Live online classes
Live online classes designed for beginners through advanced artists across drawing, painting, and mixed media.
RecordingOnline6 lessonsAll levels
In this course, you'll learn how to create deeply personal art by utilizing your old family photographs to connect with your roots, evoke childhood memories, and make a profound impact through your art, resulting in a unique and authentic body of work.
RecordingOnline12 lessons
Olya Losina has her own method of teaching abstract art. In this course you will experience the transformation of your sensation of art-making to the spiritual experience that you may not be able to find the words to describe. But we WILL talk about it and try to get the language that can express abstract art. As an artist, the only way to grow, expand, and progress is to say YES to the unknown and the unfamiliar. Everything you need to know to create abstract art with confidence is right here in this 8-week course.
RecordingOnline4 lessons
This 4-week course offers a unique blend of skill-building, environmental awareness, resourcefulness, and creative exploration by painting a series of portraits on cardboard boxes.
RecordingOnline6 lessons
If you've previously struggled with managing charcoal and found it to be messy or uncontrollable, this course is for you! Our course is designed to teach you how to become comfortable with charcoal through step-by-step instruction and guided demonstrations. Over the span of six weeks, our expert instructor will cover six independent charcoal drawing techniques that range from blending and creating texture to using the eraser as a drawing tool. By the end of the course, you'll feel confident in your ability to control charcoal and create stunning works of art.
RecordingOnline6 lessons
Learn how to intensify the vibrant color of nature and capture the raw energy of Fauvism in this course. You'll create studies of colorful boats using Fauvist techniques, culminating in a larger painting of boats in a bay with reflections, waves, and sunlit distant shores, and conclude with an online exhibition and discussion to share your work and get feedback.
RecordingOnline6 lessons
Are you ready to explore the depths of your imagination and create something truly unique and captivating? Look no further than our surrealism art course!
RecordingOnline6 lessons
An opportunity to exercise your painting muscle by creating a triptych in the timeless theme of Three Graces. The three standing poses will be painted each on a separate canvas. The project is designed to be displayed as a triptych.
RecordingOnline6 lessons
In this project, you will create a mixed media portrait in large format that will stimulate your creativity and show you the possibilities when you recycle your unwanted art.
RecordingOnline2 lessons
Making miniature sketches, while working from figure models, is a new experience for most art students. Learn to be flexible, drawing without a pencil and eraser, and scaling up or down with pen and ink.
RecordingOnline6 lessons
This course is a great opportunity to learn how to elevate your own art of portraiture. We will be studying William-Adolphe Bouguereau by means of copying one of his paintings. If you truly want to develop YOUR style and achieve painter’s mastery, there is no better way to train your eye, enrich your palette, and develop a better technique, than by copying.
RecordingOnline4 lessons
A great technique for ALL levels. It will completely remove any fear of making mistakes and help us draw an anatomically accurate body. Following in the footsteps of Edgar Degas, we will learn a creative way to deal with correcting (or perfecting or editing) our composition, proportions, and anything else by means of colored patches.
RecordingOnline5 lessons
Painting a bouquet of dying flowers on a giant canvas in oils or acrylic, with a personal message, exploring the image of a wilting bouquet as a metaphor.
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JordanDrawing and Painting Course
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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.