Classical training in drawing and painting for children between the ages of 7 and 14. Rigorous training combined with creative compositional projects ensures that your child will leave our program with a strong base in classical drawing and painting.

This program is not designed to send children home with completed complex artworks - it is designed to ensure that your child learns the skills necessary to become a successful aspiring artist. By learning these skills and experimenting with color mixing through painting, students can more efficiently express themselves in their at-home artworks, and hold onto this information into adulthood.

In addition to technical training in drawing and painting, your child will be introduced to many areas of art history they may be unfamiliar with. We give them in-depth art history lectures that open their minds to art on a global scale.

Our goal is to nurture your child's creativity and mind by exploring all aspects of fine art through a structural lens.

Classical training in drawing and painting for children between the ages of 7 and 14. Rigorous training combined with creative compositional projects ensures that your child will leave our program with a strong base in classical drawing and painting.

This program is not designed to send children home with completed complex artworks - it is designed to ensure that your child learns the skills necessary to become a successful aspiring artist. By learning these skills and experimenting with color mixing through painting, students can more efficiently express themselves in their at-home artworks, and hold onto this information into adulthood.

In addition to technical training in drawing and painting, your child will be introduced to many areas of art history they may be unfamiliar with. We give them in-depth art history lectures, go on museum trips (*depending on COVID-19 regulations and infection numbers), and more.

Our goal is to nurture your child's creativity and mind by exploring all aspects of fine art through a structural lens.

Classical training in drawing and painting for children between the ages of 7 and 14. Rigorous training combined with creative compositional projects ensures that your child will leave our program with a strong base in classical drawing and painting.

This program is not designed to send children home with completed complex artworks - it is designed to ensure that your child learns the skills necessary to become a successful aspiring artist. By learning these skills and experimenting with color mixing through painting, students can more efficiently express themselves in their at-home artworks, and hold onto this information into adulthood.

In addition to technical training in drawing and painting, your child will be introduced to many areas of art history they may be unfamiliar with. We give them in-depth art history lectures that open their minds to art on a global scale.

Our goal is to nurture your child's creativity and mind by exploring all aspects of fine art through a structural lens.

Join Ms. Kelsey for a week-long indoor/outdoor workshop painting botanical arrangements and gardens in local Princeton!

Students will discuss perspective, values, color mixing, and more using gouache paint. 

Gouache is a historical painting medium that has been used in various forms dating back to ancient Egypt. The paint we know and use today became wildly popular during the 19th century and was often used in conjunction with pastels and pencils in mixed media format.

Gouache is similar to watercolor but has been modified to be opaque. This gives artists the ability to build layers similarly to oil but leaves a chalky matte finish.

Experiment with this medium this summer!

July 10 - 15

10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Day 1 - Indoors: Flower Arrangement Painting

Day 2 - Outdoors: Prospect Garden (weather permitting)

Day 3 - Outdoors: Prospect Garden (weather permitting)

Day 4 - Outdoors: Morven Museum & Garden (weather permitting

Day 5 - Outdoors: Morven Museum & Garden (weather permitting

TUITION: $500

Children will learn to draw simple and advanced geometric shapes using proper perspective, values, and composition. They will learn correct terminology through instructor demos, exercises, diagrams, and group classwork, in addition to drawing from life.

Geometric shapes should not be considered "the basics" and put to the side as something easy and trivial. The principles involved in accurately drawing these forms are fundamental to an artist's ability to create.

Students will learn the same approaches and exercises that students in our adult program complete daily.

Join us this summer and give your child an introduction to the tools essential to becoming a successful artist.

JULY 17-21

10:00 am - 1:00 pm

 $500.00

Enter the mysterious art world of Princeton Academy of Art!

Paint from arranged still lifes that exhibit our vast collection of skulls, bugs, and oddities. Get weird, historical, and painterly this summer @ 10 Nassau.

Gouache is a historical painting medium that has been used in various forms dating back to ancient Egypt. The paint we know and use today became wildly popular during the 19th century and was often used in conjunction with pastels and pencils in mixed media format.

Gouache is similar to watercolor but has been modified to be opaque. This gives artists the ability to build layers similarly to oil but leaves a chalky matte finish.