SUMMER COURSES : DRAWING AND PAINTING

The summer courses of the LABA are one-month courses held in July and September. Each course is about 40 hours of lessons (3/4 lessons per week); at the end of the course students are issued with an attendance certificate. Our Academy helps foreign students in finding the accommodation in Florence.

The course is aimed to develop abilities of observation, knowledge of various expressive techniques and attaining one's comprehension in articulating and arranging a personal figurative language.

FORM understanding the details of various shapes and forms, in order to master the idea of a form as a whole
LIGHT understanding that in order to create anything, light is always necessary
COLOR if shape distinguish, color gives life. Attaining the fundamental laws of colors and their applications
COMPOSITION the way form, light and color are combined

EXPRESSIVE TECHNIQUES

(a) Use of charcoal
(b) Use of sanguine
(c) Use of crayons and water colors
(d) Use of water colors
(e) Use of acrylic colors
(f) Use of oil colors.