This beginner-friendly course breaks down the process of drawing the human figure into simple, reliable steps - helping you overcome intimidation, understand anatomy, and confidently capture the body’s form, movement, and character.
This course introduces a playful yet deeply thoughtful way of working, inviting you to see collage as a legitimate fine art medium, capable of nuance, realism, and storytelling. Whether you're a seasoned artist or just beginning your creative journey, you’ll come away with a new understanding of how to build and layer a collaged portrait.
Beginners welcome - no art experience needed.
Create powerful abstract artworks using mixed media, words, and imagery. In this course, you'll experiment with newspaper clippings, magazine pages, and a variety of paper textures to build a piece that goes beyond traditional painting. By the end of the course, you'll have four hang to ready pieces and a deeper understanding of the expressive potential of abstraction. Perfect for all levels.
Beginners welcome - no art experience needed.
In this course, you will learn how to raise the value of your work by means of framing. However, framing is expensive! Olya will teach you her secret technique on how to build your own framing, inexpensive but elegant and rich, that fits the style of the artwork - to help you showcase your work at home, or raise its appeal to galleries or interior designers.
Do you want to push your art to the creative limit and enrich your palette of new techniques? In this course, you’ll learn several applications of mixed media by combining gouache and oil pastels in five creative ways. Learn how gouache can complement oil pastels and how oil pastels can improve a gouache painting.
Beginners welcome - no art experience needed although drawing experience will be helpful.