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What is included in the
Beginner Academy Course?

The Beginner Academy Course gives you a complete one year program of self-study painting lessons for beginners. It includes 20 of the 55 painting courses from the Full Academy Course, covering all the basic foundation topics a beginner need to know about, whether your interest lies in oil painting techniques, watercolor painting, or acrylic painting, or pastel painting. You can later upgrade to the Full Academy Course at any time.

When you purchase the Beginner Academy Course you will
immediately receive access to all of the following:

20 Self-Study Painting Courses

Information Map® layout

PDF format

Each course is in PDF format (what is PDF?) that you can download and read on your computer, or you can print them out on your home printer. The painting lessons cover all the basic foundation topics you need to know about whether your interest is in oil painting, acrylic painting, watercolor painting or pastels.

The course units include:

	a step-by-step series of exercises to gradually build your foundation skills in painting, so you learn faster and do not get frustrated by a lack of progress

	all the important and useful information gathered over the years from the Barry's personal library of over a hundred art books

	all the tips and tricks Barry has learned during his years of study with master artists

490 printable pages of
painting instruction in
easy to read format.

Each painting course contains about 15 - 20 pages of concentrated information covering a specific topic in painting in a high degree of detail, in a special easy-to-read proprietary format called Information Maps®.

75 Assignments

Each video contains one assignment to help you practice and learn the knowledge in the video. The courses also each contain a further four to ten learning assignments to help you fully master the skills described in the video lectures. Using these assignments, you can customize your own training program.

Online Campus

Access to the Online Campus for one year, 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 one year.

"I have been using the beginner package for over 2 years and I love the quality of these courses, the excellent explanations and the easy to read notes. I know I am a slow learner but I love every minute I spend with the assignments. I am doing absolutely all the learning assignments and cannot wait to finish and get the upgrade for the master course. I have to thank virtual academy not only for the great material but also for the fantastic support they have provided me over the 2 years."
Graciela, August, 2007

The Beginner Academy Course gives you all the beginner course units from the 9 Visual Music & Poetry™ Building Blocks - painting knowledge and techniques you won't find anywhere else. You will get all these painting lesson course units for oil painting, acrylic painting, and watercolor painting:

		Color Unit 1 - Key Concepts
		Color Unit 2 - Palettes and Basic Pigments
		Design & Composition Unit 1 - Space Division
		Drawing Unit 1 - Gesture
		Drawing Unit 2 - Accuracy
		Drawing Unit 3 - Contour
		Drawing Unit 4 - Putting It All Together
		Notan Unit 1 - Mass Notan 1
		Notan Unit 2 - Mass Notan 2
		Observation Unit 1 - Values
		Observation Unit 2 - Color
		Process Unit 1- Alla Prima Painting Process
		Process Unit 1- Watercolor Step-by-Step
		Process Unit 2 - Planning Your Learning Program
		Process Unit 3-1 - Paints & Pigments
		Process Unit 3-2 - Painting Supports
		Process Unit 4 - Studio Equipment
		Process Unit 6-1 - Plein Air Painting Equipment
		Process Unit 6-2 - Lightweight Painting Supports
		Visual Poetry & Music Unit 1 - The Visual Poetry & Music Model

Barry's Full Academy Program 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 one year of self-study material instead of just one week's worth!

THIS MONTH SPECIAL

Buy our Beginner Course this month and get Barry's Workshop Week 1 and Workshop Week 2 Video Lecture Series as a FREE BONUS - a $180 value.
Limited time offer.

US$199.95

"I purchased two of your specials so that I could see your courses. I was so pleased that I immediately purchased the complete Beginner program. I am thrilled and have already begun reading and getting organized. I am confident that I am on my way to building my skills and knowledge. The layout, presentation of material, and the quality/quantity of information are beyond my expectations. I was hesitant to order at first, but I am so happy that I did. I have taken many courses with some very good teachers and have many books. This is a program that I am confident I will be able to "stick with"."
Jackie, June 5, 2007

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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.

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

Download

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

30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

If you are not completely satisfied with the quality of our materials you can request a refund at any time within 30 days, no questions asked.

"In my opinion, your material is the best I have found. It builds the basics, from the ground up, recognizing that there are no short cuts.....Your course puts all the right info into one package, and even more important, it gives me an organized, building block way to get these things into my head, and I have already noticed an improvement in my work."
George, USA, May, 2009

"I want to tell you that I am really glad to have bought your learning program. I already benefit from it after only a few weeks of reading and exercising, although I am an absolute beginner and have to translate everything into German."
Angelika, Germany, September, 2008

"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

"The video explanations were simple to understand, with visuals provided concurrently with the explanations. It was just like attending a live lecture in an art school!. The written notes and the assignments also helped to reinforce what I learnt from the video lectures."
Ching, USA, October, 2008

"I love the program and have printed out everything. WHEW! There's a lot of information there. I now have 3 very large binders (Beginners Course and the Drawing Course) of information and lessons to go through. I'm going through them page by page and practicing what is taught. I truly appreciate the way in which it's written. It's very easy to understand and if I do have a problem, I know where to go to get any answers. Thanks again and I look forward to learning more from your program."
Christie, USA, August, 2009