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Create ART with your smartphone! Are you familiar with all the functions of your smartphone camera? Do you take photos without knowing how to make them engaging or creative? Do you want to awaken the artist inside of you? Knowing how to compose an effective shot, along with the creative capabilities of smartphone apps, make what you can achieve on a phone extraordinary. In this class, Ron will help you master the techniques that will transform your images and give them an artistic edge. Learn how to effectively capture and edit shots and turn any photograph, new or old, taken on any phone, into a memorable image. This class will give you the ability and confidence to create amazing images, all conveniently done on your phone or tablet with easy to use photography apps.
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Unlock a new perspective. Students are encouraged to learn how to move beyond realistic depiction, using landscapes as a springboard to create compelling, personal abstract art focused on emotion and composition. Let’s make space for expansion, creativity, and real transformation. Click HERE for the materials list
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Join this 8-week course to learn techniques and principles of pet portrait painting. Connie will walk you through each step of making a pet portrait; from recognizing and simplifying shapes to building values, getting the details of the features, and rendering fur textures with bold, confident brushstrokes. Plenty of individual feedback will be provided throughout the course. Click HERE for Bold and Brushy Paint Your Pet Materials List
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This 8-week intermediate painting course invites artists to loosen up, paint boldly, and explore expressive brushwork inspired by the energetic brushwork of Vincent van Gogh. Working in acrylics or oils, students will paint a different subject each week—ranging from dynamic landscapes to vibrant florals—using colour, rhythm, and intentional mark-making to bring their paintings to life. Each class will include instructor demonstrations focused on expressive techniques, colour mixing, and building movement through brushstrokes. Students will have ample studio time to paint, experiment, and develop their own voice, with ongoing individual feedback and guidance throughout each session. This course is ideal for painters who are comfortable with basic materials and techniques and are ready to push beyond realism, embrace texture, and paint with confidence and emotion. Click HERE for HdH Acrylics 2026 Supply List
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Join this 8-week course to learn techniques and principles behind the art of wet-on-wet painting. We will explore various concepts that are essential ingredients for successful portrait painting: getting the right proportions, mixing colours to create skin tones, strategically placing facial features, and understanding planes and shapes of the form. We will have different focuses for the first 4 weeks and the second 4 weeks: First 4 weeks: Proportions, value, colour mixing, brush techniques, demonstrations. Second 4 weeks: One Alla Prima painting each week. Click HERE for Alla Prima Portrait Painting Materials List
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If you are new to art, begin your journey here! Relax and enjoy as you discover the freedom inherent in watercolour. In this course, Diane will lead you to learn and control the fascinating interaction between water, paint, and paper. Focus on handling edges, backgrounds, negative painting; learn how to add washes, layers, and texture. From florals to landscapes, you will have fun learning the techniques needed to create a successful watercolour painting while you develop your own style. You will love Diane’s demonstrations and enjoy lots of individual attention. No pressure, just fun! Beginner Paint Materials List
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Anime is a hit at OAS! There's so much fun in learning the fundamentals of drawing in an anime style. From basic elements like hair, eyes, hands, heads, and poses, to personalized style, facial expressions and more, learn the skills you need to help get started on your journey of drawing the characters you love and making your own! Multiple different anime styles and genres such as Shōnen (eg. Naruto), Fantasy (eg. Jujutsu Kaisen), Chibi (eg. Pokémon) and stylized realism (eg. Studio Ghibli) will be covered. Participants will need to bring plain paper, an eraser, sharpener, and coloured pens or pencils and / or a digital drawing device. No prior drawing experience required! Here is the complete Materials List Anime Class Series Maia Lee-Thomas
