Essentials

ART TRAINING AND RESIDENTIAL ART COURSES.

The Essentials Art course is a residential art course, aimed at everyone who has completed the Naked Canvas and who would like to undertake an in-depth self-exploration which promotes self-understanding and personal responsibility, including reflection on, and analysis of, self, life experience and others, and their influence on the present moment, through play with different creative processes and artistic mediums.

Description of content

We want you to have an amazing time so there will be flexibility on study.

There is theory and practice of a combination of a few of the following content subjects;

Black and white. Shading and Fading. Charcoal Drawing. Complimentary colour. Perspective and vanishing point. Watercolour wet on wet. Oils v Acrylics. Making of paper or canvas frames, brushes or inks. Proportions of people. Life Drawing. Still life. Collage. Painting. Clay. Sculpture

Modules are prescriptive and structured so that participants feel held and heard on their journeys.

OrayaArt course consists of 6 modules;

Art for Beginners / Mixed Media
The Body and Bones.
Organs and senses.
Painting emotion.
Soul expression.
Spiritual you.

Each module is a week and the whole six modules can either be completed over 3 consecutive months in 2 week slots, OR in a block of six weeks.

Module 1

Art for Beginners / Mixed Media

These days will focus of your preferred medium. Drawing from guided meditation and peer learning collaboration.

Module 2

The Body and Bones.

Going deeper into yourself to find out how your environment and surroundings influence you, through the use of mixed media and techniques. Face painting. Body painting. Movement painting. Naked painting (optional).

Module 3

Organs and senses.

Here we are encouraged to look at how we receive things through our 12 senses.

Using our biography, we will sketch out a story-line, and build works through our experiences that have most affected us.

Module 4

Painting emotion.

looking at personalities, traits, we explore the emotions behind the characters within us.

Using art, we will get a chance to meet the characters inside us and engage in conversations with them to reveal the stories behind them.

Module 5

Soul expression.

This is about painting your dreams with analysis. Dreaming and picturing and then committing those dreams to Art.

Also looking at relationships and connections and opening them to free self expression.

Module 6

Spiritual you.

Spiritual you. This includes working with our calling, our place in the world and our Art in the world.

Accommodation.

Your courses are held in a rural rustic setting in Bulgaria, surround by nature,

this is a ideal setting away from the fast pace of life, to take time away and focus on the creative process.

You will have your own bedroom in a house with shared bathrooms and dining room.

There will be basic facilities provided including WiFi

Provided are bedding, towels and toiletries.

There will be free tea and coffee throughout your stay.

Meals are included at no additional additional cost.

A range of art materials will be provided at no additional cost.

As you will be catered for please check we are able to accommodate food preferences, however we cannot cater for food allergies.

Cost

The tuition fee for the 6 weeks including 5x7 hours training per week, accommodation and materials, is £4500

There are no extra or hidden costs.

Aims

Here at OrayaArt, we want you to have the best possible experience ever.