• 
• 
• 
  • Philosophy
  • History
• 
• 
  • Program
  • Drawing
  • Painting
• 
• 
• 
• 
  • Drawing
  • Painting
  • Russian Academic
• 
• 
  • Day Classes
  • Evening Classes
• 
• 
  • Enrollment
  • Registration Form
• 
• 
• 
• 

Educational (Academic) drawing ultimately is the study of the form. Form is independent from light. The best way to understand this concept is to imagine walking into a dark room with a sculpture in it. You can not see the sculpture, but you can touch it. You turn a flashlight on, and you can see it now, but the form hasn’t changed. You move the flashlight around, and see how shadows and highlights are moving and changing, but the form hasn’t changed. Light can not affect the form, it only reveals it. When form is built, light will apply to it logically and naturally.

Unlike most schools, The Ashland Academy drawing curriculum is rooted in the Construction Method. This method is firmly grounded in the Renaissance tradition. Over the centuries this method has been called different names: Geometral, Stereometric, Architectonic, Sculptural, Lineal- Constructive, Volumetric, 3D, and others. Whatever the name, this analytical method emphasizes a sculptural approach to form; imparting deep understanding of the form by studying comparative measurements, structure, function, perspective and planes.

Educational drawing is not intended to be a finished picture; each assignment addresses very different objectives. These objectives are systematically addressed by the four fundamental cornerstones of the Academy’s drawing curriculum: Construction drawing, Mass/tone drawing, Sketching and Plastic Anatomy.