Finding the right art school is a pretty tough call – it’s when you know the least about an art form that you need to make an informed decision about the quality of education you are going to get.
The first advice I would give is to look at the quality of the advanced students work.
A teacher who is a great artist might not be able to really pass it on well. Obviously good things take time, but the thing is – you are the one who will commit hours, weeks, months and years of your life to a course of study – does the school turn people like you into people like you would like to be ( art wise)?
I studied at the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney, Australia, and I had heard lots of good things about it. I lived 900 kms away and had never been there when I first went, however my teacher in Brisbane, whose drawing and painting I greatly admired, vouched for it’s quality.
That first day I walked in I was literally gob smacked at the level of skill I saw in the average students work. The advanced students work looked like it was drawn by Michelangelo and Co!!
That’s what I desired at that time, beautiful brilliant intelligent skill, people and thing drawing skills. At Julian Ashton Art School I got what I needed, wanted and what I am still chasing – the magic of real art.
So I will write more about other fine art schools, but Julian Ashton Art School in George St, The Rocks, Sydney is pretty much impossible to beat for the figure drawer and painter, and I wouldn’t hesitate to say that it could hold its’ head high anywhere in the world. I kid you not!!
Ciao for now.