Kentucky Academy of Art

Kentucky Academy of Art 859-552-6890 Teaching, training and learning is “Visual Intelligence and the Habits of Masters.?

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The current methods and theories for teaching and learning visual art are out of date and wrong or ineffective because they do not take into account how the visual mind learns. Due to this omission, these outdated ways of learning involve so much unnecessary struggle that most students eventually give up. After personally experiencing the failures of the current visual system, Willett studied this problem for over 40 years and began to question every assumption or theory about art and how we learn visually. Willett’s new method of teaching, training and learning is called “Visual Intelligence and the Habits of Masters.” It is based on how the visual mind is designed to solve visual problems. Students, who could never even draw before, have experienced a dramatic jump in their drawing skill level during the very first lesson. This is done by elevating the brain’s visual center to the conscious level so that it becomes the dominant learning center of the brain and can work at its full capacity. At the same time, a student is also trained like an athlete by learning the body and eye movements called “The Habits of Masters”. Not only will a student dramatically increase his skill level with the first drawing but he will also continue on a path of accelerated learning by practicing the habits that continually strengthens the connections of the visual mind. When “The Habits of Masters” are continually practiced, the visual mind is being trained to stay in a high state of focus which further accelerates the learning and skills building progress.

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03/23/2020

Well since I am not there you can have lots of fun doing your projects. You will have to torture yourself by remembering to Do the habits of masters.

If you are using pastels just remember when you're searching for a specific color You may not have the perfect color but you may find one that's close in value. You can block that color in Then stand back and look at it as a flat note and ask yourself what 1 color it needs to get a little bit better. Don't forget you have to do with a fan dance, Put 5 or 6 colors right up To your painting to get a close well considered comparison of your color notes. Have fun but be critical!

This drawing was done on newsprint paper with Vine charcoal, It is somewhere in the growth stage, It is still rough But I can see where I want to go with it and best of all my mistakes are screaming out at me, There they are very easy to see.

This is just a shot of a painting I did long ago with my mother and aunt in it. This was done at the Bronx Brontanical Gardens overlooking the Hudson River. When this place was a owned by CBS television. They hired a Toscanini and he lived on this estate.

Show the Progress on your work on this site I will try to critique and help you as you prgress.

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08/27/2019

New students are shocked at how good their 1st drawings turn out. Instead of teaching drawing techniques they learn how to think and behave and see like a master artist.
When they practice those behaviors in their very 1st drawing They are producing Artwork That shows they are well over 80% or even 90% Of the normal average skill level .

With their 1st Drawing They are already showing the skill level nearly as good as a professional artist who took 7 or 8 years to get to that level.
That number one reason why it takes so many people so long to develop their skills in visual arts is because our brains are wired to process to our dominant learning, processing centers.
These processing centers are very dominant but when it comes to solving a visual problems they are almost always wrong they seek a subjective verbal reasonable answer to a visual problem. This never works.

We have to go to a brain center that does not form subjective opinions or answers but simply observes the visual world. It is been trained to play a subordinate role to the more dominant learning centers.
We have to teach it to become a dominant learning center in the brain, that is the key to accelerated Learning and skill building that comes from a keen study of the visual world.

Students who adopt the habits of masters and how they see the visual world almost always start in the top 20% skill level, when you solve problems in that level you are learning at an accelerated pace. To draw accurately you must see Accurately First.

03/26/2019

Look up demos that may be on YouTube on how they do these fundamentals.

03/26/2019

Zanne and Susan, both of you need to practice doing areas of flat washers within a drawn Square on your watercolor paper. You have to experiment with your mixes on the amounts of water and amounts of pigments to be used to get your desired results.

You also have to practice gradient washes, dark to light, light to dark , you have to practice these many times so you get control over how you mix your washes.

You can make a small Swatch of any color you like on a piece of your watercolor paper. You use this as your guideline for a laying a larger wash up the same color. You have to get used to estimating how much water and pigment you will need to do a larger wash and re-adjust of water and pigment. First make a Swatch to match the first swatch. You must wait until both are dry to make an accurate match. You may have to readjust your larger batch with several swatches to get them to match. When they do match then you can layout of flat wash within a larger Square drawing up by pencil. I strongly advise that you get control over these fundamentals before going further on your projects. It will save you a lot of trouble in the end.

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