Composition:

Unit 1: Arranging lines, shapes and tones

4 Online Lessons
Sundays 18.15 - 19.15
26.10.2025 - 23.11.2025
 
Instruction: Ilya Gefter

This series of 4 online lessons will focus on the structural foundations of visual arts. You'll learn the core principles of creating powerful composition using lines, shapes, and tones. Understanding how to organize these elements will strengthen every artwork you create, in any medium or subject.
 
What you'll learn:
 
What makes a composition engaging and harmonious
Principles of balance and dynamism in theory and practice
Composing with lines, shapes and tones. 
Creating rhythm and tension
Relationships between shapes and the picture surface
Art of cropping: when cropping fails and how it works
And more
 
Online Study Includes:
 
4 Live Zoom lectures (approximately 60 min each)
Q&A following each session
Access to all lecture recordings
Drawing and painting assignments: Clear recommendations for independent practice.
 
About the program:
 
This Unit of 4 Lessons can be taken independently or as part of the Comprehensive Composition Course (32 lessons). 
The program is available online only. 
Students who complete Unit 1 will have the option to continue onto the following study units: Color Composition, Grids, Composition in portraiture, and more.
Each study unit can be taken on its own or in a sequence
 
Fee: 
400 ILS