applications for January 2025 now open

NOTE: This course will be held in our venue in the West Wing Courtyard, RUSSBOROUGH HOUSE, BLESSINGTON, CO.WICKLOW

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As part of our Academy programme the Schoolhouse for Art is introducing an intensive 160 hours accredited ATELIER course.

This academic art training is based on 19th century French Ateliers that many of the great masters of the past 200 years were trained and where they gained their experience in the craft of drawing and painting.

Academy trained Painter and Artist WILL NATHANS will be guiding students through this in-depth and accredited Atelier training. Students will complete a series of projects designed to measure their progress and mastery of precise techniques.

We are honoured to have our Atelier recognised by the Art Renewal Center.

The ARC is the foremost and only vetting service for representational art schools ensuring that the teaching curricula and quality of teacher and student work meet our strict standards to become ARC Approved. The ARC also runs the ARC Salon Competition, which is the largest and most prestigious competition in the world for realist artists painting, sculpting and drawing today with eleven categories and thousands of works competing, culminating in a live exhibition of many of the winning works.

This course curriculum is based on key projects of increasing complexity aimed towards working from the life model in a colour oil palette while also developing a solid foundation in drawing and design basics. Each of the projects can be broken down into weekly and overall goals for the people attending. Will Nathans will be completing a series of demonstrations for each project.

COURSE STRUCTURE:

This program is designed specifically to help give students the necessary fundamentals in the craft of drawing and painting which in turn will ultimately lead to their own mastery and voice for their art.

When?

Monday & Tuesdays
10am - 4/4.30pm
Dates TBC

MONDAYS:

• Bargue Drawing & Copying - The Bargue Drawing method focuses on sight-size copying of the Old Masters Plates as perfectly as possible. This precise study teaches artists to see distances, lengths and angles, as well as seeing and depicting both light and shade using a two-dimensional reference.

• Cast Drawing & Painting - Cast Drawing is the next exercise. Cast drawing teaches you to see ‘form’ in three dimensions and transfer it with meticulous detail in pencil/charcoal to a two dimensional surface - the drawing paper. Following this stage the same technique will be used to apply oil to canvas replicating the cast. This practise teaches the mastery of values.

TUESDAYS:

• Figure Drawing & Painting - Working weekly with the nude figure (male/female), students will complete a series sight-size life drawings & paintings. Progressing through techniques of figurative drawing, perfecting skills through pencil, charcoal, grisaille & oil painting. This module results in a complete understanding of the human form and the flesh palette in oils is mastered.
  

APPLICATIONS FOR January 2025 ARE NOW OPEN

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Course fee: €2,495*
*payment options available
€625 non-refundable deposit to secure place & 3 monthly instalments thereafter of €625
T’s & C’s apply

ACCREDITATION:

This is an accredited, 160 CPD Hours certified course resulting in accreditation and certification through CPD Standards

APPLICATION: Application consists of a short paragraph about yourself with some images of recent work. As places are limited your application form will be reviewed by an independent 3rd party, tutor artist Will Nathans and Schoolhouse for Art Director Neil Condron.
Full list of materials required and complete calendar will be provided when places are offered

Course director - will nathans

Will Nathans has established his artistic career through the genres of portraiture and landscape painting within the tradition of representational oil painting. His main aspiration is to produce beautiful works of art and to establish himself as a premier portrait painter. Will believes it is his lifelong goal and responsibility to pass on the knowledge that he has gained within this great tradition to other generations as well as instill a solid work ethic and true devotion to the craft of painting and drawing.

He was educated at the Academy of Realist Art, Toronto, Ontario, and then at the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY .

Will has been a guest art instructor at a number of Irish and US schools. His work comprises many private collections in the USA and Ireland. He has illustrated for 20th Century Fox, ABC Family and his Freelance Portrait and Landscape Portfolio is immense.

For more information about Will see williamnathanspaintings.com