Dear Friend,

I believe the ability to draw or paint is a important skill in today's quick pace world. It is a way of life. It is Invention, the keystone to a positive change and existence. It is the base for better perceptional skills, creativity, being a professional and fine artist.

Anyone who wants to be personally guided, professionals, students, home school kids, amateurs and first timers will find techniques in freehand, gesture basic fundamentals to advanced lessons such as chiaroscuro and sfumato. I believe teaching methods should be natural and learned in terms of your personality and style. So, orientation and intuition are used as a means to facilitate personal growth.

Free Quality Help

It is important to me that I can help you learn to draw and paint. I believe these processes are essential to living a better life. So it is my pleasure to give you free information. The most important information anyone can receive is fundamental information. A list of fundamental instruction is listed below. However, fundament help also relates to your ability to control mediums and is relative to what you already know. With that said free quality information can be found by visiting my blog http://markbornowski.blogspot.com or request to receive my weekly newsletter. If you want more comprehensive help register for lessons and I will contact you.

My Statement

 It is my experience seeing correctly is one of the most important elements to creating a drawing or painting. This may seem simple enough, but it takes training to unfold and discern the critical cues that provide insight for intelligent and intuitive decisions. Anyone can learn this skill.

However, the beginner to advanced student must also possess fundamental skills as part of their memory.  These skills are developed though continued interest not only by learning important information, but also through inspiration and personal guidance from proven methods.

My goal is to provide essential information and experiences for personal growth that goes beyond the norm. My methods are unique experiences adapted specifically to change the way you see, think and stir your creative juices so important skills are developed quickly and intuitively. In the end you are trained to be an artist.

Artistic Commitment

You will need to devote a minimum of 2 to 4 hours a week in the first four to five weeks. Lessons are broken down monthly and you learn comprehensive methods, fundamentals to advanced skills every month.

Explore fundamental to advanced levels.

• Learn to see
• Draw lines
• Draw 3-dimentional
• Simple shapes
• Perspective
• Hatching
• Shading
• Values
• Measuring
• Positioning
• People
• Figures
• Animals
• Plants and fruit
• Skill secretes
• Places and things
• Color basics
• Masters techniques
• Atelier

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GRID METHOD

HOW DOES IT WORK:

Bornowski's grid is made of intersecting vertical and horizontal lines forming a system of squares. Placing Bornowski's grid over a photograph or reproduction serves as an armature to organize the image in rational parts. Once the image is connected to this system then the artist can achieve coherency in organizing the image on a support (paper, canvas, wood panel, etc) by creating a grid with the same 1:1 ratio. Key shapes on the original image are noticeably easier to understand and measure, which overtime trains the mind to see these relationships automatically.

Grid Method

You will need a ruler, reference image or photograph, support (paper, wood, canvas) and a pencil or charcoal.

First: Draw a grid on the support. Charcoal is easier to wipe off, but graphite is more precise. To recreate the image the same size, draw the grid in one inch squares. To enlarge twice as large, draw the grid in two inch squares. To enlarge three times larger, draw the grid in three inch squares and so on. To reduce the image ½ smaller, draw 1/2 inch grid. In the end the same number of squares on the support should equal the same number of squares on the transparent grid. The larger the grid the larger the support must be.

Next: Place Bornowski's grid on top of the reference material, center and tape together.

Next: Draw the image carefully studying where the lines intersect the subject. The grid basically divides the original imagine into small squares so it is easier to see. The grid overlay orientates you to specific reference points that relates to the corresponding grid on the support. Draw the information in each square on the support as it corresponds to each square on the original image.

Next: Erase the grid on the support and leave the drawing unchanged.

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