Advanced Drawing

For returning students, this five day workshop continues to hone your drawing skills and stretches you to a higher level of drawing. Class fee $465. Class size is limited.

Prerequisite: Basic drawing class. (Class dates and location)

Advanced Facial Comparisons & Identification for Visual Information Specialists

Class open to participants who have already attended the Facial Comparisons class. With today's technology and video surveillance, there are numerous computer-savvy professionals and innovative programs to aid developing digital information on unknown suspects. What is needed is for people trained in facial identification to draw composites from video surveillance images. Course includes working on actual cases.This intensive, 40-hour course will build on previous materials for the visual information specialist.

Prerequisite: Composite Drawing for Law Enforcement, Facial Comparisons and Identification.

Advanced Forensic Art

This course provides additional forensic skills beyond composite drawing which include facial reconstruction, aging of missing children, and other subjects.

Prerequisite: Composite Drawing for Law Enforcement or permission of the instructor. (Class dates and location)

Children and Forensic Art. For experienced forensic artists, learn how to draw, age, add color, and interview children.

Composite Drawing Certification

Participants seeking formal acknowledgment of their training and drawing skills in comparison to other artists are encouraged to attend this certification training.

Prerequisite: Composite Drawing for Law Enforcement and workshop I, or permission of the instructor. (Class dates and location)

Composite Drawing for Law Enforcement

This is our basic course that presents the most important skills and information needed to become a composite artist. This class is intended for law enforcement personnel regardless of drawing ability. Class includes the cognitive interview, drawing the human face, Caucasian/Negroid males, Hispanic males, supplies, identification, identification systems, standard operating systems, vocabulary, history, and hands-on composites using two methods.

Prerequisite: A strong desire to learn.  Dalton, GA, Saratoga, CA , Beltsville, MD

Composite Drawing Seminar

Learn to rotate a face in and out of profile, draw profiles, and color composites. Hands-on practical exercises.

Prerequisite: Composite Drawing for Law Enforcement

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Composite Drawing Workshop I

This course serves as a refresher and skill development program for those students who desire to upgrade and expand their skills in the composite drawing field. Course includes instruction on aging the face, multiple witness interviews, Drawing women-Caucasian/Negroid, accessory items-baseball hats, glasses, Mongolian male and female racial groups, and heavy faces.

Prerequisite: Composite Drawing for Law Enforcement, or permission of the instructor (Class dates and location)

Composite Drawing Workshop II

This course serves as a refresher and skill development program for those students who desire to upgrade and expand their skills in the composite drawing field. Course includes instruction on interviewing children for composites, interviewing signs of deception, interviewing the elderly for composites, composites without reference photos, memory, drawing teeth, drawing profiles.

Prerequisite: Composite Drawing for Law Enforcement or permission of the instructor. (Class dates and location)

Composite Drawing Workshop III

This workshop is a refresher and challenge to the working composite artist. New skills are presented and there is an extensive review of older skills

Prerequisite: Composite Drawing for Law Enforcement or permission of the instructor. (Class dates and location)

Courtroom Sketch Artist

Have you ever watched television with those courtroom sketches on major cases and wondered how they learned to do it? Now you can find out. Learn how to do color and black and white sketches in this forty hour, hands on class. No forensic art experience required. $695.

Prerequisite:(Class dates and location)

Demonstrative Evidence: From Crime Scene to Courtroom

This course provides training in preparing trial charts and investigative aids for various departments. It assumes no drawing ability on the part of the participant. It is designed for law enforcement, attorneys and those working for attorneys as well as those interested this field.

Prerequisite: No Prerequisite (Class dates and location)

Drawing and Painting Portraits

This class is designed for beginning to advanced participants interested in learning about drawing and watercolor painting the face. Two days are spent on drawing, then we move into how to render the face in watercolor. Fast, fun, hands-on. Supply list provided with registration. Class fee: $450.

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Facial Comparisons and Identification for Visual Information Specialists

With todays technology and video surveillance, there are numerous computer-savy professionals and innovative programs to aid in developing digital information on unknown suspects. What is needed is for people trained in facial identification to make the mug-to-mug, mug-to-surveillance, and surveillance-to-surveillance matches. This intensive, 40-hour course will introduce the visual information specialist to the biometric world as an interface that will aid in leading to identification.

Facial Reconstruction

Instructor: Mrs. Jane Hemmer

This intensive, forty-hour class covers all aspects of three-dimensional facial recontstruction including bones, muscles, expression, different racial groups and appearances. Emphasis on complete understanding of the face from the bones out. Supply list.

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Facial Reconstruction and Unknown Remains

This course covers fundamentals of three-dimensional (clay) and two-dimensional (drawing) of skeletal remains. In addition, participants will work on unknown remains from photographic references. Some drawing skill needed, however, participants will receive additional facial feature instruction.

Prerequisite: Some drawing experience. (Class dates and location)

Forensic Drawing for Medical Examiners and Support Personnel

This course assumes no drawing ability on the part of the participant. Students are taught right-brain drawing to assist in the identification of unknown remains as well as other skills. It is designed for law enforcement, students, medical personnel, or other interested in this field.

Prerequisite: No Prerequisite (Class dates and location)

Secrets to Realistic Drawing

This five day workshop will turn your "happy face" into portraits. Learn how to draw accurate, detailed drawings that can form the foundation for all your artistic goals. Class fee is $465. Class size is limited.

Prerequisite: none (Class dates and location)

Skill Development for the Forensic Artist

In response to requests for classes that stretch and improve the drawing skills of the forensic artists, this course will focus on shading, hair, and drawing clothing. It will be of particular benefit to those working on unknown remains and those wanting to add color to their work. All new materials and case studies. Keep those perishable drawing skills alive!

Prerequisite: Composite Drawing for Law Enforcement 

Watercolor Portraits

Regardless of your watercolor background or experience, learn how to paint portraits using a variety of techniques. You will be able to paint your own images by the end of the week. Five day workshop. Class fee $465. Class size is limited.

Prerequisite:(Class dates and location)

You Can Paint in Watercolors!

Developed after years of teaching successful watercolors, Carrie makes it fun and easy! Learn how to paint a variety of subjects or paint your own projects.

Files: Wild Rose watercolor project (Floral.jpg)

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