**Learn At Your Own Pace** Improve your drawing and painting abilities through a structured program featuring personalized exercises grounded in traditional techniques. The course starts with a comprehensive introduction to classical principles, emphasizing skills like shape simplification, comparison, and isolation. As students advance, they delve into the relationships of line, value, mass, and edge before transitioning oil painting, where they investigate underpainting and glazing techniques from the 15th to 19th centuries, as well as direct painting methods from the Naturalist and Impressionist movements of the 1800s. The class emphasizes achieving a refined finish and teaches from a historically accurate standpoint, aiming to develop a personal aesthetic influenced by historical references. Instruction is scheduled for consistent growth every Tuesday night from 5-7 PM, with winter hours from 3-5 PM, weather permitting. The fee is $15 per session.