Live online classes
Live online classes designed for beginners through advanced artists across drawing, painting, and mixed media.
RecordingOnline4 lessonsIntermediate
Learning how to paint a costumed model is an exciting and challenging process. Clothes add color, character, texture, pattern, and rhythm to the subject. Learn how to depict fabrics, folds that hug the body, patterns, as well as gloves, hats, and shoes. For those who are interested in getting portrait commissions, this is the opportunity to learn how to do it with this step-by-step guidance.
RecordingOnline6 lessonsIntermediate
Learn the styles of six different painters: Fayum portraits, Frank Auerback, Frida Kahlo, Alice Neel, Alex Katz, and Luc Tuymans, and paint six self-portraits, using a mirror. Learning to paint in their style will help you flex your creative muscle and try yourself at Contemporary Realism in three different styles, Abstract Expressionism, Symbolism, Minimalism, and mixed media. Learn art history and discover new artists while making a very personal polyptych. This course will open up a new world for you - the world of portraiture.
RecordingOnline6 lessonsBeginner
Perspective is all around us, but it makes itself invisible to the untrained eye. This is one skill that is close to impossible to grasp on your own because perspective is surprisingly counterintuitive in some of its parts. We are here to demystify perspective and show you the secrets to avoiding mistakes that even the great masters made.
RecordingOnline4 lessonsAll levels
Create a whimsical, Chagall-inspired painting this Valentine’s season, featuring floating, romantic figures and fantastical scenes that celebrate love, memory, and imagination.
RecordingOnline4 lessonsIntermediate
In this course, you'll experience a deep sense of how speed and time transform your drawing process and artistic expression by creating four dynamic artworks: two bursting with quick, gestural energy and two with more developed, intentional figures.
RecordingOnline3 lessonsAll levels
During this three week course, you will create three landscape paintings using the beautiful medium of soft pastels and complete one drawing per week. We’ll be studying pastel works by Degas, Monet, Morisot, and other Impressionist masters, and the instructor will show you the step-by-step process of creating pastel paintings in the Impressionist style with a variety of landscapes references. Open to all levels.
RecordingOnline2 lessonsBeginner
Painting starts with color-mixing, and this course is the most important course for anyone who wants to try painting. In this course, you will acquire the system for how to set your palette and mix any color you want. Color mixing is like science; anyone who understands it, gets off to a good start.
RecordingOnline3 lessons
We will create gestural poses by means of negative shapes, i.e. we will direct our focus to the space that surrounds the figures. We will practice this in our warm-up practice to create multiple studies before we shift to the main project, where we will add charcoal to define the body. We will spend 2 weeks on one drawing, refining it step by step.
RecordingOnline11 lessonsAdvanced
Caravaggio is one of the great masters in Art History, and in this course you will learn from him. To understand what made his paintings so extraordinary, we will be studying his palette, composition, paint application, and brushwork - everything that matters in painting will be covered. The unusual aspect of this course is that you will be taught how to stage your setup in order to achieve a similar visual effect. Yes, you'll paint from your own still life! Every student's work will be different. Compose it in large format, choose a set of pigments for the dramatic lights and shadows, control the form, and bring your subject to life, and discover how without making a direct copy of Caravaggio, you can produce your own Caravaggesque figurative painting or a still life.
RecordingOnline6 lessons
Advance your drawing style and achieve high contrast in your drawings. Pen and ink is the medium of restraints and precision, where time investment is key - this is why we will spend the first three classes learning the principles and techniques, and develop a feel for working with pen and ink, and the next three weeks will be dedicated to creating one drawing, to give you the time to add the details. We will go very slowly to enjoy the process of drawing, to savor every pen stroke.
RecordingOnline5 lessons
Learn to paint a face in the style of the French Fauves. They were interested in the intensity of color in their portraits; their focus was on exaggerating colors more than accuracy or naturalism. You will be able to loosen up and create portraits that are expressive, bright, and happy. You will learn how to create three portraits in this style, unleash your brush, and paint with pigments extra-bright and pure.
RecordingOnline4 lessons
Learn to overcome the fear of mistakes and the resistance to making corrections. Working directly with pen and ink on smooth mixed media paper, we will create a figure drawing, striving for capturing the pose. We want the proportions to be off from the first go, because then we can create pentimenti!
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Membership is the best way to take this course — it unlocks live classes and the recording library for one price. You can also join a live class à la carte (includes recordings for a year) or buy recordings on their own when they're sold separately. The course page lists the options that apply.
Core classes run online in our live classroom. Private and limited in-person formats are available for select offerings.
Yes. The beginner pathway is designed for students with no prior experience, with step-by-step instruction and assignments.
Sessions are recorded, so students can catch up asynchronously through the recordings library.
Tell us your current level and goals. We will recommend the right class path and schedule.