Online Painting Classes for Kids in Chicago
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.
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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.
Chicago families come to us with long winters in mind — a live class a child can attend from a warm room, in a season when getting to a weekend cultural class across the metro is genuinely difficult, is a large part of the appeal here.
Wash, wet-on-wet and layering technique, not flat filling
The drawing under the paint taken seriously first
Traditional Indian palettes alongside the standard wheel
Finished paintings, not exercises, from the first term
Batch timings for Chicago
Live classes on CT, scheduled around your week rather than ours.
Weekday 6:00 to 7:30 PM Central and Saturday and Sunday mornings Central. Central time makes the Indian-morning mentor slots workable without anybody in the household getting up early.
Naperville, Schaumburg, Aurora, Bolingbrook and the Devon Avenue neighbourhoods are where most of our Chicago families are. Several found us through the Bharatanatyam circuit our parent academy Nrithyakshetra is part of.
What your child walks away able to do
Mixing an intended colour deliberately rather than by luck
Controlled watercolour washes and clean layering
A sense of which medium suits which subject
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.
- 01The Wheel, For Real
- 02Four Media
- 03The Drawing Underneath
- 04Wash and Layer
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 CT. Weekday 6:00 to 7:30 PM Central and Saturday and Sunday mornings Central.
“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 Chicago, 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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