Our Courses
The PAFA courses were designed for every degree, since the begginer to the most advanced one.
If you are a begginer, and your desire is acquire the skills of an Academic or even a professional Artist, you are in the right way!
If you're a Professional Artist who are looking for tecnical Artistic Suport or Coaching, just join us!
Duration of courses: from 6 months to 12 months.
At the end of each course a Certificate of Attendance and Aptitude will be issued by the Portuguese Academy of Fine Arts.
Artistic Drawing
The Artistic Drawing Course is ruled by a progressive program wich explain and develope the drawing skills in many tecnics and materials.
In this Program you have the folowing Modules:
Module 1- Intruduction to Artistic Drawing
Module 2- Graphite Drawing
Module 3- Sanguine Drawing
Module 4- Charcoal Drawing
Module 5- Dry Ink Pen Drawing
Watercolour
The Artistic Watercolour Course teachs the Watercolour and Tempera tecnics for many artistic purpoes, like Fine Arts, Scientific Illustration, artistic illustration, amoung others.
In this Program you have the folowing Modules:
Module 1 - A brief intruduction to Artistic Drawing
Module 2 - Watercoulour introduction
Module 3 - Watercolour - How to dye and stain
Module 4 - Watercolour - The Paper, How to Choose
Painting (Oils and Acrylics)
The Artistic Painting Course is ruled by a progressive program wich explain and develope the Painting skills in many tecnics and materials.
In this Program you have the folowing Modules:
Module 1- The Drawing importance in Paintings
Module 2- Mixing Colours in Acrylics
Module 3- The Importance of Contrast
Module 4- Exploring Textures
Module 5- Oil Painting - Materials and Technique
Pastel sticks (Oils and Dry)
The Pastel Sticks Course is a specific program that explain and develop both Drawing and Painting Skills.
In this Program you have the folowing Modules:
Module 1- A brief intruduction to Artistic Drawing
Module 2- Choose the shades
Module 3- Choose the appropriate paper
Module 4- Smudge
Module 5- Aply the fixer
Artistic consultory (Coaching)
The Artistic consultory and coaching is a technical support for Professional Artists.
You will recive advices on current market tendencies, on colours, on suitable materials for use, on technique correction, personal Artistic development, amoung others.
This program is absolutely personalized.
Every ArtWork done under this guidance, will be certified with a Quality Certificate by the Portuguese Academy of Fine Arts.
Exam preparation for access to university
*For high school students only
online explanations
Resolution of exam exercises
Introduction to all techniques
Development and improvement of techniques