ACADEMY PRESENTATION
ACADEMY CONTENT
Knowledge to become an Artist Painter
3 FIELDS OF KNOWLEDGE
INTERACTION WITH THE SUBJECT
• Perspective
• Anatomy
• Three dimensionality (Distance, Light and Shadow)
• Comprehension and understanding of the subject (Water transparency, Fog effect, Movement effect, Atmospheric effect of distance, etc.)
• Management of all reference materials (Sketches, Drawing of starting points or Imagination, Thumbnails or Pochades)
• Ergonomy (Studio or plein-air gear and set-up, Furniture and tools, How-to-use and How-to-work)
TECHNIQUES OF THE MEDIUM
• Acquire experience of the mediums through time (Drawing medium, Watercolor, Pastel, Acrylic, Oil and Mix-Media)
• Materials, tools and gear (How to use and How to work)
• Procedures and rules for all steps (Supports preparation, Art work execution, Conservation)
• Compatibility of mediums
COMPOSITION
Process of decision making during the art work execution
FIVE ESSENTIALS
1 - CONCEPT AND STRUCTURE
• Relations in space; Golden rule, Asymmetry strategies, Management of periphery, Patterns, Points of interest, Variety and Unity, Dominant and accent, Hierarchy
2 - VALUES
• Their contribution to Focal points, Contrast, Volume and Three dimensionality, to Contrast
• How to compose Values
3 - COLOR
• Understand color relation, Color temperature, Color contrast and atmosphere, Color contribution to focalization
• How to compose Colors
4 - READING EDGES
• Visual field perception, Soft and Hard edges, How to paint edges
• How to compose Edges
5 - SURFACE AND TEXTURE
• Awareness of stages from support to varnishes
• Creating textures, Contrast, Knowing how manipulate tools and texture from different mediums
• How to compose textures
WHAT YOU WANT AS A STUDENT
Now: Paint and have fun from the beginning
After: Acquire a level of Autonomy
Later: Master the painting process
GET BETTER AND EVOLVE
REPRESENTATIONAL or by CREATIVITY
RESPECTING YOUR PREFERENCES
From Vision, Subject and Mediums
ACADEMY GOALS
Allow the student to acquire this knowledge
HOW TO GET THERE?
Full painting demonstrations as a tool
OUR CHALLENGE
Produce a full list of video contents at an average of three courses per year
FOLLOWING A 3 ITEMS RECIPE
Site - Subject - Medium
OUR CONCEPT
The best courses production possible
4 Multi video cameras set-up
YOUR PRODUCT
A COURSE PACKAGE INCLUDING:
2 to 5 Full Painting Demonstrations
A subject documentary video
An Inspirational file with 20-40 ready-to-paint photos
A forum to share comments
YOUR TEACHER
Juan Cristobal
Artist and Teacher
Art Works Production
• 40 years of art career
• 2500 portraits in pastels
• 4000 oils, acrylics and pastels
Formal Memberships
• Académie Internationale des Beaux-arts du Québec
• Pastel Society of Eastern Canada
• Institut des Arts Figuratifs du Québec
Exhibitions and Art Shows
• More than 80 group and solo National and International exhibitions, including almost twenty in Europe and Asia.
• Awarded numerous times in Europe and Canada.
• Jury member on several occasions.
Highest Art Recognitions
• Honoured with the title of Master at the Pastel Society of Eastern Canada.
• Honoured with the title of Beaux Arts Master at the Académie Internationale des Beaux-Arts du Québec.
• One of his Art works is among the collection of the Pastel Museum of France in Perigord.
Editorials
• Appeared in many articles in art magazines such as: Magazin’art, Arabella art and design, Pratique des Arts, France.
Conferences and Teaching
• Main art speaker about Strategic painting composition in Canada and abroad.
• He has taught to thousands of students during his career.
PAINTING COURSES
AND MUCH MORE!
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OUR PARTNERS
Thanks to Joshua Been and ProlificPainter.com for his incredible plein-air easels.
