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San Jose

8 - 12 yrs

Great Artists

ART CAMP

7/6-10

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9 AM - 12 PM or 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM

$325

9 AM - 3:30 PM

$600

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As all our camps, this one teaches art fundamentals to kids. But we also analyze artworks made by famous artists, and create our own interpretations unique new art pieces inspired by famous masterpieces.

This camp will teach you:

  • Sketching alike

  • Shading (how light reflects from objects)

  • Facial anatomy

  • Facial features: differencies and similarities

  • Achieving linkeness

  • Figure anatomy simplified

  • Gesture drawing

  • Drawing an animal

  • Creating values and choosing accents

  • Finishing work

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San Jose

12 - 18 yrs

Sketchbook Club

ART CAMP

7/13-17

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9 AM - 3:30 PM

$600

Registration

Confident and expressive drawing is impossible without routine practice. Our Sketchbook camp helps establish it. We believe the best way to improve your art is to draw a lot and enjoy the process of doing sketchbooking projects, drawing from life, and creative prompts. These sketchbooks can also be used as part of college portfolios submissions.

This camp will teach you:

  • How to form a sustainable art habit

  • Quickly and expressively draw from life

  • Follow creative prompts

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San Jose

6 - 10 yrs

Arts & Crafts of Summer

ART CAMP

7/27-31

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9 AM - 12 PM or 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM

$325

9 AM - 3:30 PM

$600

Registration

Enjoy a variety of art mediums: master mosaics, printmaking, stained glass painting, collage, sculpting, and painting and drawing summer scenery! Fun and educational camp for beginner artists.

This camp will teach you:

  • Sketching alike

  • Conrolling size and position of parts in drawing

  • Creating patterns

  • Watercolor & acrylic painting techniques

  • Beginner sculpting techniques

  • Drawing animals & bugs

  • Designing and implementing an original drawing in mosaics, stained glass, printing

  • Jewelry design

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San Jose

6 - 10 yrs

Arts & Crafts of Summer

ART CAMP

6/1-5

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9 AM - 12 PM or 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM

$325

9 AM - 3:30 PM

$600

Registration

Enjoy a variety of art mediums: master mosaics, printmaking, stained glass painting, collage, sculpting, and painting and drawing summer scenery! Fun and educational camp for beginner artists.

This camp will teach you:

  • Sketching alike

  • Conrolling size and position of parts in drawing

  • Creating patterns

  • Watercolor & acrylic painting techniques

  • Beginner sculpting techniques

  • Drawing animals & bugs

  • Designing and implementing an original drawing in mosaics, stained glass, printing

  • Jewelry design

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San Jose

8 - 12 yrs

World of Illustration

ART CAMP

7/27-31

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9 AM - 12 PM or 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM

$325

9 AM - 3:30 PM

$600

Registration

This camp will not only teach you technical skills that will help you improve your art but you will also learn tools and tricks for being able to compose an image that tells a compelling tale.

Students are encouraged to use whatever drawing/painting medium they wish to learn with or have fun working with!

This camp will teach you:

  • Sketching & shading. 

  • Perspective: drawing architecture. 

  • Character design.

  • Gesture drawing.

  • Human and animal anatomy.

  • Mood in landscape.

  • Anatomy of a human head. 

  • Expressive portrat. Achieving likeness.

  • Using watercolor and acrylics.

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San Jose

6 - 10 yrs

Sculpt & Draw Animals

ART CAMP

6/29-7/2

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9 AM - 12 PM or 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM

$260

9 AM - 3:30 PM

$480

Registration

This session is great for all animal lovers out there! You will learn about animal forms, study different animal groups; learn technics for creating textures specific for different animals.

This camp will teach you:

  • Anatomy of animals

  • Animal movement

  • Representing the texture of fur and feathers

  • Basics of sculpting

  • Watercolor and acrylic painting techniques

  • Working with references

  • Creating original compositions from scratch

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San Jose

10 - 16 yrs

Manga

ART CAMP

6/29-7/2

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9 AM - 12 PM or 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM

$260

9 AM - 3:30 PM

$480

Registration

Ever had an awesome idea for a story or a picture but didn't know how to make it happen? Come join fellow fans of comics and animated shows to take your drawing skills to the next level! This camp offers a freeform project-based experience where students can create comics and illustrations of their favorite characters, both original or from existing media, while being guided with advice for anatomy and proportion, posing, perspective, composition, color choice, and the process from sketching to inking to coloring.

This camp will teach you:

  • Drawing people (figures and faces) in Manga style

  • drawing gestures and dynamic poses from references and imagination

  • designing a charatcer according to the style guidance
    creating a story

  • designing and implementing a comic page and / or a book cover

  • working with Copic markers and liners

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San Jose

8 - 12 yrs

Junior Painting

ART CAMP

6/22-26

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9 AM - 12 PM or 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM

$325

9 AM - 3:30 PM

$600

Registration

Everything your kids ned to start enjoying painting.

This camp will teach you:

  • Mixing a desired color

  • Controlling brushstrokes

  • Painting a portrait (achieving likeness)

  • Painting a landscape (arial perspective, how to render various textures of nature)

  • Painting an animal (animal anatomy, fur texture)

  • Painting a figure (human proportions)

  • Working with watercolor, acrylic, clay

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San Jose

8 - 12 yrs

Junior Drawing

ART CAMP

6/8-12

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9 AM - 12 PM or 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM

$325

9 AM - 3:30 PM

$600

Registration

For kids interested in drawing things from real life and imagination.

This camp will teach you:

  • Sketching alike

  • Shading (how light reflects from objects)

  • Facial anatomy

  • Facial features: differencies and similarities

  • Achieving linkeness

  • Figure anatomy simplified

  • Gesture drawing

  • Drawing an animal

  • Creating values and choosing accents

  • Finishing work

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San Jose

10 - 16 yrs

Digital Painting

ART CAMP

7/6-10

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9 AM - 3:30 PM

$600

Registration

An introduction to digital drawing and painting. After this camp, students will be more familiar with digital art, which is nowadays a primarily art media in most art industries. They will also practice drawing objects, landscapes, and character design.
Please bring your own digital set up. We recommend one of these: 1. iPad with proCreate and an Apple pen.
2. PC or laptop with Photoshop and a drawing tablet (wacom or similar).

This camp will teach you:

Working with Procreate interface: selection, brush, pencil, bucket, clone stamp. Understaning the concept of layers.

Shading: drawing real life and imaginary objects in realistic way.

1-, 2-, 3-Point Perspective. 

Drawing a  landscape with architectural elements. 

Choosing a color pallet, and implementing it.  .

Basics of human anatomy and proportions.

Working with text, textures and effects. 

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San Jose

10 - 16 yrs

Comic Art

ART CAMP

8/3-7

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9 AM - 3:30 PM

$600

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Do you often find yourself doodling characters in different positions, but always alone on a page, willing to move further? Are you a fan of comic art and animation, and would like to try your hand at it? Or, maybe, you draw comic books, and would like professional advice? We have a camp for you! It's dedicated to visual storytelling. Bring your sketchbooks or drawing tablets, instruction will be provided for both digital and traditional media!

Bring your own lunch and snacks.

This camp will teach you:

  • Project management:  planning a complex multi-staged project and completing each stage in time.

  • Creating a plot

  • Designing recognisable characters

  • Designing panels (3 stages: page thumbnails, drafts, final drawings)

  • Inking

  • Lettering

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San Jose

12 - 18 yrs

Character Design

ART CAMP

7/20-24

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9 AM - 3:30 PM

$600

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This camp teaches character design from the ground up: starting with fundamentals like anatomy, gesture, and shape design. We'll study the most famous characters and stories to see what makes a hero look like a hero, or what it is about the villains that make us cringe just by looking at them.

This camp will teach you:

  • Desiging unique characters using the principle of contrast and exagerration

  • Human and animal anatomy

  • Consistency of characters

  • Shading and perspective

  • Working with color palettes

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San Jose

6 - 10 yrs

Art of Asia

ART CAMP

7/13-17

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9 AM - 12 PM or 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM

$325

9 AM - 3:30 PM

$600

Registration

This camp is an introduction to some of the amazing arts and crafts of Asian region, kids-friendly and educational.

This camp will teach you:

  • Culture of various parts of Asia

  • Basics of working with acrylics, watercolor, clay

  • Understanding style guidelines and following them

  • Simplified anatomy of humans and animals

  • Symmetry

  • Proportions

  • Composition

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San Jose

12 - 18 yrs

All About Drawing

ART CAMP

6/8-12

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9 AM - 12 PM or 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM

$325

9 AM - 3:30 PM

$600

Registration

This camp is dedicated to everything you need to know about drawing: sketching, shading, perspective, anatomy of humans and animals. It's a great intro to drawing for the beginner teens. Learn to draw everything you wish freely from your imagination!

This camp will teach you:

Sketching & shading. 

Perspective: drawing architecture. 

Representing textures of nature.

Human and animal anatomy.

Gesture drawing.

Anatomy of a human head. 

Portrat. Achieving likeness.

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San Jose

6 - 10 yrs

Art of Europe

ART CAMP

7/20-24

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9 AM - 12 PM or 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM

$325

9 AM - 3:30 PM

$600

Registration

From Antiquity to Realism to Contemporary Art - the evolution of European art in a nutshell. Students will draw inspiration from European masterpieces and create original artworks in a selected style.

This camp will teach you:

  • Culture of various parts of Europe

  • Basics of working with acrylics, watercolor, clay

  • Understanding style guidelines and following them

  • Simplified anatomy of humans and animals

  • Symmetry

  • Proportions

  • Composition

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San Jose

14 - 18 yrs

Architecture and Design

ART CAMP

6/15-19

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9 AM - 3:30 PM

$600

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Ever wondered what to do with your passion for drawing? This camp will help! We will take a peek at the most popular art professions of XXI century. You will learn what it feels like to be: an artist who creates worlds and characters for movies and games, a designer who creates everyday objects that everyone loves, an architect who designs ergonomic buildings, a fine artist who creates powerful messages that resonate with people's minds.

This camp will teach you:

  • Creative process: implementation of an idea throug the series of iteractions

  • Logo design

  • Brandbook design

  • Architectural sketching

  • Chracter design

  • Product design

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San Jose

6 - 10 yrs

Unusual Art Materials

ART CAMP

8/3-7

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9 AM - 12 PM or 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM

$300

9 AM - 3:30 PM

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Discover new exciting art materials! At Unusual Art Materials camp, students will get a chance to implement their drawings in various not-so-common art media: old-fashioned, such as mosaics, stained glass, metal embossing, embroidery - and brand new, like nail-and-thread drawing, recycled materials sculpting.

This camp will teach you:

Create original art and implement it in:

  • Treading

  • mosaics

  • embroidery

  • embossing

  • stained glass imitation

  • printed media


adult art class Мarin

Winter-Spring 2026 semester: 
First Day of Classes: January 5, 2026 (Monday)
No Classes May 23 (Saturday) - 25 (Monday) - Memorial Day weekend
Last Day of Classes: May 31, 2026 (Sunday)
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