Online Painting Classes for Kids in the Bay Area
Painting classes where colour is taught as a craft
Painting is where most children’s art goes wrong, because nobody teaches them what colour actually does. They are handed a set and told to fill in. This class starts at the wheel: what mixes, what turns muddy, why a wash behaves differently from a flat fill, and how to layer without losing the drawing underneath.
Enquire about classes in the Bay Area
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 Bay Area.
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Painting classes where colour is taught as a craft
Painting is not colouring in a finished outline. We spend the first weeks on the drawing beneath the paint, because a well-painted bad drawing is still a bad drawing. Children who arrive able to fill in neatly usually find this the hardest and most useful adjustment.
The Bay Area is our single largest catchment in the USA, and the one where parents arrive with the clearest brief. Many work in tech, many learned their own shlokas from a grandparent in India, and most have already tried an app or a recorded course before writing to us.
Colour mixing taught properly, including what goes muddy and why
Four media compared: crayon, oil pastel, poster colour, watercolour
Wash, wet-on-wet and layering technique, not flat filling
Finished paintings, not exercises, from the first term
Batch timings for the Bay Area
Live classes on PT, scheduled around your week rather than ours.
Saturday and Sunday mornings Pacific are the slots that fill first, because 9 AM in Fremont is 9:30 PM in Bengaluru and both ends of the call are awake and functioning. Weekday batches run 6:00 to 7:30 PM Pacific. We will not put a child in a 5 AM class to make a batch work.
Fremont, Sunnyvale, San Jose, Cupertino, Milpitas and Santa Clara are where most of our Bay Area families are. Several batches have ended up entirely Bay Area, which children like — nobody has to explain why they are learning this.
What your child walks away able to do
Mixing an intended colour deliberately rather than by luck
A sense of which medium suits which subject
Completed paintings the child is genuinely pleased with
Inside the online painting classes for kids curriculum
A few of the modules a year of online painting classes for kids covers. The full sequence is on the class page.
- 01Four Media
- 02The Drawing Underneath
- 03Wash and Layer
- 04Indian Palettes
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 painting 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 PT. Saturday and Sunday mornings Pacific are the slots that fill first, because 9 AM in Fremont is 9:30 PM in Bengaluru and both ends of the call are awake and functioning.
“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 Painting Classes for Kids in the Bay Area, FAQs
Both, in that order. Exercises for the first few weeks, because mixing has to be learned somewhere, then complete paintings from the first term onward with something finished for the family showcase.
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