Each of the following course-subjects from basic to advanced has a total duration of 30 hours professional training, with flexible schedules, and involves evaluations as prerequisites for programme completion. Upon successfully completing 20 courses, which encompasses the Fundamental courses in Fine Arts and specific courses in Painting, as well as submitting an Art Portfolio, students will qualify obtaining the Lotus Training Diploma that is quality assured by the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) of Dubai.-all courses are approved by the KHDA.
This course is focused on teaching you how to draw and paint on iPadPro with digital pencil with the powerful programme of “ProCreate”.
Students will learn handling all techniques through digital approach practically and explore various skills and styles such as brush customization, layering, photo manipulation and creating surface textures, applying tonal variations, and much more.
This course at Lotus has been customized in different levels for beginners as well as for artists who want to transition their skills to a digital canvas.
Our still life classical painting classes in Dubai will introduce students to the paintings, artists and techniques that have created time honored tradition within classical painting, including Leonardo Da Vinci, Caravaggio and Degas, etc. Students will develop skills in rendering accurate value relationships, “true to life form”, color, proportion, control and texture. This course places emphasis on utilization of value, hue and intensity to convey a sense of light and form . Students will develop critical thinking when engaging in problems and issues in still life painting.
This course will experiment with each student’s own techniques and language by combining paint and the formal elements of design, including line, shape, form and color. Through various projects and lectures regulated by our painting classes, students will develop a non-objective approach to the elements of design. By this course, students will be able to develop their creative painting skills by creating a piece of art that reflect what they think, feel and imagine.
Our cubism painting classes in Dubai will focus on the study of historical development of Cubism that revolutionized European art during the 20th century. The main innovators of cubism, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque will be studied. Students will develop the cubist techniques and methods of depicting objects from various viewpoints through angular, random pieces. Through various projects and lectures, students will develop their own style and interpretation of this type of painting method.
This course is designed for advanced students. And help them to understand the nature of creativity through traditional and unconventional methods of drawing and painting from a life model as well as from imagination. In this course Emphasis on development of individual style-form concepts, materials and techniques of mixed media.
This course is designed for advanced students with a basic knowledge of Adobe Photoshop or any other imaging software. Student will discovers the possibilities of creating original images through a combination Adobe Photoshop, with painting. Students modify work their handmade work (photographs) by scanning, adjusting, and preparing for printouts on canvas or other supports. The resulting digital prints are then painted manually until the preferred effects are achieved. Student is using their own painting technique in conjunction with digital technique and mixing traditional and contemporary media.
In this course students will learn of handling acrylic or oil paints and brushes and explore a variety of techniques (glazing, layering, impasto, alla prima, and others in intermediate and advanced level) through the life model. The purpose of the course is to cover the fundamentals of composition, tone, and blending in achromatic colors.
In this course students will learn oil or acrylic painting that emphasizes color mixing, composition and explore a variety of painting techniques (glazing, layering, impasto, alla prima, and others in intermediate and advanced level). The purpose of the course is to encourage understanding to color interaction, advance technical and compositional skills, and provide a basis for creative growth and expression.
This course introduces students from basic to advanced level of classical and contemporary landscape painting with emphasis on the understanding of its formal language and the fundamentals of artistic expression. Painting from landscape, reproduction of old master and photos will be explored. Color theory, linear perspective, atmospheric perspective, compositional structure, figure/ground relationships and visual perception will all be emphasized extensively. Student will study and research major painting styles and movements in historical context.
Portrait painting class in Dubai will introduce students from basic to advanced level of classical and contemporary portrait painting. The course consists of demonstrations with painting exercises from reproduction of old masters, live models and photo. Concepts of anatomy, physiognomy, space, light, color, composition, scale and specific elements of portrait painting such as form, shadow, environment, and perspective will be lectured.
Gelli printing is a mono printing technique without press. Students will learn create colorful and unique backgrounds and art works on paper for other mixed media projects in basic, intermediate and advanced levels. They will understand which types of paints and papers work best with mono printing and using repurposed items to create prints. They will learn how to create handmade stencils, stamps, and masks to create prints and also they will able to create beautiful abstract collage art works by using the rules of compositions.
This is an introductory course that covers basic painting techniques of oil paints with an emphasis on reproduction of classic or contemporary artist. Topics include the use of composition, color, texture, form and value through still life or landscape.
This is an introductory course that covers basic painting techniques of acrylic paints with an emphasis on reproduction of classic or contemporary artist. Topics include the use of composition, color, texture, form and value through still life or landscape.
This is an introductory course that covers basic abstract techniques with an emphasis on texture and materials. Topics include the use of composition, color, texture, form and value through abstract reference.
These painting courses have a single title and a duration of 3-15 hrs worth of training. For the regular painting courses in Dubai there will be no examination and evaluation, while examination and evaluation will be needed for our expertise painting courses.
This workshop has been programmes like an intensive short-course and will experiment with techniques and language by combining paint and the formal elements of design, including lines, shapes, forms and colors. Through this programme, students will be able to find and understand how to develop their creative painting skills by creating a piece of artwork that reflects what they think, how to feel and use their imagination.
A collage art work is a fascinating composition of different materials with various colours that can be set to express idea and feeling, to convey a message or even for decoration purposes. It is a design created by adhering different materials to a surface and its result can be a three dimensional art work also. This process was widely used by cubist artists and is a popular technique in the contemporary art.
This workshop has been programmes like an intensive short-course and will experiment with techniques and language by combining paint and the formal elements of design, including lines, shapes, forms and colors. Through this programme, students will be able to find and understand how to develop their creative painting skills by creating a piece of artwork that reflects what they think, how to feel and use the imagination.
This technique is an exciting technique that produces a textural effect not unlike that of a woodcut or lino prints.
This workshop has been programmes to make fascinating motifs and infinity repeatable patterns by combining, overlapping and repeating Islamic Geometric shapes. Students will learn how to use the Islamic patterns in an abstract and textural way through layers of colors and textures to build up richly layered effects of creative artwork with an own-style.
This technique is an exciting technique that playing with violations in shape and forms to create the Cubism composition likes Picasso. This workshop will be useful for both those who are beginners or/and those artists who wants to develop their techniques.
This workshop is designed to practically give experience to participant, to understand how to bring harmony in the artworks by using different layer of wet and dry materials such as Acrylic, Oil Pastel, Soft Pastel, with some technique of colouring in golden proportion composition.