Courses of Study

Painting is the co-ordination of drawing with colour as a means of representing form. The principle medium for study will be working in oil. Students proceed from painting in grisaille (black & white), to working with a limited palette and finally to using a broad palette of many colours. Consideration of the support (usually canvas or panel), the preparation of the painting surface (with white gesso and a coloured imprematura) mediums (oils, resins and thinners) and technique (cartoons, warm/cool colours, indirect/direct, glazing, scumbling, blending, working from thin to fat etc...), are brought explained and demonstrated as students advance through this discipline.

絵画はデッサンと色彩のコーディネートすることで造形を表現します。コースでは油絵を中心として学び、白黒の2色から、徐々に色彩を増やし、多色パレットに発展します。様々な画材および手法を使いながら絵画を学びます。

Cast Painting
石膏画

This course takes knowlege leared from Cast Drawing and applys it to painting in oil. Students make grisaille paintings from casts of famous antique statues. Black and white paintings are made that express tone and form. Working with warm and cool colours are indroduced.
石膏デッサンで習得した手法を油絵に応用します。石膏像を使い、白黒での陰影と形の表現から始まり、暖色と寒色での表現へと発展します。

Still Life Painting
静物画

This course takes knowlege learned in Cast Painting and extends it to working in full colour. Students work first with a limited palette of several colours and afterwards with a broad palette of numerous colours.
石膏絵画で習得した手法を応用し、多色色彩での絵画を学びます。限られた色彩から多色への色彩画へと発展します。

Plein Air Painting
風景画

Plein Air is a French painting term which means, “painting in the open” and is used to describe painting outdoors, especially for landscape painting. This course is done in the form of field trips to local parks and other locations. Painting outside adds many new aspects to consider as students learn to confront the problems of working in nature under changing conditions (light, wind, temperature, ambient noise, etc...). Projects will progress from less to more complicated in order to consider elements like: clouds, water, reflections, buildings and people.
風景画はフランス語で”野外での絵画”と言われています。近くの庭園・公園などに出かけ、野外で風景絵画を習得します。野外でのデッサンは、屋内での作業には異なり、刻々と状況が変化する環境下（光、風、気温、音など）での作業となります。徐々に複雑な要素（雲、水、反射、建物、人など）を取り入れてゆくことで、技術を上達することができます。

Portrait Painting
肖像画
Live clothed models are used for students to produce life-life portraits (works primarily concered with the face and head of an individual sitter). The course progresses through a series of excercies of varying length. Aspects of consideration include rub-outs, grissaile (black & white) limited palette, warm & cool colours, earth tones, prismatic colours, cartoons, indirect & direct techniques, anatomy & proportions of the head & face etc...
服を着用したモデルの上半身を描きます（主に頭部と顔を中心）。黒白２色、寒色＆暖色、アーストーン、原色などの組み合わせを使い、体型、頭部、顔などを描いていきます。

Life Painting
人物画
Live nude models are used to create life-like paintings of the human body. This course takes into consideration a lot of material that is introduced in previous courses, especially cast painting, still life painting & anatomical drawing. A series of long poses are used to develop students understanding and application of painting from life.
実際のヌードモデルを使って、まるで生きているかのような人間の体を描きます。これまで静物画や人体デッサンなどで学んだ絵画の知識及び技術を最大限に活用します。複数回に亘る長時間セッションを通じて、実際の人物を描く技術を学んでいきます。