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IFAA (International Fine Art Academy)
Subjects Covered & Categories
Learn: Portrait Painting

Category: Painting
Basic Details
Medium of instruction:English
Overview, Content & Syllabus

This is a focused course for Student and Artist who wish to pursue Portrait Painting as a career. Portrait painting course develops the artist’s ability to represent the human figure in pictorial space. Drawings are based on observation from life and the study of old master drawings. Emphasis is placed on proportional accuracy, foreshortening and the use of form and cast shadows to achieve convincing three dimensional form. Duration of the course is 15 weeks. This includes 12 studio or practical sessions and 15 Art Business theory sessions.

Duration

Topic

Week 1

Charcoal: types, marks, smudging, pencil sharpening. Basic proportions of the head. Drawing: Composition, proportion, mapping, blocking in, rendering. Drawing with straight lines Focus on proportions, structure, values and avoiding getting into details too soon.

Week 2

The planes of the head: what is a plane and how does that work for us.

Week 3

Value pattern (rhythm), what is it, how to use it?

Week 4

Oil painting basics: Materials, medium, mark making, cleaning, 5 Value scale, Monochrome painting.

Week 5

Setting up the model’s light /Monochrome painting.

Week 6

Edges, types of edges, and edge control to create a focal point.

Week 7

Basic color theory. Value and color relationship using the color wheel and its relationship with the value scale.

Week 8

 Limited palette. Features: Eyes

Week 9

Limited palette. Feature: Nose and Mouth

Week 10

Limited palette. Feature: Ear

Week 11

Intro to full palette and color theory. Color choices: what colors to use, keep your palette simple how to develop your own palette.

Week 12

Intro to full palette.

Week 1-15

Art Business Theory topics.

Course Begins March 3, 2014

Last date to enroll is February 27, 2014

The total duration of course is 15 weeks.

Admission Open!

Course Begins: April 7, 2014 Last date to Enroll: March 31, 2014

Course Schedule & Price
Online
When Duration Where Remarks Price
3rd March, 2014
No attendance for this course
15 Weeks
Study Online (on your computer) Last date to enroll is February 27, 2014. Price On Request
7th April, 2014
No attendance for this course
15 Weeks
Study Online (on your computer) Last date to Enroll: March 31, 2014. Price On Request

Venues (Locations)
Indore, RNT Marg (Head Office):- 165, RNT Marg, Indore - 452001 , Madhya Pradesh, India