Online Art Classes for Kids in the USA
Art classes that teach technique and India’s own traditions
Most children’s art classes are one of two things: a craft hour where everyone makes the same thing, or a Western fundamentals course that treats Indian art as a decorative afterthought. We teach both halves properly. Observation, line, proportion and colour as real technique, and Warli, Madhubani, Rangoli and Kalamkari as real disciplines with their own rules.
Enquire about classes in the USA
Add the student’s name and your number, then continue on WhatsApp or call us. We’ll come back with the next available slot for the USA.
We usually reply within the hour
Art classes that teach technique and India’s own traditions
The test of an art class is whether a child improves at drawing, not whether they come away with something fridge-worthy. Mentors work on grip, proportion and observation from the first class, and because batches are small they can see each child’s page on screen and correct it while the pencil is still moving.
The USA is our largest community outside India, and it is spread across four time zones, which shapes everything about how we schedule. Most families who write to us are second-generation parents whose own Sanskrit came from a grandparent, and who have realised their children have no equivalent person to learn it from.
Every child works on their own page, not a shared template
Small batches, so the mentor sees each drawing as it happens
A portfolio that shows a year of visible improvement
In-person batches at our HSR Layout centre and Jayanagar arts studio, as well as online
Batch timings for the USA
Live classes on PST/EST, scheduled around your week rather than ours.
Weekend mornings Eastern and Pacific are the two slots that fill first, because they land in the Indian evening and work for both coasts. Weekday batches run at 6:30 to 8:00 PM local on the East Coast. We do not ask a child in California to attend at 5 AM, and if the only slot we can offer you is a bad one we will say so.
Families join us from the Bay Area, New Jersey, Dallas, Seattle, Atlanta and Chicago in the largest numbers. Several batches have ended up entirely North American, which children like, they are learning alongside others in exactly the same position.
What your child walks away able to do
Drawing from observation with correct proportion
Confident use of pencil, pastel, poster colour and watercolour
Fluency in Warli, Madhubani, Rangoli and Kalamkari
Inside the online art classes for kids curriculum
A few of the modules a year of online art classes for kids covers. The full sequence is on the class page.
- 01Learning to See
- 02Colour
- 03Warli and Madhubani
- 04Rangoli and Kalamkari
Prefer a room, paper and paint on a table?
Arts & Painting runs in person at our arts studio in Jayanagar, Bengaluru, and, like every class of ours, at our HSR Layout centre, 243, 16th Main Road, Sector 3, HSR Layout, Bengaluru 560102. Both use the same mentors and the same curriculum as the online batches. Families outside Bengaluru take the online batches, which cover the identical curriculum.
Three simple steps to begin
1. Tell us about your child
Call or WhatsApp us and say where your child is starting from. For online art classes for kids that matters — the mentor pitches the first class to what they can already do.
2. Personal guidance from a mentor
A real, live class, not a sales call. The mentor works with your child for the full session and then tells you honestly whether this is the right class of ours for them.
3. Pick a slot that survives the school week
We place your child in a batch built for PST/EST. Weekend mornings Eastern and Pacific are the two slots that fill first, because they land in the Indian evening and work for both coasts.
“Living in California, we worried our kids would lose their roots. The online Shloka and Gita classes changed that. They chant every morning now, and understand what the words mean.”
Online Art Classes for Kids in the USA, FAQs
An A4 sketchbook, a pencil, an eraser and whatever colours are already at home. We send a short, inexpensive materials list after the first class and sequence the curriculum so you buy things gradually.
Other classes for the USA
Online Art Classes for Kids elsewhere