What is Evolve?
Evolve Artist offers the shortest path to gaining the serious skills necessary to create art without limitations.
Technical proficiency is the basis of all skillfully produced art. In that, Evolve offers a ground-up program to develop these particular skills for artists at every level — from beginner to advanced.
Evolve’s system demystifies the creative process, breaking it down into just three simple moving parts — value, edge, and color. Command over these basic aspects of art will open up a clear path to producing consistent, high-quality art.
“Evolve is the art foundation I wish I had instead of art school. This is the solid foundation that’s needed for everything I do in my art career. Highly recommended for those looking to improve their art skills.”
—Sergio Paez, Director at Lucasfilm
Step-by-step instruction
Through this program, your understanding of how to build a painting will give you unshakeable confidence every time you sit down to work.
Success redefined
The strength of any program can be defined by the consistency of student results. In the last decade, this program has produced hundreds of success stories.
Mentorship and benefits
The Evolve Instructors are there to guide students through each step of the education, helping to ensure your success on a daily basis.
Materials shipped right to your door
Good supplies won’t make you a better artist, but poor ones will hold you back. With Evolve, the finest artist materials are included at no additional cost to make learning as easy and enjoyable as possible.
Old Holland Oil Paint
Makers of the finest paint in the world, since 1664. Custom mixed grayscale and two full-color palettes are hand-tailored to Evolve’s program.
Brushes & Palette Knife
Working with proper tools is critical to your success. Evolve sources quality products to ensure you will be working with materials that fit your needs at each stage.
Cold-pressed Linseed Oil
When mixed into oil paint, it increases fluidity, allows brush strokes to be removed, and lengthens drying time.
Canvas & Palette Paper
Sheets of canvas are provided for each assignment. A pad of neutral gray palette paper ensures proper color mixing.
Reference Materials
Professional quality photographic reference, specifically tailored to each assignment, incrementally increases in difficulty as your skills improve.
The Curriculum
From learning to use a brush properly to creating realistic art, no detail is overlooked. Our curriculum breaks down art creation into easily digested parts, so you’re confident in your skills before each new technique is added.
Foundation
A complete system that transforms your work from beginner to professional-grade in less than 12 months, utilizing just three moving parts.
Block 1: Value & Form—Through control of value and edge, you will learn to create the impression of light and shadow, as well as volume and depth.
Block 2: Proportional Drawing—Learn to craft precise proportional drawings from life. Coupled with the skills developed in Block 1, you will be able to create original paintings from scratch.
Block 3: Painting in Color—With solid painting skills now at your command, you will begin incrementally incorporating the third and final moving part: color. This step-by-step approach makes the addition of color feel like a natural extension of your rapidly developing skillset.
Block 4: Direct Painting—This is where you pull it all together by taking everything you have learned in the three previous Blocks and push your skills to the next level, creating fully finished works of art.
Advanced
Advanced techniques broaden your artistic vocabulary allowing quicker, more intuitive, and stylized approaches to be developed.
Block 5: Vacant Shadows—A classical approach that allows students to focus on light and edge alone. This elegant technique, though impressive on its own, sets the stage for speed painting.
Block 6: Speed Painting—A multi-layered approach to painting, giving your work a greater sense of atmosphere. This technique will significantly increase your speed, allowing you to create more in less time.
Block 7: Puddling—Departing from the leaner applications of paint in the prior blocks, you will begin to work with heavier impastos and a more relaxed technique. Color mixing directly on the canvas will improve both your color and value control.
Join the community of students from over 30 countries around the world, right from the comfort of your own home! As soon as your order is placed, your box will be shipped out on Friday of the same week and you can instantly access your first videos and begin participating in the private online community.
Your order of Foundation Blocks 1–4 includes all materials (paint, canvas, brushes, reference, etc.), access to online instructional videos, 1-on-1 check-ins for homework assignments, and our private community of Evolve Artists.
Learn more at evolveartist.com.
