Adults

Join The Art School in partnership with Practice Yoga Austin for our Art and Wellness Retreat.

Adults

Our Saturday Sampler classes take place every Saturday from 1-4pm, and each explore a different art medium.

Adults

Create detailed drawings of animals using graphite, ink, and colored pencils, ideal mediums for rendering fur, feathers, and scales.

Adults

Join us in our community print shop on Fridays for a morning of exploration and printmaking!

Adults

Learn the in-and-outs of mural painting.

Adults

Fold, cut, glue, paint and play with paper!

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Work in an out of the studio as you draw artistic inspiration from the Laguna Gloria campus!

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Students will then incorporate landscapes within their still-life paintings...

Adults

Sculpt a life-size solid, clay portrait bust based on photographs or cast model.

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Explore a variety of approaches to expressive oil painting

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Harness the fluidity, intensity, and transparency of Watercolor Inks.

Adults

Come play with paper!

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Create monotype paintings on printmaking plates using drawing and painting techniques

Explore a variety of approaches to creating texture and dimension using acrylic paint

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Approach florals in watercolor with ease.

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Learn how to draw light with ballpoint pen.

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Celebrate the playful, unpredictable essence of the natural world

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Explore the fundamentals of figure painting

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Explore the versatility of drawing with ink!

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Explore a variety of approaches to color field painting using acrylic paints and mediums.

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Total beginners and experienced students: make vivid landscapes and cityscapes in a vacation sketchbook to enhance trip memories.

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Transparent watercolor is the perfect medium for landscape.

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Explore a variety approaches to creating expressive drawings using Oil Pastel.

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Students will use paper to capture the beauty of water.

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Create your own map of the imagination based on your own experiences and fantasies!

Adults

This class is for anyone with a smartphone. We will work at slower pace...

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Explore a variety of approaches to geometric abstract painting.

Adults

Discover how to use mixed media techniques...

Adults

Learn how to better capture photos on your smartphone!

Adults

Develop or sharpen observational drawing skills.

Adults

Spend an afternoon learning the basics of Figure Drawing

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Experience the art of throwing clay!

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Immerse yourself in a weekend workshop exploring the vibrant world of Texas botanicals and wildflowers.

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Focus on one botanical and layer the amazing color and texture using cut and torn papers.

Adults

Explore line through drawing exercises including gesture, blind contour, meandering line, searching line in the style of Giacometti, and more.

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Reimagine the traditional still life through the lens of abstraction.

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Learn how to make beaded wire flowers that were popular in the 1950s.

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Create abstract paintings using acrylic paints and mediums

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Make your watercolors glow and have more depth and interest by emphasizing light and shadows in your paintings.

Adults

Select an object as your subject for a series of small realistic pencil works—the starting point for large-scale drawings full of gesture, movement, space, and energy.

Adults

Transparent watercolor is the perfect medium for landscape.

Adults

Explore some of the historic processes, such as Tintypes and Cyanotypes through contemporary digital practices.

Adults

Absolute beginners or those with rusty skills will discover, strengthen, and hone painting skills during an enjoyable weekend.

Adults

Enter the world of botanical illustration in this entry level class!

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Come have a taste of art history in this highlights class!

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Experience an online drawing class using supplies you already have around your home.

Adults

Learn how to make a woven beaded bag using large glass or acrylic faceted beads, pearls, or wooden beads.

Adults

Create your own water color greeting cards!

Adults

Have you ever wanted to mix all the colors of the rainbow using just red, yellow, and blue?

Adults

Beginners and those needing a refresher course alike will gain insight into the wonderful medium of watercolor during an enjoyable, challenging weekend.

Adults

Learn how to tackle portraiture in watercolor!

Adults

Let’s play for an afternoon making timed collages.

Adults

Explore themes of renewal, grounding, and flow through intuitive watercolor techniques.

Adults

Add interest to your photos while you are making them.

Adults

Explore watercolor while painting forests, fields and waterscapes.

Adults

Use the traditional art of Japanese sashiko stitching to hem and patch your jeans.

Adults

Experience a standard online painting class using minimal supplies

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Let loose your creativity and come away with one or more meandering books.

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Stitch your very own bespoke soft sculpture in this engaging workshop

Adults

Learn a personal approach to figure painting with a grounding in canonical painters.

Adults

Learn about watercolor...

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This 2 day workshop will cover basic paper folding techniques that will result in 4-5 books for you to take home.

Adults

Learn about various surface design methods to decorate your ceramic work at both the green and bisque stages.

Adults

Bring your artwork to class and practice shooting both 2-D and 3-D pieces. Learn shooting techniques to achieve true color rendering...

Adults

Students will work in a limited context or matrix, and use the restrictions not as an inhibiting factor, but as a challenging format for discovery and expression.

Adults

The sketchbook is an essential tool for artists to explore ideas.

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Create a small reed basket

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Learn the basics of photo editing to create more visually interesting images.

Adults

Explore options, gain clarity on tools and techniques for both realistic and abstract styles, and learn practical skills and time-saving tips.

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Create a variety of images using gelatin printing, a form of monoprinting in which a gelatin slab is used as a printing plate...

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Create prints using the cyanotype process!

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Connect with other painters from your own home with this online class.

Adults

Beginners will be introduced to the watercolor medium using traditional approaches and color theory.

Ages 9–11, Spring Break Classes

Set up a palette, blend brilliant colors, and use different types of brushes.

Parent & Child

Explore the wonders of watercolor to create a unique work of art!

Adults

Spend time connecting with art history and other people.

Adults

Create beautiful and functional pieces using glass, marbles, stones, mirrors, dishes, and tiles in this class suitable for beginners.

Adults

Expand your understanding of stoneware or porcelain, under-glaze colors, and high-fire glazes.

Adults

Expand your skills, practice MIG (metal inert gas) welding techniques, and become more familiar with oxy-acetylene and hot form steel.

Adults

Learn a variety of hand building techniques, both traditional and innovative, to develop your own style.

Adults

A hands-on tour of various 2-D mediums such as drawing, painting, watercolor, and collage, including foundational principles and language that can be used across disciplines.

Adults

This course examines the gestural and expressive qualities of steel through composing lines in space and drawing with molten metal.

Adults

Absolute beginners use a variety of materials including charcoal and Conté crayon and employ basic principles of drawing while working from a live model.

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Learn complete manual control of a camera. While using a digital SLR is essential, you will subsequently be able to pick up any camera and make a manual exposure.

Adults

Advance your water media skills by creating unique gouache landscape, still life, and portrait paintings.

Adults

Practice drawing your surroundings.

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Draw outside the framework of your conscious mind.

Adults

Using tools like Google Street View, we will explore locations both near and far to discover...

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We will explore how a flat piece of clay can turn into an organic flowing vessel...

Adults

Explore the versatility of coil construction.

Adults

Explore a variety of surface decoration techniques including sgraffito, mishima, slip trailing, watercarving, and more.

Parent & Child

Join us for a unique parent-child workshop that blends the creativity of art with the mindfulness of yoga.

Adults

Work with a live model each week to explore the fundamentals of figure drawing in this open studio like class...

Adults

Learn the basics of color theory and some new mixed media painting techniques while exploring the geometries, beauty, and surprises found in nature.

Adults

Explore relief printmaking (carving into a surface) using linoleum to create dynamic oil-based relief prints.

Adults

Discover, sharpen, and strengthen your skills to approach oil painting with confidence.

Adults

Learn to draw now!

Adults

Discover, sharpen, and strengthen your skills to approach acrylic painting with confidence.

Ages 9–11, Spring Break Classes

Use basic clay throwing techniques such as centering, pulling, and finishing. Learn to throw cylinders and turn them into one-of-a-kind works of art!

Ages 12-14, Spring Break Classes

Use basic clay throwing techniques such as centering, pulling, and finishing. Learn to throw cylinders and turn them into one-of-a-kind works of art!

Adults

Explore comics, sequential art, and graphic storytelling as a contemporary medium!

Adults

Advance your metalworking skills and work on personal projects in this new guided open studio!

Adults

Carve, Print, Fold, Repeat!

Adults

This course is perfect for beginner and experienced oil or acrylic painters...

Adults

Enjoy and examine the native plants in your own backyard/local parks and trails/(or florist) as your subjects.

Adults

Learn techniques to successfully convey light and shadow...

Adults

Fundamental steps, along with diverse techniques will lead you to discover your own capabilities...

Adults

Explore several firing techniques including Raku, Horse Hair, and Foil Saggar Firing.

Adults

Further your creativity and understanding of shooting in manual mode with full control.

Adults

Beginners and experienced students will enjoy this welcoming class. Learn the basics of centering, opening, and pulling clay on the potter’s wheel…

Adults

Learn the basics of making cloth on a loom. We will cover planning a project, choosing yarns, warping and setting up the loom, and weaving itself.

Adults

Explore inventive hand-building techniques for making functional pottery in this fun and informative class.

Adults

Explore pen and ink drawing techniques combined with liquid ink painting processes to create satisfying mixed media works!

Ages 9–11

Dive deeper into the wonderful world of watercolors and learn how to set up your palette, mix new colors, and apply this knowledge to your work.

Adults

Immerse yourself in the world of watercolor, ink, and gouache in this exploration-based class.

Adults

Immerse yourself in the world of Texas botanicals and wildflowers through an engaging exploration of watercolor, ink, and gouache techniques.

Adults

Develop ideas for original compositions and explore elements and principles of design to create balanced watercolor paintings.

Adults

Work on refining your wheel throwing skills to be able to replicate your successful pots!

Adults

Design and complete your own original works by learning basic techniques of couture embroidery.

Parent & Child

Explore different art techniques to create personalized and unique holiday greeting cards!

Adults

Explore the open-ended and fun medium of collage to create unique works of art!

Adults

Explore the fundamentals of relief printing through traditional printmaking tools and chine-collé.

Adults

Have you ever wanted to print your own T-shirts, posters, or cards? Master the fundamentals of screen printing so you can experiment confidently.

Adults

Perfect your ability to render the human figure and expand upon basic drawing skills, through a variety of different nude models and lengths of poses.

Adults

Expand your visual acumen through study of the proportions, contours, volumes, and details of the head and face.

Adults

Conquer a variety of abstract painting techniques, including abstracting real objects, intuitive painting, and gestural works.

Adults

Whether you're interested in painting pets, birds, livestock, or exotic wildlife, explore how to simplify the drawing and proportions...

Adults

Learn how to paint botanical subjects in a realistic manner.

Adults

Work with unconventional, synthetic, and a non-local palette to create geometrical abstract works.

Adults

Add color to your repertoire by drawing with colored pencils. Explore layering, burnishing, and dissolving the waxy pencil to create luminous works of art.

Adults

Make your painting compositions more dynamic! Learn to use contrast, direction, the Golden Mean, color choices, and other elements and principles…

Adults

Break away from traditional landscape painting and explore color, shape, and brushwork in a new class that explores the connection between landscape forms and abstract painting.

Adults

Enjoy the brilliant colors of fast-drying acrylics and learn to build layers of textures and washes in landscape, still life, and abstract painting.

Adults

Paint freely among a like-minded community with the at-request feedback of an instructor!

Adults

Work from a live model or personal photographs to expand your skills through study of the proportions, contours, volumes, and details of the head and face.

Adults

Beginners are introduced to the watercolor medium while intermediate-level students advance technique and skills through practice and critiques...

Adults

Use this traditional media on an expanding range of subjects including water and glass, light paths, food and fabrics....

Adults

Come with ideas for some images you’d like to develop for a children’s book in this class taught by a national award–winning children’s book author and illustrator.

Adults

This workshop-style class picks up where Watercolor Basics and Beyond leaves off, featuring new exercises and demos that focus on value, pattern, and color.

Adults

Learn the basics of wheel throwing in this beginner’s class!

Adults

Everyone has a story to tell—let’s turn yours into ceramic sculptures.

Adults

Explore and realize your own visions. Focus on narrative work employing human and animal forms, and develop and execute your own visual vocabulary.

Adults

Beginners will be introduced to basic shapes while experienced potters will expand skills and explore forms such as lidded jars and large objects.

Adults

Learn welding, cutting, and grinding as you create steel sculptures in this foundational class...

Adults

Bring the heat in this exciting class that combines MIG and oxy-acetylene welding with forging.

Adults

Continue to expand your metalworking skills!

Parent & Child

Inspired by the beautiful setting of Laguna Gloria, create a variety of artworks using sticks, stones, leaves, and other natural objects.

Parent & Child

Design and decorate a large, beautiful platter perfect for use during the holidays!

Parent & Child

Make greeting cards filled with pop up elements.

Parent & Child

Use your imagination to create a whimsical pinch pot pal out of clay!

Parent & Child

We'll look at traditional Pysanky (Ukrainian) designs to inspire our own unique creations using bee waxes and various dyes to create detailed multi-colored eggs.

Parent & Child

Come discover the secrets to using beautiful indigo shibori and tie-dye patterning techniques...

Parent & Child

Come discover the secrets to using natural materials to create different color dyes...

Parent & Child

Create with mom, dad, grandparent, or guardian to make a small edition of prints to share as Valentine cards. We'll sketch...

Ages 6–8

Dive into five different media for the week!

Ages 6–8, Spring Break Classes

Make your own clay cartoon, then create a movie set and animate a mini-movie with your creature as the star!

Ages 9–11

Paint, draw, and sculpt nature by creating bug sculptures, animal portraits, and landscape paintings of the history-laden land around your critters!

Ages 9–11, Ages 12-14

Study drawing and painting, exploring form, color, perspective, texture, value, and composition using a realistic approach.

Ages 4–5, Spring Break Classes

Enhance your child’s innate creativity! Young artists learn to think creatively and shape ideas into art they can see, touch, and know.

Ages 6–8, Spring Break Classes

Venture into real and imaginary worlds with the stroke of a marker, the rub of charcoal, and the glide of pastels.

Ages 6–8, Spring Break Classes

Create realistic paintings and express your artistic spirit in both bold and delicate colors using skillful brushstrokes.

Ages 9–11, Spring Break Classes

Make your own clay cartoon, then create a movie set and animate a mini-movie with your creature as the star!

Ages 14-17, Spring Break Classes

Learn the basics of welding and explore the possibilities of steel as more than an industrial material.