Studio Art
- Offers Instruction for All Levels
- Builds Skills in Drawing, Painting, and Mixed Media
- Affords Visits to NYC Museums and Galleries
Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced artist, these courses provide you with the opportunity to experiment with new techniques, explore different media, and unleash your creativity. They focus on specific media—drawing, painting, watercolor, etc.—and subject matter—still-life, portraits, and landscapes.
Cracking Comics: Drawing and Storytelling with Cartoons
Learn how to develop an individualized practice for making cartoons and comics, regardless of your drawing ability or experience.
Drawing Techniques for Art Specialists
Gain deeper insight into the artist’s creative process, and explore the essential concepts and techniques of representational drawing.
Drawing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
At the Met, sketch the paintings and sculptures of influential artists celebrated for their drawings.
Printmaking by Hand: Linoleum Cuts, Collagraphs, and Monotypes
Try handmade printing, exploring a variety of mark-making methods and inking techniques to create your own linoleum cuts, collagraphs, and monotypes.
Landscape Painting in Central Park
Working with watercolor, oil, and acrylic paints, learn composition, proportion, texture, and mark-making.
Linoleum Printmaking
Create prints without a press using a fast and easy method that involves carving and printing from linoleum.
Collage: The Invention of Images
Explore the creative possibilities of collage using a wide variety of materials and sources that allow for a diverse range of references and imagery.
Drawing and Painting Portraits and Self-Portraits
Learn to create a portrait, first by choosing a subject that inspires you, and then by interpreting and realizing it using your preferred medium.
Drawing and Painting with Mixed Media
Explore the range of media available for painting and drawing, and expand the boundaries of your art.
Fundamentals of Figure Drawing
Learn the fundamentals of figure drawing before a live model in this introductory studio course.
Still-Life Drawing
Learn the fundamentals of drawing: selecting a composition, focusing on a concept, and choosing a technique for rendering the objects.