Skype Art Lessons
Art Lessons - Online Real-Time Skype Art Lessons
One-on-One with the Instructor
A beginning artist often has nobody to consult with, and needs advice from a professional with extensive experience. If you are a beginning artist, you can get complete and detailed guidance on your work remotely or online via Skype.
Whatever you do, whether it is painting or drawing from life, any work still reveals your knowledge of perspective, and your understanding of the conveyance of spacial depth on the 2-dimensional plane. This can be said to be the basis of drawing from nature.
These skills are universal to all visual art disciplines; they are important to every artist, and mastering them will make you part of a group of professionals.
However, to advance in training you must understand your mistakes and be able to evaluate your works. This requires individual work with a teacher one-on-one. Therefore, I offer lessons, and advice on drawing via Skype in real time, one-on-one with the instructor. During these lessons, we will discuss your works, analyze them and select tasks for independent work particularly for you.
You will learn drawing from nature correctly and receive guidance on your drawings from an instructor, and to help you see any inaccuracies, deficiencies in your drawings.
How Should Your Training Area Be Prepared?
You can find information on your studio arrangement here.
Below you can find some ideas on how you can use your art skills in every day life and how to add creativeness to your daily routine. Below are some programs.
Program 1
Drawing for beginners program consists of eight lessons with homework exercises.
This course is basic and it is necessary to every one who would like to paint or to draw.
A Program for Nature Lovers.
If you have a beautiful garden or live in a countryside close to nature my lessons might be interesting to you. Please click on the links above to view my web page on programs.
Drawing for Those Who Travel.
If you are planning a journey to a new destination or a new country and will have time to sketch outdoors, it is good to prepare yourself to travel. Definitely, visual artists can see more details in nature, more colors and their perception of reality is more vivid.
How Can We See Nature through the Eyes of an Artist?
A program for those, who are interested in self development
Art for Those Who Would Like to Understand Russian Culture or Are Planning to Travel to Russia.
If you have some doubts about your drawings , you can send me your works for advice. Just take photographs according to the instructions below, and send me the photos to my e-mail drawing.lessons@yahoo.com
How Should a Photograph of the Work be Taken?
Put the work on the floor, leaned over it from above, make sure that the edges of the sheet are not distorted and the sheet looks like an exact rectangle. Human height is just enough to photograph everything in this position without distortions.
Before we set up a first meeting (an interview), please answer the questions and send your answers to me at
drawing.lessons@yahoo.com together with your works.
Basing on your expectations for the lessons and your level of competence, we will create your individual program and time-table.
Please select the program(s) you are interested in below:
Drawing from Life, Watercolor Painting and Pastel Painting,
Oil Painting. Studying Perspective and Drawing from Life,
Advice and Analysis of Your Works,
Art History and Understanding of the Works of Well-known Artists,
Other (please specify)
Please write your time preferences and preferable schedule:
Your Skills and Experience:
All Applicants: Please describe your experience in drawing from life, painting, art history, art courses taken.
Please describe how you see yourself using art in a career. Please describe the kind of art you enjoy creating.
Please attach the following supporting materials:
Cover letter explaining a) your expectations for your online study b) related skills you have except drawing and painting, your hobbies , your educational and professional background.
Please be specific.