Want to Learn How to Draw? Anyone Can Do It

Want to Learn How to Draw? Anyone Can Do It

(ARA) - They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks, but American fine artist and educator Larry Gluck has proven them wrong. Gluck has spent over quarter of a century developing a fine art teaching method called The Gluck Method that has helped those who had no art talent to draw and even paint beyond their wildest dreams.

Among those he has helped create beautiful artwork, dentists who stand over patients all day; teachers who are charged with decorating a classroom and worried that they are not "artistic;" a research scientist who wanted to design a logo for a NASA Space Shuttle mission; even a few truck drivers who wanted to record the beautiful sunsets they have seen along their routes.

What's different about the way this man teaches art? Gluck believes in starting with the basics. Like a musician studying scales and arpeggios, Gluck has researched and formulated a step-by-step method of producing art which actually starts with a lesson on the proper way to hold a pencil. It's that basic.

Beginning with a single student who wanted art lessons and had no artistic ability whatsoever, Gluck started looking for methods to teach a student like him. He soon found out there was no method available anywhere for those with no inborn ability. It was then that in 1975, Gluck together with his wife Sheila, opened an art school in the Greater Los Angeles area.

Gluck defines his method as "the genuine basics of fine art. These are teachable, learnable skills just like reading and writing," he says. Gluck's classes, much like the old system of working with apprentices, have a one-on-one feel even if working as a group. No matter how far modern art movements stray, it is still a fact that even Picasso knew how to draw well.

While teaching small groups of adults the basics of drawing and painting, Sheila Gluck had the idea to start teaching children. With million dollar cutbacks on art education in schools, this seemed a natural development. Sheila says "I now believe children are the best students. They don't come with timidity about drawing and they are used to following a teacher. If you give a child a pencil and paper, there is a 100 percent certainty that he or she will do something creative."

Mission: Renaissance Fine Art Schools now operate in eighteen studios located in Southern California, averaging four thousand students at any given time. Gluck's main challenge became finding a way to spread the word to a larger audience. To give people from all walks of life, the tools to have their own personal renaissance. This became his driving passion.

After years of refining and testing his discoveries, The Gluck Method is now available to people everywhere in a series of DVDs: "The Art of Drawing for Kids" includes 2DVDs for ages 4 through teens. Other DVDs in the series include "The Art of Drawing Part 1: Skills for Lifelike Drawing" and "The Art of Drawing Part 2: Creating Illusions of Depth." The classes are available for purchase online at: www.thegluckmethod.com.

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