Learn the #1 most important building block of all art. "The Ultimate Drawing Course - Beginner to Advanced" will show you how to create advanced art that will stand up as professional work. This course will enhance or give you skills in the world of drawing. The course is your track to obtaining drawing skills like you always knew you should have! Whether for your own projects … [Read more...]
Digital Painting Tutorials for Beginners
Digital painting is a method of creating an art object (painting) digitally and/or a technique for making digital art in the computer. 1: Colour Theory: Hue and Saturation (Scott Naismith) Lecturer and landscape artist Scott Naismith explains concepts of hue and saturation using the color wheel. Concepts behind complementary colours revealed with a … [Read more...]
The Western Tradition – A Free Course
A video instructional series on Western civilization for college and high school classrooms and adult learners; 52 half-hour video programs and coordinated books Covering the ancient world through the age of technology, this illustrated lecture by Eugen Weber presents a tapestry of political and social events woven with many strands — religion, industry, agriculture, … [Read more...]
Great Big Ideas – A Free Course
The Floating University's first course, Great Big Ideas, is composed of 12 professionally produced video lectures ranging from 40-60 minutes in length. Below is a listing of every subject covered by Great Big Ideas, presented in the order suggested by the syllabus. You can take in the material in the same progression as students at Harvard, Yale, and Bard, or skip around to … [Read more...]
Art Through Time: A Global View – Free Course
The human impulse to create art is universal. Art has been has been a way to communicate beliefs and express ideas about the human experience throughout all stages of civilization and in every region of the world. As cultural documents, works of art provide important insights into past and existing cultures, helping us to understand how others have lived and what they … [Read more...]
