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Adult Watercolor Painting: Session 1 and 2
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Combine painting watercolors of plants, animals, landscapes and outer space in an 8-week class with us. Go deeper, learn more, build your skills and have twice the fun. Register for both classes up front and save $20! Watercolor Painting: Plants & Animals (Session 1) This 4-week session is the perfect amount of time to learn the basics of watercolor or further your skills! Every class will be a new adventure as you learn from demos, and guided...
Adult Printmaking
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This class is an opportunity for students to learn about both monotype and relief printmaking techniques and will culminate in an investigation of how to combine both methods for maximum effect. Students will learn how to transfer their images by hand with and without using a printing press. All skill levels are welcome. No previous printmaking experience necessary.
Intro to Oil Painting from Photographs
Educational Alliance Art School See all classes by this school @ 197 East Broadway, New York, NY
Learn the basics of oil painting or continue building on your existing skills. This course is for students of all levels who want to learn to paint from photographs. Bring in a found photo from a magazine or an original photo of your choice. Learn how to select a photo, plan your composition, set up your palette, mix paint, glaze, impasto, and more. Using these techniques and color theory, students will create compelling oil paintings. The...
Intro to Oil Painting
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Students will discover the creative and technical advantages of oil painting. Learn the basics from setting up the palette and mixing colors to a variety of techniques as you paint still-lifes. The exercises presented will develop your skills in observation and painting the form to create depth and a sense of light. Students will paint from still-life set up as well as from their own photographs. Supply List: Please click here to view the list
Adult Painting Studio
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This class is for students who wish to continue their painting practice in a studio setting with the one-on-one guidance of an instructor. Each student will work independently and will be guided on their personal painting journey through demonstrations, discussions, and individual artistic advice. Students can paint in any medium they choose. Some prior painting experience is preferred. Please click here for the Supply List.
Drawing and Painting for Beginners
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Discover the joys of drawing and oil painting in our course specifically curated for beginners! Working from still lifes, this class encourages creative experimentation. First, students will learn the fundamentals of drawing in pencil, charcoal, and ink, such as line, form, shading, composition, and most importantly, how to harness your own imagination. The second half of the course will focus on oil painting, when you’ll learn how...
Watercolor Painting
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Master the basics without the frustration! This course starts by experimenting with core watercolor techniques to establish a deeper understanding of the medium’s properties. Structured for all levels of experience, our Watercolor Painting classes include tutorials in color and design as well as wet-on-wet and dry-brush methods. Learn how to paint texture, blend and mix colors, maximize the potential of your brushes, and grasp composition...
Oil Painting from Still Lifes
Educational Alliance Art School See all classes by this school @ 197 East Broadway, New York, NY
Discover the creative and technical potentials of oil painting in a course that focuses on the fundamentals, from setting up your palette to mixing colors, alongside next-level techniques that will elevate your practice. Technical exercises hone observational skills so that emerging artists can cultivate a sensibility about how to portray an object's depth and luminosity. Students are invited to paint from both still life setups and photographs....
Introduction to Drawing
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This course will cover the basic techniques of drawing for students to create their own work. This course is designed for beginners to build confidence and make drawing simple and fun. Working with still lifes, students will warm up with gesture drawings then progress into drawing shapes, shading, and seeing objects in geometric forms. We will work with charcoal and pencils on paper. No previous experience necessary. In this in-person...
Wood Carving
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This class provides an introduction to basic wood carving to student who wants to include the craft in their art projects. With a creative mix of lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on experience, students will learn the various tools and woods available and their purpose. To understand how to visualize the finished work and thinking in 3-dimensions, students create a mock-up in styrofoam then transfer those ideas into...
Collage
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For the beginner through expert artist, this course delves into the dynamic art form of collage. Besides obvious influencers like Picasso and Matisse, collage can be explored just as effectively through music (Hip Hop, probably most directly) and technological advances like the Xerox copier or digital camera. Artist and themes are discussed near the beginning of each class, and the remainder is spent honing a personalized visual language. Texture,...
Street Photography: Lower East Side Environs
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There are many facets to street photography – from an intellectual approach to surrealism. In this 6-session course, students will study these two techniques and many more. Observing the diverse work of avant-garde photographers as a starting point, this course gives special emphasis to the world view of the concerned photographer versus the post-modernist aesthetic. We will also explore other non-street photographers whose work changes...
Figure Drawing with Live Model
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Whether you are a beginner or want to refresh your skills, learn the basic proportion of the human body and methods of capturing the figure on paper. Working with a live nude model, you will start with quick gestures and progress to longer poses while drawing with charcoal on paper. Material List: • Newprint Paper Pad- 18” x 24” • Drawing or Sketch Pad- 18”x 24” • Vine or Willow Charcoal- Soft • Charcoal Pencil- HB, 4B, 6B (General...
Fluid Painting
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Fluid painting is a technique of pouring acrylic paint onto a canvas in layers to create magical painted surfaces. The instructor will demonstrate techniques and guide you to create at least one painting. This is a fun introduction to fluid painting! Materials included.
Plein Air Watercolor Painting
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Come enjoy summer morning painting in Seward Park, located directly across the street from the Manny Cantor Center. Follow the path of the outdoor Impressionists as they painted with light or filtered light outdoors. Watercolor is the perfect medium to capture the time, light, and air of the moment. Paint wet, wet on wet, wet on dry, dry, dry on dry or any combination to achieve the light and immediacy of painting directly...
Alla Prima Oil Painting
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Learn the technique of alla prima painting – also known as direct or wet-on-wet painting – in just 4 weeks! Students will start and finish a painting in each class, using alla prima to capture immediacy, fluidity, and expressiveness. Students will paint from a new still-life setup in each class learning brush techniques, how to mix color on canvas, and how to see shapes and colors more easily. The class will start with monochromatic painting...
Intro to Ceramic Jewelry
Educational Alliance Art School See all classes by this school @ 197 East Broadway, New York, NY
This 3-session course is for the beginner who wants to explore the ceramic process to create original ceramic jewelry, such as pendants and/or beads for necklaces and other related jewelry accessories. Common studio tools, clay and glazes will be provided to assist the student in making unique pieces to wear. Note: Price Includes $10 Materials Fee
Papier Mache Sculpture Workshop (Teen/Adult)
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Use recycled materials, newspaper, and flour + water paste, in a two-part process of making papier mâché sculptures. In the first session, create a form out of wire and/or recycled materials, which will act as a support to cover with strips of paper dipped in glue. In the second session, after each object is dry, use acrylic paints to paint final works of art.
Intro to Watercolor & Portrait Painting
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Learn the basics without the frustration! In this course we start with experimenting with watercolor and make beautiful abstract paintings. By first learning the techniques through fun explorations, you won’t let the thought of trying to make it look like something get in the way of learning. Through demos and one-to-one conversations you will learn how to create texture, mix color, blend, use your brushes and understand composition. In...
Upcycle: Jewelry Making from Recycled Materials
Educational Alliance Art School See all classes by this school @ 197 East Broadway, New York, NY
Gain appreciation for color, texture and shapes of found objects and create handmade jewelry from recycled and reused materials. Learn basic joining techniques to combine materials and construct unique jewelry. All levels welcome! Please note: Registration closes 24 hours before the start of each workshop
Reviews of Educational Alliance Art School
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Fluid Painting
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Fluid Painting
Nice workshop, but very generic. I would have preferred to spend more hours, instead of just 2 and learn more different techniques/have enough time to experience them. Jodie the teacher, very nice and supportive -
Fluid Painting
Great class & teacher. Informative and fun. Would like to see more like this. Especially a larger format project. -
Adult Silk Screening
Wonderful good lernimg experience -
Fluid Painting
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Adult Artist Ceramics
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Adult Artist Ceramics
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Adult Introduction to Acrylic Painting
Jodie is a wonderful teacher who teaches you the steps needed to create an acrylic painting. She was very attentive and honest which helps you better your work. I'm really glad I came to this class because it gave me more confidence in creating art. I recommend Jodie and the class. -
Paint Your Vision
Such a great experience and the teacher did an excellent job of supporting our autonomy and vision while providing invaluable feedback and direction -
Introduction to Figure Drawing with a Model
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Ceramics
This class is great. The instructor Kyle is very talented and knowledgable. It's very hands on and you make a lot of things! Lots of fun! -
Introduction to Drawing
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Ceramics
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Portrait Painting in Oil
Loved the class! Loved Julie!) nice atmosphere. Huge progress in my painting) Elena -
Ceramics
fun and great way to relieve stress (and trust me, i stress on a mammoth level). the instructor was very slow with demonstrating techniques, but overall very knowledgeable and helpful. students were also nice and friendly. would totally recommend! -
Collage
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Figure Drawing
Excellent instruction by a master of figure drawing. -
Introduction to Drawing
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Portrait Painting in Oil
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Portrait Painting in Oil