DONE OVERALL TONES INCORRECT THREE GENERAL TONES Allowing a student [...]
Technical Directive 5 February 1995 Ending Classes There is a time reserved at the end of each class for success and wins. A win, or success, is doing something a person wanted to do, or not doing something a person did not want to do. It is succeeding at what one intended to do. That [...]
Technical Directive 20 July 2004 The Mission: Renaissance Class Format There is a specific class format for all Mission: Renaissance classes. Our format is as follows: Instructors and the PD arrive before class in plenty of time and properly prepare for the class. (The proper times of arrival for instructors and PDs are covered elsewhere.) [...]
