Start here! Sample the best of the Art Center’s beginner classes in these compact courses aimed at showing you the basics of four foundational mediums: drawing, pastel, watercolor, and oil painting.
All supplies are provided during in person classes at no extra cost! Choose one medium or bundle any three together to save even more! (Receive a 15% discount on these class by purchasing any three Getting Started classes at one time).
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Shima is a fine artist, architect, and a creative designer based in New York City. She earned her Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to that, she earned a Bachelor degree in Architecture. Since 2011, she has been practicing as a designer in New York City, San Francisco, and Boston. As well as the design field, she has been practicing as an artist for over 15 years. Her work is primarily focused on oil painting and drawing and described as an abstract realism. Her subjects are portraits, figurative, cityscape and landscape. Parallel to ...
Shima is a fine artist, architect, and a creative designer based in New York City. She earned her Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to that, she earned a Bachelor degree in Architecture. Since 2011, she has been practicing as a designer in New York City, San Francisco, and Boston. As well as the design field, she has been practicing as an artist for over 15 years. Her work is primarily focused on oil painting and drawing and described as an abstract realism. Her subjects are portraits, figurative, cityscape and landscape. Parallel to teaching at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, she has participated in a number of workshops and exhibitions and has published a book titled Design Visualization. The book has been featured in the Landscape Architecture Magazine in 2020. Her interest is engaging the form as a fundamental element in her creative process and making a conclusive discussion through it, that is functional, inspiring and necessary in both design and art studios.
Getting Started with Watercolor
Acrylic Painting for Absolute Beginners
Oil Painting for Absolute Beginners
Oil Painting (Intermediate/Advanced)
Getting Started with Oil Painting
Landscape Painting in Oil Workshop (All Levels)
Zach Seeger is a painter and sculptor working in Brooklyn and upstate New York. He received his BFA from Binghamton University and MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. He has exhibited in the stARTup Fair LA, Artspace Tetra in Fukoka, Japan and Life on Mars Gallery, Brooklyn. He has taught 3D Design, sculpture, painting, drawing and graphic design at Brown University, Berkeley College and Binghamton University. He is currently the director of This Friday or Next Friday gallery in DUMBO, Brooklyn.
www.zachseeger.com www.zachseegerstudio.com
Fine Art Drawing with Pen Ink
Colored Pencils (Intermediate/Advanced)
Intro to Abstraction
Color Theory: Seeing Color through Paint
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