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Fear-Free Acrylic Painting for Total Beginners

Wake up your creativity and discover your artistic voice in this beginner-friendly acrylic painting class. Build essential techniques like color mixing, layering, and texture while exploring both abstract and realistic styles. Enjoy a supportive, inspiring setting that encourages self-expression and stress relief through art.

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  • 243 W 72nd St , New York, NY
  • 16 hours over 8 sessions

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Wed. Nov 18, 2026, 10:30am ET (8 sessions)


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Class Description

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Experience the therapeutic benefits of painting through this welcoming beginner's acrylic painting course at The Art Studio NY, New York's highest-rated fine arts facility. Unlock your capacity for genuine creative expression and discover the artist within yourself in this intimate group setting that offers customized, one-on-one guidance from a credentialed professional artist instructor. Develop your creative abilities by mastering multiple painting approaches tailored to your unique artistic interests and skill level. Build foundational proficiency in acrylic painting techniques on canvas, encompassing color theory and mixing, surface texture development, expressive brushwork, palette knife techniques, paint washes, layered application methods, transparent glazing effects, compositional principles, and additional essential techniques. Access your inner creativity, build meaningful connections with fellow artists, and experience the documented stress-reducing advantages of visual art creation while executing paintings with varied subject matter, including natural landscapes, geometrically-based cubist work, non-representational abstraction, and arranged objects. Upon completing this course, you will have created finished artwork worthy of displaying in your living spaces.

In this beginner acrylic painting program, you will accomplish the following:

  • Create original acrylic paintings on canvas that integrate technical proficiency with your personal artistic perspective and vision
  • Build competency in foundational painting techniques applicable across all painting disciplines
  • Develop an advanced understanding of color science and create harmonious color combinations that communicate emotional content
  • Benefit from personalized instruction and encouraging guidance from an accomplished New York artist with extensive teaching experience
  • Participate in live demonstrations of professional painting techniques
  • Explore diverse brushes and learn proper selection and application methods for different painting effects
  • Practice an extensive range of painting approaches, including texture creation and building, opaque pigment application, transparent glazing methods, balanced composition, both expressive and realistic rendering techniques, palette knife application methods, paint layering strategies, gestural mark-making, and numerous additional methods
  • Participate in a supportive creative environment characterized by non-critical feedback, emotional safety, and encouragement
  • Access daily encouragement, artistic community, and creative inspiration through our exclusive private Facebook community for course members
  • Develop your distinctive artistic approach and personal creative voice through acrylic painting
  • Participate in a collaborative community of people with shared artistic interests and goals
  • Gain the scientifically validated mental health and wellbeing advantages of artistic creation, including anxiety management, stress reduction, enhanced emotional regulation, increased natural mood elevation, and strengthened self-worth

Required Materials:

All art supplies are the responsibility of students; the studio does not provide materials.

Supply List:

  • Canvas stretched on a wooden frame or pre-made canvas board; 11 x 14 inches or smaller dimensions are recommended
  • Acrylic paint in essential colors (white, yellow, red, blue, plus any additional preferred colors)
  • Assorted brushes in varying sizes (choose a minimum of three different sizes for creating diverse marks and effects)
  • Container filled with clean water for rinsing brushes
  • Mixing surface for paints (artist's palette)
  • Disposable wax paper or palette paper sheets
  • Source materials from the provided online shopping list for recommended supplies.

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Refund Policy

Class tuition is neither refundable nor transferable. No refunds will be issued after registration and payment. In case of a Medically Certified illness, a credit will be issued after receipt of your physician’s documentation. The value of the credit will be for the balance of the remaining class sessions with an additional deduction of a $95 registration fee. Credit may be used up to 12 months.

If after your first class you are dissatisfied with the quality of your course, a written note must be submitted within 1 business day after your first class. After receiving your note, refund of class tuition will be reviewed by our staff. If a refund is granted, processing of refunds requires 8-10 weeks. A 5% nonrefundable processing fee will be applied.

Course Cancellations

Although course cancellation is quite rare, The school reserves the right to cancel classes or change instructor assignments and makes every effort to notify students in advance. If enrollment goals are not met, a course may be canceled up to 1 business day before the first scheduled class. In the event of cancellation, a refund or credit is granted. On occasion, a course start-date will be pushed back if enrollment goals are not met. In this instance, you will receive a credit for the price of the class that did not take place.

Please note that there will be NO exceptions to this under any circumstances.

Make-up Policy

Unfortunately, The school does not offer any makeups for classes missed. However, if the student wants to get the most from the course and the absence, they can tell the instructor when they will be absent and the instructor can provide some guidance on exercises to practice while away.

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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