Academic Courses

**Academic Courses**

Course name: Academic Drawing Course (1)

Description: The first course within the academic education program consisting of six academic courses.

Age group: 12 to 70 years.

Period: Evening, from 4:30 to 6:30 PM. Four months, totaling 64 training hours.

Cost: 1400 shekels.

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Who can enroll in the academic courses?

The courses are directed to everyone talented or interested in learning drawing and artistic production, who has a passion to learn drawing techniques and concepts and colors from A to Z, for adolescents, youth, and adults, regardless of age. New doors are opened for the participant to the world of visual arts and fine artists, as the Forum provides an interactive educational, social, and cultural space through which the participant expresses what they think, feel, and contemplate through artistic productions, taught by specialized artists with experience in education and art-making.

For youth and adults, participation allows them to spend enjoyable and beneficial time within a social and cultural context, while learning techniques and concepts in visual arts. As for adolescents, it is an opportunity for every mother and father to discover their children's talents and develop them within a safe social space that nurtures creativity and the privacy of each child on both educational and personal levels, which may influence their future academic, university, and professional choices. Many graduates of the Forum have pursued specializations in which they excelled in various fields, such as: fine arts, animation production, film, video art, graphic design, engineering, dentistry, management, and others. Most importantly, they are active individuals who work in what they love and excel in, and have a social personality in their social, professional, and family contexts.

About the Academic Program

The School of Visual Arts in the academic track offers six academic courses, each course is a four-month semester, during which students meet twice a week for two hours per meeting, totaling 64 teaching hours per semester. During these, the student learns all techniques and concepts for producing Still Life, urban scenes, portraiture, models, natural scenes, and more, using various media, including: graphite, charcoal, ink, oil, acrylic, Mixed Media, collage, and others. They also acquire various techniques in how to use color in shadow and light, perspective, realism and abstraction, and more.

Course Program

Training the hand to hold the pencil and draw straight and curved lines smoothly.

Learning the elements of the artwork, their application, and the basis of its construction: point, line, balance, mass, textures, and materials.

Learning the composition of the painting and its relationship to space, void, masses, and elements, and its relationship to the golden ratio and its application.

Learning the principles of perspective in terms of proportions and their relationship to space and masses in the painting and its application.

Learning and applying theories of light and shadow, their different falling on shapes, and the multiplicity of their reflections.

Learning to draw Still Life scenes containing different masses and materials: fabric, wood, stone, and pottery.

Learning to draw urban scenes containing different masses and materials: buildings, houses, the street, columns, and others.

Using the following media: pencils, charcoal, and colored pencils.

Touching on the beginnings of art history and realistic art.

Learning about a number of Palestinian and international artists and their styles in drawing and production, in line with the course program.

Opportunities

Visiting an exhibition and an artist's studio.

Attending periodic artist meetings organized by the Forum.

Participating in periodic exhibitions in Palestine and abroad.

Participating in competitions in Palestine and abroad.

Community participation in volunteer work using art, if desired.

Required Materials

Canson A4 sketchbook.

Pencils.

Charcoal pack.

Colored pencils pack.

Tuition Fees

1,400 shekels for four months.