Adult class is Open !!

Art After School provides students ages 7 - 15 with an education in the visual arts. Our program focuses on developing technical drawing, painting, and sculpture skills. We begin with an academic art approach by studying form, proportion, light, space, perspective, values, and color, all while using various techniques and media. Classes are organized by age group per day of the week. Advanced students prepare portfolios for art auditions. Classes are one hour and a half long and include art supplies. Our studio is a professional artist space; artwork by practicing and exhibiting artists hangs on the walls alongside the student’s artwork to create a nurturing inspiring and creative environment for self-expression.

Picture Making in Painting (all levels) - The class will concentrate on composition; the foundational element in making a good painting. From a single portrait to a complex figurative scene, the student will learn how shapes, colors, lines, etc. relate to one another, and to the border created by the canvas. Students will learn how to apply the fundamentals of color theory to painting in a personal and informed way, whether working from observation, imagination, or abstraction. Each student will choose a type of painting they wish to make (scene, portrait, still-life, landscape, abstraction). We will use the creation of the painting as an opportunity to explore ideas and techniques of picture-making.

Individual feedback will be provided as well as in group critiques, to support students develop their creative strengths. References to painting styles and methods from traditional through contemporary, will be made.