From McEvoy Atelier

Classical Art Curriculum

Join schools around the country and give your students the ability to communicate in a visual language, a skill that is useful for innovators and artists of all types.  Our curriculum makes it easy for your teachers to teach students how to draw realistically and to find the joy of creation. The low cost of our curriculum will save you money (and hassle) in art supply purchases.
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Our Mission:

Making Classical Art Accessible and Relatable, While Developing an Appreciation for God's Natural Creation.
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Testimonial: Seattle Christian School

Seattle Classical Christian School is in their second year of using our art program for their 6-9th grade students.  Please listen to their art teacher Lauren Sioni's Review.
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What Schools are saying:

"This is a class that they love ...  I have already had excited parents report to me that their students are coming home from school and choosing to use their free time at home to draw quietly instead of using the x-box or scroll through their phone.  I think one of the best indicators of excellence in teaching is that students develop a desire to engage with the material with their own time!  On behalf of our students, thank you so much.

P.S.  The women sitting on the left in the class photo is our mathematics teacher who is learning right alongside her students during her one free block every day.  It is just that good a class!  Also, it was reported to me that the three best students had not turned in their work for the photo.  They wanted to spend more time on their drawings, so they were hanging onto them until the due date.  

Robert Albers
Head of School

Why should your school use it?

Online art instruction designed to support teachers in the classroom.

#1 Enables your school to bring Classical Art training to your students.

Using Classical Art at School provides amazing art instruction while removing the burden of curriculum development from the art teacher. Most other subjects, such as math or history, teachers are provided a text book to use for curriculum, to then develop lesson plans.  That consistency is necessary in art too.  

#2 Staffing Solutions

Art can be intimidating to teach, and Christian Art teachers can be hard to find.

Whether you're a small school that doesn't need to hire a full time art teacher, have a teacher going out on maternity leave, or have a veteran rockstar teacher that has taught for years, our program provides amazing support for your teachers, so much so that they don't have to specialize in art.

Our program provides consistency through staffing changes, you may have one art teacher who may have majored in fashion and   another that knows photography, with this curriculum any teacher can confidently teach students how to draw what they see or imagine, a necessary skill for innovators of all types.

#3 Its easy to teach, joyful and produces beautiful result

Participate in a culture of beauty and truth by learning how to delight in drawing and painting the world around you.  We draw to better understand and appreciate God's creation.  Students and teachers get to partake in this palatable joy in learning and discovery.  While learning to draw students will see how the key concepts taught were used by master artists generations before, and there fore participate in art history with them. 

Classical Art at School from McEvoy Atelier

Learn Drawing and Painting with Kevin McEvoy

Drawing and Painting in the Atelier Tradition- Art Instruction Lessons Combined with Art History Lessons, Woven Together for You

Curriculum designed middle and high school students. Designed to meet the needs of  your schedule, facilities, and staff.
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We discuss:
- how to set up the classroom, 
- work with art materials
- run the lessons, 
- engage early finishers 
- work with different ages and abilities within your student body.

We discuss any concern, even go over how to run an art fair for your school, if you like. 

Students, Parents and Teachers will be amazed at how well they've learned to draw. Our course is a joyful process for all involved.

Year I Student Artwork

Overview

Here is what is covered in each year of curriculum

Key How to Draw Concepts

Students will learn how to identify and define key parts of a realistic drawing, then they will learn how to achieve a realistic affect through drawing.  Technical tips of how to draw, render and paint are staples in the course.

Art History

Art History is woven into art lessons throughout the course to illustrate drawing concepts learned.  Students also complete one master copy project each year.  Whether it is copying Chardin or Audobon.

Drawing From Life

Students learn to draw objects from life sitting right in front of them.

Creating from you Imagination

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Geometric Essence

First learn how to draw basic shapes, the foundations. After that students decode any object by learning how to see it in terms of basic shapes and then the world of drawing opens up to them.

Art Materials

Art materials are intentionally kept simple and introduced slowly.  Students will know exactly what they are using, why they are using it and how to take care of their supplies as well.

How do you teach art classically?

"The course is wonderful and the kids are excited to do it.”
Samantha Linkeman, Gravitas Stony Brook Prep School

Participate in a culture of beauty and creation

Learn how to see by identifying what exactly you are seeing, then how to draw and render what you see by learning how the old masters did it. Develop a visual language and expression that enables you to articulate the beauty and truth of creation with the simple tools of pencil and paper.

Learn How to See Objects in their Geometric Essence, then the world of Drawing opens up to you

Students learn the foundational elements of drawing, such as identifying light in art and the geometric make up of every subject.  Think of it as the definitions of drawing.

Combining Observational Process Learning with Project Based Imaginative Creativity

Alternate projects of observation and imagination. For example a student may be drawing a real tomato still life one week and then draw an imaginative medieval scene of a knight protecting his castle the next.   This back and forth process between looking at an object in front of you and imagining an object, maintains energy, excitement and also increases drawing ability quickly.

Integrated with Art History

When regular referencing Art History, students see the concepts taught  by Classical Art at School were also used by art masters of the past.  We believe strongly in the 'standing on the shoulders of giants' by giving students a strong foundation in Art History.

How Does it work?

Online art instruction designed to support teachers in the classroom.

#1 Professional Video Lessons by a Professional Atelier Trained Artist.

Utilizing art video lessons created by a professional atelier trained artist is a key asset in an art class.  Kevin demos key concepts while students draw along, which keeps students engaged.  The teacher facilitates by walking around the room encouraging and critiquing students as they go through the video.  Teachers also start and stop the lesson to repeat key concepts. Besides all the other things teachers have to do to run a class: organize supplies, grade, prep and class management.  

#2 Students Continue Drawing After the Video Lesson Ends

Students keep drawing after the lesson ends for the remainder of the class time.  The teacher continues to critique and encourage students to render or push their drawings forward, and then hangs them up at the conclusion of class on the gallery wall.

As students progress through the course, they will spend more time working independently on their artwork.  There are also optional lessons mixed in that do not involve video lessons that apply previously learned concepts in fun applications.

#3 Students Learn from Each Other

Hanging up the artwork creates incentive to finish drawings well.  We had one school put its gallery wall in the cafeteria, which created some great discussion. In class, students learn to first critique their own work and then how to appropriately critique each others. It's powerful how they grow from each other.

Classical Fine Art & Drawing Courses for Classical Christian Schools

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Learn to see

Art Instruction

enjoy Beauty

Art History

Choose to Draw

Art Activities

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40 Minute Lessons, students draw along with 15 min lessons and finish on their own in class.

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Staffing Solutions:
Engaging Curriculum to support teachers to teach art with confidence and consistency

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Engaging Middle and High School Art Curriculum that mixes both the technical skill of observational drawing with fun creative imaginative projects.
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Kevin McEvoy

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Having studied at the oldest active atelier in Europe for several years, and as the founder and director of a large atelier in New York, I have taught the classical atelier methods of drawing and painting for the past 15 years to students of all ages and abilities. I am very pleased to now offer online the full spectrum of what I myself have learned, as a professional artist. Offering scores of hours of video tutorials, students now have access to a complete and cohesive curriculum, ranging from beginner drawing to advanced drawing, from still life painting to portrait painting, from imaginative art to constructive anatomy, and much more. 

Passionate about drawing and painting, as a boy I sketched in the gentle rolling hills of Ireland, and as a teenager I studied Greek statuary at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. As a young man, I studied classical drawing and painting for several years in both South America, and in the oldest active atelier in Europe, the Charles Cecil Studios in Florence, Italy. I am now a professional artist painting and teaching in New York, and traveling internationally for my career. I enjoy painting people, still life subjects, landscapes, and interiors. For more information, visit my site: www.kevinmcevoy.com
TESTIMONIALS

What our teachers say about us

My favorite thing is it's easy to put together. That is especially great being that I'm technically the science teacher.
Allison, Maine
Visually stunning, articulately choreographed, and infused with historical perspective, the Classical Art at School course has exceeded my expectations. Kevin's narrative and choice of subjects is varied and emphasizes the core talents that any artist should develop. His wit and instruction are engaging and nurtures the joy of learning.  I highly recommend this course to anyone looking to uncover their hidden artist within and is especially fun in a class setting!
Maggie Jacobbitti, New York
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