Module D: The Traditions
Technical Artist and Teacher
for the artist and teacher who wants to study
styles or genres of painting
Lesson 1 - Harmony
Coordinating colors through understanding hue shifting choosing the correct toner.

Lesson 2 - Line of Design
Learn the tools and techniques used to move the viewer's eye through design. Study elements of design, weight, and composition.

Lesson 3 - Marquetry
Learning how to imitate marquetry, and staining through layering of colors.

Lesson 4 - Introduction to Still Life Painting
Developing shapes and form, learning glass, copper, silver, pewter and cast shadows.

Lesson 5 - Romsdal Rosemaling
Harmonious palette to be used for both light and dark backgrounds. Using two different lines of design within the same painting. Wet on Wet stroke blending.

Lesson 6 - Telemark
Harmonious palette to be used for both light and dark backgrounds. Weaving scrolls and transparent scrolls.

Lesson 7 - Introduction to Wildlife
Fox study in a natural landscape setting, fur, bark, and wild grasses.

Lesson 8 - Leaf Study
Learn a variety of leaves and their forms, painting through a seasonal progressive color wheel, final details and embellishments.

Lesson 9 - Portraiture
Study the human head, explore the relationship between the facial features, tonal underpainting.

Lesson 10 - Flemish Floral
Steps and reasoning of classic historical Flemish style. Establish depth in advanced floral composition. Appreciation of symbolism.

Lesson 11 - Landscape
Reproduction of Dutch Master landscape, tonal underpainting, explore historical venetian technique, perspective, cloud study.

Lesson 12 - Introduction to Murals
Learn the concepts to create a rendering and necessary tools to approach murals, using the design from Lesson 11.

Special Sections:
“Gateway to the Future” - A study in Allegory and Symbolism
“Historical Preservation” - Zhostovo - Black Floral Tray
“Historical Preservation” - Zhostovo - Chrysanthemum Tray
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