Painting Classes in San Francisco, CA

This course helps students create and express themselves through acrylic painting. Students will receive step-by-step instruction to learn acrylic painting techniques covering concepts such as, basic color theory, composition, brush strokes, blending, and much more.  Please read:  Students need to have access to acrylic paints...

Develop your creative drawing and painting practice from the comfort of your own home! Learn new techniques and discover the work of master artists through lectures, demonstrations, and lively class discussions in this intermediate/advanced level course. Develop your observational drawing and painting skills though group and individual assignments...

This course is designed to provide additional instruction and practice to take face painters to a new level.   Note: Students are expected to have the same materials from Beginners Face Painting. Instructions on how to access the course will be sent by email before the 1st day of class.

Develop your own expressive painting style, and help to calm your mind in the process. Become more confident in color theory, and receive one-on-one guidance matching your individual level of experience.  Each session will cover a specific topic, with related music playing in the background to calm, motivate and inspire you during your creative...

This program is taking place remotely. If you have signed up, you will receive an email with details of how to access the program.  If we are able to offer an in-person version of this class in the coming months, we will contact you and make both options available to you. _______________ Learn methods of paint application, color formation and...

Through guided technical experimentation, this class will focus on developing form, perspective, color. Students have the option to work from individual still lifes in their home or from photographs provided by instructor as an alternative. We will cover the fundamentals of composition, value, and mark-making. Students are encouraged to make work...

Learn how to achieve a likeness in painting a portrait with this challenging medium. Each week you’ll work directly from a live model or from your own reference photographs to learn how to capture the character and depth of each subject. Prerequisite: at least two semesters of Basic/Intermediate Watercolor. For the Supply List, please CLICK...

We will work from still life. Emphasis will be on light, layers, and transparent washes with a gradual buildup of detail through color and tone. The particular qualities of various pigments and papers will be examined. We will explore transparency and opacity, with emphasis on composition and rhythm. Students will receive individual attention and...

The Original Paint Nite: Unleash your inner artist Join our master artists to create a painting from our homes to yours!  This events are BYOS (bring your own supplies)!  General recommended supplies: a canvas 8x10 or larger,  paint brushes ranging from 1” (large) to small detail brushes Acrylic paint - (we recommend you look at...

Paint what you want - anything goes at an open paint Freestyle Session! Drop-in on our Freestyle Session Zoom call anytime between 4 and 8pm Mountain Time for some community, feedback (if you want it), and/or help with your painting. I'll have a camera focused on my canvas so everyone can see what I'm working on, but each person will be working on...

For Adult Students This is an ONLINE ART CLASS that meets weekly via Zoom This course will teach students how to realize provocative compositions of everyday objects, learn how to employ color and light to change the point of view of the viewer. The way we look at things is important, the perspective, and where we place the object within our composition,...

Using at-home props and your imagination, students will create a series of landscapes and draw or paint their invented world, a. a bucolic landscape; b. a nighttime landscape; c. an urban or fantasy landscape. Students can use a variety of materials from the most basic (pen or pencil and pad) to markers, watercolor etc., even collage. The assignments...

The Original Paint Nite: Unleash your inner artist Join our master artists to create a painting from our homes to yours! Please purchase 1 ticket for each person painting. These events are BYOS (bring your own supplies)! General recommended supplies: Canvas 8x10 or larger Paint brushes ranging from 1” (large) to small detail brushes. Acrylic...

This program is taking place remotely. If you have signed up, you will receive an email with details of how to access the program.  If we are able to offer an in-person version of this class in the coming months, we will contact you and make both options available to you. _____________________ Dive into the sketchbooks kept by great thinkers...

Watercolor is a fresh, beautiful way to express the beauty of a sunset or the reflection of trees and clouds on a pond. You will learn to make expressive marks, mix colors, and apply water mindfully to achieve the sparkling, sensitive effects watercolor offers.  Prerequisite: Beginning Watercolor or similar experience.  A supply list will...