Drawing and Painting

The Full-Time Drawing | Painting programme includes an extensive study plan that incorporates all the mechanisms of traditional academics related to drawing and painting in order to provide the student with all the aesthetic and expressive resources of a professional artist. Students have 6 to 8 hours of supervised study from Monday to Friday. The students of this course work with all the subjects of the programme, which consists of the subjects of the 19th century Traditional Programme as well as the Seminars of the Drawing | Painting curriculum.

Aims

• To train the eye to be thorough.
• To acquire the necessary skills to carry out an analytical study drawing.
• To work on the concepts of chiaroscuro and tonal values.
• To learn the basic concepts of anatomy, gesture and proportion.
• To acquire knowledge of the process of making an analytical study painting.
• To practice the concepts of hue and saturation based on colour theory and tonal assessment.
• To recognise pigment colours and how they mix together.
• To be familiar with the tools of graphic expression for the representation of what we want.

Methodology

On the intensive Drawing | Painting programme, each student carries out the assignments at their own pace and advances through the course programme in a progressive way, the difficulty gradually increasing.

Each day students have a different teacher who comes to each workspace and offers individual feedback. This is what we call a critique, which is always focused on ensuring that the student is taking on the concepts taught at each stage of their learning to correct, modify or improve all aspects that the tutor has suggested in the best way.

At the end of each term, the students receive an individual, personalised final critique attended by all their teachers. Five general areas are evaluated: attendance, performance, effort, attitude and progress. A final average grade is given based on this.