Teen Classes at Studio Arts are magic! Keep a weekly routine with one or two classes and make some artistic connections. Projects are designed to be adaptable to your attendance. Also priced to miss twice, so we will catch you up on anything you missed.
Your teen’s artistic home away from home.
For Teens we now teach Drawing and Painting in our Work from Observation / Digital Art Exploration / Young Illustrator and Art School Prep Classes. Choose one below.
Do you LOVE drawing in pen and pencil? In fact, are you pretty much addicted to it? You might be headed for a career in illustration! Take any good book as your subject matter and discover new ways to express characters/action/place/style. This class is sort of a book club for drawing geeks. We also support future advertising artists, game creators, and manga masters here. Illustration, you know! We love supporting comic / manga in this class and often focus on new ways to approach a finished piece. This class really helps your digital work!
The Portfolio Class, Pre and Post Portfolio Classes, for Admission to Booker T. Washington HSPVA, and Art School Portfolio Prep for College and High School classes are all available. For 30 years our studio has supported teen artists as they create individualized portfolios to prepare to audition for Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, other local high schools with portfolio requirements, and first-choice colleges and art schools for soon to be high school graduates. Art School Prep Class is year round. Portfolio Class Part 1 starts in March – it’s the Booker T Prep class for seventh through ninth graders interested in pursuing Portfolio class and continues in June for Part 2. Our College Portfolio offering called Art School Prep Class continues to grow by leaps and bounds. Barley Vogel, Studio Arts director, and her teacm have created a safe space that allows art students to gather as they build relationships and continue their transformation into creative, successful, young-adult working artists.
Please visit our Portfolio Preparation page for detailed information! Email Barley Vogel at Studioartsregistrar@gmail.com for more info.
Work From Observation
This classical training program supports a student to draw and paint like a pro! Working from life – be it portraiture / still life / interiors / figure / buildings and landscape (sans screens or printed photos) but looking at actual things develops the connection between brain and hand and confidence. This class offers of loads of demonstration with focus on one on one support and traditional group critique. We use traditional and non traditional / experimental mediums to explore mark making and painting ranging from useful exercises to beautiful completed work. Our studio philosophy is rooted in learning to work from observation. A great class solo or in addition to porfolio preparation for for any level of art student.
Digital Art Exploration Class (Photography, Illustration, Editing, Procreate, Adobe)
Class Description & Objectives
This course is designed for students passionate about digital creation and eager to expand their skills in modern digital art platforms. Through hands on practice, learners will explore photography, digital illustration, photo editing, and creative software applicaitons such as Procreate, Adobe Photoshop, and other emerging digital tools. Bring a tablet/laptop to class with your favorite program.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
Navigate major digital art platforms including Procreate, Adobe Creative Cloud, and other creative apps used in professional digital art workflows.
Apply digital illustration techniques such as layering, brush customization, color blending, and stylization.
Capture and edit photographs using digital cameras or mobile devices, focusing on composition, lighting, and post‑processing.
Create polished digital artwork through guided projects that integrate illustration, photography, and digital editing.
Develop a personal digital art style by experimenting with tools, techniques, and creative approaches across multiple platforms.
Build a digital portfolio showcasing completed projects, process work, and creative growth throughout the course.
Understand modern digital art careers including content creation, illustration, animation, graphic design, and digital media production.
This class prepares students to confidently create in a digital world and supports those interested in pursuing digital art professionally or as a creative passion.
The perfect class for budding cartoonists, super fans of animee, inventors of endless characters, and lovers of graphic novels. This class is a great choice for those artists who wish to make their own illustrative work with traditional / experimental mediums and for those digital junkies who need a bit of pencil to paper art class skills to support their goals and passion for digital art.
