Art Lessons: The Brandywine School of the Illustrative Arts offers AFFORDABLE personalized college level beginning, intermediate, advanced & master level art instruction in Drawing, Painting, Photography, & Digital Illustration by Internationally acclaimed Illustrator & Photographer Howard David Johnson and his staff. We begin with our prerequisite course: 'Foundations For Art' at $199.00 U. S. D. that's only $14 dollars per lesson for the 14 lesson course- The first two lessons are delivered online the same day we receive payment and then the whole course is mailed on CD-Rom Disk via U.S.P.S. Priority (2-3 day) mail or 1st class international air mail. On the World Wide Web since 1996! |
Disappointed with the lack of realistic art training in your major accredited university's or college art classes?
Want to learn how to draw in three dimensions and create complex realistic illustrations and realistic portraits of your own?
The Newly Revised & Expanded "Foundations for Art" teaches you how!
"Serious Instruction for Serious Artists"
Learn on YOUR own Schedule and at YOUR own pace! With today's digital cameras and scanners and speedy e-mail, distance learning is better than ever before! Expensive mailings of art and lengthy waits for feedback are things of the past!
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OFFERING LOW COST HIGH QUALITY COLLEGE LEVEL INSTRUCTION: This course offers easy to understand & profusely illustrated personalized art instruction for under two hundred dollars you can't get for $50,000. - $120,000 in the abstract expressionist dominated art programs at our major accredited Universities! Today many college textbooks alone cost more...
Examples of Johnson's portraiture ( Miss Lillian) and illustration ( Pandora's Box) ... See our syllabus and two Colored Pencil Drawings full size and examples of other media such as oil paintings acrylic paintings and digital mixed media by scrolling down... Be sure and visit our online portrait gallery with free drawing tips at www.howarddavidjohnson.com/pencil.htm
"Serious Instruction for Serious Artists" Personal Beginning Through Intermediate College Level Instruction: ANYONE 17 or older may take the 14 lesson "Foundations for Art" by simply mailing a payment for $199. USD to the address above with your regular and e-mail addresses to send the restricted web addresses, passwords and your CD-Rom master disk to. As there are a couple of mild "R" rated images in the life drawing and anatomy sections parental permission is required if you are under the age of 17. Please print clearly! "Foundations for Art" is on a college level and has now been expanded to include both the beginning and intermediate levels It teaches you everything you need to know to compose and create complex realistic 3D illustrations using a variety of media, I added remedial lessons in 2006, we start with the value scale, (black to grey to white) blending techniques, basic shading techniques, drawing shapes like cones and boxes and shading those. You CANNOT get more basic than that. We move on at your own pace to more complex work- a portrait. Advanced students fly through the early parts, others take weeks, months or even years. The course is self-paced with NO time limit. See our syllabus; "Topics covered in Units 1-14: Foundations for Art" below... Personal Master Level Instruction: Advanced Artists who complete the prerequisite Foundations for Art may apply for admission to the highest levels of instruction, patterned after the highly personal and specialized programs in college graduate schools. After completing Foundations for Art, students may submit 4 pieces of finished art and a 3 page essay on their artistic vision & personal goals for consideration. The Master Level Instruction Program is $799. USD. Accepted applicants design their own program working with Howard David Johnson. These students may choose from drawing, painting, photography, art marketing, digital media or custom combinations. These classes are patterned after the creative freedom and respect of college graduate level study programs. (Compare these low prices with other distance learning art programs running in the thousands of dollars.) Art professionals: add this to your resume under workshops and supplemental training.
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Kindness, clarity & encouragement are the trademarks of HDJ's mentoring style. He PERSONALLY sits down to answer his student's letters once a week. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Topics covered in Units 1-14: Foundations for Art Learn how to do polished blending and shading techniques with pencil or paint in highly detailed renderings of full length realistic human figures set in realistic three dimensional multi point perspective backgrounds with consistent light sources. Foundations for Art contains simple in- depth straight forward instruction making complicated matters simple and is profusely illustrated with new & huge ( see below ) unpublished step- by- step how to illustrations along with serious food for thought for the growing artist passed down from the old masters...
Johnson proudly uses mechanical aids like his photography shown here to create his realistic illustrations. If you'd like to learn to use photography as a tool rather than a crutch then "Foundations for Art" is for you!
Lesson One: Newly Expanded! Dry Painting Media; Painting with Colored Pencils, Tools, Technique, & Drawing & Shading methods explained very clearly with step by step illustrations and over the shoulder photos! Lesson Two: Basic Principles of Shading, Texture, & Form Lesson Three: Newly Expanded! Elements of Drawing from life, Drawing from pictures, Drawing from your imagination and combining these 3 kinds of drawing. Lesson Four: Introduction to artistic anatomy /the general importance of measurements and proportions in everything. Lesson five: Concepts of Contour ( Line ) and Volume Drawing. Lesson Six: Basic Concepts of shadow and light as applied to drawing. Lesson Seven: Of Color as applied to Reflection and Luminescence. Lesson Eight: Elements of Action and Story Telling in Art. Lesson nine: Newly Expanded! Elements of Composition and Design. Lesson Ten: Newly Expanded! Professional Secrets of Colored Pencil shading and blending. Lesson Eleven: All New! How To Take Excellent Source Photos I: Technical information & diagrams, & aesthetic Secrets of Professional Fine Art Portrait Photography & Lighting. Lesson Twelve: All New! How To Take Excellent Source Photos II: Secrets of figure source Photography (characters) and Lighting for illustrations. Lesson Thirteen: All New! Introduction to Wet Painting Media; Painting with Acrylic, Watercolor, Oils, & Mixed Media: Tools, Supplies, & Organization Tips! Lesson Fourteen: All New! Introduction to Professional Image Editing Programs like Adobe Photoshop! A profusely illustrated and easy to understand introduction to today's business tools for old-fashioned artists. Step by Step profusely illustrated instructions on how to scan large art in pieces and assemble them in a computer & more! PAYMENT OPTIONS: We prefer checks, money orders & traveler's cheques of all kinds. We will also gladly accept Swift international bank transfer or Western Union and they'll take your plastic but they charge fees. For those services, write us. We usually respond within 24 hours. Sorry, we do NOT accept instant or anonymous payment services of ANY kind. Many credit cards will give you a check to write against your limit and we will happily accept those. AFFORDABLE! Compare our quality content, program support and low $199.00 USD price with similar non-degree Distance learning Art Instruction Programs running in the thousands of dollars! Frequently asked Questions Brandywine School Student Art Gallery POSTER ART ART BOOKS PUBLISHING LICENSES BUY ORIGINAL ART ART INSTRUCTION Essays on Art and Technology by the Teacher Thank you for Visiting... Your business, letters, & links are always welcome. *****
"Those who are enamored of practice without science are like a pilot who goes into a ship without rudder or compass and never has any certainty where he is going. Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory, of which perspective is the guide and gateway, and without it nothing can be done well in any kind of painting." ***** Please visit frequently asked questions for more... & to see more large art by the instructor Kindness, clarity & encouragement are the trademarks of HDJ's mentoring style. To create his complex illustrative images, Johnson uses original photographs to create a photo montage in much the same manner he learned from studying the techniques of 19th century illustrator Maxfield Parrish. Continuing along similar lines of tracing, coloring and shading to finish them. "Helen of Troy"and"Aphrodite's Child" below - are examples of what I call Prismacolor 'Paintings' - and I'm sure you will agree - they certainly do not look anything like what comes to people's minds when they hear the word 'drawing' and give very oil painting like results!
There are many examples of these storytelling images in many media displayed in this online Art Gallery
Esther, a student and professional artist from India says; "I am reading through lesson 1, and am totally awed by not only your work, but the easy reading of your instruction. Your teaching style is almost as wonderful as your art (which according to me ranks at #1 position)." In addition to the straight-forward lessons, pearls of wisdom passed down from the old masters are included for meditation. Here's an example: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Shadow is the withholding of light It seems to me that the shadows are of supreme importance in perspective, seeing that without them opaque and solid bodies will be indistinct, both as to what lies within their boundaries and also as to their boundaries themselves, unless these are seen against a background differing in color to that of the substance: and consequently in the first proposition I treat of shadow, and say in this connection that every opaque body is surrounded and has its surface clothed with shadow and lights. Moreover these shadows are in themselves of varying degrees of darkness because they are caused by the absence of a variable quantity of luminous rays: and these I call primary shadows, because they are the first shadows and so form a covering to the bodies to which they attach themselves. From these primary shadows there issue certain dark rays which are diffused throughout the air and vary in intensity according to the varieties of the primary shadows from which they are derived; and consequently I call these shadows derived shadows, because they have their origin in other shadow. Moreover these derived shadows in striking upon anything create as many different effects as are the different places where they strike. And since where the derived shadow strikes, it is always surrounded by the striking of the luminous rays, it leaps back with these in a reflex stream towards its source and meets the primary shadow, and mingles with and becomes changed into it, altering thereby somewhat of its nature. ***** |
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Miss Lillian - Spectra-color pencils on Bristol board 1994. ( shown actual size )
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A portrait of the teacher in his painting studio. Photo by his son Erich. |
Howard David Johnson is a contemporary visual artist and photographer with a background in the natural sciences and history. He works in a wide variety of media ranging from traditional oils, pastels and others to cutting edge digital media. After a lifetime of drawing and painting, David's Traditional Realistic Art was exhibited in the British Museum in London in 1996, ( 3 years before he got his first computer ) as well as numerous American ones since, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His illustrations have appeared in every major bookstore and game shop chain in America as well as magazines and educational texts around the world. Some of his more prestigious clients have included the National Geographic Society, the University of Texas at Austin and San Antonio, the University of Cambridge in England, Universal Studios, Paramount Studios, PBS TV, the History Book of the Month Club, Adobe Photoshop Auto FX, and J Walter Thompson Advertising. Licenses to print his existing work are available at surprisingly affordable prices. |
| Oil Paintings, Colored pencils, Pastels, Mixed media, and Digital art can also be commissioned for select projects - Working in a variety of traditional and cutting edge digital media he offers his customers a variety of options and more than thirty years of experience. As a commercial illustrator David has not only used the computer but has been involved in the development and marketing of imaging software. | |
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"Moon goddess Diana MMVIII" - media: Prismacolors with Ebony pencil lowlights on Windsor & Newton Cotman 140 lb. Water Color Paper . Background heightened with pastels.)
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