Online Drawing Classes for Kids in New York
Drawing classes that start with learning to look
Children do not draw what is in front of them, they draw what they believe is in front of them — a symbol for an eye, a symbol for a hand. Teaching drawing means interrupting that. We work on looking before technique: measuring by eye, noticing the shape of the gap between two things, and drawing the line that is actually there.
Enquire about classes in New York
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 New York.
We usually reply within the hour
Drawing classes that start with learning to look
This is the class for a child who wants to get genuinely good, and it is more demanding than a craft hour. There is repetition in it. There are weeks of shading a single sphere. What comes out the other side is a child who can draw anything in front of them, which is a different thing from a child with a folder of nice pictures.
New York holds several Indian communities at once: Jackson Heights and Flushing in Queens, where the Ganesh temple has stood since 1977; Richmond Hill, home to a large Indo-Caribbean community of Guyanese and Trinidadian heritage; and the Long Island suburbs around Hicksville. The children differ, and so do the starting points, and mentors take that seriously from the first class.
Proportion and measuring by eye, not by grid tracing
One and two-point perspective, taught properly
Light and shade, from a single sphere up to a full still life
Figures and faces built on construction, not on formulas
Batch timings for New York
Live classes on ET, scheduled around your week rather than ours.
Weekday 6:30 to 8:00 PM Eastern and Saturday morning Eastern, which is the Indian evening. New York children typically share batches with New Jersey, the catchment next door.
What your child walks away able to do
Drawing an unfamiliar object accurately from observation
Convincing light, shade and form
Perspective that holds together in a full scene
Inside the online drawing classes for kids curriculum
A few of the modules a year of online drawing classes for kids covers. The full sequence is on the class page.
- 01Line Control
- 02Light and Shade
- 03Perspective
- 04Faces and Figures
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 drawing 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 ET. Weekday 6:30 to 8:00 PM Eastern and Saturday morning Eastern, which is the Indian evening.
“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 Drawing Classes for Kids in New York, FAQs
Only for the 10-15 digital sketching module, and even there an inexpensive drawing tablet or an iPad with any stylus is plenty. Everything up to that point is pencil and paper, and always will be.
Other classes for New York
Online Drawing Classes for Kids elsewhere