6 Months Certificate Course in Sketching & Oil Painting - Online/Regular/Part-Time

Students can also choose one favourite topic or one medium for detail practice like (Pencil, Pencil Colour, Charcoal, Oil Pastels, Oil Colours, Acrylic Colours).

Basic Sketching

a) Free hand Drawing 
b) Objects and Nature study 
c) Different Techniques: Proportion, Volume 
d) Indoor and Outdoor sketching.

Figure Study

a) Free hand drawing from human figure to study proportion. 
b) Stick drawing and Block drawing. 
c) Basic anatomy, Head study from different angles.
d) Full figure study

Still Life

a) Introduction to various techniques. 

b) Study of foreground and background with drapery.

c) Texture study with different materials like cloth, wood, glass, bronze, mirror, china clay, terracotta, etc.

d) Selection and arrangement of objects.

e) Eye level, source of light, tonal variation, composition. 

f) Drawing from different angles.

g) Details about light & shades. 

h) Medium - pencil, charcoal, Pen, Ink, acrylic colour, oil colour.

Portrait

a) Technical details, measurements. 
b) Detail study of skull, character and expression.

Detail Oil Painting

a) Theory 
b) Techniques 
c) Types of brushes 
d) Use of Spatula, roller 
e) Preservation 
f) Detail practice (Portrait Study, Realistic Figures, Imaginary Compositions)