Set Sail for a Creative Life!
Welcome to the West California Academy of Art and Design Website.
For over 16 years, we have been transforming students into confident, creative artists and designers who have gone on to have successful careers in their chosen field.
Located at the heart of Los Angeles, one of the most culturally vibrant cities in the nation, West California Academy of Art and Design is one of the most widely recognized and most professional youth art institutes in Southern California.
To date, more than 3,000 students have won top honors in competitions occurring across the globe. We compete in many national and international contests.
Most Notably, we have a long history of preparing students for college. Our students have been admitted into the finest universities in the world!! Our students successfully achieve their dreams of attending the universities and Art Colleges of their choice. It is because students attend our academy that they have been accepted to Yale, Harvard, UCLA, USC, Cal Poly, Art Center College of Design, OTIS and so many other colleges and universities. We help young people to stand out from the crowd of applicants by showing them how to express themselves in a unique way. We help them prepare portfolios for applying to colleges of their choice.
For over 16 years, we have been transforming students into confident, creative artists and designers who have gone on to have successful careers in their chosen field.
Located at the heart of Los Angeles, one of the most culturally vibrant cities in the nation, West California Academy of Art and Design is one of the most widely recognized and most professional youth art institutes in Southern California.
To date, more than 3,000 students have won top honors in competitions occurring across the globe. We compete in many national and international contests.
Most Notably, we have a long history of preparing students for college. Our students have been admitted into the finest universities in the world!! Our students successfully achieve their dreams of attending the universities and Art Colleges of their choice. It is because students attend our academy that they have been accepted to Yale, Harvard, UCLA, USC, Cal Poly, Art Center College of Design, OTIS and so many other colleges and universities. We help young people to stand out from the crowd of applicants by showing them how to express themselves in a unique way. We help them prepare portfolios for applying to colleges of their choice.
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Here at West California Academy of Art and Design, the instructors engage student's curiosity and motivate them to learn, teach them according to their individual needs, emphasizing their sense of observation, memory and imagination in their training. The creative skills student's have learned also apply to other subjects, increase self confidence and build a strong foundation for higher studies and future careers. Indeed, many students graduating from our school attribute their success in top colleges and universities as well as in professional life to the values of the creative education that they have received from our art training programs.
Types of Lessons:
Children, youth and teen art classes,adult/ professional fine art classes, and portfolio preparation for college and university applicants.
Lesson Format:
Children’s(k-12)/adult art drawing and sketching, representational drawing, watercolor, oil painting, illustration cartoon drawing, etched/engraved painting.
Lesson Content:
Still life, portrait drawing, animals, and landscape.
Lesson Plan:
Structural training, fine art/drawing techniques, color theory, & art fundamentals.
Objectives:
To expand student’s vision of life through various means of self expression, and stimulate their interests in creative drawing and artistic visual fundamentals, and to increase their overall creativity and ability to express their feelings through arts.
Teaching Method:
By training students to observe, memorize and develop their imagination, we help students master the fundamental skills of creative visual art.
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Portfolio Preparation Class for College and University Applicants
Admission into any top university or art institute could be determined solely by your art portfolio! The portfolio that highlights your artistic accomplishments shows who you are and why you're an outstanding candidate. Strong portfolios typically include work that demonstrates solid technical skills and reflects an awareness of formal visual organizational principles and experience with a variety of tools, media, styles, and approaches. Ultimately, quality of work is more important than quantity.So----distinguish yourself from your peers by building a portfolio that best represent your skill, interest and creativity!
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