Online Painting Classes for Kids in New York
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 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
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.
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.
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 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
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 ET. Weekday 6:30 to 8:00 PM Eastern and Saturday morning Eastern, which is the Indian evening.
“The Ramayana classes are the highlight of my daughter’s week. She now teaches us the values she learns. As NRI parents in Dubai, this connection to our culture is priceless.”
Online Painting Classes for Kids in New York, FAQs
For the first class, whatever you already own. After that a basic poster colour set and a small watercolour box cover the first two terms; we send the exact list and there is no need to buy expensive materials for a child who is still learning to mix.
Other classes for New York
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