Academic Training:

Comprehensive courses : The most in-depth painting classes in Dubai today

The following painting courses in Dubai are composed of painting classes totalling a sum of 30 hrs (with examination and evaluation). Our painting classes are part of Academic Training for Arts and Design course programmes. These subjects may be taken by applicants without examination and evaluation as "Open-training programmes" as well.

General Introduction:  For the medium of Oil and Acrylic (during 2 to 4 levels for each), our painting courses in Dubai include classical and modern paintings. Classical painting classes introduce the paintings, artists and techniques that have created time honoured traditions from the Renaissance to the Impressionist period, including Leonardo Da Vinci, Caravaggio and Degas. Students will develop skills in rendering accurate value relationships, “true to life form”, color, proportion, scrambling, glazing, painting “alla prima”, control and texture. The course places emphasis on utilization of value, hue and intensity to convey a sense of light and form.

Through the painting classes in Dubai , students will develop critical thinking when engaging in problems and issues in their craft. Additionally, the classes will explore the historical sources of the abstract art including both modern and post-modern variations that has been resulted from desire to express a spiritual reality from the representational world to a non-objective one. The course will experiment with techniques and language by combining paint and the formal elements of design, including line, shape, form and color. Through these painting courses in Dubai , students will be able to develop their creative skills by creating a piece of art that reflect what they think, feel and imagine.

1)  Classical Painting (I, II, III, IV)
(I) Reproduction Old Master I,  (II) Reproduction Old Master II,  (III) Reproduction Contemporary Artist I, (IV)   Reproduction Contemporary Artist II,  (V) Photo I,  (VI) Photo II,  (VII) Life I,  (VIII) Life II
Our classical painting classes in Dubai will introduce students to the paintings, artists and techniques that have created time honored tradition within classical painting, including Leonardo Da Vinci, Caravaggio and Degas, etc. Students will develop skills in rendering accurate value relationships, “true to life form”, color, proportion, control and texture. This course places emphasis on utilization of value, hue and intensity to convey a sense of light and form.  Students will develop critical thinking when engaging in problems and issues in painting.  
2)  Abstract Painting (I, II, III, IV, V)
(I) Material (II) Techniques (III) Still Life (IV) Landscape (V) Geometric (VI) Figurative (VII) Portrait (VIII) Expressionism

This course will experiment with each student’s own techniques and language by combining paint and the formal elements of design, including line, shape, form and color. Through various projects and lectures regulated by our painting classes, students will develop a non-objective approach to the elements of design.  By this course, students will be able to develop their creative painting skills by creating a piece of art that reflect what they think, feel and imagine.
3)  Cubism Painting (I, II, III)

(I) Analytic Still Life I (II) Analytic Still Life II (III) Synthetic Still Life I (IV) Synthetic Still Life II (V) Analytic Portrait I (VI) Analytic Portrait II (VII) Synthetic Portrait I (VIII) Synthetic Portrait II

Our cubism painting classes in Dubai will focus on the study of historical development of Cubism that revolutionized European art during the 20 th  century. The main innovators of cubism, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque will be studied. Students will develop the cubist techniques and methods of depicting objects from various viewpoints through angular, random pieces.  Through various projects and lectures, students will develop their own style and interpretation of this type of painting method.

4)  Creative Painting (I, II, III, IV, V, VI)

(I, II) Basic, (III, IV) Intermediate (V, VI) Advanced


Students will undertake a range of exercises and projects in order to examine the range of possibilities available through creating painting. Students will produce work based on observation of colour, tone and texture, as well as creative work from their own imaginations.

5)  Inspirational Painting (I, II, III, IV, V, VI)
(I, II) Basic, (III, IV) Intermediate (V, VI) Advanced
Students will undertake a range of exercises and projects in order to examine the range of possibilities available through inspirational painting. Students will produce work based on observation of colour, tone and texture, as well as creative work from their own imaginations.

6)  Acrylic/Oil Painting - Monochrome - Still Life (I, II, III)
(I) Basic (II) Intermediate (III) Advanced 
Same as description mentioned for general Painting course in Black and White for still life only.
7)  Acrylic/Oil Painting - Coloured - Still Life (I, II, III)
(I) Basic (II) Intermediate (III) Advanced 
Same as description mentioned for general Painting course in coloured for still life only.
8)  Landscape Painting -oil (I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VIII)
(I) Monochrome - Reproduction (II) Monochrome - Photo (III) Colored - Reproduction (IV) Colored - Photo I (V) Colored - Photo II (VI) Impressionism I (VII) Impressionism II (VIII) Abstraction    
Same as description mentioned for general Painting course for Landscape only.
9)  Portrait Painting (I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII)
(I) Monochrome - Reproduction (II) Monochrome - Photo (III) Monochrome - Life (IV) Colored - Reproduction (V) Colored - Picture I (VI) Colored - Picture II (VII) Colored - Life I (VIII) Colored - Life II  
Same as description mentioned for general Painting course for Portrait only.

Subject Training:

These are painting courses in Dubai with single titles and a duration of 20 hrs worth of training. At the end of these painting courses , students may choose to finish with a n examination and evaluation to earn a certificate. Otherwise, they will be granted an attendance certificate. 

1)  Oil Painting (I,II)

(I) Still life (II) Landscape:  Students will take part in practical course where a range of exercises will be practiced and mastered. Once competent, students will begin to apply these exercises to more complex paintings.

2)  Acrylic Painting (I, II)

(I) Still life(II) Landscape:  
Acrylic paint is an opaque medium used to create thick layers of flat colour or complex gradations of tone. Students will be introduced to the various ways of applying, mixing and thinning the paint and produce work based on the exercises they follow in our classes in Dubai.

Workshop Training:

These painting courses have a single title and a duration of 3-15 hrs worth of training. For the regular painting courses in Dubai there will be no examination and evaluation, while examination and evaluation will be needed for our expertise painting courses .

1)  Creative Painting - Grid Composition
This workshop has been programmes like an intensive short-course and will experiment with techniques and language by combining paint and the formal elements of design, including lines, shapes, forms and colors. Through this programme, students will be able to find and understand how to develop their creative painting skills by creating a piece of artwork that reflects what they think, how to feel and use their imagination.
2)  Creative Painting - Image Transfer
A collage art work is a fascinating composition of different materials with various colours that can be set to express idea and feeling, to convey a message or even for decoration purposes. It is a design created by adhering different materials to a surface and its result can be a three dimensional art work also. This process was widely used by cubist artists and is a popular technique in the contemporary art.
3)  Creative Painting - Cut Up Technique
This workshop has been programmes like an intensive short-course and will experiment with techniques and language by combining paint and the formal elements of design, including lines, shapes, forms and colors. Through this programme, students will be able to find and understand how to develop their creative painting skills by creating a piece of artwork that reflects what they think, how to feel and use the imagination.
4)  Creative Painting - Wash Off Technique
This technique is an exciting technique that produces a textural effect not unlike that of a woodcut or lino prints.
5)  Creative Painting - Antique Technique
This workshop has been programmes to make fascinating motifs and infinity repeatable patterns by combining, overlapping and repeating Islamic Geometric shapes. Students will learn how to use the Islamic patterns in an abstract and textural way through layers of colors and textures to build up richly layered effects of creative artwork with an own-style. 
6)  Creative Painting - Cubism Composition
This technique is an exciting technique that playing with violations in shape and forms to create the Cubism composition likes Picasso. This workshop will be useful for both those who are beginners or/and those artists who wants to develop their techniques.
7)  Mixed Media Painting
This workshop is designed to practically give experience to participant, to understand how to bring harmony in the artworks by using different layer of wet and dry materials such as Acrylic, Oil Pastel, Soft Pastel, with some technique of colouring in golden proportion composition.