The Painting School is so excited to offer the amazing opportunity for children entering 7th or 8th grade to spend a week this summer getting great at drawing with arts educator Louise Butler.

This camp is ideal for students interested in improving their ability to draw from observation and anybody who might be considering applying to portfolio audition high schools. 

Drawing from observation: Students will develop a variety of pencil techniques while working with still life objects and self portraiture while also having fun and socializing!

In this workshop with Sara Woster you will look at the work of Wilhelm Sasnal, Frank Walter, Hans Wigert and others to see how much energy, rhythm and movement in a painting can result from focused brushstrokes.

This is a great workshop for all levels as our painting will focus on how to use various brushes and mediums, acrylic paints and more to create exciting worlds. Your painting can be as simple or as complicated as you like.

We will also explore how to play with scale and space to make those brushstrokes have even more impact.

$58 includes all art materials and light refreshments.

Would you like to be more free when it comes to selecting your colors? This is the workshop for you!

We will look at the work of Kirchner, Nolde, Gabriele Munter, Maria Prymachenko and Hockney for inspiration as we will learn how you can use a variety of bold colors without overwhelming the viewer. We will look at how a color wheel and color harmony strategy can help create a wild energy on your paintings without having your colors clash.

This is a great workshop for all levels of experience and for anybody who is interested in working on their palette or understanding color theory and the Fauvism movement. You can paint a simple still life or a complicated world.

Level of Experience - All levels - no experience necessary

Instructor: Sara Woster

Cost: $58 includes all art materials and light refreshments

We will start this 3-hour workshop with a talk by The Painting School co-founder and sculptor Rob Fischer showcasing great sculpture from art history and contemporary art.

He will walk you through sculptural elements like shape, tension, color, texture and more and then Sara Woster will work with you to turn the elements of the 3D artworks that most inspired you into abstract paintings.

Expect to learn a lot about both sculpture and abstract painting while making a lot of art using a variety of methods.

When: Saturday, August 15th, 3:00 - 6:00

Where: The Painting School, 65 Woodhull Street, Carroll Gardens Brooklyn

Cost: $65 includes all art supplies and light refreshments

Leanne Shapton’s book “The Native Trees of Canada” is full of her paintings of trees and leaves done in countless ways with endless, different color combinations. She is not alone in this interest in painting multiples. Emil Nolde had his poppies and Emily Carr had her massive treetops.

In this workshop you will focus on your own bit of nature - from trees to leaves to seashells or clouds - and we paint do many different versions of it in order to force ourselves to become more creative and bold.

We will learn all about color harmonies, iconic palettes and different brushes and painting techniques.

This is a great workshop for first time painters and a great way for long-term painters to push themselves out of a painting rut.

This morning workshop with Sara Woster is for people who want to play with figures and space in order to create an exciting narrative scene.

We will play with perspective, POV, scale and color in order to create engaging worlds that have great stories to tell. We will look at artists Jacob Lawrence, Nicole Eisenman, Eugene Delacroix, Salman Toor and others for inspiration.

We will start out with a collage exercise before moving to paint. A very minimal amount of painting experience is required for this workshop, just enough to paint a simply human figure .

When: Tuesday, August 25th, 10-12

Where: The Painting School, 65 Woodhull Street, Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn

Cost: $58, includes all art supplies and light refreshments

Spend a summer night painting special spaces, from that corner of your bedroom to your childhood bathroom to your favorite bar.

This workshop is a great way to practice composition, space and color and because you can create a scene that is as simple or as complicated as you would like, this is a great workshop for all levels of experience.

We will look at the work of Lois Dodd, Vuillard, Marcus Jahmal, Horace Pippin, Matisse, Sophie Treppendah and more for inspiration!