Course options for intermediate and advanced painters

Choose the Full Course or buy the course Building Blocks individually.

 

Full Course

Course Building Blocks

 

OR
  Buy the Full Course now at a substantial discount. This includes all the course Building Blocks. Buy one Building Block every one to two months depending on your interest until you have the Full course.
 
 
 
56 Course units
250 Assignments
Six months Full Membership
  • Online Campus
  • Free Monthly Updates
  • Member Newsletter
3-6 Course units per building block
4-6 Assignments per course unit
  Tip: Sign up for the Free Membership option and we will send you a coupon for a discount on one Building Block each month.

Full Membership optional
 
 

Full Course

The Full Academy Course gives you a complete program of self-study art lessons for beginners, intermediate and advanced artists. The 56 course units cover all the basic foundation and advanced topics to build your skills in oil painting, acrylic painting, watercolor painting and pastels.

The Full Academy Course includes all of the following:

56 Self-Study Painting Courses
 

Each course is in Adobe Reader PDF format (what is PDF?) so you can download and read them on your computer, or you can print them out on your home printer to use in your studio. You can put the printouts into a binder and if you get paint on a page, don't worry, unlike a book you can easily print out a clean copy!

The Full Course units include:

  • a step-by-step series of lessons and assignments to gradually build your skills in painting, so you learn better and do not get frustrated by a lack of progress, and advanced topics that are not talked about in commercial "how to" art books
  • all the important and useful information gathered over the years from the author's personal library of over a hundred art books including many out-of-print and impossible to find books by the old masters
  • all the tips and tricks the author has learned during his years of study with master artists
     
 

Each art course unit contains about 15 - 20 pages of information, and each lesson guides you through a specific topic, in a special easy-to-read proprietary format called Information Maps®.

250 Assignments
 

Each art course unit contains four to ten learning assignments to help you practice and assimilate the information. If you follow them as directed you will soon notice a change in your art work.

Online Campus
 

Access to the Online Campus for six months, where you can upload your assignments and discuss your work with other students to comment, as well as display your art work for critique by other students. Working with other students can help get you motivated, and you will learn a lot from each other's efforts.

Free Monthly Course Updates

 

All updates to our course materials for a period of six months.

 

Which course Building Blocks are included in the Full Course?

The Full Academy Course gives you all 9 course Building Blocks - a lifetime's worth of painting knowledge and techniques you won't find anywhere else. Click on the following links to learn about each building block:

  Process
  Drawing
  Form
  Observation
  Notan
  Color
  Composition
  Brushwork
  Visual Music & Poetry

What does it cost?

The Full Course is less than the cost of just a one week workshop with a professional artist that would cost you around US$2000 if you include the cost of tuition, travel and lodgings. Instead you get four years of self-study material instead of just one week's worth!

Many of my students have told me that this is the most thorough information they have found anywhere on the internet (read the emails that students have sent me over the past few years) so I will happily give you a 30-day Money Back Guarantee. Click the button below to purchase the Full Course.

The full price for the Full Course is USD$950, but for a limited time you can purchase it for only USD$499.95 a $450 saving.

If you would like to see what the materials look like, and get an idea of how much information is included in our course units, try our Membership program.

 

Full Course 
Normally $950
Limited time offer:
US$499.95 (approx. Euro €410, GBP £338)

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You will be redirected to our credit card payment site 2checkout.com (2CO) and asked for your billing details. You will see the cost in your own currency for your convenience.

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After you have filled out your details and the payment has processed, you will see our Registration page. Just complete the details, then check your email for a confirmation message.

Download your art course units

Once you have confirmed your registration we will email you the instructions for downloading the Full Course. Before you download your art course, make sure you have the latest version of Adobe Reader installed on your computer (to read the PDF files).

What students say about the Full course

"Virtual Academy is to my opinion the most exhaustive, efficient and fastest way to learn how to paint I have found on the web thus far.  
Barry has developed a well-designed series of courses on the web about fundamental principles in painting, and how to apply these principles.  
The well-structured design courses is giving me the discipline I am looking for in my everyday practice in the studio.  
I have been fortunate to benefit directly from Barry’s teaching during his workshop in Tuscany. He does share generously his knowledge developed through his personal trials and errors. His approach is unique in terms of analytic understanding; as an intuitive in my way of painting I have found Barry's approach extremely helpful and his workshop invaluable.  
I do highly recommend Barry's virtual academy course as the fastest way to learn the principles of painting, and how to paint well." .........Adrienne, Sept, 2011

"I am the proud owner/student/artist of your virtual art academy course. I feel that it is the best--very best--investment the I have made for my growth as an artist. I do think that it is so well planned. I have many "how to" art books, but I am also a credentialed teacher, and I know when a teaching tool is well done. I am just so grateful that I found and purchased the course." .........Karlene, USA, November, 2008

"This is such a thorough course - it is like having my own university at home - unfortunately when I went through my BFA program I had very few instructors that would share (or knew what to share) with us. That was more than 30 years ago... Since then I have attended many workshops which were far more informative and were great as a means of working faster and fresher. Your system is really the best way for me. The information is given in an understandable manner." .........Jane, February 10, 2007

"Congratulations on these courses, they are genuinely very good ... especially compared to other Art Instruction I have found over the years across the world. I have found most Art Courses to have a great deal of filler and short of real constructive advice. These are very useful to actually developing your skills." .........Karl. August 16, 2006

"I can't tell you how impressed I am. I have taken about 20-25 workshops from some of the best but I feel like this program will fill in many of the gaps that I have been missing. I am so thankful to find this." .........Ellen, January 2, 2007

"Thanks. This course is invaluable, and a lifetime's worth of study." .........Fran C.,San Diego, United States

 

 

 

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