This course meets high standards of artistic education. It offers a college-level challenge, and it helps develop a corresponding quality of art works. Students of this course know the basics of drawing and painting*, and are now looking for perfection of their skills, or for a unique artistic voice, and for that final touch that makes good artworks great. 

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Upon request, we help students with high school or college art portfolio preparation.

Examples:

• Fine Arts college portfolio of Maria Teplova (now at Calarts)

• Fashion Design college portfolio of Anusha Sakhar (now at the New School)

• Architecture college portfolio of Herbert Anson (starts at USC in Spring 2023)

• SOTA high school portfolio of Maxine Sugarman (now freshman at SOTA)

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Works made at the Advanced Teens classes often win art competitions. 

Examples:

• 1st place at "Growing Up Asian in America"

• 1st place at "AIM Awareness Design Challenge"

• National Scholastic Art Gold Medal Award & the Herblock Award for Editorial Cartoon

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*All programs that cover beginner teen drawing and painting are offered as online All About Drawing / All About Painting courses, or in person at Beginner Teens in-studio classes.

 

We respect each creative individuality and allow students to work on projects of their personal interest at a comfortable pace. However, we often have a general theme of a class like cast drawing, live model painting, figure drawing, character & location design, digital painting, sculpting, fan art, creative composition. It's up to a student if he/she wants to join the group or work on a personal project.

 

To see galleries of students' works on each topic, please click on a link:

 

• Creative self-portrait

• Creative composition with an emphasis on emotion

• Surrealism / Symbolism

• Master copy (including creative)

• Live portrait painting

• Portrait from a photo reference

• Sculpting a head/ torso

• Live model sketching

• Character design

• Still life painting

• Pencil study of plaster forms

• White charcoal drawing (still life or casts)

• Fan Art sculpting (small figurine)

 

See more artworks in our blog:

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We also invite college representatives for students' portfolio review.

Recent visits:

• Visit from Art Center of Design

• Visit from the University of the Arts

• Visit from Laguna College of Arts and Design

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Sample instructional video:

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