Visual Art Weekly Class
(form your own group class of 2 or more starting at $25 per hour/week each)

Fine Arts is a great opportunity to gain drawing and painting skills using different techniques and materials. It can develop an understanding of visual arts and explores your artistic creativity. Students will take a tour of the art world to be exploring and learning paintings and drawings. ​


​Private classes offer your choice of: Acrylic, Color pencils, Pastel, Sketching, Watercolor, Oil, Cartoons and Digital design. Prerequites: You will need to purchase some basic painting supplies. 

Portriature
Learn the Basics of Drawing & Portrait Art of a person or thing that overemphasizes a subject's peculiarities, defects, or distinguishing features but still retains a likeness to the original. The basic steps to portraiture, we will draw on human and animal, proportion, and form of face, and texture will be covered.

Watercolor
This course is suitable for beginners, intermediate and advanced students. Adults and teenagers are welcome. Different techniques of watercolor such as wet on dry and wet in wet and also different subjects such as street scenes, landscapes, seascapes, portraits and still life will be taught.

Acrylic/Oil Painting
Whether painting in oil or acrylic, we will discuss about good composition, drawing, perspective (linear & colour)  and form pattern. We will look at what works & where we can make improvements together. Learn how to use a brush for different painting effects and learn painting techniques. Our teachers always strive to help students really see and understand what their looking at so they produce a competent, in perspective painting. 

Computer Media Arts (Graphic Design of Photoshop and Illustrator) 
​Technology is truly everywhere, our media arts class teaches students about computer animated stop-motion animation, film-making graphics, digital cartoons, graphic novel characters, video art and much more. Students develop important skills like communication, critical thinking, and innovation through Media Arts, so they can go on to engage with their world in original ways. Personalized based on specific student needs. Laptop is required.

1 Hour Art Classes
Kids ages 5-7 (Parent/guardians can join too)​
Pencil drawing and sketching, Pastel drawing, Introduction to acrylic painting
90 min Art Classes
Junior ages 8-17
Intermediate pencil drawing and sketching, Acrylic painting, Digital drawing (Included: comic book illustration, drawing software knowledge)
2 Hour Art Classes
Adults and Seniors
Watercolor painting, Acrylic painting, Digital drawing (Included: comic book illustration, drawing software knowledge)

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About our Art Instructor  
Solmaz MFA (Fine Art & Digital Art)          Saturday    
Solmaz is a Persian/Filipino artist whose passion for art and painting started when she was in first grade and everyone would gather around her to watch, which she realized later,  that it was her very first experience of doing workshops. She studied Fine Arts major in painting in both of her undergraduate and graduate studies and won best thesis award for her painting. While studying at graduate school she worked as a part-time college instructor for computer graphic arts, drawing, and photography. After she accomplished her MFA degree she started working as a full-time artist and had private classes and workshops for kids and adults. She loves to teach painting,  it’s the best feeling to be able to share her knowledge and experience of painting with others. Other than painting she loves making papier mache sculptures.  She is also Artist instructor at PaintNite event. ​

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