t’s easy to talk yourself out of painting as an adult. You’re too busy, you’re not “artistic,” you should have started years ago. I’ve heard all of it — and none of it is true. If you’ve ever wanted to make something with your hands, you’re exactly who these classes are for.

I teach in-person art classes for adults, grounded in the classical atelier method I studied at the Great Lakes Academy of Fine Art. Whether you’re picking up a brush for the very first time or you’ve been painting for years and want to push further, you’ll find a place here.

Beginners Are Genuinely Welcome

No experience required, and I mean that. You don’t need to arrive knowing how to draw or mix a color — that’s what we’ll build together, from the ground up. What you do need is a little curiosity and the willingness to make a few bad paintings on the way to good ones. Everyone starts there.

Real Skills, Taught in Order

These classes follow a planned curriculum, not a series of one-off projects. We work through the fundamentals that everything else rests on — seeing shapes and values, understanding light and shadow, mixing color, composing a picture — and then keep building from there. Each session gives you something concrete to practice and a clear sense of what comes next, so you’re always moving forward.

Feedback Made for You

The real value of learning in person is the feedback. I can watch how you actually work — where a drawing is slipping away from you, why a color isn’t reading the way you hoped, what single change would make the biggest difference — and respond in the moment. That kind of direct, personal guidance is hard to get any other way, and it’s what turns effort into progress.

A Foundation You Can Keep Building On

For experienced painters, these classes offer the individual attention it takes to break through whatever’s been holding your work back. For newer artists, they lay a foundation solid enough to keep growing from long after the class ends. Either way, you leave with more than a finished painting — you leave knowing how to see.

Slow Down and Make Something

There’s a particular kind of quiet that comes with painting — a couple of hours where the only thing you have to think about is what’s in front of you. For a lot of my adult students, that turns out to be just as valuable as the skills. Come make something. You might surprise yourself.

Join a Class

Class sizes are kept small so every student gets real attention. If you’d like to join, or you’re not sure which class is the right fit, [reach out here] — I’d love to hear from you.