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Yet, many art teachers around the globe will have to deliver instruction this way for the very first time due to inclement weather, school closures, or other extenuating circumstances.

And whether your school calls it distance learning, remote learning, e-learning, or online learning, likely you’re quickly figuring out how challenging it can be. Art ideas for online learning: whoever thought we’d need this?!

Home-based learning requires not only a broad sense of technology (internet, video conferencing, Google Classroom), but a new skill set for delivering instruction. Ever watch yourself on video give a demonstration?

Every breath, twitch, eye roll, and mispronounced word feels like the longest moment in time. If you’ve recorded yourself for a teaching portfolio, you know what I mean!

But for art teachers who deal with physical materials, teaching via distance learning can be downright difficult.

It leads to practical questions like, “How do I relay content to my students?” And “How am I supposed to take attendance and grade them?” to “What the heck am I supposed to teach them?”

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  • Adaptive Distance Learning Policies for Art Teachers
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21 Distance Learning Art Projects for Kids

  • Issues Handing in Artwork During Distance Learning?

Conclusion on Distance Learning

Adaptive during distance learning policies for art teachers.

And yet, art teachers are the most adept at creating amazing art projects on the fly with little or no resources available. I think it’s the nature of what we do. We’re creative beings. We see art in everything because everything is art to us. Scraps normally thrown in the trash are our treasure. And nature provides a heaping amount of tools, materials, and inspiration, too.

As artists, we’re also used to restrictions. Any teacher who went to art college can relate to being given an assignment on short notice with few or no materials. Or even strict requirements for a project that while constraining, helps bring out amazing ideas due to those constraints. So while distance learning might seem like a high bridge to cross, it’s not impossible. With some tools, tips, and advice, anything is possible.

Best Practices for Art Project During Distance Learning

Before I get into some of the ideas for actual art projects, I’d like to address some best practices for distance learning. These tips are meant to make your journey into remote learning more successful. 

Art Materials

Art teachers should be writing lessons assuming that some children will have nothing but a pencil. That doesn’t mean you should only provide pencil and paper ideas, because some will have more. It just means you need to think about the lowest common denominator in terms of available materials and work from that point forward.

Some of the ideas below will work for many teachers and students and some won’t. Your students might live in an apartment building in a city and can’t get ahold of found objects in nature.

Other students could be in a situation where they’re living between two homes. What’s available at one home isn’t at the other. The idea here is to know your students and what items they can find for art projects.

A word about equity. When considering projects that require the use of food, avoid making those art projects required. You will no doubt have a student whose family struggles financially.

Using food as a required source for lessons sets up some students for failure. Be sure to encourage your students to ask permission to use any food items.

Workload for Art Projects

Keep your lessons simple. The easier they are, the greater the chance students will do them. Remember: they’re at home. Think about how you are at home. Do you want to be all cozy in your pjs, curled up on the couch, and have to think about a huge pile of work that’s due?

Be realistic about your expectations. The longer they are in a remote learning situation, the less you should expect of them. If your school is closed for a couple snow days, reduce the work a little. If you’re out for a whole month or more? Even more so. What you might accomplish in a once a week art class, you should expect it to take 2 – 3 times as long depending on the complexity of the assignment.

Low Tech Art Projects Best

I’d like to state that now isn’t the time to teach students about new technologies your students don’t already use. Yes, you as the art teacher might be learning some new instructional technology to deliver your art projects, like designing a virtual Bitmoji classroom .

You might need to pick up some basic video editing skills using phone apps. Or how to mount a phone camera to shoot overhead video. You may even be told you have to get on learning about Google Classroom (and actually use it!). But don’t expect students to spend time learning new technologies while distance learning. Your focus should be getting content to them. 

Some art museums have opened their virtual doors to teachers, students, and parents. And you should absolutely take them up on these learning opportunities. Just don’t make it required.

You will have students who have to share their device with a sibling and likely a parent(s), too. They may not even have a good internet connection (or one at all). In these instances, refer to your school district’s distance learning policy. You may have to deliver packets or make pre-recorded phone calls to get the instruction to them. Some schools have robocalling software like Honeywell that may be a viable option for you.

Consistency is Key

Whatever means you decide to deliver instruction, whether that be via unlisted YouTube videos, Zoom meetings, or paper packets, be consistent. Kids need to know where to find your assignments and how you’ll engage with them. Your school district likely has guidelines on instructional delivery and you should absolutely follow them precisely. Just be consistent about it so kids can be successful in this new learning environment. The last thing you want is a parent emailing you stating that their child didn’t hand the work in because they didn’t know where to locate your assignments. 

Relax Deadlines

I’m going to say something a tad controversial here. Not every school administrator will understand what it’s like to be a “specials” teacher with 700+ students or have to work in two or three school buildings. They don’t walk in your amazing shoes every day.

You’ll receive lofty guidelines and expectations to follow. They might tell you to check for work every week, count that as attendance, and update your weekly grades with online grading software.

But can I just say? It’s more important for you to be flexible in tough times than it is to follow some of those well-intentioned “rules.” Now, you might feel uncomfortable because I just basically told you to look the other way. But really, I’m asking you to think about what’s best for your students and advocate for them.

Not every child is living in a scenario where their parent is going to care if they did all your art projects. I’m not saying don’t eventually mark a student as not having handed it in. But be flexible with assignments, deadlines, and quality of work. And expect a lot of stick figures and corner suns.

One approach which I highly recommend is to create a choice board or menu where students can pick from different activities. On that choice board, at least half should be simple drawing activities where students have the opportunity to embellish with crayons, colored pencils, or markers if they have those things available. The directions that accompany your menu or choice board should clearly state this.

Other projects for your distance learning choice board should be based on found objects and recycled materials. I think this is a great opportunity to highlight artists from the past, like Marcel DuChamp, as well as modern artists like Rebecca Louise Law who is a floral artist.

Famous Laundry Art

Students can use clothes – old t-shirts, sweatshirts, pants – to compose a famous painting! The best part is that nothing is cut and therefore nothing gets wasted. The first step is for students to do a bit of research on famous, recognizable paintings. I recommend they pick ones with bold shapes and basic colors. This is a great opportunity to send them through a virtual museum tour. Many art museums have online tours students can take.

famous laundry art project for kids during distance learning

Based on Vincent Van Gogh’s, “Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe” oil painting from 1889. Made from shirts, socks, pennies, a button, and a sea shell.

Homemade Scratch Drawings

This was one of my favorite things to do as a kid! And this is a great idea for parents who have a lot of old crayons that are down to stubs. Basically, they just have to apply the crayon heavily so it builds up a waxy layer. Any sharp object can be used to scratch with. I recommend the large sized paperclips as they’re a little more sturdy than the smaller ones. But tacks and very small screwdrivers work, too! The best part is that if they do something they don’t like, they can color over it with black and try again.

homemade scratch art for kids

Your students can also use oil pastels if they have those at home, too!

Marker Painting

I love marker painting ! I first discovered it many years and quite by accident. Since then, I’ve used it for many art projects. Basically, kids can draw a picture and outline their shapes with markers. Then, they dip a brush into water and smudge it into the marker strokes and it makes paint!

marker painting for kids

If you’re looking for a fun and flexible art project for students, check out my James Rizzi game !

Shadow Puppets

This is a great opportunity to teach students about the element of art called shape, as well as some basic photography composition. Kids can use any type of paper they want. The best for this would be black construction paper. But if they don’t have that, the front or back cover of a magazine or even condensed cardboard cereal boxes will work. First, cut out and design some kind of creature. Then tape it to a string or a pencil. Shine a lamp or flashlight to the creature against a wall and snap a picture. 

shadow puppets

Found Objects Color Wheel

If your student’s parents are clamoring for ideas to keep them occupied, this will do the trick! The idea here is kids will search the house and gather items that fit into each color on the color wheel. Objects don’t have to be completely one color to fit into a color family. But they should be mostly that one color.

color wheel found objects art project for kids

Nature Imitating Art

If your students are able to get outside and have access to trees, dirt, leaves, sticks, and anything else nature provides freely, then they can create art! Kids are inherently great at this. Out of boredom they’ll start drawing in the dirt with a stick, or build a snowman, or even create a fort from old branches. Have students gather whatever natural materials they can find and compose a picture. Encourage them to look at the shapes and see what’s unique about them. Or have them do a leaf rubbing. They can use leftover copy paper and crayon stubs.

leaf rubbing distance learning art lesson

Creativity Warm-Up Drawings

Here’s a great activity for students to do if all they have is paper and pencil! It really challenges students to use their creativity to figure out what the marks in the box remind them of and make a drawing based on it. You can grab a copy in my free resource library .

creativity worksheets for kids

Homemade Paint

There are so many ways kids can make paint including coffee, tea, fruit juices, spices, food coloring, old markers, and even mud! Have kids test out mixing some of these materials with a little water to see what results they get. The first week’s activity could be to make a chart followed up by a simple picture of an object like an apple or a boat.

Dont’ have paintbrushes? Improvise! Your students can use q-tips, cotton balls, old makeup brushes, toothbrushes, toothpicks, feathers, skewers, and even grass. This is a great opportunity to teach them about mark making. Anything can make a mark and can be used as a tool to make art. Cutting up scraps of cardboard to make a comb or using old sponges. Really, anything can make art. Your lesson can be based on forging tools for art making!

painting with spices for kids

Here’s a chart of all the different spices your students likely have at home they can make paint from including ginger, turmeric, thyme, paprika, and chili powder.

Cartoons with Props

Here’s a basic project that uses an everyday object as a prop. It can be anything small like a penny, a pencil stub, a tack, dried pasta or beans, or a paperclip. Students can draw a series of drawings using that small object. This would work well for 2nd grade and up.

silly cartoon art project for distance learning

Digital Art Projects

Not all art has to be created physically. You can teach the same elements of art and principles of design using digital platforms like Google Drawing, Tate Paint by Tate Kids, Sketchpad.io, and Pixilart. Even Google Slides, which is popular amongst many general education teachers, would work. Plus, since they’re likely already using it, they know some of the features and you don’t have an uphill battle in trying to teach them a new technology. Again, know your students. If they don’t all have internet access, this may not be a viable option.

Kids can practice drawing basic lines and shapes to start with. Then learn how to color, rotate, flip, and group shapes. I’ve been making many of these digital art lessons  (for general ed teachers) and  digital art history lessons  (for art teachers) for distance learning which practice these skills. And they’ve been a hit with kids of all ages!

What I really love about the art history ones is that some or all of the pieces can change color, giving kids greater autonomy in creating their virtual art project.

digital henri matisse collage art project for kids distance learning

Cardboard Robot Sculptures

Cardboard is one of those materials that families easily have on hand. Why not turn it into fun art? Kids can make low relief and free-standing sculptures easily. Parents can cut cardboard into manageable strips so kids can cut them to size.

cardboard robot sculpture art project for kids

If your students want to take this a step further, they can color them with crayons and markers or even leftover nail polish!

Newspaper and Magazine Collages

Design a fantasy world, crazy creatures, or whatever comes to mind. They will need to ask permission to cut up magazines and newspapers, first. Give them creative permission to include any other art materials they wish. They can even cut some things out and free draw other parts and collage them together!

If your students don’t have access to materials, why not try to create a digital collage using Google Slides? First, they can search the internet for a background image and place it in the background of the slide so it doesn’t move. Secondly, they can select pictures from online or on their device and use the remove.bg website to delete its background. Then, they can upload the images to Google Slide and arrange them creatively.

collage art project for kids

Take a famous painting, upload it to Padlet (which can be connected to your Google Classroom) and have students caption it. Include a link to a site where they can read more about the painting.

Alternatively, you could provide them with a painting and have them use a free online meme generator and hand it in via Google Classroom. Your students will love out-doing each other for the funniest meme. 

art history meme project for distance learning

When your teacher wardrobe is so on fleek.

Isometric Drawings

Your upper elementary and middle school students will love making isometric drawings! You can find free isometric drawing grid paper online. Have students practice making cubes, rectangular prisms, alphabet letters, etc. If all they have is a pencil, that will work. Crayons, markers, and colored pencils are great for embellishing. Use it as a lesson to teach upper elementary students about value using stippling, hatching, and cross-hatching. Kids will really buy into how games like Q-Bert (yes, some of them still know this game!) and Minecraft are derived from isometric graphics.

isometric drawing art projects for kids

Found Object Art Names

This one is as simple as it looks. Ask students to gather small items from around the house to compose a picture of their name. The longer the name, the more space they will have to prepare for it. This can lead to a project where students draw out a whole alphabet – or their initials – using everyday objects that they love.

found object art names art project for kids

Digital Art Portfolios

If you teach middle school, making digital portfolios is a great activity that requires no art materials ! Many middle schoolers already know how to use Google Slides because they use it in other classes. And if you already have students taking pictures of their artwork and uploading to Google Classroom, why not have them document what they’re creating and why. These templates make creating art portfolios easy.

digital art portfolio templates on Google Drive for kids

Scrap Sculptures

This is a such a fun and simple project for all elementary aged children and my most popular first grade project ever. What child wouldn’t want to create a scrap sculpture from found objects?

Have them scour their home and yard for small objects like rocks, twigs, tiny pencils , old crayons, marker caps, clothespins, broken erasers, nuts, bolts, etc. Basically, whatever they have that’s no longer in use and can be repurposed into art. Then, they just need some kind of surface to glue all the things onto. This one is made from popsicle sticks. But they could build it on a piece of sturdy cardboard. Or, make a “raft” as I call them, with sticks or scrap wood. 

It’s definitely best to use wood glue for this, but tacky glue, or even clear nail polish could work as a binding agent. At this point, they can either leave the sculpture as is or paint it. And for that, any household paint or colored nail polish may work.

scrap sculpture project for kids

Digital Photography

Here’s another project that doesn’t require any art materials. Students can use a phone, tablet, or digital camera to shoot pictures using the rule of thirds. Teach them the basics of lighting, and how to compose a picture, placing an emphasis on the elements and principles of design. Stick to basic topics like pets, family, toys, and nature so all students can be successful. If you’re concerned students will submit pictures they’ve found online, you could require them to submit a second picture in the same setting that shows them there.

digital photography art project

Wire Sculptures

All they need are a pair of pliers and some old wire hangers. Kids love tinkering around with tools and this is a great activity for them to create something they might otherwise make in an art room!

wire sculpture art projects for kids

Styrofoam Prints

All your students need is a c lean styrofoam tray from the supermarket, markers, a pencil, a damp rag or sponge, and a piece of paper. They can draw a design into the styrofoam using a blunt pencil, then color it in using markers. Just be sure not to lean into the wet marker strokes. Dampen the paper with the rag or sponge and then rub the paper over the styrofoam and pull it off. 

styrofoam printing project idea of distance learning

On the left shows the styrofoam block that’s just been printed and on the right is the actual print. The print will always be a reverse image of what’s on the block.

Zentangle Drawings

Middle schoolers love making zentangles! I think it’s their love of permanent markers. I found my students appreciated being given graph paper to keep some of the more geometric patterns in order. Zentangle patterns and printable graph paper can be found everywhere online. Coloring materials are great for embellishing, but I’ve also seen students do these with just pencil and paper and they come out great, too.

zentangle drawing

Issues Handing in Distance Learning Art Projects?

Kids passing off work that’s not their own is a real issue for teachers during remote learning. Your students will, on occasion, try to get away with lifting artwork from online. Yes, they will try to hand in work that’s not their own . Don’t be shocked if a student does this to you. Remember, we’re teachers. And we’ve been through this before.

Raise your hand if a student came in with a sketchbook assignment that was absolutely amazing but their classwork has never reflected that level of skill before. Or, how about catching a child drawing on another child’s paper? It happens often enough. Only, during distance learning, it’s much easier to get away with.

To combat this, you should absolutely require students to hand in progress shots for any long-term assignments. In this case, the student would hold their paper up in front of them and have a parent, sibling, or friend snap a picture of them with it.

If you’re using a digital portfolio to keep track of work in progress during distance learning, they can upload the progress shots to that portfolio and share it with you. You may even consider requiring them to hold up a slip of paper with their name and today’s date alongside their art.

Now, what if you haven’t been doing this and a child hands something in that you clearly know isn’t theirs? That’s when you get high-tech, friends. There are a number of ways to search for an image online:

  • Google Images
  • Google Lens
  • Small SEO Tools
  • DupliChecker

In all of the above examples, you can upload the image the student sent to you to do a reverse image search. Additionally, you can search Google Images using words that describe the artwork in question. Use as many descriptive terms as possible to help narrow the search. An image of a dragon eye might come up in a search for “animal eye drawing” or “animal eye painting.”

Distance learning is tough for art teachers. Tough, but not impossible. It just requires a little more thought and flexibility on your part for planning art projects. If this is your first time experiencing it, give yourself some room to make mistakes. If you’re a veteran teacher, it’s going to feel like you’re a first year teacher all over again. I say that because it will be a whole new way of teaching you’re not accustomed to. And like anything else, it will be hard at first but become easier over time.

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08/07/2021 at 11:35 AM

These are wonderful! Thank you!

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04/16/2021 at 12:51 PM

Absolutely amazing and thank-you for the “best practices” ideas and perspectives…really helped ground my thinking

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03/01/2021 at 11:28 AM

Thanks so very much for theese ideas. Ihave been getting very bored in this pandemic, Im going to try all theese out!! =(´w´)=

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03/01/2021 at 1:39 PM

You’re very welcome!

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01/31/2021 at 1:29 AM

About half an hour ago, I downloaded the Exit Statements Pack and saw these awesome ideas for ‘at home’ activities. I thought, these could come in handy some time. We have been so fortunate here in Western Australia and have been out of lockdown for months. Then I started getting texts from friends saying we are going to be in lockdown from 6pm tonight! School starts tomorrow! Thank you so much Amie, I feel a huge relief knowing I can start our school year, whenever that is, with these great resources.

01/31/2021 at 10:13 AM

Hey Marg, OHHH WOW! I can only imagine how you were feeling getting those texts! These are such uncertain times we’re living in. I’m happy I could provide you with some relief. Be safe and be well! P.S. I started on exit tickets for the principles of design months ago. I just have to get back to finishing them. They’re much harder than the elements, hence the slow down. ?

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01/23/2021 at 12:13 PM

You are AMAZING. I’m a first-year art teacher, teaching in person and online. These are all great ideas. Thank you for sharing!

01/23/2021 at 12:19 PM

Dear First Year Art Teacher! Oh boy, what a year to be a first year art teacher. Beyond just saying, “hang in there,” just know that what you’re likely experiencing is a mix of normal and unusual. It’s normal for kids to test you because they don’t know you. And they’re just feeling you out, seeing what you’re made of. Give yourself grace. You’re going to make mistakes. We all do. (((WE ALL DO))) It’s clearly unusual to have to teach in two different modalities. Do the best you can. It WILL get easier over the years, especially once pandemic teaching is done. Be safe and be well, Amie

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01/19/2021 at 10:21 AM

Thanks for the great ideas.

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01/09/2021 at 1:35 PM

These ideas are amazing! I homeschool my 3 daughters and we will definitely be doing most of these this month, thank you so much for posting this!

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01/08/2021 at 10:26 PM

This is AMAZING! We started homeschooling our then 6 year olds about a year and a half ago. I’ve been feeling guilty because I know that we’d like for them to learn a little of an art foundation to help develop some appreciation of it, but I am SO out of my depth. Your projects are great ideas and make the topics not seem so daunting. Thank you!

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08/24/2020 at 9:58 AM

Excellent resource! I will be teaching in person and virtual. My hope was to be able to keep lessons similar at least (for my sanity). Reading this made me feel soooooo much better. I’m good now! 🙂

08/24/2020 at 9:59 AM

Jessica, I’m so happy to hear anything I said put you at ease!

08/24/2020 at 12:42 PM

I am currently sharing your site with all (hundreds) of art teachers in our district. Our elementary teachers are in charge of students at home and in class, so we’re a little nervous. I am hoping that your ideas will help them as much as they did me. 🙂

08/24/2020 at 12:47 PM

Thanks, I really appreciate it, Jessica!

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07/31/2020 at 10:57 AM

Very clear and helpful! Thank you:)

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07/22/2020 at 4:58 PM

Nice! Thanks for these great ideas.

07/22/2020 at 4:59 PM

You’re welcome!

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07/17/2020 at 3:27 PM

Great ideas

Thanks, Karen!

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06/15/2020 at 12:28 AM

Thank you for these wonderful ideas!

06/15/2020 at 1:17 AM

You’re very welcome!

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06/08/2020 at 8:56 AM

Thank you so much for sharing! Other teachers have PLCs to develop and share lesson plans, rubrics, assessments, and more. As art teachers we generally just develop it all on our own! I know I have for over 20 years! It is great to have found a special person like you who is also willing to share! It is so very appreciated!!! I have learned a lot during this pandemic and a great deal of it has been thanks to you! I wish I could give you a medal or at least a hug, but I guess we’ll have to settle for a virtual elbow bump! Thanks so much for all you do!

06/08/2020 at 9:23 AM

Oh my gosh, what a great way to start the day. Thank you! I’m so glad I’ve been of services to you. 😀 (((elbow bump)))

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05/18/2020 at 8:23 AM

These are wonderful, but I especially love the laundry basket masterpiece! Thank you.

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05/13/2020 at 4:32 PM

Thank you soooo much! I am pretty sure we will be doing a blended, if not all on-line teaching platform for this new school year. As an art teacher, and for all teachers, this comes with so many new challenges. I really appreciate the low-tech, low material lessons you presented here. I would, as I’m sure many others would also, love to see more of this! It really helps to take out a lot of the stress and coming up with original ideas. Share more of you can- be well!

05/13/2020 at 4:34 PM

And if not, I think every teacher will be required to have distance learning plans in place. I think everyone should expect it. That’s why I’m encouraging teachers who are presenting their lessons in Google Slides to organize them like they would their lesson plans and have them ready to go. You stay safe, too!

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05/13/2020 at 11:32 AM

I like all of the bright ideas! Thank you it is very help full.

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05/11/2020 at 4:20 PM

Thanks for your wonderful projects. Clara

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05/10/2020 at 9:55 AM

My Special Needs Highschool student is taking a Partners in Art class. He has to turn in 10 art projects of his choice. Thank God for art teachers like you that are willing to share!

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05/09/2020 at 7:21 PM

Thank you for sharing these wonderful ideas. These will be so helpful.

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05/05/2020 at 7:01 PM

really helpful! thank you:)

Thank you for taking a moment to leave a comment. Brightens my day!

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05/03/2020 at 3:53 PM

Thank you for this post!! I have enough art projects to incorporate until the end of the year with these ideas.

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05/01/2020 at 11:57 PM

Thank you for the awesome ideas and also guidance with regards to expectations from the students. Art teaching in South Africa

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04/28/2020 at 10:11 AM

Absolutely wonderful ideas! Thank you so much!

04/28/2020 at 10:10 AM

Absolutely wonderful ideas! Thank you so much! Resources are sometimes scarce in Zimbabwe, and these are great for using at the children’s homes!

04/28/2020 at 11:27 AM

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04/24/2020 at 10:35 AM

This is fantastic! Thank you.

04/24/2020 at 4:12 PM

You’re very welcome, Carolyn!

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04/15/2020 at 3:05 AM

Merci beaucoup cela me donne des idées supplémentaires pour mes élèves. J’aime beaucoup la réalisation avec des objets du quotidien….

04/15/2020 at 9:50 AM

Je suis heureux que cela vous ait aidé!

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02/26/2021 at 12:31 PM

Thank you so much ??

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04/13/2020 at 6:06 PM

These are such great ideas, I knew I was on the right track about my thought process when creating my lesson plans. Thanks so much for sharing! Be well!

04/13/2020 at 6:12 PM

You had it all along, Dalia. <3 You be well, too!

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04/13/2020 at 2:04 AM

Wow! Thank you so much for sharing so many awesome ideas!

04/13/2020 at 7:59 AM

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04/18/2020 at 6:34 AM

Thank you so very much for sharing these great ideas!

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04/09/2020 at 7:49 AM

Excellent resource.

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05/04/2020 at 5:07 AM

Thank you for your well thought out ideas. Due to the coronavirus epidemic I am this year having to work from home like most people and adjusting to provide art activities that children can access is challenging., particularly with regard to materials.

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"Hi Matt, I wanted to send you a quick thank you email. I reached out to you a while back regarding art school and I want you to know how much the personal response/video you made for me helped and directed me. With your guidance on portfolios and self direction I was able to finish your Watercolor Workshop, Colored Pencil Course, and start on the Oil Painting Mastery course. I easily created over 30 pieces and took your advice on breaking off from the videos and created my own pieces. I put together a very strong portfolio and sent off my applications almost 3 months before my expected deadline and already got accepted. I applied to The School of the Arts Institute of Chicago and not only got accepted but received a full scholarship & some more. So I'll start in this upcoming Fall. When I wanted to develop my drawing and art skills your videos were exactly what helped me do so. Your positive and motivational advice and expertise was a blessing and I want to thank you for being the type of person that you are and supporting people's dreams and passions. Your courses provide such a strong base to work off of and develop skills, I plan on using them as reference for the years to come. Thanks again Matt." - Maurice

"First Rate"

"I'm compelled to let you know how impressed I am with your courses, not only as a new art and drawing student but as an individual with years of adult training experience. Your teaching mythology is just first rate. You tell them what they are going to be taught. You teach them. Finally, you tell them what they should have learned. Most of your video modules that range around 12 - 20 minutes, just right in my opinion. I find your voice cadence excellent. You should be very proud of your accomplishments as a teacher as well as your artistic talent." - Ron

"You've Changed My Life"  

"Hi, Matt. I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for all that you do for the art community, and especially for aspiring artists like me. I was one of those people who always said "I can't draw" and I never thought I could learn. Three years ago I decided to give it a try. I found your site and your lessons have been invaluable. Today I have oil paintings hanging in our library, a local bank, our community center, and in a gallery. I will be exhibiting my work in two shows coming up next month. Our home is now filled with drawings and paintings I've done, and I look around in amazement to see what I've created. I couldn't have done it without your help. Thank you again, Matt. You've truly changed my life." - Judith

"A Big Thank You"  

"Hey Matt used this video today in my 2nd year art class, with ultimate lesson plan resources. OMG what a class it was!! What a joy it was to be able to give each student one on one while your videos clearly, concisely, eloquently and expertly explained the concepts. As a sculptor/crafter it’s great to stand on your shoulders for the art areas that aren’t my speciality. That’s a big thank you from Ireland!! You da’ man." - Naill

Virtual Art Academy

Online Painting Classes

A university experience℠.

Structured & comprehensive Vibrant community Learn at your own pace Online painting classes for adults

…brought to you by an award winning artist

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Add Structure To Your Learning

Fill in the gaps in your knowledge with a structured and comprehensive Apprentice Program of Online Painting Classes. Use my 9 skill Building Blocks℠ to master one simple step at a time.

Make Art, Not Just Paintings

My online art school is not just about learning how to paint— it is about learning how to create art, using my unique Visual Music & Poetry® approach.

Online Painting Classes For Adults From Award Winning Artist, Barry John Raybould

My virtual painting classes and courses capture all of the knowledge and skills that I have acquired over a period of 30 years on my journey to becoming a professional artist. You can see details of my awards, juried exhibitions, solo and group shows, and gallery representation on my  fine art website . 

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Alumni Work

Most online painting courses only teach you to become a clone of your instructor. Because its teaching is principle-based, the Virtual Art Academy lets you to express your own style and creativity—as you can see from the wide variety of our alumni work below.

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Many of my students have won awards, found galleries to represent their work, been elected as members of art societies, and become full time professional artists. 

Choose Your Own Painting Style

At the Virtual Art Academy you will learn the important underlying principles of painting that are the foundation of all great artworks. 

This also means that you will be able to find your own artistic voice and paint whatever subject matter that moves you in whatever style, realistic, impressionistic, expressionistic, or abstract. My students paint in a range of styles from highly realistic to abstract impressionistic work. 

Moody Evening Garrapata Big Sur, by Barry John Raybould, 16in x 20in, Oil on Canvas, 2016

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Many members have now been with me for over ten years, taking advantage of the Spiral of Learning℠ approach in my virtual art classes —a unique way of helping you continually strengthen your foundational skills, and improve the quality of your paintings.

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This is a far more superior school than anything I have seen being taught at colleges across the country

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This is a far more superior school than anything I have seen being taught at colleges across the country and have learned much more from the Virtual Art Academy® than from any art course I have ever taken! I cannot begin to tell how the Virtual Art Academy has improved my observation of potential compositions… Read more “This is a far more superior school than anything I have seen being taught at colleges across the country”

No need to buy expensive art books…. Just do the VAA 4 year course. I still refer to it

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I finished the VAA course a few years ago, but always refer to the notes, rereading the course many times. This is not a course the day you are finished, you are done. No, you keep practising the assignments getting better and better over time. When I look back at my work when I had just… Read more “No need to buy expensive art books…. Just do the VAA 4 year course. I still refer to it”

The most comprehensive, in depth and well-organized painting course available online

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After a thorough research, my personal conclusion is that the Virtual Art Academy (VAA) is, by wide margin, the most comprehensive, in depth and well-organized painting course available in the internet. Unlike most tutorials and color mixing recipes commonly found online, VAA’s philosophy is rather to provide the students with detailed information about all aspects… Read more “The most comprehensive, in depth and well-organized painting course available online”

The course has a steady learning curve that keeps revealing itself as you advance

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The course is working great, the lessons are set out so well that every week I can see growth. In following the program it’s given me direction, and the information in the lesson plans are of a professional level. There is no way I would have tracked down the information by myself, and being in… Read more “The course has a steady learning curve that keeps revealing itself as you advance”

Only online learning program I have ever discovered using a training industry best practice

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Before repurposing my vocation into avocation, I spent 20 years in the corporate world as an instructional designer and performance consultant creating training curricula for diverse clientele from NASA to General Motors. I know curriculum development and how to guide a learner from beginning to certification. VAA is the only online learning program I have… Read more “Only online learning program I have ever discovered using a training industry best practice”

It is a real course that trains you in a structured way

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The questions you ask yourself are,”Will it be worth the cost?” and “Will it be truly useful?”. After a couple of weeks working on/in Virtual Art Academy®, I can say that the amount of work it represents – by Barry – is incredible! The information presented alone is more than worth the price and, yes,… Read more “It is a real course that trains you in a structured way”

First quality education, materials, layered learning systems, feedback loop and social support and lifelong learning – amazing

In the last couple of years, I took online painting courses and in-studio classes adding to my university courses from many years ago. After researching Anders Ericsson learning systems and Ultralearning, I was struggling to design my own painting learning plan. Then I discovered the VAA and with the endorsement from Richard Robinson, I jumped… Read more “First quality education, materials, layered learning systems, feedback loop and social support and lifelong learning – amazing”

I started learning oil painting with VAA from scratch. Just one year later my paintings started to sell

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The Virtual Art Academy program is really comprehensive and gave me all the information and directives to learn painting in one package. The material is very well organized, just beautiful to look at and motivating to carry through. The online campus is a wonderful place to meet other artists and receive critical feedback on my… Read more “I started learning oil painting with VAA from scratch. Just one year later my paintings started to sell”

The most comprehensive art instruction I could find anywhere online, and trust me, I had been looking for a long time.

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I joined 2 years ago with my daughter. We have both learnt so much and have enjoyed our VAA time together. My daughter is now 13 and already produces amazing paintings. The Virtual Art Academy is simply the most comprehensive art instruction I could find anywhere online, and trust me, I had been looking for… Read more “The most comprehensive art instruction I could find anywhere online, and trust me, I had been looking for a long time.”

The equivalent of a 4 year art education at a fraction of the cost

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This is a great course for anyone who is serious about improving their painting. I have been a student here for several years. When I am finished, I will have the equivalent of a 4 year art education at a fraction of the cost. I can do the lessons anywhere and at my own pace.… Read more “The equivalent of a 4 year art education at a fraction of the cost”

Motivation And Support From A Vibrant Worldwide Community

A key part of my virtual painting classes are the 350 focused assignments and an online campus where you can share your assignments and interact with students from all over the world, providing both motivation and feedback. Apart from the learning material in the 192 lessons, the discussions on the assignment submissions is an equally critical source of learning. 

Shall We Go Inside, by Barry John Raybould, 61cm x 61cm, Oil on Canvas, 2017

A Foundation Workshop For Absolute Beginners

I have created a special Foundation Workshop just for absolute beginners. In these online painting classes you will get the very basic painting skills you need to get you started. When you have finished the Foundation Workshop, you can then continue with the series of Apprentice Workshops which are a more comprehensive program of online painting classes that will take you as far as you want to go in your art.

Zoucheng Girl, by Barry John Raybould, 20in x 16in, Oil on Linen, 2010

Online Painting Classes That Will Take Your Work As Far As You Want To Go

Building Blocks Of The Structured Online Painting Classes

The concept behind my online painting classes is that you need to build up your skills in 9 key areas in order to paint well.

I call these the Virtual Art Academy Building Blocks TM . They are, Drawing, Form, Color, Composition, Brushwork, Notan, Observation, Concept, and Process. Many students are frustrated with their progress, and it is usually because they are lacking skills in one of these nine areas. 

After completing the lessons and assignments in these online painting classes, you will have gained the skills to create exciting compositions, incredibly beautiful color harmonies, and expressive brushwork that will bring your painting alive. You would have built your observation skills in drawing, form, and color to make your work look realistic while understanding how to create an underlying abstract design that will make your work stand out in a gallery. In addition you would have learned how to give your painting meaning as well as design to take it to a museum level quality.

Insights Into A Professional Artist's Life 

Approximately each month, for my Spiral of Learning students, I run a special online painting class for my students, based on an actual art projects I am currently working on myself— so you get an inside peek into experience the life of a professional artist. 

Beijing Still Life, by Barry John Raybould, 15.5cm x 15.5cm, Oil on Linen, 2017

Multiple Paths Give You Flexibility And Choice In Your Learning

The Virtual Art Academy online painting course is organized is such a way that you have a choice in how you learn. You can follow the most popular structured path of completing online painting classes sequentially. Alternatively, if you are an advanced student, you can choose online painting classes from just one Building Block. Simply choose the area of painting in which you need to most help. For examples, you can study all the lessons on color, or all the lessons on brushwork. 

First Light Over St. Marks Venice, by Barry John Raybould, 8in x 10in, Oil on Linen, 2009

Choose Whichever Painting Medium You Want

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Since you are learning the important underlying principles of painting that are the foundation of all great artworks, my online painting classes work for all painting mediums. In my Virtual Art Academy online art school, I have integrated oil painting, acrylic painting, and watercolor painting classes, all into a single teaching system. You can also use other painting media such as gouache, pastel, mixed media, colored crayons, as well as digital painting tools.  The choice is yours.

Setting The Expectation

Don't expect this build up of skills to happen quickly. It takes time and effort to get to be a good painter. You have to put some work in. In these virtual art classes I am not offering any quick fixes. It is essential, if you want to paint well, that you systematically build up your foundational skills—that is what I designed this program for.

Many artists who have participated in my online paintings classes have said that they have seen significant improvements after just a few months. To get to a really high level though takes at least a year, and to reach a professional level you will need at least two to four years, and that is if you keep practicing the basics.

Subscription Based Membership

With the Virtual Art Academy online painting classes, you pay on a monthly basis to access my virtual painting classes. You do not have to commit to taking all of the 16 workshops of online painting classes up-front. You can stop your monthly payment at any time and you will not owe anything. You need to have an active subscription in order to access the lessons.

The goal of these virtual art classes, is to provide you with a lifetime of learning opportunities at an affordable cost so that your painting will continue to improve to a professional level. Many members have been with my Virtual Art Academy for over ten years now because they say they learn something new every day. The reason for this is that the knowledge base is very deep and comprehensive, and it is continually growing — everything I learn personally as part of my own artistic growth as a professional artist, I share with you. 

... and as a bonus, you can make wonderful friendships with our worldwide community of dedicated artists.

Frequently Asked Questions

Online painting classes for beginners.

Are these online painting classes for beginners?

I have built a special Foundation Program for absolute beginners. The virtual art classes in this program are designed for someone who has never painted before. When you have finished the Foundation Program, you can then join my four-year Apprentice Program that will build your skills to a high level.

Online Painting Classes for Adults.

Are These Online Painting Classes Suitable For Someone Who Wants To Pursue Painting As Just A Hobby? 

My Virtual Art Academy online painting classes are designed for adults who want to build a solid foundation for their art in a structured way. Even if art is just a hobby, by taking a structured approach to your learning you will get much more out of your hobby.

Are These Online Painting Classes Suitable For Experienced Or Professional Painters?

These online painting classes contain comprehensive information for all levels. Experienced painters will be able to take their work to a higher or a professional level using the more advanced information in each Building Block. 

Will I Have To Commit For The Entire Program?

Absolutely not. You can just join for a month and see how you like our online painting lessons. If it doesn’t work out for you you simply cancel your subscription and your monthly payments will stop.

How Much Time Commitment Is Required? 

There is no required time commitment. You can do the course at times that are suitable for you. Some students work on it just on the weekends, some work on it full time. The program is very flexible, and you can go as fast or as slow as you like.

What if I Don't Have Much Time?

I have built a 10 minute-a-day learning system. My Virtual Art Academy has an app for your phone or tablet that you can use on-the-go for those of you who are busy, and who don't have much time. Using this app, you can browse through postings in any of the 8 Building Blocks, and look at how the masters have solved a particular painting problem in that area.

This will build up your knowledge of painting and enhance your ability to understand master paintings on a daily basis. This means that when you finally have more time available to paint, you will be much better prepared. Think of it as your daily 10-minute virtual painting class.

How Long Does It Take To Complete The Apprentice Program?

Students typically take between one and three months to complete each workshop. There are 16 workshops in the full program - equivalent to a four-year university program. The full program of online painting classes, contains a total of 192 lessons, with 12 painting lessons in each of the 16 workshops.

Will I Get Feedback On My Assignments?

I designed the system as a self-study program in order to keep the monthly cost low. Otherwise, if you wanted personal feedback, it would cost you about ten times as much on a monthly basis for quality instructor feedback.

However, I built into the system many special features to encourage a peer-to-peer feedback system.

First of all, I broke down the learning into small manageable chunks - in fact my online painting classes contain 350 of them in total. Each of these chunks is a small and easily manageable assignment that will help you improve your painting, one small step at a time. This makes learning fun and satisfying, since each step is easily managed.

Secondly, you can submit your assignments to the Online Campus where you can discuss it with other students and get feedback. In my experience, those members who engage with our community get a lot out of it, and learn faster.

Thirdly, I have also built into the system some special features that let you easily see all the previous discussions on the assignments I set for you. In this way you can build up your own experiences by learning from the previous efforts of other students, once again accelerating your learning.

All of these features are unique to the Virtual Art Academy, and according to what many of my students have told me, you will not find anything like the quality and comprehensiveness of this program anywhere else, unless you were to attend a full time university art program. ​

Do I Have To Post My Assignments To The Online Campus?

It is not necessary to post your assignments to the Online Campus. You can choose to work on your own if you wish. The system is completely flexible in this regard.

Are Drawing Classes Included In This Program?

Yes they are. In fact I can teach you how to draw quite well, in just about one week. That's all it takes if you follow my method. The method is covered in detail in the Apprentice Program.

Drawing is important to learn because you can only paint as well as you can draw. In the Apprentice Program you will learn the two most important drawing techniques, angular transfer and triangulation. You will learn techniques of line and mass gesture drawing, contour drawing, measurement techniques, as well as, many lessons on perspective and vanishing points. 

Are These Online Painting Classes Suitable For Plein Air Painting?

All the online painting classes are perfect for plein air painters. In fact much of my own work is done plein air. Important topics in plein air painting are covered in the Apprentice Program, including the Alla Prima painting process, how to match colors in nature, and how to give your paintings depth using atmospheric perspective. 

What is the value of the information in the Virtual Art Academy online painting classes?

Over a period of thirty years, I have personally invested over $40,000 on my own art education. To this day I still continue to invest in acquiring even more advanced information. A good traditional art academy will cost upwards of $60,000 for a four year program. My vision with the Virtual Art Academy was to be able to share all of his information with you. In this way you get the same high quality art education, but at a fraction of the cost, and in a much more structured form. 

Our students have usually done a thorough search for online painting classes. They consistently tell us they have found no other online painting course as comprehensive or as high quality as the Virtual Art Academy program. You can see what our students say about the online painting classes on our student review page.

How does the Virtual Art Academy online painting course compare with attending a one-week workshop with a professional artist?

The Virtual Art Academy four year Apprentice Program has been divided into 16 workshops. Each workshop was designed to contain about the same amount of information that you would get if you attended an intensive 7-14 day workshop with a top professional artist. 

A single workshop with a top professional artist would cost you $3000 for just one week, including the cost of airfare, lodging, and tuition. For the same price, with the Virtual Art Academy, you get sixteen workshops, not just one. The Apprentice Program is a highly cost-effective way of acquiring a lot of information that can take you all the way from an absolute beginner to a professional level. Plus you get the added benefit that you can fit your workshops into your own schedule. You have complete control over when you do the lessons and how long you take to do them.

How do the Virtual Art Academy® online painting classes compare with attending a four-year program at prestigious art school?

The Virtual Art Academy provides a much broader curriculum than you would get at a traditional art school or classical realism atelier. You will learn not only the skills of the traditional classical realism curriculum that were taught in the French academies, but also modern impressionist color techniques and the principles of modern art and design. This means you are not forced into painting in just one style. You will get the skills to follow your own creativity and path and paint in any style you prefer. (See: tips on choosing oil painting classes )

If you still have questions then feel free to Contact Me .

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The best online art classes in 2024

Learn to paint and draw with the best online art classes and art schools around.

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The best online art classes can be a very convenient way to perfect your skills, whether you're a complete beginner or an experienced artist looking to improve in specific areas. You can access them anywhere and you can often get started whenever you like.

We've curated a list of our top picks for various types of art and different levels and budgets (including free online art classes), and you can get started with them right away. Our picks include quality lessons on creating art using pencil, paint and pixels, all delivered by leading professionals. 

Our top pick of the best online art classes is Drawing Essentials with Glenn Vilppu, which we think is a great guide to the fundamentals that all artists need to master, but we've also picked out options for specific needs.

If you can't find what you're looking for here, be sure to check out our how to draw tutorials, which cover a variety of subjects or our specific oil painting techniques guide. Not sure what online art class to go for? Head to the end of the list below for helpful tips and advice.

The best online art classes available now

01. drawing essentials with glenn vilppu.

One of the world’s most famous art teachers, Glenn Vilppu instructs professionals at animation, game and film studios worldwide, as well as universities, art schools and private art academies. And the one problem he constantly comes up against is that many students walk into the class without knowing the fundamentals, such as how to hold a pencil correctly. 

So this six-week course attempts to fill those knowledge gaps, and is aimed not just beginners but any artists, even professionals, who have never studied formally. 

  • Start Glenn Vilppu's online course now

At $800, it’s not cheap, but bear in mind you won’t just be passively watching video lectures. The aim is to replicate the experience of attending a real-life art class; so you get your work critiqued weekly, alongside group discussion and the opportunity to get answers directly from Vilppu. You’ll also be able to see critiques of the other students as well, as would happen in a regular live class.

Once you're done, Vilppu also offers some world-class figure drawing classes on his site. He strongly recommends you don't jump ahead, and take this class first, however knowledgeable you think you are.

02. Drawing and Sketching for Beginners by Robin Slee

Right at the start of your journey, and want to know what all this art stuff is really about? This introductory-level class on Udemy is a great place to begin, and at $54.99, it's not such a huge financial commitment.

  • Start Robin Slee's course now

Tutor Robin Slee is a self-taught freelance digital artist and illustrator. On the course, Slee covers fundamentals like how to hold a pencil correctly and how to make marks. That might sound basic, but these are not actually intuitive things (as we mentioned in the previous entry, even experienced artists get them wrong), so it's pretty useful to nail them at this early stage. And Slee's instruction is clear, simple, jargon-free and easy to follow.

The course consists of over three hours of video content, segmented into 25 modules, accompanied by practical exercises for you to download. There's also a dedicated Q&A section where you can post your questions, ask for feedback, or share your results from the course.

03. Joseph Patric Daniels

Udemy has a wide range of online art classes from professionals, and those delivered by Joseph Patric Daniels are also good choices. How to Draw from Beginner to Master, How to Paint from Beginner to Master – Acrylic Painting, How to Paint from Beginner to Master and Oil Painting from Beginner to Master are all brilliant places to start.

Featuring comprehensive step-by-step instruction, the courses range from two to 21 hours and are suitable for all levels. The course fees range from $84.99 to $119.99 but are currently on sale for as little as $16.99. Bargain.

  • Start the Joseph Patric Daniels courses now 

04. SmART School

These online art classes are a little different. Founded by Rebecca Guay, SmART School offers live classes in figure drawing for small groups. These are interactive online lessons given by industry pro artists such as Donato Giancola and Scott Fischer, as well as editors, directors, agents and gallery owners. They use GoToMeeting to provide assignment critiques, mentorships, hands-on drawovers in Photoshop , and Q&As with every student.

SmART School's prices range rom $495 to $2765.

  • Start the SmART School course now

05. Ctrl+Paint

Many free online art classes are of dubious usefulness or tend to focus on one very specific task, but not so these pre-recorded digital painting videos from founder Matt Kohr, which are organised like a school curriculum. Ctrl+Paint also offers premium video lessons from $10 that take you through basic foundation art skills.

  • Start the Ctrl+Paint art course now

06. Tucson Art Academy Online

Tucson Art Academy Online offers pre-recorded video lessons on pastel, oils, acrylic and watercolour from the likes of established traditional artists Laura Robb, Ken Auster and Sandy Scott, which you can access for 365 days. 

  • Start Tucson Art Academy Online now

With Self-Study (which costs $395), that’s all you get. If you choose the Online Mentoring option (for $595), you can ask the tutor questions.

07. New Masters Academy

The New Masters Academy offers online art courses for fine artists. Tutors include Steve Huston, Charles Hu and Kamille Corry. The Standard $36 per month subscription gives you over 5,500 hours of pre-recorded video lectures; the Premium $59 per month level allows you access to an online 3D reference library, live class DVRs and 50,000+ reference images. Then there's the upper tier, which adds in interactive live classes and two group coaching sessions per week for $149. These prices are billed annually, pay monthly at $49/$79/$149.

  • Start New Masters Academy now

08. Ink Drawing Techniques by Yuko Shimizue

Yuko Shimizu is a Japanese illustrator based in New York City and a veteran instructor at the School of Visual Arts. In this online art class, hosted on the Skillshare platform, she offers a detailed guide to essential inking and drawing techniques. 

  • Start Ink Drawing Techniques now

Subjects covered include the differences between types of papers and inks; basic brush, nib, and ink techniques; Asian vs. watercolour brushes; and sketching and scanning essentials. In short, there’s a huge amount of ground covered in this 90-minute class, made up of 15 separate lessons, and everyone from the novice to the experienced inker will benefit.

You can’t actually buy the course separately; you’ll need a Skillshare subscription to unlock it. That will cost $32 a month (or $13.99 a month billed annually).

09. Draw and Paint Online: Beginner's Art by Peter Stanyer 

Internationally renowned artist, author and tutor Peter Stanyer has taught art for over 20 years at many different levels in further and higher education. Aimed both at complete beginners and more experienced artists who enjoy recreational drawing, his online art classes will teach you the techniques you need to draw with confidence.

  • Start Draw and Paint Online now

All the fundamentals are covered here, including mark making, tone, colour, shape, composition, perspective and more. Requiring around 30 hours of study, this class involves a number of assignments made up of carefully structured, practical, drawing or painting projects. With personal tuition and feedback from Stanyer thrown in as well, this course offers excellent value at just £148 for parts A and B – or $75 for the individual parts.

10. How to Paint: Absolute Beginners Acrylics Course with Will Kemp

Are you someone who “dreams of becoming an artist but keeps putting it off until you have more time?” If that’s you, then this relatively short and snappy art class could be the kick up the backside you need. 

Over three-and-a-half hours, Will Kemp – an award-winning artist who’s studied in Italy, run his own art gallery and taught in museums and schools – explains the foundations of working with acrylics and why they're the simplest and most effective way for a beginner to learn to paint.

  • Start How to Paint now

You learn about setup and materials, colour mixing, pigment choice, brush-handling and palette-knife techniques, as well as gels and mediums. Once that's out of the way, you're then encouraged to complete three paintings (a still-life, a landscape, and a seascape) using three different colour palettes. 

This class is split over seven video lessons, which can be either streamed or downloaded. Kemp suggest you take time off for a “painting week”', in which you take a different lesson every day; alternatively, you might prefer to study one every weekend. He also includes downloadable reference material and although you won't get feedback on your work, at just £53, it's still a bit of bargain.

11. Mastering colour with Richard Robinson  

Fine artist and teacher Richard Robinson asked his students to name the biggest stumbling block when it came to painting, and an astonishing 72 per cent said it was getting colour right. So in this two-part art course, which can be both streamed and downloaded, he explains everything you need to know, from how the brain sees and analyse colours, to the key to colour relationships. It may have a narrow focus, but it's still a strong entry in our list of the best online art classes.

  • Start Mastering colour with Richard Robinson now

The Mastering Color course is split into two parts, Mastering Colour one and Mastering Color two. Currently you can buy them both for $100 (at time of writing), or the second part for $55. If you're still not convinced, you can ‘try before you buy’ by viewing the first chapter free on the website. 

12. Activate the canvas with Nancy Hillis

Fed up of making representational art, and want to walk on the wild side? This five-module, self-paced art class will guide you through your first steps in abstract painting. You'll discover how to experiment, loosen up as artist and unleash a brand new perspective on your art. 

  • Start Activate the canvas with Nancy Hillis now

In each module, Nancy Hillis, abstract artist and psychiatrist, walks you through a systematic process for reflecting on your inner landscape and mindset. Included are a written lesson and between three and seven video demonstrations that walk you through ways of 'activating the canvas'. 

The course costs $247 and there is a payment plan option. The course is suitable for both beginners and experienced artists; because it's not really about technique but unlocking your creativity. In return, “You'll learn exciting ways to create bold, raw, immediate and alive paintings by activating the canvas intuitively," says Hillis. This is a well deserved entry in the list of the best online art classes. 

13. Figure Drawing Fundamentals with Stan Proko 

Historically, art schools have always taught a systematic process for drawing people that can be applied to figures of any body type, set in any position. Running across 15 and a half hours of downloadable video, this class delivers exactly that. 

One of our favourite best online art classes, it's taught by Stan Prokopenko, an accomplished fine art painter who works for the Watts Atelier school in California and shares his knowledge with millions online through both free YouTube videos and more weighty, paid-for courses like this one. 

Aimed at both beginners and experienced artists looking for a refresher, this figure drawing class will teach you how to draw human figures by breaking down shapes into simple forms. You’ll learn about structure, gesture, balance, exaggeration, proportions, shading and more. And for just $109, you can't say fairer than that. 

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14. Painting portraits with Mark Carder

Mark Carder is a highly regarded artist who has painted commissioned portraits of two US Presidents and a US Secretary of State, among others. His best online art class demonstrates and explains the process of painting portraits using a photo as your source material. 

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Carder’s style is direct and to the point, with zero waffle and targeted advice throughout, covering how to photograph your subject, draw the face, blend fleshtones, work with a limited colour palette, match colours, and maintain a likeness throughout the process. 

Some of the specific techniques Carder outlines are a little unusual, and the class doesn't cover how to draw a portrait from life. But if that doesn't put you off, these eight hours of downloadable videos, aimed at intermediate and advanced artists, are top quality, well structured, and offer fascinating insights from an artist at the top of his profession; all of which isn't bad for $100.

15. Charcoal Drawing with Aaron Blaise

Aaron Blaise spent 21 years of his life as an animator on such films as Beauty and the Beast, Lion King and Brother Bear, which he co-directed. He’s now left the movie business, but Disney’s loss is the art world’s gain, as he’s turned his hand to teaching digital painting. And it turns out he’s very good at it.

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In this art class, Blaise creates a charcoal drawing of a lioness, in real time, across five hours and 30 minutes. He draws from a photograph, and you can download a high resolution version of this image, print it out, and follow along at home.

Blaise’s commentary is insightful, informative and really helps you follow what he’s doing. He always strikes the right tone: always helpful, never patronising, making this a strong entry in the list of the best online art classes. 

You'll need some basic drawing skills to follow this class, so it’s not suitable for total beginners. But overall, this is a high-quality class for anyone wanting to get to grips with charcoal, wildlife drawing, or both. At time of writing there is a huge sale on this course, reduced from $45/£40 to just $5. 

16. Computer Graphics Master Academy

Another tried and true brand in this list of the best online art classes, Computer Graphics Master Academy is focused on getting its students work in the animation, games and VFX industries, and to this end offers over 100 courses, from drawing basics to environment design. There are oodles of new courses for this year including Animation Foundation 101, Intro to Blender for Concept Art and many more.

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These are taught by over 90 pros, including Mélanie Delon, Patrick J Jones, Armand Serrano and Aaron Limonick, who provide live feedback and one-to-one mentoring in a virtual classroom.

With over 900 students worldwide, CGMA provides a vibrant network for discussion and career development through its virtual classroom community.

Classes cost from $499 to $998 per course.

17. Visual Arts Passage

Visual Arts Passage has gone up our list of the best online art classes as it is a mentorship programme for students pursuing a career in the art industry that boasts live, interactive classes. Online classes are taught by award-winning mentors such as Viviane Kosty, Dale Stephanos, Katherine Lam, Lake Hurwitz and more. They also feature some of the biggest names in the industry as guest speakers such as Karla Ortiz, Afua Richardson, Thomas Blackshear, Raymond Bonilla, and more. 

It offers a foundations course, and lessons in entertainment and game art, and illustration and aapplicants qualify for a one-on-one portfolio review.

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Visual Arts Passage’s co-founder John English explains: "Students receive in-depth, one-on-one guidance from experienced artists in small classes. All lessons are delivered live and are fully interactive. Every student has a front row seat.

"Visual Arts Passage places art students on a track of challenging courses taught by working artists. This bridges the gap between the art student and the professional. We guide students from building foundational skills, all the way to crafting an industry-ready portfolio. It’s a map to the industry, paired with training by world-class professionals."

Classes cost between $499-$999.

18. CG Spectrum

CG Spectrum offers courses in animation, 3D modelling, concept art, visual effects, compositing and game design – it's one of the best online art classes that help students get the training they need for industry life. 

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Live lessons take place as either small group classes or one-on-one mentoring, and the pro mentors – who include Craig Elliott and Jake Collinge – stay connected with students throughout each week of their course.

Classes cost from $2,895 for a group class to $3,795 or more for a one-to-one class.

19. The Oatley Academy

Founded by former Disney artist Chris Oatley , The Oatley Academy of Visual Storytelling is one of our best online art classes because it specialises in real-time mentorships with a host of industry professionals that include Paul Scott Canavan, Brett Bean, Shaun Bryant and Jenn Ely. 

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Many graduates have gone on to become animation artists or illustrators, working for the likes of Disney, Marvel Animation and Cartoon Network. 

Prices vary according to the guest mentor. Self-guided courses covering topics such as visual storytelling are also available – these cost $19/month or $209/year.

Gnomon is known as the MIT of visual effects, and its online courses provide the same academic rigour as its campus-based ones – making it a strong entry in our list of the best online art classes. Live classes by industry pros such as Ron Lemen and Dave Pasciuto take place once a week for 10 weeks and are available four terms per year. 

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Note that online courses are only open to artists living in California or outside the US, and cost from $993 to $1,323.

21. Learn Squared

Covering topics like matte painting and creature design, Learn Squared offers something a little different: pre-recorded videos in which one top industry artist – Aaron Limonick or Maciej Kuciara, say – instructs another in a discipline they’re unfamiliar with.

  • Start Learn Squared now!

Depending on the payment level (between $99 and $500 per course), you also get access to videos, project files and mentorship from tutors.

California-based artist Stan Prokopenko offers both free video lessons on YouTube and paid-for courses in anatomy, figure drawing, portrait drawing and caricature via his website. 

  • Start Proko now!

The latter consist of pre-recorded video lessons, assignment demos and examples, eBooks, critique videos and 3D models. He also offers personal critiques to premium members via email. Courses cost from $59 to $225 per course.

23. Watts Atelier of the Arts

Since 2013, the Watts Atelier college has made its art courses available online, at a basic level for $99 a month. This involves pre-recorded video lessons and PDF workbooks. 

  • Start Watts Atelier of the Arts now!

For $299 per month you’ll also get a weekly critique by a Watts trained pro artist, and for $499 per month, two 30-minute live video-coaching sessions and a weekly critique by one of the Watts Atelier instructors, which include Erik M Gist and Lucas Graciano. This may be listed lower down on the list, but it's still definitely one of the best online art classes out there! 

How should I choose the best online art classes for me?

To choose the right online art class for you, take into account your current skill level – beginner, intermediate or advanced – as not all classes will be relevant to your level. Also, check who's teaching the course, and what their credentials are. That said, just because they're university-level tutors may not mean their classes are amazing, or vice versa if they're not; so it's always worth checking out the reviews and testimonials on their site. (If they don't have a section for these, that should set off alarm bells).

And of course, different art classes require different media. So check what materials you'll need, as this could significantly affect the overall cost of taking the course. It's also worth seeing whether videos are downloadable, whether coursework is provided, and whether there's an option to get feedback on your work from the tutors (That's unlikely to be the case with the cheaper classes, but for more expensive ones it's probably something you should expect).

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Online art classes are lessons available over the internet where users can practice creating art and learn new techniques. Depending on which course you take, the class can be highly structured or one where you decide your own pace. Many of these classes include a video or live stream element. Most classes are suitable for all ages and a variety of skill levels. These activities are also known as “virtual art classes” and “digital art classes.”

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Art can be an excellent way to relax or express creative energy during your day. Whether your interests lie in drawing or digital arts, here is a list of online art classes to kickstart your art habit.

1. Lunch Time Doodles with Mo Willems

If you have young ones at home, then give the kids a break in the day by having them draw with Mo Willems, the beloved childrens’ author and illustrator. Willems is currently the Kennedy Center Education’s Artist-in-Residence, and released a series of fifteen videos, where he spends 30 minutes each day teaching children how to doodle. Willems is passionate about educating kids on universal human values, and started this three-week online art class for kids to let children know they are not alone.

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2. Skillshare

Skillshare is an online learning community with a focus on building creative skills. The platform hosts short, structured videos on art topics such as drawing, graphic design, and how to make a living as an artist. With such a range of subjects, you can find the online art class that suits your needs. Skillshare also comes in three tiers, the free one, the premium membership, and team membership, an option for companies that wish to provide Skillshare classes to their team under one account. Because of this tiered system, you can find free virtual art classes, which are ad-supported and include PDF workbooks and community discussions.

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3. New Masters Academy

Learn whenever you like with New Masters Academy, which provides streamed online art classes taught by experts at the top of their fields. With the goal of providing a flexible art school-like education without the expense, you can take lessons on everything from digital art to modeling and sculpture. A subscription to New Masters Academy starts at $35 per month.

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4. CG Spectrum

If you are interested in digital art and animation, then learn these skills with CG Spectrum. Students who take classes with CG Spectrum benefit from one-on-one or small group instruction and mentorship by industry professionals. CG Spectrum offers courses in animation, 3D modeling, digital painting, game development, and visual effects that are divided by beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels.

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A top school for visual effects for the entertainment industry, Gnomon offers professional supplement courses and degree and vocational certificate programs. Gnomon’s classes are held in live, three-hour sessions by industry professionals, which means that students receive feedback and critique in real time. If you are serious about working in the entertainment industry, then getting an education in computer graphics from Gnomon is a worthwhile investment, since the school was established to meet the entertainment industry’s growing demand for more trained creative talent.

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With a library of over 100 free virtual art classes, Proko gives students a fun video tutorial experience with a focus on drawing. Created by Stan Prokopenko, an artist and teacher at Watts Atelier of the Arts, Proko aims to keep his content both entertaining and informative. While Prokopenko is often the host of the art tutorials, he also brings in other professionals to provide insight. If you choose the paid version of Poko, then you receive extended lessons and extra features. However, Proko has plenty of free content to give you a well-rounded education on drawing.

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7. Watts Atelier of the Arts

Watts Atelier offers online art classes for beginners and for the more experienced. These classes have an emphasis on structured teaching based on the traditions of the masters. Watts provides in-person, live streamed, and online courses. These classes take students from beginning essential skills to full portraiture. Watts’s pricing ranges from $49 for individual classes to $499 for personal instructor mentoring.

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8. MoMA Online Courses

Through Coursera, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York offers free virtual arts classes. These lessons help improve the public’s understanding of modern art. The MoMA’s Massive Open Online Courses program includes classes such as “What is Contemporary Art?”, “Fashion as Design”, and “In the Studio: Postwar Abstract Painting”. Teachers and parents can even take “Art & Inquiry: Museum Teaching Strategies for Your Classroom” to help shore up their ability to provide online art classes for students.

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9. Sparketh

Designed to equip parents with the best online art classes for homeschool, Sparketh lets your children learn art in a fun and effective way through their library of over 1,000 short-form video lessons. Sparketh constantly updates their collection, so you will often find new content for your children to learn from. Sparketh’s classes are for students between the ages of six to 18 years old. And, if your little one wants individualized instruction, you can sign up for one-on-one guidance at no additional cost. Sparketh comes in a monthly subscription of $25 per month or an annual subscription of $250 per year.

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10. Carla Sonheim’s Kids Art Week

Carla Sonheim is a painter and illustrator who subscribes to the philosophy of a “serious and silly” approach to teaching drawing. While she offers a variety of virtual art classes, her Kids Art Week series are great for kids. Some Kids Art Weeks have guest teachers, and despite the name, Sonheim encourages people of all ages to sign up for free.

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11. Kitchen Table Classroom

Another fantastic online art class is Kitchen Table Classroom. This program is by Jodi, who is a parent and art teacher that believes art lessons do not have to be difficult or expensive. Because of this core belief, Jodi mentions that parents do not have to be artists themselves to provide their children with quality art education. On her site, Jodi offers free virtual art classes that teach kids basic pencil skills. In addition to the drawing course, Kitchen Table Classroom also includes more craft-based lessons, such as weaving paper and paper cutting.

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12. Nature’s Art Club

Hannah Stevenson’s Nature’s Art Club aims to give mothers and their children an opportunity to sit down and create art inspired by nature. The course is designed to appeal to you, regardless of your art experience and kids’ ages. Nature’s Art Club takes your kids through watercolor basics to drawing in a series of 30 minute lessons. Once you subscribe to the program, you have access to the class, so you can learn at your own pace. Nature’s Art Club also has a private Facebook group that you will have access to, so you and your family will also gain a community to discuss nature and art with.

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13. Thrive Art School

Thrive Art School officially closed in 2019, however the founder made the video lessons available on YouTube for free to help families impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Originally, Thrive Art School was started by a Kickstarter campaign in 2013, and resulted in the production of videos breaking down basic drawing techniques to help children become confident in their drawing abilities. In addition to beginner and intermediate level classes, Theresa has videos to help parents learn how to get the most out of online art classes.

Visit the Thrive Art School YouTube channel .

14. Draw with Disney Animation / Draw with Pixar

Some of the most renowned names in animation are Disney and Pixar. The entertainment giant offers lessons on how to draw the characters from their popular movies. While Disney and Pixar are both well-known to kids, the skill level to complete these lessons may be more suited to teenagers and adults.

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15. Jarrett J. Krosoczka’s Draw Every Day

Author and illustrator, Jarrett J. Krosoczka created the Draw Every Day series in March 2020. In each 20 to 30-minute video, JJK presents a virtual art lesson appropriate for kids of all ages. JJK’s art course consists of tips on how to draw JJK’s characters, explanation on his process, and brainstorm sessions for how to create new characters. Through the host’s friendly tone and enthusiasm, your kids will feel encouraged to follow along and discover their own love of drawing.

Subscribe to Jarrett J. Krosoczka’s YouTube channel .

16. DrawingCoach.com

DrawingCoach.com was created by the creative director of a computer game company. The company seeks to teach drawing to people who feel that they can’t draw. DrawingCoach.com’s lessons span a variety of topics, such as drawing cartoon figures, portraits, and tattoos. With an easy-to-navigate website and clear visual aids, you can learn how to draw pressure-free, even without video tutorials.

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With over 2,000 online art classes, Udemy’s global marketplace has a course for every possible art topic. For example, acrylic painting, digital illustration, and sketching. Since Udemy offers so many options, you can easily find online art classes for beginners or more advanced students. Users can also judge whether a class is popular through Udemy’s rating system.

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18. Masterpiece Society Studio

Masterpiece Society Studio has virtual art classes designed for the whole family to join in. By joining the Masterpiece Society’s membership, you get access to hundreds of art lessons that will bring your family together. The member is $29 per month and gets you classes for beginners, but also courses teaching higher level techniques that are for your older kids. These features make Masterpiece Society Studio a one-stop shop for families hoping to instill an appreciation for making art.

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Final Thoughts

Finding the right creative outlet is important for maintaining your emotional and mental health. If you thought that art was out of your reach, then this list of classes should help you realize there is still hope! Explore your choices and discover what works for you.

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FAQ: Online Art Classes

Still confused about how art classes over the internet works? Here are some frequently asked questions about online art classes.

How can I take art classes online?

You can take art classes online through searching resources available via the internet. Most virtual art classes involve some form of video content and activities that help you apply the lessons learned. Depending on the course, your instruction may be formal or take the form of following along as the instructor walks you through art projects.

What are the best online art classes?

What constitutes the best online art classes depend on your goals. If you are looking for professional development, especially in the computer graphics industry, then CG Spectrum and Gnomon are terrific choices with many alumni actively working in the field. If you are looking for a less formal option, then follow along with renowned artists as they draw, for a low-pressure experience.

How can I learn drawing online for free?

You can learn drawing online for free by taking advantage of some platform’s free tiers. Some places you can start are Lunch Time Doodles with Mo Willems, Skillshare, Proko, MoMA’s online courses, Carla Sonheim’s Kids Art Week, Kitchen Table Classroom, Thrive Art School, Draw with Disney Animation, Draw with Pixar, Jarrett J. Krosoczka’s Draw Every Day, and DrawingCoach.com.

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Online art classes of all shapes and sizes are out there in the depths of the internet, siren-calling to those who want to take their art to the next level.

So how do you choose the best online art classes for you with so many voices promising to be the one you need?

This guide will help you compare some of the best overall options, and the best options for specific areas of study, from painting to illustration and everything in between.

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#1. New Masters Academy

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  • Teaches a HUGE variety of skills and subjects by Master artists.
  • Affordable, subscription-based courses allow you to take multiple classes without limiting yourself. 
  • Comes with extensive image and 3D model resources to use at your disposal.
  • Optional coaching program to guide you on your artistic journey

#2. Evolve Artist

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  • Teaches from basic painting foundations up, with each lesson building on the last.
  • Breaks down fundamentals into easy-to-understand concepts and gives you quick and actionable individualized feedback to help you improve faster.
  • Provides ALL materials for you, included with tuition.

#3. Digital Painting Studio

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  • Offers step-by-step lessons so you’ll never get lost in the process. 
  • Breaks everything down into clear Learning Paths so you can focus on your goals.
  • Hosts a supportive community that’ll keep you motivated and inspired.

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  • Makes drawing the figure feel achievable for anyone.
  • Provides a wealth of demonstrations and examples of each exercise.
  • Gives thorough and constructive critique and teaches you to critique your work and your peers’.

#5. 21 Draw

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  • Thorough lessons on all facets of illustrating that you need.
  • Beginners welcome, even if you’re unfamiliar with digital art software!
  • Individual courses OR monthly memberships available so you can gain more skills affordably.

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Overall Rating: 5/5

New Masters Academy is our “Best Overall” pick because of their huge range of high-quality online art classes offered across medium, subject, and skill levels.

  • With NMA, you get to choose which subjects you study and when. Whatever your current focus or goals, you’ll find classes taught by masters in the field to suit all of your needs.
  • Subjects include portrait painting, illustration, animation, concept art and they are all well-organized and easy to sort through despite their abundance!
  • Whether you’re a complete beginner and want to start out with their beginner-friendly courses or are more advanced and looking for a challenge, you’ll find yourself mastering new artistic skills in painting, drawing, sculpture, or all three.
  • New Masters Academy offers some of the best online art classes for adults, allowing you to learn at your own pace and on your own schedule. This is perfect if you have other commitments or limitations that prevent you from attending traditional art schools.
  • NMA also provides additional resources like their entire library of images, 3D models, tutorials, and one-on-one coaching so you’ll never feel alone.
  • Their affordable monthly subscription allows you to take whichever live or “on-demand” courses you choose, instead of having to pay huge tuition fees upfront or having to pay per class.
  • If you want tailored feedback and guidance , consider their one-on-one or group coaching.

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Overall Rating: 4.9/5

Evolve Artist wins in the “ Best Online Oil Painting Classes ” category for their dedicated, deep-dive focus into everything you could want to know about painting with oils.

  • Evolve Artist’s online art school teaches you painting techniques from the foundations-up in easy-to-understand blocks of study that build on each other, one skill at a time. Total beginners to painting are welcome, and if you want to get a head start, check out their FREE oil painting for beginners mini course to get a feel for their teaching style.
  • Evolve sends two boxes of high-quality materials (like Old Holland’s renowned oil paints) straight to your door, removing the stress and scrambling for materials on your end. The supplies are included in the cost of your tuition, worth over $1000 alone.

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  • The course utilizes group lessons, one-on-one feedback sessions with personal critiques, and fosters a community of students learning alongside you that you get to interact with.
  • You can go at your own pace and are in control of how much time you dedicate each week to painting, working around your schedule and personal life.
  • Not a course for those wanting to dabble in different media, you must be dedicated to spending a significant amount of time painting.

Want even more info? Check out our full review of Evolve Artist here.

If you’re ready to make oil paint your new medium of choice, but need some guidance and support along the way, sign up for Evolve Artist’s online art class for a fraction of the cost of traditional art school!

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Hardy Fowler’s Digital Painting Studio (DPS) is a treasure trove for artists seeking affordable and comprehensive digital art education. With courses suitable for beginners and intermediates, DPS provides a supportive community, expert instruction, and flexible payment options. If you’re interested in digital painting, here are some of the things I love:

  • Affordable Learning: DPS offers budget-friendly courses with flexible payment plans, making quality art education accessible.
  • Engaging Community: Join forums and Discord communities to connect with fellow artists, find inspiration, and enhance your learning experience. There are weekly study sessions, and regular painting challenges. I found the community to be incredibly welcoming and supportive.
  • Expert Guidance: Hardy Fowler’s 14 years of industry experience provide valuable insights into digital art and concept design.
  • Structured Learning: Courses are well-organized, allowing you to progress logically from basics to advanced skills at your own pace.
  • Interactive Learning: Practical exercises and community feedback foster skill development.
  • Career Building Track: Jumpstart your art career with specialized tracks, including a free course on how to create a portfolio for a career in concept art.
  • Variety of Courses: Explore a wide range of topics, from foundational techniques to advanced concept art.

Digital Painting Studio is perfect for emerging artists seeking affordable, well-structured digital art education and a supportive community.

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Overall Rating: 4.7/5

Proko’s fun, engaging online courses have made it to the top for “Best Figure Drawing Classes” for taking the intimidation out of drawing the figure .

Proko lessons go beyond just figure drawing, though, and span sculpture, digital painting, character design, and pretty much every other subject you can imagine.

Proko courses are accessible and understandable for beginners and more experienced artists alike.

  • Proko provides hundreds of free videos of short lessons (with millions of views) that are expanded upon in more depth in the longer, paid premium courses taught by experienced instructors.
  • Classes focus on teaching you how to recognize and recreate drawing basics like gesture, structure, proportion, anatomy, and shading. With these skills, you’ll be able to draw figures in any pose, like a professional.
  • Courses are broken down into lessons on specific skills like “How to Draw Gesture”, “Anatomy of the Human Body”, “Portrait drawing fundamentals”, and “Figure Drawing Fundamentals”. Each lesson is step-by-step and includes several demonstrations, assignments, pdf workbooks, and critique videos.
  • There’s also an active online community on the Proko website. Students share their drawings, giving and receiving critiques , tips, and advice in a constructive environment.

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Read our full Proko Figure Drawing and Proko Anatomy Course reviews for more details!

Sign up for Proko’s friendly and approachable courses today and join scores of other students learning to master the figure and all other subjects!

21 draw digital drawing class

Overall Rating: 4.6/5

21 Draw was selected for “Best Illustration Classes” for their great courses taught by master illustrators who are active, recognizable names in the industry.

  • 21 Draw’s courses cover all of the topics that hopeful illustrators should work to master. They’ll teach you character design, anatomy, lighting, shading, environments, and more.
  • They teach you to use specific, industry-standard illustration software like photoshop , procreate and clip studio paint. So if you’re new to illustration and digital painting in general, you’ll be taught everything you need to know to get started.
  • You can purchase courses individually, go the monthly subscription route, or save with an annual membership that allows you access to hundreds of lessons of video content.

Check out our Full 21 Draw Review to learn even more about their courses.

Aspiring illustrators, sign up for 21 Draw and let them show you how quickly you can build new skills and that all of your goals are within reach!

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Overall Rating: 4.5/5

Aaron Blaise’s thorough and affordable online courses at Creature Art Teacher are some of the best animation art classes online. Aaron Blaise is a master of animation who worked on Disney classics like Mulan, Lion King, and Beauty and the Beast, so you know he knows what he’s talking about.

  • The Complete Animation course comes with over 20 videos of instruction that walk you through the 12 Principles of Animation as well as the “scene approach” to animating.
  • Aaron Blaise collaborates with other professional industry artists to offer amazing courses like “ Sculpting in Z-Brush with Tony Cipriano ”, so you can hone skills in any area.
  • These courses are practical for both traditional and computer-based animators.
  • You can purchase individual courses OR an Annual Premium Membership . Premium members get access to all courses, brush packs, lessons, and bonus tips and tricks available on the site.

Current industry professionals have been taught by Aaron Blaise and you can join them!

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Pencil Kings offers courses in all different areas of contemporary art, both digital and traditional, taught by professional artists in their respective industries, like Loish, @Loisvb on Instagram!

  • There are a variety of classes, from short tutorials that are self-directed and pre-recorded to lengthier classes that include one-on-one coaching calls.
  • Pencil Kings organizes “30 Day Challenge” courses that keep students motivated, engaged, and having fun. They’ll have you working more consistently with daily exercises targeting specific skills like shading and perspective.
  • They also share practical lessons about being an artist and building a contemporary art career based on the skills you learn with them.
  • Sign up for courses individually OR get the Full Access Pass to all 100+ courses for life.

Scroll through Pencil Kings’ courses and discover everything they have to offer to help you meet your specific artistic goals.

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If you are looking for a CG academy alternative, Paintable is one of the best digital art classes currently available. Their Digital Painting Academy consists of hundreds of step-by-step video lessons, providing assignments, study groups, and monthly feedback from professional artists.

  • Utilizes what they call an “Active Learning Method” with clear, focused, and achievable goals.
  • There are 8 Learning Paths, including: foundations, advanced, light & color, anatomy, portrait & character, perspective, environment, and fantasy. Work on every skill area needed to become a professional-level digital artist.
  • You can also purchase bundles of their most popular courses to build specific skills like Portrait Art . Once you purchase a bundle, you retain lifetime access to it AND any future updates or additions.
  • There is a private Paintable Community for students to interact, critique, and learn from each other.
  • Over 60,000 students have signed up for Paintable’s digital art masterclasses. The incredible results photos and testimonials prove that the lessons are actionable and make a huge difference for aspiring artists!

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Join the huge community of Paintable’s students to see the tremendous growth that you can achieve in your own digital paintings!

domestika home art classes

Overall Rating: 4.2/5

Domestika provides online courses in illustration, photography, digital painting, graphic design, 3D art, animation, modern art, art history, abstract painting , watercolor painting, acrylic painting, and more… The list just keeps going!

  • There are a variety of courses to choose from, ranging from affordably priced self-directed options to premium mentored classes.
  • Domestika’s community forum allows you to interact with teachers and other students and get assignment feedback so you’re not isolated while learning and can be sure you’re on the right track.
  • They offer general courses like “ Drawing for Beginners ” and also some super specific courses like “ Drawing Appealing Characters with Personality ” so you can focus on skills you feel you’re lacking.
  • You can see the stats of each course, including how many students have taken it, their reviews, how many lessons it includes and how many hours it will take to complete it. With all of this info and transparency, you’ll know exactly what you’re getting into and the quality to expect!

Receive unlimited access to go at your own pace once you sign up.

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Overall Rating: 4/5

You can learn any fine art medium (including gouache and watercolor painting), illustration, graphic design, animation, concept art, modern art, art history, postwar abstract painting and more with Skillshare’s online classes.

  • Skillshare features curated series of classes called “Learning Paths” to help you reach specific goals like “ Watercolor Magic: The Basics of Color Mixing ” and “ Procreate Basics: Keeping a Digital Sketchbook on your IPad Pro ”. This organization of courses helps to keep you focused and on track since there are SO many great courses to hop around and try out.
  • You conveniently get access to thousands of classes with one membership and don’t have to keep paying a new place each time you want to learn a new skill. You don’t have to limit what you’re learning based on your budget.
  • There are courses, taught by professional artists, for all skill levels. Classes are rated by skill levels, so you know which are best suited for you, whether you’re a beginner, intermediate, or more advanced.

You’ll be sure to find classes that are the perfect fit for you when you sign up with Skillshare. (Good luck picking which to try first!) AND you’ll get 40% off when you click our link.

How to Choose the Best Online Art Courses for You

The first question to ask in your search is what do you want from an online art class?

Since we know now that each course functions differently and has a different purpose and goal in mind, you’ll want to find the one that best aligns with your current goals as an artist.

Are you looking for a longer, in-depth course that focuses on one medium? ( Evolve Artist checks this box for aspiring oil painters).

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Or do you want a broader overview of the fundamentals of different media like New Masters Academy or Skillshare offer? A subscription to these online art schools makes the best gifts for artists .

More Questions to Ask:

  • How much time do you have to dedicate to an art course? Different courses require different levels of commitment, requirements, and flexibility. For example, 21 Draw offers tons of short lessons and tutorials, while Digital Painting Studio and Evolve Artist are courses that extend for months.
  • Is there a particular skill within a medium that you want to focus on?
  • What is your budget for an online art course? And do they offer payment plans?
  • Does the course you’re interested in produce real, tangible results? (Read reviews by past students whenever possible and look at how their work has improved.)

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Online art classes are usually taught through a combination of live video lectures, pre recorded video lessons and tutorials, group online workshops and critiques, one-on-one guidance, and assigned projects.

The advantages of online art classes are numerous. You get to learn new skills from the comfort of your home. You can learn from some of the best artists all over the world who aren’t accessible to you in person. And you can often learn at your own pace.

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If your family obligations, job, finances, location, or health prevent you from taking art classes in person, online art classes can make learning visual arts more feasible.

It makes sense to want to know who is teaching the online art classes you’re thinking of taking. What makes them qualified to teach? Do they have experience teaching? Working in the industry? Have they taught in person and online?

The best online art classes give you the opportunity to learn from artists whose art, style, and approach you look up to!

Glenn Vilppu

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Glenn Vilppu is one of New Master Academy’s senior instructors and an example of how advantageous the best online art classes can be.

He’s a master at his craft and an influential voice in the animation industry and the modern art education world, working with studios like Disney, Marvel, and Warner Bro’s, as well as providing universities and art schools with his books and teaching materials.

Stan Prokopenko

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Stan Prokopenko, classically trained and experienced artist and teacher, founded the Proko online courses after having taught drawing for years at the Wattis Atelier, where he originally studied himself.

He is dedicated to teaching drawing in a way that is accessible for everyone and entertaining. His videos have been viewed millions of times.

Kevin Murphy

Kevin Murphy, Evolve Artist founder, is an award-winning portrait painter, professional illustrator, and experienced teacher .

He founded the in-person Art Academy and has successfully taught painting to students of all skill levels with tangible results, in person AND through online classes with Evolve Artist.

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Online art classes costs can range from as little as $9.99 for short tutorials to an investment of thousands of dollars for the most in-depth and involved courses, but they are typically a fraction of the cost of traditional art school.

This variation in costs depends on the length of the course, whether they are live or pre recorded videos, group classes or one-on-one, and if supplies are provided.

If you are interested in the structure and mentorship offered at art school but aren’t keen on paying the high fees, check out these alternative art schools .

Monthly Subscriptions vs. One-Time Tuition

Some online art classes are subscription-based and allow access to a number of classes and tutorials with a monthly fee. (Most courses will also offer a discount for signing up for an annual membership rather than paying per month!)

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These courses are affordable in the short-term and allow students to try out different subjects on a budget, without a larger financial commitment upfront.

Lengthier, more specific courses sometimes charge a higher one-time tuition (often with the option of payment plans, however). These are more of a commitment initially but can keep students invested and focused.

Are There Free Online Art Classes?

There are some free online art courses and tutorials out there that can be a great place to start learning. Many paid courses offer free mini courses or post short versions of their video lessons on YouTube , so you can get a feel for their teaching style.

Free courses are usually self-directed and don’t include feedback, critique, and guidance specific to you. Instead, they are more general lessons.

Being around other artists and students is part of what makes in-person classes worthwhile. A community of artists learning alongside you can help motivate and inspire you.

With that in mind, the best online art classes are ones that work to build an online learning community alongside quality art education. Facilitating interaction between students is really important!

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You can learn art online, and quickly, with the right dedication, guidance, instruction, support, materials, and feedback that the best online art classes offer.

No matter where your artistic goals and interests lie, the right fit is out there for you and you won’t regret trying out the online art classes reviewed in this list.

It’s a challenge to pick a winner for the best online art classes. New Masters Academy is our “Best Overall” choice, but Digital Painting Studio and Evolve Artist are favorites too for their specialties, and we know you’ll love them all!

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  • AA Cr10h Investigate: Engage in critical thinking, problem solving, and research through elements and principles of art and design studio practices and processes. (aesthetics / problem solving)
  • AA Cr11h Plan: Formulate original concepts by practice, experimentation, and revision. (planning/experimentation)
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Elements of art. What will you learn in Art 1.

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The elements and principles of design are the building blocks used to create a work of art.

Elements of Art are the visual "tools" that artists use to create an art work - they are what makes up an image or an art object: line, shape/form, value, color, space, and texture.

Principles of Design are the ways artists use the Elements of Art in an artwork - this is "what we do with the Elements" - how we arrange them, how we balance them, what is being emphasized, etc. The principles are: balance, contrast, repetition, emphasis, and unity.

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Elements of Art are the visual "tools" that artists use to create an art work

Artists manipulate these elements, mix them in with principles of design and compose a piece of art. Not every work has every last one of these elements contained within it, but there are always at least two present.

For example, a sculptor, by default, has to have both form and space in a sculpture, because these elements are three-dimensional. They can also be made to appear in two-dimensional works through the use of perspective and shading.

There are six Elements of Art:

  • Shape / Form

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Principles of Design are the ways artists use and arrange the Elements of Art in a composition.

The Principles of design is what we do to the elements of art. How we apply the Principles of design determines how successful we are in creating a work of art.

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ASSIGNMENTS

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Strange noise...

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Imagination drawings

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Limited drawing

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Popcorn factory

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About me Mind Map

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Line Repetition Design

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Drawing with lines

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Lines & Emotions

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Focal point line drawing

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Tangram basics

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Tangram images

tangrams

Name design

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Hand study 1

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Hand study 2

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Flower study

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Colored pencils

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Tessellations

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Value scale

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Form construction & shading

shading

Observational drawing

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Grid drawing

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White on Black

value drawing

Half picture

shadows

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pointillism

Pointillism

layers holes

Layers and holes

scratch art

Scratch art

value drawing

Photorealism

ribbon design

Ribbon design

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value drawing

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skills assessment

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portfolio assessment

portfolio assessment

landscape coloring

Landscape coloring

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Color wheel practice

color wheel

Color wheel

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Color schemes

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Practice color scheme

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Color scheme designs

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Color scheme triptych

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monochromatic

Monochromatic painting

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Complementary painting

color scheme painting

color scheme painting

color scheme painting

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1 point perspective

1 pt. perspective

grid

additional w/s

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Post in perspective

1 point grid

1 pt grid plan

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Name in perspective

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Room in perspective

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Buildings in 1 pt. perspective

2 point perspective

2 point perspective

2 pt perspective

2 point grid

2 pt grid plan

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3 point perspective

3 point perspective

3 pt perspective

3 pt form

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Texture Study

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Textured apples

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Texture patterns

texture

Textured cylinder

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Creative patterns

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Optical design

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skills assessment

skills assessment

final 2 semester

focus on 3 elements

notes

Balances design

printmaking

Printmaking

pattern

pattern problem

pattern

patterns experiment

pattern

Pattern design

optical design

Subway train

double drawing

Double drawing

linoleum printmaking

Linoleum printing

oil pastels

Oil pastels

Wisconsin essential standards rubric

Elements of art. What will you learn in Art 1.

1. All assignments must be completed on or before the due date. 2. Unfinished artwork is graded as such. 3. If you are absent, it is your responsibility to make up all work. You can sign out art supplies if needed. 4. If your project requires extra time to be completed, you have to make arrangements with me prior the due date. This is your responsibility. 5. Each project has a rubric with specific requirements and guidelines. Follow them. 6. Unless an assignment specifically requires copying, it will be interpreted in the same manner as plagiarism. 7. You are also graded for your in-class studio work.

CLASSROOM RULES

1. Food, drinks, candy, gum are not allowed in the Art rooms. A bottle of WATER is permitted in room 206 (only). 2. Cell phones are not allowed at any time. Phones should be turned off and put away. 3. Be in the room before the bell rings. Dropping your stuff and leaving does not qualify you as being on time. 4. Sit at your assigned seat unless I give you OK to move. That means you do not walk around the room during the class. 5. Talk quietly with students at your table. Do not talk during the instructional time. 6. Draw, paint, etc. on your artwork only! 7. Use materials from your tote-tray only... don't go into other people's trays. 8. You can bring your work home anytime. You are responsible for having it back next day. 9. If you must swear, please do it elsewhere... Thanks. 10. You are responsible for cleaning your work area and the tools that you used. 11. If you are in the Graphics lab, use the printers for the current ART assignments only!!! 12. Encourage your fellow classmates in a positive way... treat them fairly and nicely. This room should be a fun and comfortable place for everyone.

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Best Canvas Preparation: Canvas Stretching & Canvas Priming from Hunter College "Lanfranco guides you through the materials you’ll need to get set up, including a ruler, scissors, and stretcher or strainer bars."

Best Acrylic Technique: Will Kemp Art School

"Along with a variety of videos on proper color mixing, Will will also set you up with a series of painting tutorials."

Best Watercolor for Beginners: Beginners Watercolors on Udemy

"Created by Nicola A. Blakemore, the course includes four hours of on-demand video, and you can even access the course materials on your TV."

Best History: In the Studio: Postwar Abstract Painting From The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

"You will be assigned readings to give context to the larger cultural, intellectual, and historical happenings that shaped these artists."

Best Oil Painting: Oil Painting for Beginners by Florent Farges Arts

"According to his channel, Farges follows the teachings of the atelier method of the 19th century."

Best Paint Mixing: Color Theory & Mixing by Jeanette Jobson

"This is a crash course in the nuance of the process that is sure to set you up for success."

Best Introduction to Gouache: Gouache 101 by Minnie Small

"This tutorial explores not only what it is and how should you use it, but also which brushes and paper are best suited to the medium."

Best Canvas Preparation: Canvas Stretching & Canvas Priming from Hunter College

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Before embarking on a new painting project, the first step is to properly prep your canvas. Instructor Katerina Lanfranco, who teaches painting at Hunter College in New York City, has uploaded two free videos to her YouTube channel (covering Canvas Stretching and Canvas Priming) to successfully set the foundation of your painting.

Both tutorials are really about the best practices to produce an effective canvas. Lanfranco guides you through the materials you’ll need to get set up (these include a ruler, scissors, and stretcher or strainer bars) and clearly walks you through the process of properly cutting your canvas and attaching it to the bars.

Priming comes next: using gesso will create a flexible surface that receives paint well and allows you to spread it more effectively. Lanfranco outlines the materials needed for the process which include gesso, a gesso brush, and sandpaper (to sand down the surface after each coat, so that the canvas is smooth and ready for painting)—and takes you through step-by-step with easy-to-follow instructions. By the end of the course, you’ll have a canvas ready to paint.

Will Kemp Art School 

Interested in trying out or working to refine your acrylic painting skills? On his YouTube channel, artist Will Kemp writes and creates his own videos on classical painting techniques, with a concentration on the use of acrylic paint.

Whether you’re just starting out or have a more ambitious project in mind, Kemp's videos will demonstrate a variety of strategies for the medium. Get started with simple foundational building blocks, including properly cleaning your acrylic paintbrush , choosing your acrylic paintbrush , applying acrylic colored grounds , and color mixing basics .

Along with a variety of videos on proper color mixing, Kemp will also set you up with a series of painting tutorials—ranging from beginner to a more advanced skill set. Learn the fundamentals of painting a still life with the multi-part Beginners Acrylic Still Life Techniques , gain knowledge of light and shade techniques , and try your hand at acrylic landscape painting , palette knife techniques , portraits , painting skies , floral still lifes , and even painting in the style of Claude Monet .

And the best part: It's all free.

Watercolor has a reputation for being a difficult painting discipline. This Beginners Watercolors course on Udemy will help new painters build confidence, giving you the tools to master the fundamentals and leading with a playful approach to the medium.

All you need to get started is a box of watercolor paints, one round paintbrush, watercolor paper, a black ink or felt tip pen, a pencil, an eraser, a clear or white wax candle or crayon, and two jars for water.

Created by Nicola A. Blakemore, the course (around $100) includes four hours of on-demand video, and you can even access the course materials on your TV or mobile phone. The goal of the class is simple—to teach you how watercolor paints work with water and how to harness that effectively.

Blakemore's class will walk you through understanding the principle of a color wash, how the same colors can create shape and shading, how you can create highlights and shadows with watercolors, and how to properly color mix your paints.

Founded in 1929, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) houses some of the most famous modern paintings in the world. While visitors have lined up to see Vincent Van Gogh’s "The Starry Night" or masterworks from Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, the museum now has online programming you can access at home.

Though MoMA offers a variety of free online courses exploring a variety of artistic disciplines, In the Studio: Postwar Abstract Painting focuses on the materials, techniques, and conceptual processes of seven New York School artists: de Kooning, Pollock, Yayoi Kusama, Agnes Martin, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, and Mark Rothko.

The no-cost course is set up so you can work at your own pace and on your own schedule. Your instructor will lead you through demonstrations in the studio and gallery walkthroughs, and will assign readings to give context to the larger cultural, intellectual, and historical happenings that shaped these artists post-World War II.

The class also includes a variety of optional studio exercises, which you will need art supplies for. These will hopefully provide inspiration for your own abstract paintings.

Florent Farges Arts

Interested in making a foray into the style that created Leonardo da Vinci’s "Mona Lisa" and Pablo Picasso’s "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"?

Oil painting uses pigments with drying oils as a binder, such as linseed or poppyseed oil. If you’re a beginner, French artist Florent Farges has a variety of video tutorials on his YouTube channel that will help you get the ball rolling with your oil painting learning.

Farges follows the teachings of the atelier method from the 19th century. The best place to start is Oil Painting for Beginners , which is free. Here, Farges strives for simplicity. All the questions you may be thinking, such as "Why use oil paint?," "Is oil paint more complicated?," and "Is oil paint more toxic?" are addressed here, as well as a step-by-step painting demonstration.

Once you get comfortable with the basics, there are many more tutorials you can choose from, including specific videos on oil painting, drying time , pigments and palettes , setting up for plein air painting , and of course— tips to up your oil painting game .

Jeanette Jobson

Understanding color theory is a critical skill for any artist. Not only does it explain the relationship between colors, but it also is key to understanding their combinations.

When it comes to painting, color theory and paint mixing go hand-in-hand. While there is a vast amount of knowledge available on the subject of color theory itself (see Josef Albers’s fundamental "Interaction of Color"), getting hands-on with your paints in your at-home studio will also open your eyes to how it works on the canvas.

Jeanette Jobson’s free Color Theory & Mixing - The Basics video is a great introduction to mixing, using a split primary palette. This palette uses two shades of each primary color (red, yellow, and blue)—with one warm and one cool shade. Jobson clearly explains many of the terms associated with color and mixing—including color bias.

She walks you through what exactly that means and how each paint shade illustrates that—with the assortment of hues in her palette. Jobson then begins her mixing demonstration: a crash course in the nuance of the process that is sure to set you up for success.

Minnie Small

Gouache is a water-based media with a heavier pigment load than watercolor, and is thus designed to be more opaque.

In this video, artist Minnie Small breaks down the basics of gouache. This tutorial explores not only what it is and how should you use it, but also which brushes and paper are best suited to the medium. If you have experience with watercolors, gouache may be the next style of painting you want to play with.

As Small explains in the free video, many of the tools you’d use for watercolor, such as the type of brush, will also work for gouache. Small illustrates the varying opacity of the paint, as well as its variety of beneficial properties—including its velvet matte finish, quick drying time, and the fact that it can be reactivated with water after drying. So, if you’d like to keep working on a part of a finished painting, you can rework it with ease.

Frequently Asked Questions

What will an online painting class teach me.

Depending on which discipline you begin with, online painting classes can teach a variety of painting techniques. The classes we selected touch on various areas of the medium. They include stretching and priming a canvas from scratch; understanding color theory and mixing paint colors; learning the foundations of watercolor painting; and mastering how to work with acrylic, oil, and gouache paints. All of these are skills that will build your painting practice. 

How Much Do Online Painting Classes Cost?

All the classes on this list—with the exception of one: Beginners Watercolors on Udemy, which costs around $100—are available for free.

What Materials Will I Need for an Online Painting Class?

The materials you’ll need for your online painting class depend on the type of painting you’ll be studying. But to get started you’ll need paint brushes, the paint of your choice, some form of paint palette, a water cup, and an appropriate surface to apply your paint (e.g., a canvas, watercolor paper, or bristol board). If you’re taking the In the Studio: Postward Abstract Painting history course from the Museum of Modern Art, all you’ll need is your computer. 

What Will I Be Able to Create in an Online Painting Class?

In an online painting class, the sky’s the limit of what you can create. With the Canvas Preparation tutorials from Hunter College, you will be able to make your own prepped and primed canvas surface to paint on. In the classes from Will Kemp Art School, you’ll use acrylics to make landscapes, portrait paintings, and still life works. And with Florent Farges Art’s oil painting tutorials, you’ll be able to create your own plein air painting.

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When picking the best online painting classes, we carefully considered the many options available, evaluating for variety, technique, skill levels, and instructor experience. We also factored in the cost and accessibility. Our choices help students learn many painting techniques, from watercolors and acrylics to oils and more.  

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The Art Museum and the Arts Council of Princeton have partnered to provide free online drawing classes taught by artist-instructor Barbara DiLorenzo. Participants can join live from their home computers, tablets, or phones. Techniques emphasize drawing with pen or pencil on paper. Each week’s lesson features works from the Museum’s collections.

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A dapper couple on the streets of New York prepares for a night out, with a sliver of an orange moon over the apartment buildings.

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The Met Aims to Get Harlem Right, the Second Time Around

The museum catches up to the vital lessons of the Harlem Renaissance, with its American, European and African exchanges and its cultural solidarity.

William Henry Johnson, “Street Life, Harlem,” circa 1939-1940, from “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism.” In Johnson’s buoyant painting a dapper Harlem couple steps out for a stroll beneath a tangerine slice of a moon. Credit... Karsten Moran for The New York Times

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By Holland Cotter

  • Feb. 19, 2024

Notoriously, in the winter of 1969 the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened its first exhibition devoted to African American culture, but with a show devoid of art. Called “Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900—1968,” it was a photomural-with-texts affair of a kind found in ethnology museums.

As a student in town on a visit, I wandered into the galleries, and even with scant knowledge of Black history, I knew something was off. I soon learned I wasn’t alone. The show was being slammed by pushback.

A cohort of Black contemporary artists, some living and working in Harlem, calling themselves the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition , had been picketing the museum, and directing their protest to other museums, lighting a fuse that would eventually detonate in the multicultural wave of the 1980s, with its demands for inclusion, and its affirmation of cultural identity, in art as in life, as a force.

A portrait of a young woman in a white-collared dress, holding a pomegranate like the ones in a bowl on the table beside her.

This week, more than half a century on, the Met opens its second survey of Black art, this one called “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism,” and it’s a whole other thing. It’s all art: more than 160 paintings, sculptures and photographs, many quite fabulous. The museum isn’t framing the show as an institutional correction, though how can it be viewed otherwise? At the same time, it’s more than just that. It’s the start — or could be — in moving a still-neglected art history out of the wings and onto the main stage.

That history, from roughly 1918 through the 1930s, has complications. The Harlem Renaissance wasn’t a “thing” in the sense of being a structured movement, though it did have its architects, notably two sparring Black public intellectuals, W.E.B. Du Bois and Alain Locke. Nor was it confined to Harlem, or even New York City. Many of the artists closely associated with it lived and worked elsewhere — Chicago, Philadelphia, Paris. Finally, it wasn’t strictly, or even chiefly, a visual art phenomenon. It was initially defined in terms of new directions in Black literature — Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston were emergent stars — and music, particularly jazz.

What it was, was a kind of atmospheric condition, a transcontinental and transatlantic vibe, an ideal of racial pride embodied in the term “New Negro,” a concept given instant currency through essays written by Locke and published in the progressive political journal “Survey Graphic,” which devoted its March 1925 issue to the theme of “Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro.”

Locke’s ideal, shaped by the Great Migration and World War I, of a new cosmopolitan Black aesthetic blending Western classicism, European modernist innovation, African art and Black folk culture, dominates the show, organized by Denise Murrell, a Met curator at large. And a painted portrait of Locke by the German American artist Winold Reiss is the first thing we see before being plunged into the hubbub of Harlem itself.

One of the guides Murrell has assigned us is the supreme photographer of the neighborhood, James Van Der Zee. In one of his pictures he takes us to tea at a beauty salon run, out of her home, by the hair-care entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker, sometimes credited as America’s first female self-made millionaire. In the company of her genteel clientele, Du Bois, who had conservative tastes in culture, would surely have felt at home.

By contrast, he would probably not have relished time spent in Jacob Lawrence’s watercolor “Pool Parlor,” a Cubistic crazy quilt of ricocheting lines from 1942, or in Archibald J. Motley Jr.’s 1933 picture titled “The Plotters,” which has us sitting in a backroom somewhere with a huddle of tough guys who seem to be exchanging secrets we’re better off not hearing.

Back out on the street we encounter marching bands, and funeral homes, and, in “Street Life, Harlem,” a painting by the great William Henry Johnson — a highlight of this show and an amazement in any show he’s in — of a spectacularly dapper Harlem couple stepping out for a stroll beneath a tangerine slice of a moon.

In a large adjoining gallery devoted to portraiture we see Black individuals up close and rich in stylistic diversity. The self-taught painter Horace Pippin’ s delightful, limner-style likeness of his wife Jennie Ora Fetherstone Wade Giles, wearing the equivalent of 1970s aviator glasses, sits across the room from one, done in virtuosic academic mode, by the underknown Philadelphia artist Laura Wheeler Waring of a pensive young woman cradling a pomegranate, which in turn sits close to a portrait of another young woman in red, this one by the Harlemite Charles Henry Alston , with a face resembling an African mask.

The exhibition includes a cluster of thematic micro-shows, all ripe for future elaboration, though sketchy here. One picks up the African thread in Harlem Renaissance art, taking an abstract Afro-Deco copper mask by the San Francisco artist Sargent Claude Johnson as evidence. Others suggest, in their shorthand way, Euro-American exchanges of influence. The political-painter-to-be Hale Woodruff creates modern impressionist landscapes; Henri Matisse, who hung out in Harlem on trips to New York, paints Black models.

More dynamic by far, are the show’s concentrations on works by individual artists. A nooklike arrangement of four side-by-side figure-packed paintings of Parisian streets and nightclubs by Motley, done on a stay there in 1929, really jumps. A spacious, enclosed hanging of seven monumental history paintings by Aaron Douglas generates a mood different from everything else, with its chapel-like quiet. And the source of some of the Douglas work is of interest in itself: three of the painting are on loan from the still little-studied collections of historically Black colleges and universities (H.B.C.U.s), namely Fisk University in Nashville (where Douglas taught for almost three decades) and Howard University in Washington, D.C. (A major traveling exhibition, “African Modernism in America,” drawn from these and other H.B.C.U. collections, is at the Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati through May 19.)

But it’s in three displays at the end of the show that specific political themes of the New Negro era are finally touched on. One section addresses the pervasiveness of colorism — social exclusion based on skin tone — within the Black community. Waring’s 1920s painting “Mother and Daughter,” of two women, one light-skinned, one darker, seen in overlapping profiles, coolly alludes to this.

Sexual politics could also be a minefield. The Harlem Renaissance “was surely as gay as it was Black,” Henry Louis Gates, Jr. once wrote. Locke was gay, as were the sculptor Richmond Barthé and the painter Richard Bruce Nugent. An installation with a sampling of their work, along with Beauford Delaney’s rainbow-hued nude portrait of the teenage James Baldwin, confirms this reality, though you have to go to the catalog to learn about the homophobia shared even by progressive Black thinkers of the time, including Du Bois — one of the shortcomings of the show.

A concluding small display, “Artist as Activist,” asserts the risks inherent simply in being Black in America, risks that no effort at social uplift — even the current one — can mitigate. The illustrative material, at a glance, looks unsurprising: a photo of Marcus Garvey by Van Der Zee, a drawing of the Scottsboro Boys by Douglas, a print of a picket line by Roy DeCarava. But in a case in the center is a small sculpture of a female figure who seems to be rising from flames. Created in 1919 by Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller and titled “In Memory of Mary Turner As a Silent Protest Against Mob Violence,” it was made in response to the death of a young pregnant Black woman who was lynched and torched in Georgia the previous year. And once you know the story, Fuller’s figure radiates like an emergency flare that won’t go out.

Like several other pocket-size displays, this one could serve as a rough draft for bigger, deeper shows to come. And it underscores, as everything in Murrell’s mind-prodding survey does, the functional value of what is now often referred to — with increasing disdain in the mainstream art world — as an art of “identity politics,” that is, an art that asserts, actively or incidentally, some measure of anti-assimilationist cultural solidarity.

What Locke wanted for a new Black art was the same visibility that white art has always had in the public consciousness, in the market, in the history books. But he also insisted that, in this new art, a Black identity be foregrounded, maintained and nurtured, to create a fresh and distinctive cosmopolitanism. That’s a dynamic evident in the Met show, and it was also the bottom-line goal of the radical, and now undervalued, multiculturalist thinking of the late 20th century, which was a renaissance of its own and feels ripe for reassessment.

The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism

Opens to members Feb. 22 and to the public Feb. 25, through July 28, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave., (212) 535-7710; metmuseum.org.

Holland Cotter is the co-chief art critic and a senior writer for the Culture section of The Times, where he has been on staff since 1998. More about Holland Cotter

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School art teacher accused of secretly selling kids' assignments.

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A schoolteacher in Canada is facing legal action after being accused of instructing his young students to create artwork in the style of Jean-Michel Basquiat and then selling copies of their creations without their knowledge or consent.

Art instructor Mario Perron of Westwood High School, Junior, in Saint-Lazare, Quebec, was served a legal notice Tuesday, along with his school board, on behalf of two parents following the alleged discovery last week that an online store featured the children’s assignments under his name.

Joel DeBellefeuille, one of the two parents taking legal action, said he’s shocked and sickened by the discovery.

In 2013, visitors look at an untitled painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat before an auction at Christie's in London. On Tuesday in Quebec, two parents took legal action after their children's assignments to create art in the style of Basquiat allegedly turned up for sale on an online site.

“I’m still very much baffled and in disbelief that this guy thought it was OK to have his own little sweatshop of 12- and 13-year-old children and just benefit off of them financially by stealing their homework,” DeBellefeuille told HuffPost on Wednesday.

Perron did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s requests for comment Wednesday.

Darren Becker, a spokesperson for the Lester B. Pearson School Board in the Montreal area, confirmed receiving the legal notice in a statement to HuffPost and said that the board is “taking these allegations very seriously.”

“An investigation is underway so the school board cannot comment on this matter any further,” the statement said.

The artwork was the alleged result of Perron instructing his students to make an original “creepy portrait” of themselves or a classmate in the late Basquiat’s style, according to a copy of the Jan. 19 homework instructions shared with HuffPost.

“I do think that it is bothering him in the sense that trust was broken between student and teacher.” - Joel DeBellefeuille

The instructions explicitly warned not to directly copy one of Basquiat’s images “because it is considered plagiarism.” Those five words were underlined for apparent emphasis.

DeBellefeuille said his son, Jax, was absent due to illness but that his classmate created a portrait of him for the assignment. This portrait was then discovered online on Thursday when Perron’s students did a Google search on Perron’s professional achievements and found his online store, according to a copy of the legal notice against Perron and the school board.

“I do think that it is bothering him in the sense that trust was broken between student and teacher,” DeBellefeuille said of his son.

Perron’s alleged page on FineartAmerica.com , which was no longer operating on Wednesday, listed thousands of items featuring the artwork of 96 students, said DeBellefeuille. These items, including mugs, tote bags, towels and jigsaw puzzles, had price tags of up to $120, according to the legal notice.

DeBellefeuille said the items initially had Perron’s full name listed as the artist under each item but that over the weekend, shortly after the allegations against Perron were made public by local news outlets, the name changed to just Perron’s initials.

“So he took his time to remove his name, but he left all the artwork and merchandise still up there, which is beyond me that he thought that that was OK. This shows clear intent on his side to continue doing what he did,” he said.

The legal notice demands $350,000 to cover moral and punitive damages as well as copyright infringement penalties under Canadian law. It also demands a formal apology, the art’s removal from the teacher’s website, and the temporary or permanent suspension of the teacher.

The school board and Perron were given until Monday to respond.

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