Find the perfect session to advance your fine art training with our proven, step-by-step system. Academy of Realist Art's fine art workshops include drawing, painting, figure, portraiture, and landscape, as well as special art travel and tours. Scroll down to see the currernt workshops. All prices are at the bottom.
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Classical Portrait Painting
Workshop # 89
May 12 - 23, 2008
Toronto
Instructor: Juan Martinez
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Learn to paint a realistic portrait from the live model, step by step.
Painting a beautiful portrait while capturing a good likeness is a goal most artists share but struggle to achieve. Now you can learn how to paint a realistic portrait from the live model, step by step, whether you're a beginner or a more advanced painter.
Instructor Juan Martinez will paint a demo portrait along with you, as you practise each step of the method, Read more about –> Classical Portrait Painting: Capture the likeness of the live model in oil
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Sketching in Oil from the Nude Figure
Workshop # 90
June 16 - 27, 2008
Toronto
Instructor: Fernando Freitas
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Beginner or advanced students will both benefit from this direct painting workshop, working directly from the nude figure, using oil paints. Senior Instructor Fernando Freitas will teach you with the basics of gesture and proportion, using a dry-brush application of paint—this is where sketching with oil paints begins. Read more about –> Sketching in Oil from the Nude Figure: learn to paint directly from the live model in this oil painting workshop
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Take Home Your Masterpiece: Old-Master Copy in Oil
Workshop # 92
July 7 - 18, 2008
Toronto
Instructor: Fernando Freitas
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Academy Director and Senior Instructor Fernando Freitas will take you through the stages of academic oil painting in this two-week workshop. Working from a copy of an old-master painting, you will learn the specific step-by-step process to achieve an exact copy. Gain a clear understanding of the principles of oil painting, the best techniques, and which materials to use when. You will also carry home a copy of your own beautiful "masterpiece"! Read more about –> Paint Your Own Masterpiece: learn oil painting by copying an 'old master'
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Landscape Drawing
Workshop #93
August 11 - 15, 2008
Toronto
Instructors: David Gluck, Kate Stone
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Now you can learn to create beautiful studies from nature using classical drawing methods and a variety of dry media, such as graphite, chalk, charcoal, and ink. This five-day landscape intensive will take you outdoors to study nature directly from life — just the way the old masters did it. Read more about –> Landscape Workshop
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Still Life Painting
Workshop # 94
August 18 - 29, 2008
Toronto
Instructor: Juan Martinez
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Here it is: the workshop you've been asking for! An intensive, two week course on still life painting! Learn to paint a beautiful still life using classic methods for creating atmospheric, three-dimensional oil paintings. Read more about –> Still Life Painting Workshop: The illusion of three dimensions in oil painting
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Red Chalk Drawing Workshop # 102
September 15 - 19, 2008
Toronto
Instructor: Ryan Gauvin
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Choose one of two options: either copy an old-master drawing or create an original drawing from a photo reference, in this new five-day red-chalk workshop.
Instructor Ryan Gauvin will provide a selection of drawings that highlight the expressive possibilities of this medium. Some examples will focus on modelling the form and some on linear design. Read more about –> Red Chalk Drawing Workshop
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The Portrait Head and Hands Workshop # 100
October 20-31, 2008
Toronto
Instructor: Juan Martinez
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Description to come. Read more about –> Portraiture - Head and Hands
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Alla Prima Portrait Painting Workshop # 98
December 1 - 5, 2008
Toronto
Instructor: Juan Martinez
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Now you can learn the alla prima approach to portraiture! For those who appreciate a direct method and faster results, established portraitist Juan Martinez has developed a new one-week workshop. Alla prima, which means "at once," is a painting style that is done in a quickly-executed wet-into-wet fashion. (Compare this to the Academic method, which is done in layers, over a much longer period of time.) Read more about –> Alla Prima Portrait Painting: capture the appearance of the live model with this direct approach
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Group sizes are kept quite small, so each participant gets lots of one-on-one attention from our superb instructors. ARA instructors teach year-round so, unlike many artists who offer summer/holiday workshops, our teachers are professional teachers as well as successful, award-winning artists.
Workshop Hours & Schedules:
Most workshops are scheduled five days per week, Monday to Friday, with weekends free. The hours are usually 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., but will occasionally go to 5:00 p.m. If you are coming from out of town and need local accommodations, we have a list of inexpensive places to stay near the Studios.
Workshop Fees (in Canadian dollars):
One-Week Workshops: $600
Two-Week Workshops: $975, with the early-registration discount. Full price for late bookings is $1,050, so please register as soon as you can confirm your plans.
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