Open to all students ages 12-18 and younger students with a qualifying portfolio or instructor permission. The primary class for students to develop technique, study classical realism, and grow in the fine arts. Teen Studio: Drawing focuses on dry media: graphite, charcoal, pastels, and ink. Students who want to work on competition and portfolio works should consider taking a semi-private lesson. The TS: Drawing group class encourages the growth of the young artist with subjects such as still lifes, plein airs, and compositional studies. This class emphasizes the principles of design, unity and variety, balance, emphasis, contrast, rhythm, repetition, proportion and scale, and figure and ground relationships. Students also focus on developing depth in technique, and expanding their knowledge of construction and placement. Advanced students taking TS: Drawing dive deeper into more techniques, effects, in-depth analysis, and study of different media. This class is especially good for students intending to work on AP Studio Art portfolios.

Open to all students ages 12+ and younger students with qualifying portfolio or instructor permission. The primary class for students to develop technique, study classical realism, and grow in the fine arts. Teen Studio: Painting focuses on wet media: watercolors, oils, and acrylics. Students who want to work on competition and portfolio works should consider taking a semi-private lesson. The TS: Painting group class encourages the growth of the young artist with subjects such as still lifes, plein airs, and compositional studies. This class emphasizes the principles of design, unity and variety, balance, emphasis, contrast, rhythm, repetition, proportion and scale, and figure and ground relationships. Students also focus on developing depth in technique, and expanding their knowledge of construction and placement. Advanced students taking TS: Painting dive deeper into more techniques, effects, in-depth analysis, and study of different media. This class is especially good for students intending to work on AP Studio Art portfolios.

Study the human figure, a core subject for centuries of artists. This class covers a variety of approaches to the human figure, from analyzing it in its whole in a form-follows-function approach, to diving deeper into understanding how its different systems function from an artistic perspective. Study the skeleton, muscular system, individual limbs and how they function, explore textures and bring your work to life through the use of formal analysis and the contrast of light and shadow. This class is extremely useful for students wishing to put together an AP Studio Art Portfolio.

The human face - its diversity and emotion - has long captivated artists. Capturing the human face can be difficult but is truly rewarding and, with practice, can lead to breathtaking pieces. Our portraiture classes follow the academic method of the study of form and of light and shadow: learn to understand the face through its anatomy, structure, motion, and texture. This class will focus on depicting the entire portrait and sometimes delve into deeper studies of the eyes, nose, lips, etc. Students will study from plaster casts, photography, and live models. This class is extremely useful for students wishing to put together an AP Studio Art Portfolio.

Open to all students. Explore many watercolor-specific techniques, play with colors, and learn to use the water to your advantage. This class is meant as both a complementary study to TS: Painting, and a stand-alone way to begin your watercolor journey. Though less extensively, we will cover fine art theory such as composition, construction, and narrative, while focusing more on watercolor techniques such as washes, gradients, segments, and layers, with advanced students focusing on light/dark, contrast and color, and object definition. Great for students looking to just try watercolors, continue with their art education, and for those pursuing graphic design, animation, architecture, and illustration, among other fields. Students create various works in different themes and with a variety of subjects.

Open to all students ages 14-18 and younger students with qualifying (beginner) portfolio or instructor permission. Older and high school students often work on individual portfolio pieces in semi-private lessons at AWS. We offer this group class for students to develop necessary skills and study pieces for college application, AP, or scholarship portfolios. Subjects include design, composition, coordinating sets of pieces, narrative, and thematic studies. Class covers portfolio requirements and students are welcome to bring in work for crits. Brush up on your drawings and paintings of hands, faces, figures, and compositions. All media. Please bring a sketchbook.