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Coaching Basic Tone Drawing

Technical Directive 25 November 2002 Coaching Basic Tone Drawing Read the following with The Basic Tone Drawing Course Workbook at hand for easy reference. We are following in the footsteps of the great masters of the Italian Renaissance because they used the sequence of line/tone/color to train an apprentice. Our line drawing instruction dovetails to [...]

Coaching Basic Drawing

Technical Directive 24 November 2002 Coaching Basic Drawing Read the following with a Basic Drawing Course Workbook at hand for easy reference. We can group all of the instruction in Basic Drawing—sometimes called Line Drawing—into several sections: The first section begins with information about the role of a student, how best to succeed and the [...]

Coaching Beyond Your Training Level

Technical Directive 19 April 2010 Coaching Beyond Your Training Level As you continue your training in the Academy you will acquire more and more knowledge of The Gluck Method and how to coach it. Only after you have completed the training for a particular part of The Method and have been given a pass by [...]

Coaching the Color Wheel to Children

Technical Directive 22 April 2010 Coaching the Color Wheel to Children The majority of our children first learn about the color wheel when in watercolor. There is a specific, step-by-step way that I want you to coach this information to a child. To begin, explain to the student that they are going to learn how [...]

Improving How a Child Draws

Technical Directive 10 April 1997 Improving How a Child Draws I just had a wonderful time watching my four-and-a-half year old grandson, Josh, in a children's class drawing a bird on a branch. He was doing just great, but then I noticed that he repeatedly drew and erased a wing because he couldn't get it [...]

Coaching The Gluck Method

Technical Directive 14 October 2002 Coaching The Gluck Method A ‘coach’ directs the training of others. An athlete’s success depends, in large part, on working with a good coach. I have adopted this same idea of coaching for the purpose of training fine artists. As far as I know we are the first fine art [...]

The Gluck Method

Technical Directive 14 October 2002 The Gluck Method There is no scarcity of art schools, art departments, private classes or working artists who advertise, “Art Instruction.” Many books can be found on the subject. So what makes us different? Mission: Renaissance is an organization of dedicated people with the common purpose of expanding the use [...]

Conduct and Offenses

Mission: Renaissance Standard Operating Policy 16 April 2000 Standards of Conduct Series Conduct and Offenses Reference: Employee Handbook and Personnel Policies Manual Published by Castle Publications Limited Author: Richard J. Simmons, Attorney Alike all other organizations, Mission: Renaissance has the goal to succeed in it's field. Such success would require that all staff maintain conduct [...]

Discrimination and Harassment

Mission: Renaissance Standard Operating Policy 15 April 2000 Standards of Conduct Series Discrimination and Harassment Reference: Employee Handbook and Personnel Policies Manual Published by Castle Publications Limited Author: Richard J. Simmons, Attorney Discrimination and/or harassment comes in many forms including, but not limited to: race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, [...]

Reports

Mission: Renaissance Standard Operating Policy 14 April 2000 Standards of Conduct Series Reports We have learned over the years that it is a very dangerous practice of acting upon a verbal report. It is a simple fact that a verbal report is prone to more twists and turns than you can imagine. If you ever [...]