Art Lessons: The Brandywine School of Art 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 less than $14 dollars per lesson for the 15 lesson course- The first three 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. The Brandywine School of Art Celebrating 17 years on the World Wide Web! 1996-2013 |
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"Serious Instruction for Serious Artists" Want to learn how to draw in three dimensions and create realistic portraits and illustrations all your own? Disappointed with the lack of realistic art training in your major accredited university's or college art classes? "Foundations for Art" teaches you how! |
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...
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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Examples of Johnson's Colored Pencil portraiture ( Miss Lillian) and illustration ( Age of Chivalry, Pandora's Box) Learn all of his shading and blending techniques and his secrets of mixing media.... See our syllabus and information on the program by scrolling down...
"Serious Instruction for Serious Artists" Personal Beginning Through Intermediate College Level Instruction: ANYONE 17 or older may take the 15 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 Three Dimensional looking illustrations using a variety of media. By popular demand, I have also added remedial lessons, 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 1-15: 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. All inquiries are answered personally but please visit frequently asked questions before writing... Kindness, clarity & encouragement are the trademarks of David's mentoring style. He PERSONALLY sits down to answer his student's letters once a week. Frequently asked Questions Brandywine School Student Art Gallery
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Topics covered in Units 1-15: 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. Most of our students only want to learn portraiture, and that's O.K. We don't force anyone to do anything. Foundations For Art is about YOUR art and YOUR artistic vision...
Here's the 15 Lesson Syllabus:
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 as applied to headshot portraiture! Lesson Two point Five: New! Adding Simple Backgrounds to your drawings of people! Lesson Three: Newly Expanded! Drawing in three dimensions! Perspective Drawing, 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 Be sure and visit our online portrait gallery with free drawing tips at www.howarddavidjohnson.com/pencil.htm
"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." ***** 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. ***** |
Admission Free Non-Profit Virtual Art Galleries The Realistic Paintings and Pictures of American Artist & Illustrator Howard David Johnson. |
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The Realistic Art Galleries of Contemporary American Illustrator Howard David Johnson
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| Fairy Paintings | Thumbelina full size | Pencil Portraits I | Colored Pencils II | Fairy Wallpapers | Pre-Raphaelite Art |
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Miss Lillian - Spectra-color pencils on Bristol board 1994. ( shown actual size )
Frequently asked Questions Brandywine School Student Art Gallery
Who is Artist and Photographer Howard David Johnson?
Kindness, clarity & encouragement are the trademarks of David's mentoring style.
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Howard David Johnson is a visual artist with a background in the natural sciences and history. After a lifetime of drawing and painting, David works in a wide variety of mixed media ranging from oil on canvas to digital media. 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. David's realistic illustrations have made appearances 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, the
University of Cambridge in England, Paramount Studios, Universal Studios, PBS TV,
The History Channel, Enslow
Educational Publishers, Adobe Photoshop, Auto FX, Doubleday, the
History Book of the Month Club, & J Walter Thompson Advertising, just to name a
few.
In David's
invitation to the Florence Biennale Contemporary Art Exhibition, (a
partner in the United Nations' Dialog among Nations), UN Secretary
General Kofi Anon wrote: "Artists have a special role to play in
the global struggle for peace. At their best, artists speak not
only to people; they speak for them. Art is a weapon against
ignorance and hatred and an agent of public awareness... Art
opens new doors for learning, understanding, and peace among
nations." |
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portrait of the instructor. This 2009 photo was taken by his son Erich. |
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Frequently asked Questions Essays on Art and Technology by the Teacher
"Moon goddess Diana MMVIII" - media: Prismacolors with Ebony pencil lowlights on Windsor & Newton Cotman 140 lb. Water Color Paper . Background heightened with pastels.)
INDIVIDUAL LOW BANDWIDTH ESSAYS BY THE TEACHER: I } Realistic Art Media and Attitudes: The more things change, the more they stay the same II } Realistic Art Tradition and Technology: The Rebirth of Realistic art in the 21st century III } History and Myth: How do we sort out History and Mythology? IV } Science and Religion: Has Science become a Religion? VI } Copyright Law and the Visual Arts in the Computer Age VII } On Art and Technology; When seeing is NOT believing NEW! VIII } Complete low Bandwidth Essays collected on one page ON SALE NOW from BRANDYWINE PRESS!
These beautifully printed 11" x 8.5" 64 page hardcover and trade paperback versions feature 48 full page interior plates in full color starting at only $14.99 USD. Less than the price of a single poster! Featuring Realistic Mythological and Fairy Art created in a style inspired by Classic Illustrators by American Artist & Photographer Howard David Johnson. And new for 2012 - our GIANT sized 48 x 35 cm 12 month Angel Art Calendar!
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