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  2a. Process (Oil)
  2b. Process (Acrylic)
  2c. Process (Watercolor)
  3. Drawing
  4. Form
  5. Observation
  6. Notan
  7. Color
  8. Design & Composition
  9. Brushwork
  10. Visual Music & Poetry
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What is included in the
Full Academy Course?

The Full Academy Course gives you a complete three year program of self-study painting lessons for beginners, intermediate and advanced painters. The 55 painting courses cover all the basic foundation and advanced topics you need to know about, whether your interest lies in oil painting techniques, watercolor painting, acrylic painting, or pastel painting.

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

55 Self-Study Painting Courses

Information Map® layout

All 9 Visual Music & Poetry™ Building Blocks

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 and advanced topics you need to know about whether your interest is in oil painting, acrylic painting, watercolor painting or pastels.

The courses include:

	advanced topics in painting that are not talked about in commercial "how to" art books

	information from the Barry'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 that Barry has learned during his years of study with master artists

935 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®.

250 Assignments

Each painting course typically contains about four to ten learning assignments to help you fully master the skills described in the lecture notes. 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.

"Five years ago, I completed two Beginner’s Art Courses at a Community College, which proved to be very beneficial. However, over the next four years, I discovered that it was very difficult to find additional courses or material that would develop and build on those basic fundamentals that I had initially learned. Three months ago, I discovered the Virtual Art Academy. I am very grateful to Mr. Raybould for his diligence, for sharing his knowledge and for providing a very complete program and reference. I believe my progress, since purchasing the program, has helped me to improve more in the last three months, than the past four years! I have much greater confidence and I feel assured that my art skills will continue to progress and expand, because I now have a guide to get me there! I believe that the Virtual Art Academy’s complete program is a very worthwhile investment. ".........
Lori, Canada, July 14, 2009

"This course is truly well run, professionally handled -- and I can only echo the great comments of other students: I am glad, I enrolled in this course!! I got so much out of it already -- lots of explanations, areas to study up on, other artists to learn from. AND I am not at the end of the course, yet. I am getting more and more confident and bold enough to follow my dream -- to become a proficient and sensitive artist. ".........
Erika, USA, July 10, 2009

The Full Academy Course gives you all 9 Visual Music & Poetry™ 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

"Wow. Even better than what I expected. So well sequenced, organized & comprehensive.The content is all that I cannot find at workshops, art books & fine art students graduate without the great foundation that this course provides. Am so glad I bought the complete course.."
Dawn, Australia, August, 2009

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 three-years of self-study material instead of just one week's worth!

A three-year course of study (if you could find one at this level of quality) would cost around $60,000 at a regular Art Academy. Regular price for all 11 Building Blocks and one year's membership is $1018, buy the complete program and pay only $399.95.

US$399.95 Full Course

US$499.95 Full Course plus Video Lectures

THIS MONTH SPECIAL

Buy our Full Course for $499.95 and get Barry's Workshop Week 1 and Workshop Week 2 Video Lecture Series (a $180 value) and save $80.
Limited time offer.

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Our 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.

"I love the layout and ease of accessing the information so that it is easy to go back and find anything. The information seems very comprehensive and logically presented and having similar things repeated in various units as they apply (which saves a lot of cross-referencing) gives continuity, and of course the repetition is good for learning. I have a number of books which provide varying information, some very helpful, but your course puts it all in one place, explains it so that I can understand why something works or not, and makes it easy to find."
Olwen, Australia, September, 2009

"I bought the complete course and this is the most detailed, complete, easy to understand, comprehensive program out there. He gives you examples on what to do and not do, he actually shows you paintings, notans on the right way and wrong way to do it. For anyone serious about painting who is on a limited budget, This is worth 10 times and more the amount sold for. I wish I had found this sooner."
Extremely grateful student, May, 2009