Summer Intensive speed Drawing & Painting(For coming high school to adult)
Summer Flat Rate Portfolio Program (For coming 8th to 12th graders)
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For coming high schoolers to adult
Students who were accepted to Pasadena Art Center, RISD, SVA, Parson, MIT, Stanford, Columbia, Pomona, … etc took one or two summers of this class and most of their observational art works in their portfolio are from this class. Recommended to take more than one summer if you may major in art.
6/10-6/28 Quick Drawings with life and still life settings
7/1 - 7/18 Quick paintings with life and still life sessions
Monday to Thursday: 1pm to 4pm
Session 2 includes Zoo trip on 6/30, 10am to 3pm. No class on 7/4. Life model class every week except 7/4.
Fees: $990 for one session, model fee $30. $1782 for two sessions, plus model fee $60. Zoo entry fee(will get group discount) to be announced. Supplies are not included.
Age: 13yr+ to adult. Basic drawing skills are required. Or recommended by instructors.
Class size: Minimum 4 students to Maximum 12 students
**If you register for yearly art classes, you can pause your weekly classes and extend the yearly session for those weeks.
Cancellation fee: $35/session if canceled more than one week ahead. $100/session if canceled less than a week ahead by 8pm on the Saturday before the class starts. You will be credited 50% of the tuition for later use if cancel after 8pm on the Saturday before the class starts , no refund.
Summer Intensive classes are designed to strengthen students’ quick drawing and painting ability to observe from life, conceptualize, analyze and create. Students will be introduced to a College-level environment of work and speed. Our summer intensive course will focus on students producing exceptional quality of artworks to be used for college applications or AP art portfolios. Students will focus on a 3 or 6 weeks long immersion of rigorous visual and critical inquiry, designed to encourage and also challenge their current level of skill. Our instructors will guide students to sharpen their observational skills, gain speed of work process, develop various techniques, and learn to analyze and discuss their works of art. This 6 weeks course will cover 3 weeks of drawing and 3 weeks of painting, students will become familiar with speed drawing and palette paintings, line drawings of live/figure models, and observational skills in drawing moving animals.
We are also introducing class critiques to the course. Students will practice discussing their artworks at the end of each class. Critiques serve as an important guidepost as students refine their artworks and thought process; sharing work with others is an essential element of learning and developing. As students learn to present and discuss their work in front of faculty and fellow peers, they will grow more confident and comfortable with articulating their goals and receiving constructive feedback.
With the speed drawing and painting by a time limit, you will experience that art can be “not-perfect” and is good in a different way.
In session 1:
Speed drawing / Line drawing.
Draw from real life models, still life.
Draw from life animals in the Zoo.
Producing quality artworks to be used for college applications or AP art portfolios.
College level performance
Class critiques
In session 2: Students need to take session 1 to build the skills required in session 2
Speed painting techniques
Paint from real life models, still life.
Produce quality artworks to be used for college applications or AP art portfolios.
College level performance
Class critiques
This program is designed for high school and middle school students who are intensively working on art during the summer to build skills and prepare for college application portfolios and/or AP fine art portfolios. In this program, you pay one flat fee and can take as many classes as you like within 6 weeks to 8weeks, including multiple regular weekly classes, summer intensive classes, boot camps, and digital art classes.
USArts has many years of experience helping students creating their art portfolios. Our students create works that reflect the skills, quality and personality that highly competitive schools are looking for in their prospective students. In the past, many students from USArts has used their art portfolio to increase their chances for their target schools, and have got into colleges such as the RISD (Rhode Island School of Design), Art center College of Design in Pasadena, SVA, Cal Art, USC's Animation, UC school’s art programs. As an extra curriculum, we have helped students accepted by Harvard, MIT, Stanford, U. Penn, Yale, Columbia, Williams, Carnegie Mellon, Brown University, private liberal arts colleges, , , , Cal Tech, Dartmouth, UC Berkeley's Regent Scholarship, etc.
Price: $3300 for 6weeks, $3740 for 7 weeks, $3960 for 8weeks. Choose any weeks between 6/10/24 -8/25/24. If you are interested, please email us and we will set up a time to discuss your need and make plan for you. You are welcome to visit our studio and talk to the instructors. Our instructors for this program have had college level teaching experience or at level of teaching colleges courses.
Art classes include drawing, sketching, and/or painting using different mediums taught by professional art instructors. Students will develop creative and artistic skills.
This course is designed for middle school and high school students who enjoy drawing and painting, and like to boost their fine art skills and for those students who would like to explore the possibility of utilizing their fine art skills/talent to take AP Studio art in high school, to enhance their college application for non art major as an extra curriculum, or considering major in visual art.
