FIRST Year Course Content
DRAWING
a) Free hand Drawing
b) Objects and Nature study
c) Different Techniques:
- Proportion, Volume
- Visual Perspective
- Eye Level & Vanishing Point
- Horizontal and Vertical lines
- Bold and Rhythmic lines
- Relationship between lines
- Value and Texture
- Sketching from different angles
d) Indoor and Outdoor sketching.
e) Medium - pencil, charcoal, dry pastel, pen and ink.
STILL LIFE
a) Introduction to various techniques.
b) Study of foreground and background with drapery.
c) Texture study with different materials like cloth, wood, glass,
bronze, mirror, china clay, terracotta, etc.
d) Selection and arrangement of objects.
e) Eye level, source of light, tonal variation, composition.
f) Drawing from different angles
g) Details about light & shades.
h) Medium - Graphite pencil, pencil colours, oil pastel, charcoal, acrylic
colours, oil colours.
LIFE DRAWING
a) Free hand drawing of human figure to study proportion.
b) Stick drawing and Block drawing.
c) Basic anatomy, Head study from different angles.
d) Full figure study.
e) Quick sketching and Finished sketching.
f) Sketching practice of different parts of body
g) Different models for age specific characters
h) Detail life drawing study on full sheet.
LANDSCAPE
a) Outdoor trips for landscape study.
b) Selection of artistic view with picture frames.
c) Detail study of variation in sunlight.
d) Addition and elimination, simplification, eyelevel and
Vanishing Point.
e) Perspective, balance and rhythms in composition.
f) Study of Cityscape and Seascape
g) Medium -Graphite pencil, charcoal, crayon, water colours and oil colours.
PORTRAIT
a) Technical details, measurements.
b) Detail study of skull, character and expression.
c) Use of models for practice.
d) Super realistic portraits through graphic techniques.
e) Medium -Graphite pencil, charcoal, dry crayons, water colours and oil colours.
NATURE STUDY / FOLIAGE
a) Detail study of different trees, leaves, flowers.
b) Outdoors trips for nature study.
c) Medium - Graphite pencils, oil pastels, pen and ink, pencil colours, water
colours.
COMPOSITION
(a) Principal of design, distribution of space.
(b) Importance of line, tone, texture, colour, form, content.
(c) Negative and Positive Designing
(d) Design exercise in different media.
(e) Different figurative composition practice
(f) Medium - Graphite pencils, Acrylic colours, Poster colours.
USE OF MEDIUM IN DIFFERENT TECHNIQUES
1. H.B. Pencil & Shading pencils.
a) Shading Gradations
b) 20 Shades with single pencil
c) Light to dark technique
d) Dark to light technique
2. Charcoal
a) Drawing with charcoal stick.
b) Life drawing and portrait.
c) Reverse painting with eraser.
d) Use of cloth and cotton.
3. Pencil Colours
a) Study of colour wheel
b) Mixing of two colours
c) Tonal variation
4. Dry Crayons (Pastels)
a) Different effects with different techniques
b) Abstract & Semi abstract painting
c) Fixing method
5. Oil Pastels
a) Still life
b) Figure drawing
c) Creative Drawing
d) Landscaping
6. Water Colours
a) Theory
b) Wet and wet technique
c) Use of hand made paper
d) Light to dark effect
e) Outdoor practice
f) Creative painting
7. Oil Colours
a) Theory
b) Techniques
c) Types of brushes
d) Use of Spatula, roller
e) Preservation
f) Detail practice
8. Acrylic Colours
a) Use of Acrylic Colours
b) Texture Work
c) Mixing Work
d) Experimental Work
e) Abstract & Semi abstract painting
f) Contemporary Art
THEORY- Part- I What is Art?
1. Indian Art
2. Western Arts
SECOND Year Course Content
Still Life
Self arrange composition
More Artistic Object
More Detail in different Texture
Medium –Graphite Pencils , Oil colours or Mix Media
Life Drawing
Detail Full sheet practice
Anatomy
Drapery Study
Medium – Graphite pencils , Charcoal ,Oil colours
Portrait
Live Portrait Practice
Super Realistic details
Different Creative Experiments
Medium – Graphite pencils ,Pencil colours ,Acrylic colours ,Oil colours
Landscape/Cityscape/Seascape
Use of Nature Objects In Paintings/Outdoor Practice
Work on creative composition theme or series
Medium – Graphite pencils ,Water colours, oil colours
Composition
Detail Practice on Different composition
Imaginative composition
Abstract Composition
Balancing
Abstract Art
Abstract Painting
Semi Abstract painting
Modern Painting ,Texture painting
Medium – Oil colours ,Acrylic colours ,Mix Medium
Study of Great Master work
Study of different techniques
Own Style Presentation
Annual Exhibition
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