This option allows you to have a single artwork critiqued by a professional artist who will provide a focused and detailed analysis of your artwork. It offers an opportunity to receive specific feedback and insights to help you improve your artistic skills and technique.

- 1 artwork maximum

- Receive a single-paragraph critique of this piece via email

This option allows you to have a single artwork critiqued by a professional artist who will provide a focused and detailed analysis of your artwork. It offers an opportunity to receive specific feedback and insights to help you improve your artistic skills and technique.

- 1 artwork maximum

- Receive a single-paragraph critique of this piece via email

With this option, you can submit up to five artworks for critique, and the feedback will be provided in a PowerPoint format. This option suits artists who wish to receive feedback on multiple pieces and prefer a visual critique presentation. The PowerPoint format allows for a structured analysis of each artwork, highlighting strengths and areas for improvement.

• 5 artworks maximum

• Critique via PowerPoint. Each image has its own slide and is annotated with text and necessary revisions via highlighted lines.

• Critiques are completed by PAA’s highly qualified faculty and staff. If you want to select a specific instructor, you may do so while checking out.

With this option, you can submit up to five artworks for critique, and the feedback will be provided in a PowerPoint format. This option suits artists who wish to receive feedback on multiple pieces and prefer a visual critique presentation. The PowerPoint format allows for a structured analysis of each artwork, highlighting strengths and areas for improvement.

• 5 artworks maximum

• Critique via PowerPoint. Each image has its own slide and is annotated with text and necessary revisions via highlighted lines.

• Critiques are completed by PAA’s highly qualified faculty and staff. If you want to select a specific instructor, you may do so while checking out.

In this course, students become familiar with painting flowers from observation using the classical approach. The aesthetic ideals of historical still life help contemporary artists build their understanding of composition, atmosphere, and value. 

Students will experiment with underpainting, stumbling, and glazing techniques.

Suitable for ages 15+

Tuesdays July 8 - 29

10:30 am - 4:00 pm

TUITION: $500.00

Paint with PAA Director and Founder Anna Neis this summer on Monday evenings from 6-8 pm.

Learn the drawing and oil painting techniques of the old masters through portraiture. Students will explore structure, composition, color and more through various assignments tailored to their skill level.

Supplies not included.

MONDAYS 

July 8 - 29

6-8 pm

Tuition: $450

This intensive workshop is designed to provide students with a comprehensive grasp of the structure, resemblance, and essence of the sitter. 

PAA founding director Anna Neis will focus her instruction on the anatomical proportions, volume, and scale of the subject. Students will use chiaroscuro, sfumato, and other light modeling techniques.

Students will work from the live model.

Mondays July 9 - 30

10:30 am - 4:00 pm

TUITION: $500.00

A course for beginner - intermediate students covering the basics of academic drawing, including proportion, perspective, symmetry, line weight, academic shading techniques, and more. 

Students skill level will be assessed, and each student will be assigned individual assignments to complete each week. Some projects may continue for multiple sessions and can cover geometric shapes, merging shapes, cast and still life drawing or academic portrait plates.

WEDNESDAYS

July 10, 17, 24 & 30

6 - 8 pm