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BET BORGESON STUDIO
ONLINE COLORED PENCIL COURSES
with Personal One-On-One Instruction by Bet Borgeson

Beginning through Advanced Levels

  • Work at a relaxed pace convenient for you with motivation, structure, and feedback lasting for weeks not just a weekend.

  • Hands-on assignments with personal instruction and private illustrated critiques by Bet Borgeson.

  • No need for travel. Create and work in your own environment anywhere in the world.

  • Simple technical needs--internet and e-mail access. Scanner is recommended but not required. (Scanner is required for overseas students.)
"The Percheron and the Rabbit, DETAIL," 18.5" x 24",
Colored Pencil on Rising Museum Board - by Bet Borgeson

"[Borgeson has] opened many doors of awareness for me... [Her] personal critiques are like nothing else I have experienced in my art education. She evaluates on so many levels and knows instinctively what to suggest and yet encourages and reassures..."
--JOANNE MEYER, Ohio

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CP 1
About the Course
Tuition
Starting
Date
Getting
Started in
Colored
Pencil


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Information

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Texts

Color, control and versatility are the three most winning features of colored pencil--and they are also inexpensive to use.  Learn the fundamental techniques and principles you will need for mastering this incredible modern medium whether for fine art or illustration. Course material is fully applicable for portrait, landscape, still life, or any other genre you choose. This online approach includes hands-on drawing assignments, reading of text material, plus frequent interaction with Borgeson on a one-to-one basis. You will also receive two private, frank, and fully illustrated critiques of your work by Borgeson.

Completion time is flexible. For examples of participant's work completed in this course see Student Gallery 1.

RequiredTexts: The Colored Pencil, Revised Edition, and Colored Pencil for the Serious Beginner both by Bet Borgeson

Course work by former studnt Helen Waters
Copyright 2010 Helen Waters
$190.

Tuition
includes
two texts

and free
shipping.

Begin
your
course
anytime

CP 2 About the Course
Tuition
Starting
Date
Building
Color
that Works!

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Information

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Texts

Learn a natural and intuitive way to build color. This eye-opening course allows you to build color that can boldly project across a room or can be quietly complex and nuanced-filled. Using Bet Borgeson's straightforward and time-tested techniques can also bring a new spontaneity and vitality to your artwork. This innovative and exciting online method of teaching includes six weekly lessons, hands-on assignments, reading of text material, and additional personal instruction by Borgeson. Also included are two in-depth and fully illustrated critiques of your work by Borgeson.

Completion time is flexible.

Skill level: Intermediate through advanced.

For examples of participant's work completed in this course see Student Gallery 2.

Required text: Basic Colored Pencil Techniques, by Bet Borgeson.

(Recommended but not required: The Colored Pencil, Rev'd. Ed. by Bet Borgeson)

Course work by Debra Zamperla
Copyright 2010 Debra Zamperla

$190.

Tution
includes
text
and free shipping.

Begin
your
course
anytime
L 1 About the Course
Tuition
Starting
Date
Beginning
Landscape


Part 1 in the Landscape Series

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Information

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or Order Text

This course is designed to offer a solid beginning in landscape. Artist/author Bet Borgeson, a teacher of drawing and painting for over 25 years, will show you how to sort and edit nature's often overwhelming visual detail into dramatic compositions, how to mix color and use it to suggest three-dimensional form and space, and to address its basic issues such as equipment and materials, and whether and when to work on location or from photo references, and much more.

Our online format will include weekly lessons, hands-on drawing assignments, reading of text material, additional personal instruction by Borgeson on a one-to-one basis, plus two private, frank, and fully illustrated critiques. Her online format established in 1999 allows you to set up a schedule that will work for you in your own environment. You may work en plein air or in your workspace for this course.

Prerequisite: A knowledge of basic colored pencil techniques. Completion time is flexible. For examples of participant's work completed in this course see Gallery 3.

Required text: Colored Pencil for the Serious Beginner, by Bet Borgeson.

Course work by Jeanie Turner
Copyright 2010 Jeanie Turner
$190.
Begin
your
course
anytime
L 2 About the Course
Tuition
Starting
Date
Landscape
Using Photo
References
as Aids


Part 2 in the Landscape Series

Registration
Information

This course offers a fine-art approach to integrating a use of photo references (prints or transparencies) with natural freehand drawing for the creation of dramatic landscapes that avoids looking too photographic. Included in its online format will be six weekly lessons, hands-on-drawing assignments, reading of text material, and interaction with Borgeson on a one-to-one basis, plus two private, frank, and fully illustrated individual critiques. For examples of participant's work completed in this course, see Gallery 4.

Prerequisites: A knowledge of basic colored pencil techniques, and some familiarity with the principles of landscape. Skill level: intermediate through advanced.

Estimated completion time is flexible. Required text: Colored Pencil for the Serious Beginner, by Bet Borgeson.

Read About or Order Text

Course work by Danny Kolhage


Copyright 2010 Danny Kolhage
$190.

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your
course
anytime
L 3 About the Course
Tuition
Starting
Date
Expressive
and Fantasy
Landscape


Part 3 in the Landscape Series

Registration
Information

This course explores a realm of expressive and mind-filing art. Learn to express feeling and mood in your landscapes. Then go a step further by exploring how aspects of fantasy can bring a new inventiveness to your artwork--whether for fine art of illustration. For examples see Student Gallery 5.

Included will be hands-on drawing assignments, reading of text material, interaction with Borgeson, plus two private, frank, and fully illustrated critiques of your work. Bet Borgeson is the author of the classic text, The Colored Pencil as well as other best selling books exploring this medium.

Prerequisite: A knowledge of basic colored pencil techniques and some familiarity with the principles of landscape. Completion time is flexible.

Required text: Colored Pencil for the Serious Beginner, by Bet Borgeson
Read About or Order Text

Course work by Joanne Meyer
Copyright 2010 Joanne Meyer
$190.

Begin
Your
Course
Anytime
IMPORTANT NOTE: Upon receipt of your mail-in or email registration and tuition, we will e-mail confirmation, orientation material,
and instructions for accessing your course.
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