Intermediate & Advanced Painting    

The New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts offers a wide variety of painting courses at the beginning, intermediate and advanced levels. The classes address technique, style and subject matter as well as medium: Abstract, Life Painting (Figure Painting), Portrait Painting, Still Life, Watercolor, Gouache, etc. Please click on the course titles below for more information.

Instructor: Auseklis Ozols, Billy Solitario or Dell Weller

Prerequisite: Beginning Oil Painting, Portrait Drawing
Introduction to the traditional portrait in oil. An understanding of the planes of the head and its porportions is the basis of the search for a likeness.

Instructor: Auseklis Ozols or Dell Weller

Prerequisite: Portrait Painting
For the advanced student who wishes to pursue stylistic and compositional elements that strengthen the work. The model is posed in thematic situations.

Instructor: Auesklis Ozols, Phil Sandusky, or Billy Solitario

Prerequisite: Beginning Oil Painting
This class works outdoors at a pre-selected site with the intent to design and execute a finished painting. Landscape classes begin at 8:00 or 8:30 am instead of 9:00 am.

Instructor: Auseklis Ozols

Prerequisite: Landscape Painting
This course builds on the knowledge and experience students gained by working with an instructor in the field doing landscapes from life.

Instructor: Martha Guthrie

Prerequisite: Beginning Watercolor
This course continues to explore the wet-on-wet method, glazing, color mixing and texturing, and the ability to recognize and use shapes as abstract elements. Our aim is to develop a greater sense of freedom in painting with watercolor, to achieve looser, fresher results.

Instructor: Martha Guthrie

Prerequisite: Intermediate Watercolor
This course focuses on helping each student sharpen his or her personal approach to watercolor painting and achieve individual goals. Revisiting and expanding on areas of various watercolor techniques, design elements and principles, color meixing, etc., as needed. Encouraging the research and development of a theme and working on a series of paintings using the selected theme.

 

Instructor: Jean Cassels

Prerequisite: Gouache Techniques
This course continues to explore the medium. There will be greater opportunity for self-direction and expression, while continuing to work from still-life setups, photos, and the outdoors. We will experiment further with the black-ink-wash-off, a technique that gives an effect like no other. In each advanced gouache class we assemble a beautiful book that consists of poems chosen and expressed artistically by each student.

 

Instructor: Jean Cassels

Prerequisite: Gouache Techniques
Using gouache, students will concentrate on achieving the following:
      1) Creating a botanical portrait that is both accurate and aesthetically pleasing;
      2) Making the transition from early works where the entire plant was described & named to the more recent focus to show just the flower;
      3) Leaving room for a more stylistic approach;
      4) Improving perspective, form, shape, color.