INTEC Recreational Art Professional Certificate

Course details

In this course you will learn to paint and draw various subjects using different mediums.

Entrance Requirement

Grade 10 (Std. 8) or equivalent, or relevant work experience.

Course Content

• Watercolour Painting: Water-based Media, Materials, Paint Quality, Colours, Brushes
• Oil Painting Technical Freedom and Restriction in Oil Painting, Materials, Alkyd Resin Paints, Oils and Varnishes, Supports and Grounds, Setting out the Palette, Basic Colour Mixing, Landscape Painting, Still Life, The use of the Painting Knife
• Subject Matter Depth and Distance, Choice of Subject, Working Sequence, Media and Materials, Photographs, Sketches, Composing a Landscape. Interpretation and Limitation, Media, Choosing and Arranging a Still Life, Painting a Still Life, The Construction of Flowers as Forms, Flowers in Natural Settings.
• Portrait and Figure Drawing Subject, Method, Light and Shadow, Types of Portraits, The Basic Components of a Portrait, Planes.
• Cartooning Human form, Gags, Comic Strips, Caricature, Animated Cartoons, Selling Cartoons. Start your own Small Business
• Entrepreneurship
• Needs analysis (market research)
• Business operations
• Management systems
• Personal resources
• Nature of marketing