Artistic drawing and painting

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TAUGHT IN ENGLISH / 1 WEEK / 2-6 SEPTEMBER 2024 / ON CAMPUS

 

Preparatory course in Artistic drawing and Painting for the study of the fine arts.
Course exclusively reserved for home/international students enrolled in the last year of high school.

 
This course aims to introduce students to the study of painting and artistic drawing, through the use of different techniques, styles and materials. Participants do not necessarily have to have any specific artistic training. The course includes theoretical and practical lectures/workshops.

Course objective:
To help students to get in contact with the artistic atmosphere within an academy of fine arts; to learn gesture drawing and painting techniques. During the course it will be presented the methodology of image decomposition and its analysis, in order to gain and develop the processes of simplification in composition and of formal abstraction.

Course type: group – in-person
Participants: Min. 8, Max. 20 | The program is open to high school students enrolled in their final year of schooling
Attendance: From Monday to Friday, from 9 am to 4 pm (30h)
Duration: 2 – 6 September 2024 – 5 days
Cost: 750€ / very early bird by 31 January 2024 -15%; early bird by 31 March 2024 -10%
Requirements/supporting materials: No entry requirements. List of material in Course programme.
Language: English | Participants are required to be fluent in English.
Lecturer: Fabrizio Dell’Arno
Location: RUFA – Via degli Ausoni7, 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, which corresponds to 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.

Personal website

Students Intensive Courses RUFA 2023-24: 10%
Very early bird by 31 January 2024 -15%; Early bird by 31 March 2024 -10%
Course package/groups/family: please contact corsibrevi@unirufa.it

If the student, after having attended the workshop, enrolls in a BA program 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

 

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