Current Courses (in-session)
These courses are currently in session but there's still time to join! You can catch up with recordings and be ready to jump into the remaining live sessions. You'll have access to the recordings for a year*.
*The Essential Drawing Course for Beginners includes lifetime access to recordings.

Collage by Patrick Bremer
Cut and Composed: Collaged Portrait
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This course introduces a playful yet deeply thoughtful way of working, inviting you to see collage as a legitimate fine art medium, capable of nuance, realism, and storytelling; combining classic art with this contemporary medium. Whether you're a seasoned artist or just beginning your creative journey, you’ll come away with a new understanding of how to build and layer a collaged portrait while minding temperature, tone, and proportions. For all levels, though drawing experience will be helpful.

Mixed media piece by Olya Losina, Prima Materia founder
Intro to Mixed Media: 5 Ways to Combine Painting & Drawing
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Do you want to push your art to the creative limit and enrich your palette of new techniques? In this course, you’ll learn several applications of mixed media by combining gouache and oil pastels in five creative ways. Learn how gouache can complement oil pastels and how oil pastels can improve a gouache painting.

Finished drawings made by students who completed the Essential Drawing Course.
Essential Drawing Course for Beginners
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In 12 classes, you’ll learn the techniques of drawing from the beginning. The drawings above are by students who joined this course as absolute beginners. You will build the skills by rendering objects and environments with a teaching method found nowhere else. All drawings will be created in monochrome (black and white) to focus on the basics: light and shadow, line, and dimension.
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