Traditions Online Art School and e-Magazine Available for a Complete Art Education

Start with Traditions Art School Online – for the beginner and intermediate artist. Continue Your Education with Art Apprentice Online Art School, www.artapprenticeonline.com, providing advanced artistic study.

Traditions Art Apprentice Online e-Magazine is a quarterly magazine dedicated to DecoArt Traditions Paint System.

Traditions Art School

Traditions Art School

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Contact Sue Pruett for more information:
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First-ever comprehensive online art school

The innovative new paint technology evidenced in the DecoArt® Traditions™ line can only be matched by the most innovative educational site ever.  The Traditions™ Art School provides 100 core lessons covering classical art to contemporary decorative art and historic decorative art. Individual studies cover numerous genres and are taught by over 70 of the industry’s top artists.

If you’ve dreamed of beginning or continuing an education in fine art, DecoArt Traditions Online Art School will get you closer to realizing that dream. The new online format means anyone in the world with a computer and Internet access can attend our painting school and learn from the industry’s top professionals.  Those professionals will be available to our online students through instruction and interactive chat rooms similar to online universities such as University of Phoenix™ and Capella University.™ Online education is one of the fastest growing industries in the world, and our online art school will break new ground.

HOW IT WORKS:
Embrace a path of art study that allows you to control your artistic future. The traditions art school is setup in a THREE TIER system.

Tier One: Teach new artist an innovative approach to understanding color pigments and mediums. Students will learn strategies for choosing , mixing, and managing color and medium.

Tier Two (Core): This core is built on the primary concepts of all art theory and techniques. Students explore essential topics that prepare them for a future where they can embrace either Classical or Decorative path of study. After completing the core studies, students choose to follow either Classical, Decorative, or Watercolor track.

Tier Three: Students enter a world of creative choices. Students are exposed to a wide range of popular styles and subjects. Students directs their path of study at their own pace. Students will select specialized workshops designed by teachers across the field of art to study their personal styles and methods and how to use their individual techniques.

Ompir Style Fruit Basket

Ompir Style Fruit Basket

Ompir Style Fruit Basket
©2004 Gabriele Hunter (more…)

Keeping Your Palette Fresh

by Neadeen Masters, CDA

Keeping acrylics fresh once they are placed on the palette is key to any successful painting style. DecoArt Traditions acrylics are no exception. Every acrylic artist has his or her favorite method for doing this. (more…)

“Brush Mix”

by Neadeen Masters, CDA

This is a simple technique and one of my favorite methods for mixing and blending color: one uses the bristles of the brush to pick up two colors at the same time and blend them together on your blending palette. Think of it as mixing tiny patches of color rather than mixing one large puddle of paint with the palette knife. (more…)

Green Heron

Green Heron

Green Heron

©2004/2005 Neadeen Masters, CDA

This little Green Heron can be found in many aquatic habitats; however he prefers small water bodies. Green Herons are generally solitary, nesting as isolated pairs or in small groups, never in the large breeding colonies of other herons and egrets. They eat small fish and also crustaceans, frogs, tadpoles, insects, and small rodents. I took a photo of this little fellow while visiting the Bahamas one winter. This little Green Heron is painted in a more realistic style. (more…)