AvvY Atelier is located in attractive, newly built premises of Centre For Creative Activities at Fakultní základní škola in Prague 4 – Nusle. Instruction is performed under expert guidance of art degree graduates.

Our courses are aimed on all people interested in fine art work, no matter whether they are beginners or advanced, young or old. Our lecturers try to approach each of the students individuallyand help them realize their unique talents and qualities, enabling them to pursue the art discipline professionally. Aside from traditional semester classes AvvY also offers weekend and summer courses, suitable both for Czechs and foreigners. All our courses can be taught in Czech, English and German.

Our courses can be split into two basic approaches:

Standard classes focus on basic fine art themes and techniques, evolving creativity and helping the students to successfully pass the talent examinations at colleges and art schools.

Open art workshops encompass various unconventional methods that are employed in today’s contemporary art, taking the form of courses, workshops and lectures given by AvvY teachers and other Czech and foreign artists.

The founder and the lector of AvvY is the academic sculptor Jiri Janda (see more www.avvyatelier.cz/jjanda)

FUNDAMENTALS OF DRAWING / PAINTING

- still life, composition, space, and perspective in standard drawing techniques.
Covers all basic drawing and painting techniques and themes (charcoal, sanguine crayon, pen-and-ink, glazing, watercolor, tempera, acrylic paints, oil colors, etc.). The course is intended both for beginners and advanced.

NUDE FIGURE DRAWING / PAINTING

- drawing or painting a live model
Portraying a true-to-scale or a live-sized work based on a live model, using basic drawing and painting techniques. Even beginners may apply.

PORTRAIT

- portraits based on artworks and live models.
This course will progress from barebone studies into different ways and forms of presenting the artistic touch in the portrait discipline.

LANDSCAPE PAINTING

- painting the landscape using classical techniques (sketching, watercolor, tempera, acrylic paints)
These aspects will be covered step by step: motive, composition, perspective, light and shadow, human figure as a part of a landscape, abstracted landscape.

WATERCOLOR

- still life, scenery, composition, and instilling feeling using watercolors.
Watercolor – a blend of senses, feelings, vision and imagination. Lessons focus on the technique of damp paper, demonstrating the possible approaches to this technique and practicing them. Lectures will be held mostly in open air.

OIL PAINTING

- still life, scenery, composition, and perspective using oil colors
Covers the classical method and technique „a la prima“, stretching and preparation of the canvas, primer, under-painting, glazing composition and enamels. Course is laid out into several difficulty levels according to the advancement of the students and also contains comparing techniques, methods and materials (gouache, watercolor, copying the ancient masters, etc.).

BASIC GRAPHIC TECHNIQUES

- fundamentals of relief printing and gravure printing (dry-point, linocut)
This course is intended both for beginners and intermediate students.

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CERAMICS