Raleigh Art Classes for beginners and advanced adults. Learn to paint Classical Academic Style paintings, portraits, and still lifes. Learn to paint Verdaccio Underpaintings with Tinted Bonded Marble (Frank Covino's Gesso), and learn to super-impose colored oils over your underpainting as they did in the Renaissance. Learn paint history, art history, color application, and Fibonacci's Golden Mean Ratio for Composition. Learn to create significant art. Children 4-17 $200 for each 12 hours. Adult Classes are $250 for each 12 hours of instruction.
To learn art as a business, $2400 for 144 hours over 12 months for serious artists. This program includes; studio time, critiques, and guidance. Learn to market your work and develop clients and a niche. Learn to exhibit your work, use photoshop to create the best compostitions, and build a web presence.
Gift Certificates available:
Childrens' Classes
Student Connie Murray after glazing colored oils over her verdaccio underpainting. Student paints skin tones over Verdaccio Underpainting
Adult Class structure: Cary Fine Arts
Agreement for 12 Month or 144 hours, Classical-Academic-Art,
Training Program, with Rhonda Myers. Cost: $2,400 payable to Cary Fine Arts
This program is designed for adults that want to create their own full-time or part-time art-related business. Their subject matter can be themes representing; people, places, events, or things. Each student will be exposed to a variety of paintings and drawings of different subjects using different techniques. This will allow students to find their own niche in the art world, using their creativity and their own personality. We will teach you the skills needed for creating art and a market for your work. The goal for artists will be to create up to 30 original works of art using the Classical Academic approach.
The Training Program consist of the following; A description of Fibonacci’s Ratio/Golden Mean, as it pertains to creating Significant Art.
Composition, Value, Hue, Texture, Line, Shape, used to create Unity in a painting.
- Project 1: Charcoal Drawing of Three Pears, using a grid.
- Project 2: Acrylic Freehand Painting of the same subject.
- Project 3: 11x14 painting on canvas using Tinted Bonded-Marble in Verdaccio, using your choice of recommended images. ( This will be glazed in colored oils at a later date)
Photoshop composition class to help create the best size and layout for each future project. Students can use there own photos, Old Master’s images, or Studio Photo shoot Images of costumed models.)
- Project 4: Prepare a Masonite Panel for Classical Academic Painting.
- Project 5: Transfer a 12-21 value-pattern, using either a grid or transfer paper, to the panel.
- Project 6: Complete a value study using charcoal, ink, and Tinted Bonded-Marble.
- Project 7: Using an Oil Verdaccio Palette, the student will paint over all the skin surfaces of their study, to acquire a porcelain-like finish.
- Project 8: Students will use their Frank Covino’s Renaissance Medium to glaze colored oils over their finished underpainting.
Photo shoot of artwork, using Photoshop to size images for web, & web-design.
- Project 9: Finding display opportunities, creating a niche market, & marketing products.
- Project 10: Setting up and painting a still-life.
- Project 11: Setting up and painting with a live model.
- Project 12: Setting up and photographing a live model in costume.
- Student will now be ready to explore painting people, places, or things. Student will work to create up to 30 pieces of original work to be submitted to galleries, juried shows, and to create an on-line gallery. On-going critiques, training, and observation during the process either through email or in person to help students tweak their process.
- Project 13: Color charts will be created that will allow student to reproduce any color in nature, using just 10 hues, with 9 values, and 3 intensities.