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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.) [...]
Technical Directive 28 October 2014 The Basic Concept & Creating The Basic Concept means: to relate a part to other parts and/or to the whole. To relate means: TO CONNECT UP, not just to compare. To connect means: TO JOIN TOGETHER. As an artist you are joining or putting together various parts to make them [...]
INSTRUCTING SKETCHING FOR CHILDREN TECHNICAL SEQUENCE The following Technical Sequence is to be followed when instructing a child in how to sketch. This sequence comes only after a child has completed Drawing Basics and Reverse Step Drawing. These steps may only be delivered by a Certified Class III Instructor or [...]
Technical Directive 13 September 2007 An Overview of the Adult Courses Our adult courses follow a specific plan, paralleling the methods of the Italian Renaissance Masters. The method was composed of a sequential use of three main fine art essentials: LINE, TONE, and COLOR. I found that this sequence, which led to mastery over the [...]
Technical Directive 29 October 2004 Perspective PERSPECTIVE MEANS CREATING ILLUSIONS OF DEPTH ON A FLAT SURFACE. Portraying lifelike illusions is our main challenge. But you can’t measure depth by observation as you can height and width. You can only estimate how deep something is. For illusions of depth, we must rely completely on tricks. Several [...]
Technical Directive 30 October 2004 Slanted Lines Drawing any straight-edged object in perspective is easy when you know how to make a line slant correctly. Notice that the slanted lines of the cube below make it appear to have depth. Notice also, if the lines on each side were made long enough, they would meet. [...]
