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Young Artists Course


Written & Illustrated by course artist Melanie Phillips H.N.D

Course overview
This course is suitable for age 7 years and up. It instructs the young student in the basic understanding of how to draw in an interesting and captivating way. The young student will have hands on experience throughout the entire course, with choices of exercises at the end of each section to complete and send to the college. This course will give the young student an excellent grounding and will guide them gently in the correct way to learn to draw. The course is fully illustrated with colour step-by-step guides and exercises.

Support

All our courses are written to be complete in themselves. However we realise that students may appreciate being able to get clarification about various things as they work through their programme as well wanting reassurance that they are putting techniques into practice effectively. The Administration Centre is available seven days a week and the Course Artist provides the technical support to deal with relevant queries.

Most courses have their own dedicated Course Artist. The Course Artist keeps the course up to date and relevant to today's students. They are available to the individual student for advice and encouragement. Each course has regular exercises and assignments that are constructed in such a way as to give the student the opportunity to practice the techniques learnt on the course and to test themselves as they go along. The student is encouraged to submit the assignment work to the college for the Course Artist to critique. The student's work will be returned together with the Course Artist's personal critique. On many courses the assignment work may be suitable for inclusion in a student's Portfolio of Work that could be very useful later. The college will use the assignments submitted as the basis for any award of a Diploma or Certificate.

The great news is that you don't need any previous experience to take this course. The duration of this course is approximately 6 months.

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YA1 Young Artists (1) Course (7years up)
This is an overview of what is covered in the course and is not a complete list
Media:
Equipment used
Subject:
Areas covered
Techniques:
Skills developed
Suitable for:
Pencil
Everyday objects
Light and Shade
Shadows
3D Shapes
Observation
Shading
Tonal Strips
Perspective
 7 Years up
Samples pages from this course - click to englarge

Young Artists Course 1 Course Images
Below are some sample images from the course itself.

Young Artists 1 Student Gallery
Below are some pieces of artwork from the Students on the Young Artists Course. The first course is very important for the young student as it gives them an excellent grounding in drawing and observation. As you can see from the examples below, each student now understands fully how to create a variety of tone in their work, identify the light areas in the object and create a three dimensional picture.

Melanie Phillips H.N.D


Melanie Phillips is a professional animal and wildlife artist. She was excepted for one of the few places available on the Natural History Illustration course at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design and trained under a variety of prestigious artists. She passed with distinctions and now runs her own successful business as an animal portrait artists along with her partner Nick Beall whom she met at art college, and is also a portrait artist.

Melanie joined the team of London art college course artists about 10 years ago and has written and tutored a variety of courses including the young artists courses and the coloured pencil course. Due to the success of her own business and her artwork, she now concentrates on the Pet Portrait course and the Young Artist courses she has written and illustrated, to which she devotes a lot of time guiding her students in the right direction.

The majority of her portrait commissions come form America and she enjoys creating portraits in a variety of mediums. She uses Graphite Pencil, Coloured Pencil, Pastel and Acrylic however she is best known for her Oil paintings on canvas.

Her website is - www.pet-portraitartist.com

Melanie also enjoys web designing, she designs and maintains her own website along with the London Art College and a string of others. She also runs the only pet portrait and wildlife forum on the internet today. It has over 400 members and it is growing daily.