Borgeson Studio Online Drawing Courses
ONLINE COLORED PENCIL COURSES

with Personal Instruction
by Bet Borgeson

Beginning through Advanced Levels

A series of innovative and interactive art courses
especially designed and developed by Borgeson Studio

Established 1999

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

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

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

  • Simple technical needs--internet and e-mail access. (Scanner or digital camera recommended, but not required.)
"Nikkos and Stardust," 19" x 13.5", Colored Pencil on Rising Museum Board - by Bet Borgeson
Private Collection
"[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
Olmsted Township, Ohio

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CP1
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Date
Getting
Started in
Colored
Pencil

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Information


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Learn the fundamental techniques and principles you will need for mastering this incredible modern medium whether for fine art or illustration. Learn to use colored pencils effectively for portrait, landscape, still life, or any other genre you choose. This newly designed and groundbreaking online approach includes hands-on drawing assignments, reading of text material, plus 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.

Estimated completion time is flexible but usually about seven weeks.

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

$190.
Includes
both
texts
( and free
shipping
in U.S.)
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your
course
any
time
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CP2 About the Course Tuition Starting
Date
Building
Color
that Works!


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Information




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or Order Texts

Learn professional color mixing techniques using a lightfast palette for working with today's modern colored pencils. Artist-author Bet Borgeson's color and application techniques allow you to build color that can boldly project across a room or can be quietly complex and nuanced-filled.

Using these 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, and additional personal online instruction by Borgeson. Also included are two private, frank, and fully illustrated critiques of your work.

This is a course designed for the artist already familiar with colored pencil's traditional basic techniques.

Estimated completion time is flexible but usually about seven weeks. Skill level: Intermediate through advanced.

Required text: Basic Colored Pencil Techniques, by Bet Borgeson

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

$190.

NOTE:
If course CP1 has
been taken,
this course
fee is $150.

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your
course
any
time
*
L 1 About the Course Tuition Starting
Date
Beginning
Landscape

Part 1 in the
Landscape
Series


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This course is designed to address landscape's basic issues of equipment and materials, of color palette, and of composing with a strong center of interest. It will deal with uses of color to suggest space, whether and when to work on location or from photo references, and much more. Although this course will use colored pencil it may also be of interest to those who later expect to work in other media in this genre.

Our online format will include hands-on drawing assignments, reading of text material, interaction with Borgeson on a one-to-one basis, plus two private, frank, and fully illustrated critiques.

Estimated completion time is flexible but usually about seven weeks.

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

Read More About This Three-Part Series

$210.
Begin
your
course
any
time
*
L 2 About the Course Tuition Starting
Date
Landscape
Using Photo
References
as Aids

Part 2 in the
Landscape
Series


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Information


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or Order Text

This six-lesson course offers a fine-art approach to integrating a use of photo references with natural freehand drawing for the creation of dramatic landscapes that avoid the look of photorealism. Included in its online format will be hands-on-drawing assignments, reading of text material, and interaction with fellow students and Borgeson on a one-to-one basis, plus two private, frank, and fully illustrated individual critiques.

Prerequisite: A knowledge of basic colored pencil techniques, and some familiarity with the principles of landscape.

Estimated completion time is flexible but usually about seven weeks. Skill level: intermediate through advanced.

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

Read More About This Three-Part Series

$210.

NOTE:
If course L1 has been
taken, this
course fee
is $170.

Begin
your
course
any
time
*
L 3 About the Course Tuition Starting
Date
Expressive
and Fantasy
Landscape

Part 3 in the
Landscape
Series


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Information


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or Order Text

This course explores a realm of expressive and mind-filing art. In it you wiill learn to build feeling and mood into your landscape imagery. You will also go a step farther by exploring some of the aspects of fantasy and their potential for enhancing your work with a new inventiveness--whether for fine art of illustration.

Included will be hands-on drawing assignments, reading of text material, interaction with Borgeson and fellow students, plus two private, frank, and fully illustrated critiques of your work.

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

Estimated completion time is flexible but usually about seven weeks.

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

Read More About This Three-Part Series


$210.

NOTE:
If course L1 has been
taken, this
course fee
is $170.

Begin
Your
Course
Any
time
*
COURSE ORIENTATION -- After we have received your mail-in registration, we will e-mail confirmation and instructions for accessing your online classroom and course. An orientation and calendar will be posted in your classroom prior to your first lesson. This will explain how your course works. It will also provide a materials list, a virtual museum link, and other resources.

NOTE: Courses start on Saturday, but you do not have to access them on that day.
We just make them available to you from Saturday on.


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