Explore our diverse adult classes and workshops this Winter inspired by the season, various artistic practices and the professional artists who lead them! Our classes are carefully designed to guide you into the new year and on your artistic journey.
Our studio space is welcome to all artistic levels of experience, ranging from beginner classes designed to spark your inner creative or reignite a passion that may have been on hold. For those with more experience, we’ve included classes to help intermediate and advanced artists brush up on their skills and dive deeper with expert guidance. And since we know Toronto winters well, we’ve made sure to include a range of online classes so you can create comfortably from your own studio space. From painting landscapes in acrylic to mastering portraits in oil, there’s something for everyone this term to expand your creative boundaries.
Our Winter 2025 term has concluded. Thank you to our wonderful students and faculty for a creative season! Below is a summary of the courses we offered.
Winter 2025 Course Archive
Adult Programs
- Nature’s Brush: Drawing & Painting with Natural Elements – with Evan Hutchinson
- Double Vision: Painting the Diptych – with Evan Hutchinson
- Drawing & Painting for Beginners – with Kirk Sutherland
- Expressive Horizons: Essentials in Landscape Painting – with Sam Paonessa
- Introduction to Oil Painting – with Alanna Peters
- Painting the Portrait – with Alanna Peters
- Intermediate Watercolour Painting – with Diedre Wicks
- Fur, Feathers and Scales – Animals in Watercolour – with Diedre Wicks
- Watercolour Essentials for Beginners – with Anita Fowl
- Drawing for Beginners – with Rose Montgomery Whicher
- Drawing Beyond Basics: Intermediate Development – with Rose Montgomery Whicher
- Drawing for Beginners – Intensive – with Rachel Crummey
- Masterclass: Mixed Media Painting Techniques – with Rachel Crummey
- Learn to Paint Intuitively – with Farida Zaman
- Abstraction through Collage – with Farida Zaman
- Creative & Technical Digital Photography – with Jen Chin
- Exploring the Acrylic Palette – with Jennifer Hinrichs
- Art of the Moment: Contemporary Painting – with Martha Johnson
- Acrylic Art 101: Building a Painting Foundation – with Martha Johnson
- Acrylic Art: Intermediate Painting – with Martha Johnson
- Visionary Women: Canadian Art to Canvas – with Martha Johnson
- Foundations in Painting – with Martha Johnson
- Drawing Freely: Stroke, Line, Gesture – with Martha Johnson
- Love in Resin: Valentine’s Charms (Ages 12+) – with Jessica Rysyk
Kids & Youth Programs
- Love in Resin: Valentine’s Charms (Ages 12+) – with Jessica Rysyk
- Storybook Illustration: Create a Collaborative Storybook (Families 6+) – with Sarah Faruquar
- Drawing & Painting Explorations – Virtual (Ages 6-13) – with Jen Chin
- Mixed Media After School Art Club (Ages 6 – 13) – with Jen Chin
- Drawing & Painting Explorations (JK – Grade 3) – with Melanie Billark
- Draw it, Paint it, Make it! (Grade 4- 8) – with Jessica Rysyk
- Cartooning (Grade 3 – 7) – with Dave Lapp