Visual Arts High School Programs, such as Load Byng Mini-School or Langley Fine Art, enable students to acquire skills and knowledge for university visual art programs. And GAAC Portfolio Prep programs for Grades 6-7 help you to enter the visual arts specialty programs.

Portfolios provide a snapshot of your creative thinking skills and technical capabilities, and give insight into your interests and potential. This course gives students the opportunity to diversify and solidify not only their technical abilities, but also their creative thinking skills.

In this class, students come up with their own conceptual approaches to drawing and painting exercises, refining their technical skills while developing their artistic voices and exploring ways of seeing the world.

Learn the advanced architectural design concepts and develop essential skills in rendering and model-making by creating solutions to architectural challenges. The class will emphasize communicating concepts through creative solutions. Class activities include in-depth project critiques, review sessions from industry professionals, in-class sketching, and basic digital modelling.

If you dream of becoming a fashion designer, merchandiser, or stylist, this course can help make that dream a reality. The course introduces you to the elements of basic of fashion design and visually presenting it through illustration. It will help you understand, analyse and draw a fashion figure and maybe even slowly develop your own croquis.

In this class, students will be introduced to the world of UI/UX Design and what it means to be a UX Designer. As technology becomes more accessible to the masses, user experience design is crucial for bridging the gap between humans and machines.

Study basic human anatomy, the hierarchy of the figure in art-making, and a variety of figure drawing techniques. Working from reference or a live figure drawing model, students have the opportunity to draw a range of poses for short, medium, and extended periods of time.

Highly recommended for those interested in animation and game design, this 3-module portfolio preparation program covers the fundamentals of digital media. From character design, concept design to basic rules of digital painting, students will explore how to create a unique visual language of their own and bring drawings to life.