Here Bill, one of our adult fine art program students paints a three dimensional statue of a camel as part of an advanced fine art painting exercise.

Bill does this exercise well enough that this painting becomes much more than an fine art instruction drill, but a work of art.

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In order to begin creating are in the difficult visual fine art medium of oil paint we first thoroughly ground our students in the fine art fundamentals of drawing and sketching.

At Mission Renaissance we have found in over 25 years of instructing students in the fine art of drawing and painting that the student sees much more stable and impressive results in painting if he first learns the basics of drawing and sketching.

Through still life and life drawing and sketching we teach our students the mechanics of visual art; tone, perspective, light and shadow, proportion, even how to properly hold the charcoal pencil on your hand.

From there the student understands these visual fine art concepts and from there can tackle the more difficult medium of watercolor and oil paint.

Do you want a thorough grounding in the fundamentals of fine art drawing and sketching? Our Art of Drawing fine art drawing and sketching home instruction series provides just that!