You're browsing Painting Classes in NYC, New York

What you'll learn in this painting class: In a relaxed, social setting, an experienced artist will guide the class step-by-step through replicating the night's featured painting. It's easy, fun, and totally stress-free. We are BYOB, so you can bring in beer, wine, and food to enjoy during class. Grab your friends, coworkers, plan a unique date night,...

Sumi-e, also called Suibokuga, is the art of ink wash-painting. Characteristically, it is an East Asian art, and has been practiced there for well over a thousand years. Sumi-e depicts the spirit or essence of an object or scene rather than its outward appearance — and does so in the fewest possible strokes. Because of this simplicity, the painter’s...

Focus on traditional oil painting techniques that are rarely taught but incredibly useful for painters of all styles. Experiment with underpainting and grisaille techniques, as well as alla prima exercises to improve your understanding of composition, value, and color. The goal will be to explore the rich variety of painting approaches and methods...

What you'll learn in this painting class: In a relaxed, social setting, an experienced artist will guide the class step-by-step through replicating the night's featured painting. It's easy, fun, and totally stress-free. We are BYOB, so you can bring in beer, wine, and food to enjoy during class. Grab your friends, coworkers, plan a unique date night,...

Bring your wine, your friends and create memories and masterpieces. We will provide all the art materials you will need to create your masterpiece. With a dash of magic, a splash of paint and a whole lot of fun, Painting Hangout provides the perfect space for you to release your stress and set free your inner artist. Our cozy, intimate studio and...

Explore the rich variety of figure painting methods by looking at the underlying structure of the human form and means of achieving a vivid, varied surface that truly brings the form to life. Explore a rich variety of methods, including brushwork, knife techniques, glazing, and anatomy. Develop a critical eye by de-emphasizing distracting details...

What you'll learn in this painting class: In a relaxed, social setting, an experienced artist will guide the class step-by-step through replicating the night's featured painting. It's easy, fun, and totally stress-free. We are BYOB, so you can bring in beer, wine, and food to enjoy during class. Grab your friends, coworkers, plan a unique date night,...

This class includes a FREE half-hour set-up time additionally, so you can get all the time you need to paint and draw a portrait of the jewel of Brooklyn, Prospect Park. Painting in nearby Prospect Park weather permitting.

This class has been designed to remove some of the mystery of the "magical" techniques of the European Masters. Painting from a live model, students will learn how to develop a grisaille (a monochromatic under-painting), and then add semi-opaque layers of color and transparent glazes to realize an almost inner glow when painting flesh. Demonstrations...

What you'll learn in this painting class: In a relaxed, social setting, an experienced artist will guide the class step-by-step through replicating the night's featured painting. It's easy, fun, and totally stress-free. We are BYOB, so you can bring in beer, wine, and food to enjoy during class. Grab your friends, coworkers, plan a unique date night,...

Through demonstration, discussion, and practice, students in this in-person class will gain an understanding of how the science of light can be harnessed along with their perceptual awareness to produce convincing works of figurative art. Students of this class will explore gesture, proportion, perspective, and the many facets of color...

Take a romantic walk along this beautiful riverside with someone special! Feel all stress melt away as you paint these vivid colors and sip your favorite beverage!  Join Paint & Sip Studio New York for a fun adventure in art! Pick a class, grab a drink and get ready to get creative in our relaxed, studio environment, where experienced local...

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...

This class focuses on practical and historical figure-drawing and painting methods. A clear process for ascertaining proper proportions, establishing anatomical accuracy, and modeling form in light and shadow will be thoroughly discussed. The class is designed to eliminate guesswork and trial-and-error in painting and drawing, and is suited to beginning,...

In this class, we will develop rendering skills to depict the human head and figure, caricature and expression, and the ability to elaborate, expand, and fictionalize sitters. The course will introduce practical information about the fundamentals of painting: shape, tone, edge, composition, color, line perspective, and substance. Through slide presentations,...