- Decorative Painting Classes
A list of our current class schedule.
- About Our Instructors
A brief synopsis on a few of the instructors that Creative Evolution has teaching classes.
- The Creative Evolution Teaching Philosophy
Overview on our basis for instruction and our purpose of offering continuing education.
- Experience Our Faux Classroom
An opportunity to get an inside view of your day in class before you get here.
- What To Expect In Class
Basic info on the classroom and what you can expect as a student.
- Faux Business Resource Center
An overview on marketing, web analysis and the overall importance of business for the arts. Also included our links relative to business.
- Frequently Asked Questions
A series of answers constructed from past inquiries. Hopefully a better insight into answering your question of whether or not this class is for you.
Classes: Welcome to the Institute of Decorative Painting
In 1996, at the age of 19, artist Patrick Ganino started painting murals in south Florida. This self-taught budding artist moved back to his original home state of Connecticut in 1998.
After a short hiatus from painting, and coinciding with the birth of his daughter, Patrick launched his own mural and faux finishing company, which he named Creative Evolution. 
As Patrick's business-and the public's curiosity-grew, he decided to expand his business by delving into the world of teaching. The Institute of Decorative Painting was Patrick's next addition to Creative Evolution. The school originally focused on teaching basic to intermediate techniques to more of a mass audience. As the school evolved and Patrick continued to expand Creative Evolution by adding an international collection of instructional dvds using some of the top artists around. In addition he founded the website www.fauxforum.com and with the birth of the forum came the next step for Creative Evolution's teachings. The focus went towards concentrating on more advance classes and an all around higher level of decorative painting. To facilitate this Patrick sought after many of the same artists he used to make Dvds and that he met through the forum.
Todays version of Creative Evolution's school is dedicated to the advancement of decorative painting of the artist. New classes are formed every year and the best instructors from all over the world are brought in creating a unique class each and every time. Do not miss our new class line up this year and make sure to sign up for our newsletter to receive updates on up and coming classes.
Visit www.fauxforum.com to meet like minded artist from all over the world. This online forum provides a support like no other and gives an inside look to what other artists are doing.
Upcoming Classes
Dates: 9/9/10 - 9/13/10
Ron Francis teaching in America!
That's right everyone, we have Ron Francis from Australia teaching in September in our Connecticut studio. From September 9th to the 13th you can enjoy this 5 day course from the master himself. "My aim with these was to demonstrate fairly complex procedures in the most simple way that I could." -Ron Francis Panel1 undercoat: The drafting of this demonstrates depth perspective as well as light and shadow perspective. I thought it would be best to undercoat in acrylic to speed things up. Panel1_1: Neutral cube and sphere. (1) Introduction to value compression. Mixing a string of greys based on what value each plane should be. (2) Calculating the lightest point on the sphere using light and shadow vanishing points. (3) Calculating the the shadow on the sphere (terminator). (4) Specular reflection. Shine on the sphere demonstrates why white has to be keyed down to allow for these lighter reflections. (5) Ambient occlusion. Shadows getting darker in internal corners and crevices. (6) Edge planes. The change in value as a planes turns away from the viewer. (Edges of cube and sphere). Panel1_2: Adding of colour. (1) Value compression. Using a value scale to calculate what value a colour would be on each plane. (2) Chroma compression. If values are compressed into a smaller range, then chroma has to be compressed too. "Using these principles I have incorporated most of them into a finished painting as you can see." - Ron Francis
Ron Francis teaching in America!
That's right everyone, we have Ron Francis from Australia teaching in September in our Connecticut studio. From September 9th to the 13th you can enjoy this 5 day course from the master himself. "My aim with these was to demonstrate fairly complex procedures in the most simple way that I could." -Ron Francis Panel1 undercoat: The drafting of this demonstrates depth perspective as well as light and shadow perspective. I thought it would be best to undercoat in acrylic to speed things up. Panel1_1: Neutral cube and sphere. (1) Introduction to value compression. Mixing a string of greys based on what value each plane should be. (2) Calculating the lightest point on the sphere using light and shadow vanishing points. (3) Calculating the the shadow on the sphere (terminator). (4) Specular reflection. Shine on the sphere demonstrates why white has to be keyed down to allow for these lighter reflections. (5) Ambient occlusion. Shadows getting darker in internal corners and crevices. (6) Edge planes. The change in value as a planes turns away from the viewer. (Edges of cube and sphere). Panel1_2: Adding of colour. (1) Value compression. Using a value scale to calculate what value a colour would be on each plane. (2) Chroma compression. If values are compressed into a smaller range, then chroma has to be compressed too. "Using these principles I have incorporated most of them into a finished painting as you can see." - Ron Francis
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