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Creativity and Composition

Creativity and Composition

WINTER 2025 UPDATE

We are offering a general in-person adult class at various times each week. This wide-ranging class will allow students to continue their training in specific areas of interest as they receive instruction on a one-on-one project basis.

Choose one of these times when registering:

Mon 7:00pm-9:00pm
Tue 6:00pm-8:00pm
Wed 6:00pm-8:00pm
Thu 10:00am-12:00pm
Thu 2:00pm-4:00pm
Sat 1:00pm-3:00pm
Sat 3:30pm-5:30pm

You may also take

Manga, Superheroes & Fantasy Figures Online: Character Design

Or

Manga, Superheroes & Fantasy Figures Online: Visual Storytelling

Or

Digital Illustration & Composition Online

If you have any questions, please call us (651) 699-1573.

Thank you for your interest.

Schedule for Winter – Spring – Fall 2025
Schedule for Summer 2025

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Girl at the Mirror by Norman Rockwell
"No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to pull all his talent and feeling into them!"
-Norman Rockwell, 1894-1978

Let's face it; you probably became an artist because you have visual ideas bursting inside you. And if you've taken some of our other classes, you've developed the skills to realize your dreams. Why wait to share them with the world?

At this point, what you really need most is a nurturing mentor with a track record of realized images, who creates a safe, judgment-free workspace where you can loosen up, have fun and play. Come to our Creativity and Composition class and experience a positive, relaxed environment that will help you bring your most precious and inspired thoughts to artistic fruition.

Explore your creativity by developing an imaginative picture based upon an existing story that you select, or an idea that you originate. Work at your own pace to learn the time-honored steps of the creative, visual process – from idea generation, through preparatory work, to completed project. Emphasis will be placed on storytelling through composition and character development, as well as how color theory enhances visual communication. Students choose to work in the medium with which they are comfortable. We have experience to support pencil, charcoal, pen and ink, colored pencil, watercolor, egg tempura, and oils.

Arthur Wesley Dow
These collections of designs, woodblock prints and oil paintings were created by the legendary Arthur Wesley Dow for his book, Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the use of Students and Teachers.

Dow was professor of Fine Arts in the Teachers' College at Columbia University, and an instructor at the Pratt Institute and the Art Students’ League in New York. This is just one of the many books to which we refer to enrich our students' understanding of design.

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