Painting in Rome

Course type: group – in-person
Participants: Min. 8, Max. 15
Attendance: From Monday to Friday, from 9 am to 5 pm – 40 hours
Cost: 850€
Requirements/supporting materials: Previous knowledge/studies in Artistic Drawing. List of material in Course programme.
Language: English | Participants are required to be fluent in English.
Lecturer: Fabrizio Dell’Arno
Location: RUFA – Via degli Ausoni 7, Rome.
Certificate: At the end of the course, a certificate of attendance will be issued, based on the attendance of at least 4 of the 5 days, for a possible recognition of 2 ECTS.

Day 1
MORNING (3 hours) – Introduction to drawing, chiaroscuro, proportion of the human figure and gesture drawing techniques.
AFTERNOON (3 hours) – Colour theory, introduction to the use of painting materials, study of the development of an artistic work through the stylistic process of simplification of the figure, application of compositional techniques.

Day 2
MORNING (3 hours) – Gesture drawing techniques and the human figure in artistic drawing.
AFTERNOON (3 hours) – Theories of composition, decomposition of forms and study of painting through colour and simplification of the image. Abstract synthesis in painting.

Day 3
MORNING (3 hours) – Live drawing with the model.
AFTERNOON (3 hour) – Breakdown of forms and study of painting through colour and simplification of the image. Abstract synthesis in painting.

Day 4
MORNING (3 hours) – Visit at museum tbc
AFTERNOON (3 hour) – Painting workshop

Day 5
MORNING (3 hours) – Painting workshop
AFTERNOON (3 hour) – Painting workshop, conclusion and final revision

MATERIAL:
Oil colours for painting (e.g. Maimeri 20 ml):
· titanium white (at least 2 tubes of white colors)
· primary yellow
· magenta or primary red
· cyan or primary blue
· natural umber
· ivory black

Flat-shaped synthetic brushes with short handle.
Large size: number 18 or 20; medium size: number 14 or 16; small size: number 6 or 8; small size: number 2.

HB and 6B pencil

Quantity 1: A3 watercolor paper pad (about 12 sheets)
Quantity 1: A3 drawing pad (or similar size 30 x 40 cm) approximately 250 g, 20 sheets.
Quantity 1: Oil Painting Cranked Palette Knife

Other:
Plastic dishes; Kitchen paper; paper sellotape; white eraser; pencil sharpener

Fabrizio Dell’Arno was born in Sào Gaetano do Sul (Sào Paulo, Brazil) in 1977.

He graduated in “Advertising and Communication” at IMES University (SCSul) in 1999, he attended the postgraduate course in art history at the FAAP (SP) faculty. He began his teaching career in the teaching staff of the “Pueri Domus Un.Jardim” Lyceum in Santo Andre (SP) as a professor of history of art and painting. He worked as a professor of artistic drawing at the IMES-SP University, Brazil. He obtained the specialization in scenography in the “cenographic espago, J.C.Serroni”, working in the scenographic sector in theater, cinema and TV projects. In 2003 he moved to New York, where he studied painting and drawing at the SVA (School Visual Arts), returning to Brazil he attended the painting studio of Master Rubens Matuck, in Sao Paulo. In 2005 he obtained his master’s degree in Sculpture from RUFA, where he currently works as a professor of painting technology in the academic course and professor of the free course of painting and drawing.

Students and Alumni Winter-Summer Courses RUFA – 10%
Students and Alumni RUFA: 50%
University students: 5% (upon presentation of the university registration)
Very early bird by 31 December 2024 -15%; Early bird by 31 March 2025 -10%
LAST EXTENSION OF DISCOUNT TERMS:Early bird by 15 April 2025 -10%
Course package/groups/family: please contact corsibrevi@unirufa.it

If the student, after having attended the workshop, enrolls in a BA or MA programme at RUFA, a 10% reduction will be applied to the annual tuition fee for the first year. In the admission process, students will not be required to take the drawing test.

RUFA has entered into several agreements with facilities that provide housing services. For further information please contact corsibrevi@unirufa.it