Technical Directives

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Coaching Beginning Oil Painting

Technical Directive 26 November 2002 Coaching Beginning Painting   Read the following with The Beginning Oil Painting Course Workbook at hand for easy reference. I CANNOT EMPHASIZE ENOUGH THE NEED FOR MISSION: RENAISSANCE INSTRUCTORS TO COACH EVERY SINGLE STUDENT TO GAIN CONTROL OVER OILS. ALL INSTRUCTORS MUST BE TRAINED WITH AUTHORITY IN EVERY POINT OF [...]

Coaching The Cup Drill and The Rack

Technical Directive 5 January 2015 Coaching The Cup Drill and The Rack Most students on the Beginning Oil Painting Course learning to handle oil paints have quite a mountain to climb. It is quite a challenging experience for many. The first thing to do is to make certain the students become completely familiar with how [...]

A Big Painting Trap

Technical Directive 15 December 2014 A Big Painting Trap When attempting to create beautiful illusions of the real world, most painters, due to a lack of proper past instruction, fall into a trap from which they seldom escape. Working on their tones and trying to make them more real looking, they overdo the contrast. They [...]

Squinting and Painting

Technical Directive 9 February 2015 Squinting and Painting I’ve noticed many students are either not squinting often enough or improperly doing so when painting. Squinting with one’s EYES ALMOST ENTIRELY CLOSED isn’t something one learns on the Basic Tone Course and then afterward does once in a while. Squinting is a vital and necessary way [...]

The Beginning Tones Must Be Right

Technical Directive 14 November 2014 The Beginning Tones Must be Right Read the following with The Basic Tone Drawing Course Workbook at hand for easy reference. Recently, while observing students applying the Adult Tech in the training academy, I noticed these two glaring errors: POORLY DONE OVERALL TONES INCORRECT THREE GENERAL TONES Allowing a student [...]

Ending Classes

Technical Directive 5 February 1995 Ending Classes There is a time reserved at the end of each class for success and wins. A win, or success, is doing something a person wanted to do, or not doing something a person did not want to do. It is succeeding at what one intended to do. That [...]

The Mission: Renaissance Class Format

Technical Directive 20 July 2004 The Mission: Renaissance Class Format There is a specific class format for all Mission: Renaissance classes. Our format is as follows: Instructors and the PD arrive before class in plenty of time and properly prepare for the class. (The proper times of arrival for instructors and PDs are covered elsewhere.) [...]

The Basic Concept & Creating

Technical Directive 28 October 2014 The Basic Concept & Creating The Basic Concept means: to relate a part to other parts and/or to the whole. To relate means: TO CONNECT UP, not just to compare. To connect means: TO JOIN TOGETHER. As an artist you are joining or putting together various parts to make them [...]

Instructing Sketching for Kids

INSTRUCTING SKETCHING FOR CHILDREN TECHNICAL SEQUENCE The following Technical Sequence is to be followed when instructing a child in how to sketch. This sequence comes only after a child has completed Drawing Basics and Reverse Step Drawing. These steps may only be delivered by a Certified Class III Instructor or [...]

An Overview of the Adult Courses

Technical Directive 13 September 2007 An Overview of the Adult Courses Our adult courses follow a specific plan, paralleling the methods of the Italian Renaissance Masters. The method was composed of a sequential use of three main fine art essentials: LINE, TONE, and COLOR. I found that this sequence, which led to mastery over the [...]