Live online classes
Live online classes designed for beginners through advanced artists across drawing, painting, and mixed media.
RecordingOnline5 lessons
Discover the Renaissance method of layering translucent color over a green underpainting to create lifelike skin tones, glowing depth, and the illusion of breath beneath the surface—reviving a centuries-old technique once reserved for the Great Masters.
RecordingOnline12 lessons
Learn how to prepare and submit your artwork to juried exhibitions, competitions, and galleries—with expert guidance to refine your pieces, develop your voice, and stand out as a professional artist.
RecordingOnline6 lessons
In this course, you will learn how to achieve a magical, glow-in-the-dark effect with regular paints. This course will explain the secret behind this striking visual phenomenon step by step: how depending on the amount of white or black you create this expression of radiance. This is a project where students are invited to use their own images to create a unique and personal painting.
RecordingOnline6 lessons
A sketchbook is a fundamental tool for artists – it’s a must-have for any creative. In this course, you’ll learn how to use it effectively to lay the foundation for all of your future work. The objective is to learn how to catalyze creativity, gather ideas for art, and let go of perfectionism. Every class will introduce you to practical and fun ways to fill your sketchbook.
RecordingOnline5 lessons
Following the steps of traditional portraiture, we’ll focus on the technical aspects of portraits, strengthening our drawing skills, learning all the ins and outs of soft pastel, but also strive to emphasize the beauty of light on the skin, expressive features of the character, texture on the hair and clothing, and most importantly - try to express it in our own unique style. For intermediate and advanced artists.
RecordingOnline4 lessons
A figure, drawn on a letter, gets enriched as it acquires a story. This versatile mixed-media project will be a fun way to learn how to create a figure in ten different mediums at once, and work on unusual substrates. A male model will aid our inspiration in this eccentric, non-traditional technique. There will be a lot of examples, a demonstration, thought-provoking group discussions, and personalized feedback.
RecordingOnline8 lessons
Excite your senses and enrich your life with painting an oversized garden with flowers, birds, trees, and the sounds of spring. Let this Epicurean experience take you into the midst of pleasures of art-making. The richness of meadows in full bloom, the thickets with dense texture of shade - and the spectrum of all existing colors of paints - indulge! Enjoy submerging yourself into the sensation of painting - which makes artists who tried it once be forever addicted to the act of creation.
RecordingOnline6 lessons
If you’ve tried charcoal and found it messy – this course will show you how to control it. In each class, the instructor will lead you through demonstrations that cover 6 independent charcoal drawing techniques, such as blending, creating texture, using the eraser as a drawing tool, drawing on paper versus canvas, and more.
RecordingOnline6 lessons
Create a contemporary portrait with contemporary tools. Make a Pop Art painting with the special technique introduced in this course. This technique will combine drawing, masking, tracing, transferring, and painting in one artwork.
RecordingOnline4 lessons
From this course, you will learn how to prepare your substrate in order to create a more unique-looking figure drawing in mixed media. With this technique, you can express the contrast between lights and shadows. Each class will start with a warm-up where you will sketch 10 gestural poses, following specific quick-hand techniques.
RecordingOnline12 lessons
We will try something new in this project and change our brushwork from ordinary to vertical. The value of doing the familiar subject in an unfamiliar way is creative expansion, your awareness of how many tools are in your hands - and that your tools go beyond your brushes, it also includes technique - which will help you grow as an artist.
RecordingOnline6 lessons
In this course, you will learn seven different ways to apply washes - each for a completely unique effect and purpose. Learn how to use washes in preparatory sketches for paintings, or discover how they can be used to make meaningful drawings. It is rare for a technique to work equally well in drawing and in painting - this course will help you bridge the gap between the two mediums.
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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.