Leonid Afremov
"Romantic Stroll"
(3hr class)

2.5-hour Class

In the Spring 1889, when Van Gogh was well enough to venture into the countryside, he found the inspiration for this magnificent painting.

Throughout that early summer, he created a series of famously powerful landscapes, each bursting with a violent energy that many have attributed to his madness. However, for all the potential signs of a tormented mind that such works display, they were all painted during periods of remission. The swirling, heavily stylized forms, now instantly associated with Van Gogh, did not suddenly appear from nowhere - they mark a progressive development in his work rather than a radical break. 

Writing to his brother, Theo, from the asylum in Saint-Rémy on July 2, 1889, Van Gogh described his latest addition to the series he had launched that June: "I have a canvas of cypresses with a few ears of wheat, poppies, a blue sky, which is like a multicolored Scotch plaid [and] impasted like Monticellis." Van Gogh regarded this sun-drenched landscape as one of his "best" summer canvases and repeated the composition three times.

In the history of art, cypresses are traditionally a motif signifying death. Dark and somber, they normally belong in the cemetery. Despite a certain sinister air, which some have linked to Van Gogh's suicidal tendencies, the trees here are alive and vibrant. In fact the whole scene is vigorously animated, with each part shading into others. Nothing is stable; everything that is solid melts into air.

This painting is part of the permanent collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, here in NYC.

2-hour Class

"San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk" is an oil painting by Claude Monet that was painted in 1908.

The painting received substantial public attention as the focus of John McTiernan's 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affair, aheist film where the painting (identified as being worth $100 million) is stolen by a billionaire, played by Pierce Brosnan. San Giorgio Maggiore is an island off of the coast of Venice, Italy. This painting is sometimes known as Dusk in Venice, or Sunset in Venice.


Private Party for Pitch

info TBD

This class is reserved for a private party. Only invited guests may make a reservation for this class. Thank you for your understanding.

2-hour Class

You get to choose your own color combination! This class is great for couples or roommates because you each get to make a different painting and they hang beautifully  together. The picture to the left shows four different color variations that Warhol did.

Andy Warhol began as a commercial illustrator in New York, doing artwork for ads and magazines in the 1940s and 1950s. Eventually he crossed from commercial work to fine art, blurring the line between the two along the way. In the early 1960s his huge and colorful silk-screen renderings of banal objects like Coke bottles and a Campbell's Soup can were hugely popular & established him as the leader of the Pop Art movement.


3-hour Class

This painting is a monochromatic study of reds and oranges. In this lesson we learn how to blend between the different shades to create soft transitions from the lighter tones of bright orange to the deep shades of reds and maroons.

About Georgia O'Keeffe: Born November 15, 1887 near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O'Keeffe first came to the attention of the New York art community in 1916, several decades before women had gained access to art training in America’s colleges and universities, and before any of its women artists were well known or highly celebrated. Within a decade, she had distinguished herself as one of America's most important modern artists, a position she maintained throughout her life. As a result, O’Keeffe not only carved out a significant place for women painters in an area of the American art community that had been exclusive to and is still dominated by men, but also she had become one of America’s most celebrated cultural icons well before her death at age 98 in 1986.


3-hour Class


"The Starry Night": (Dutch: De sterrennacht) is a painting by Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh. The painting depicts the view outside his sanitarium room window at night, although it was painted from memory during the day. Since 1941 it has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The painting is widely hailed as his magnum opus.

"This morning I saw the country from my window a long time before sunrise," the artist wrote to his brother Theo, "with nothing but the morning star, which looked very big." Rooted in imagination and memory, The Starry Night embodies an inner, subjective expression of van Gogh's response to nature. In thick sweeping brushstrokes, a flamelike cypress unites the churning sky and the quiet village below. The village was partly invented, and the church spire evokes van Gogh's native land, the Netherlands.


2.5-hour Class

Andy Warhol's "Marilyn" is an icon of an icon created by an icon. 

Warhol celebrates Marilyn Monroe in this indelible portrait of the late movie star. In many ways Monroe is the perfect embodiment of Warhol's ideal muse: the sexy and the tragic wrapped up in one famous package. 


3-hour Class


A pretty view of New York City from Brooklyn.

in this painting we focus on how layers are used to create depth and dimension.

First we have our sky and skyline. Followed by the bridge and river. finished off by the top of a brownstone building and some fall foliage. With each layer the colors get brighter and the layers have more detail. This helps to create the sense of atmosphere between each element.


2-hour Class

 This is a great example of Picasso's use of bold expressive lines to create drama and a dynamic composition. 

About Pablo Picasso's "The Kiss":
The Kiss was painted a day before Picasso’s 88th birthday at his home at Mougins along the Côte d'Azur, where he lived the last fifteen years of his life. In May 2008, The Kiss was sold for $17.4 million, the highest price ever paid for a post-1960 Picasso painting.


2-hour Class

Embraced as a symbol of modern, urban life and technological progress, the Brooklyn Bridge became a popular subject for artists and writers from the moment of its completion in 1883. Georgia O'Keeffe's forceful interpretation of the bridge, one of the last works that she painted in New York before her permanent relocation to New Mexico in 1949, is considered her farewell to the city where she had lived and worked for many years. O'Keeffe's particular modernist vision emphasized essential aspects of form, resulting in a pared-down but intensified vision of her subjects. Her focus here was the Gothic-style arches of the massive bridge tower, and the arcing lines of the supporting cables, that proclaim this vast utilitarian structure a kind of American cathedral.

About Georgia O'Keeffe: Born November 15, 1887 near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O'Keeffe first came to the attention of the New York art community in 1916, several decades before women had gained access to art training in America’s colleges and universities, and before any of its women artists were well known or highly celebrated. Within a decade, she had distinguished herself as one of America's most important modern artists, a position she maintained throughout her life. As a result, O’Keeffe not only carved out a significant place for women painters in an area of the American art community that had been exclusive to and is still dominated by men, but also she had become one of America’s most celebrated cultural icons well before her death at age 98 in 1986.


Private Party for
Judy M.

Leonid Afremov
"A Walk In The Rain"
(2hr class)

This class is reserved for a private party. Only invited guests may make a reservation for this class. Thank you for your understanding.

2-hour Class

"San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk" is an oil painting by Claude Monet that was painted in 1908.

The painting received substantial public attention as the focus of John McTiernan's 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affair, aheist film where the painting (identified as being worth $100 million) is stolen by a billionaire, played by Pierce Brosnan. San Giorgio Maggiore is an island off of the coast of Venice, Italy. This painting is sometimes known as Dusk in Venice, or Sunset in Venice.

2-hour Class

You get to choose your own color combination! This class is great for couples or roommates because you each get to make a different painting and they hang beautifully  together. The picture to the left shows four different color variations that Warhol did.

Andy Warhol began as a commercial illustrator in New York, doing artwork for ads and magazines in the 1940s and 1950s. Eventually he crossed from commercial work to fine art, blurring the line between the two along the way. In the early 1960s his huge and colorful silk-screen renderings of banal objects like Coke bottles and a Campbell's Soup can were hugely popular & established him as the leader of the Pop Art movement.


2-hour Class

 This is a great example of Picasso's use of bold expressive lines to create drama and a dynamic composition. 

About Pablo Picasso's "The Kiss":
The Kiss was painted a day before Picasso’s 88th birthday at his home at Mougins along the Côte d'Azur, where he lived the last fifteen years of his life. In May 2008, The Kiss was sold for $17.4 million, the highest price ever paid for a post-1960 Picasso painting.

2.5-hour Class

 This is a fun tribute to everyone's favorite painting show "The Joy of Painting" with Bob Ross.

About Bob Ross:
Ross enlisted in the U.S. Air Force at age 18 and was living in Florida early in his military career when the Air Force transferred him to Eielson AFB (in Alaska). This is where he first saw the snow and mountains that later became recurring themes in his artwork. He developed his quick-painting technique in order to be able to create art for sale in brief daily work breaks. Having held military positions that required him to be, in his own words, "mean" and "tough," "the guy who makes you scrub the latrine, the guy who makes you make your bed, the guy who screams at you for being late to work," Ross decided that if he ever moved on from the military, "it wasn't going to be that way any more," "vowing never to scream again." Ross discovered after beginning his sideline in painting that he was soon able to earn more from selling his work than from his Air Force position. After leaving the Air Force, he studied with Bill Alexander, a famous TV instructor as well, before becoming famous worldwide with his own television program, The Joy of Painting.

Leonid Afremov
"Romantic Stroll"
(3hr class)

2.5-hour Class

Andy Warhol's "Marilyn" is an icon of an icon created by an icon. 

Warhol celebrates Marilyn Monroe in this indelible portrait of the late movie star. In many ways Monroe is the perfect embodiment of Warhol's ideal muse: the sexy and the tragic wrapped up in one famous package. 

2.5-hour Class


3-hour Class


An exciting, colorful and almost abstract scene of Times Square at night.

In this painting we learn how to express the dynamic play of light that makes Times Square so electrifying.


Private Party for
Laura & Anthony P.

(2.5 hour class)
Vincent Van Gogh's
"The Starry Night for two"

This class is reserved for a private party. Only invited guests may make a reservation for this class. Thank you for your understanding.


3-hour Class


"The Starry Night": (Dutch: De sterrennacht) is a painting by Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh. The painting depicts the view outside his sanitarium room window at night, although it was painted from memory during the day. Since 1941 it has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The painting is widely hailed as his magnum opus.

"This morning I saw the country from my window a long time before sunrise," the artist wrote to his brother Theo, "with nothing but the morning star, which looked very big." Rooted in imagination and memory, The Starry Night embodies an inner, subjective expression of van Gogh's response to nature. In thick sweeping brushstrokes, a flamelike cypress unites the churning sky and the quiet village below. The village was partly invented, and the church spire evokes van Gogh's native land, the Netherlands.


2-hour Class

"San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk" is an oil painting by Claude Monet that was painted in 1908.

The painting received substantial public attention as the focus of John McTiernan's 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affair, aheist film where the painting (identified as being worth $100 million) is stolen by a billionaire, played by Pierce Brosnan. San Giorgio Maggiore is an island off of the coast of Venice, Italy. This painting is sometimes known as Dusk in Venice, or Sunset in Venice.


3-hour Class

This painting is a monochromatic study of reds and oranges. In this lesson we learn how to blend between the different shades to create soft transitions from the lighter tones of bright orange to the deep shades of reds and maroons.

About Georgia O'Keeffe: Born November 15, 1887 near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O'Keeffe first came to the attention of the New York art community in 1916, several decades before women had gained access to art training in America’s colleges and universities, and before any of its women artists were well known or highly celebrated. Within a decade, she had distinguished herself as one of America's most important modern artists, a position she maintained throughout her life. As a result, O’Keeffe not only carved out a significant place for women painters in an area of the American art community that had been exclusive to and is still dominated by men, but also she had become one of America’s most celebrated cultural icons well before her death at age 98 in 1986.

3-Hour Class


One of Picasso's most famous and vibrant paintings. You have the option to change the colors around to create your own version of this masterpiece.

From MoMA's website, Curator Emeritus, John Elderfield: Of all the women that Picasso painted, I think that the images of Marie-Thérèse Walter are the most extraordinary. She was very young when Picasso met her in the late 1920s—in fact a teenager. And they began a secret love affair, which produced in 1932 an amazing sequence of paintings.

It is a curious painting, visually so splendid that we might forget the way in which the anatomy is broken apart and separated. The woman seen on the left could be pregnant. At least there is the implication of fecundity, of someone who is very beautiful, very vital, very sexual. In the mirror a different image appears; the figure seems sorrowful, expressionistic and even distorted compared to the clarity on the left.

The woman on the left is given two faces. The profile view is very youthful, the full face slightly carnival-like, with bright yellow and the red of the cheek. One can produce a lot of narratives, which are all quite plausible, and maybe contradict each other. Great modern pictures combine patterns of signification that keep us entranced in them; and its no surprise that this is one of the most popular pictures in the Museum.


3-hour Class


A pretty view of New York City from Brooklyn.

in this painting we focus on how layers are used to create depth and dimension.

First we have our sky and skyline. Followed by the bridge and river. finished off by the top of a brownstone building and some fall foliage. With each layer the colors get brighter and the layers have more detail. This helps to create the sense of atmosphere between each element.

2-hour Class

You get to choose your own color combination! This class is great for couples or roommates because you each get to make a different painting and they hang beautifully  together. The picture to the left shows four different color variations that Warhol did.

Andy Warhol began as a commercial illustrator in New York, doing artwork for ads and magazines in the 1940s and 1950s. Eventually he crossed from commercial work to fine art, blurring the line between the two along the way. In the early 1960s his huge and colorful silk-screen renderings of banal objects like Coke bottles and a Campbell's Soup can were hugely popular & established him as the leader of the Pop Art movement.


3-hour Class


"The Starry Night": (Dutch: De sterrennacht) is a painting by Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh. The painting depicts the view outside his sanitarium room window at night, although it was painted from memory during the day. Since 1941 it has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The painting is widely hailed as his magnum opus.

"This morning I saw the country from my window a long time before sunrise," the artist wrote to his brother Theo, "with nothing but the morning star, which looked very big." Rooted in imagination and memory, The Starry Night embodies an inner, subjective expression of van Gogh's response to nature. In thick sweeping brushstrokes, a flamelike cypress unites the churning sky and the quiet village below. The village was partly invented, and the church spire evokes van Gogh's native land, the Netherlands.


2.5-hour Class

 This is a fun tribute to everyone's favorite painting show "The Joy of Painting" with Bob Ross.

About Bob Ross:
Ross enlisted in the U.S. Air Force at age 18 and was living in Florida early in his military career when the Air Force transferred him to Eielson AFB (in Alaska). This is where he first saw the snow and mountains that later became recurring themes in his artwork. He developed his quick-painting technique in order to be able to create art for sale in brief daily work breaks. Having held military positions that required him to be, in his own words, "mean" and "tough," "the guy who makes you scrub the latrine, the guy who makes you make your bed, the guy who screams at you for being late to work," Ross decided that if he ever moved on from the military, "it wasn't going to be that way any more," "vowing never to scream again." Ross discovered after beginning his sideline in painting that he was soon able to earn more from selling his work than from his Air Force position. After leaving the Air Force, he studied with Bill Alexander, a famous TV instructor as well, before becoming famous worldwide with his own television program, The Joy of Painting.


2-hour Class

 This is a great example of Picasso's use of bold expressive lines to create drama and a dynamic composition. 

About Pablo Picasso's "The Kiss":
The Kiss was painted a day before Picasso’s 88th birthday at his home at Mougins along the Côte d'Azur, where he lived the last fifteen years of his life. In May 2008, The Kiss was sold for $17.4 million, the highest price ever paid for a post-1960 Picasso painting.

2.5-hour Class

Andy Warhol's "Marilyn" is an icon of an icon created by an icon. 

Warhol celebrates Marilyn Monroe in this indelible portrait of the late movie star. In many ways Monroe is the perfect embodiment of Warhol's ideal muse: the sexy and the tragic wrapped up in one famous package. 

3-Hour Class


One of Picasso's most famous and vibrant paintings. You have the option to change the colors around to create your own version of this masterpiece.

From MoMA's website, Curator Emeritus, John Elderfield: Of all the women that Picasso painted, I think that the images of Marie-Thérèse Walter are the most extraordinary. She was very young when Picasso met her in the late 1920s—in fact a teenager. And they began a secret love affair, which produced in 1932 an amazing sequence of paintings.

It is a curious painting, visually so splendid that we might forget the way in which the anatomy is broken apart and separated. The woman seen on the left could be pregnant. At least there is the implication of fecundity, of someone who is very beautiful, very vital, very sexual. In the mirror a different image appears; the figure seems sorrowful, expressionistic and even distorted compared to the clarity on the left.

The woman on the left is given two faces. The profile view is very youthful, the full face slightly carnival-like, with bright yellow and the red of the cheek. One can produce a lot of narratives, which are all quite plausible, and maybe contradict each other. Great modern pictures combine patterns of signification that keep us entranced in them; and its no surprise that this is one of the most popular pictures in the Museum.

2-hour Class

You get to choose your own color combination! This class is great for couples or roommates because you each get to make a different painting and they hang beautifully  together. The picture to the left shows four different color variations that Warhol did.

Andy Warhol began as a commercial illustrator in New York, doing artwork for ads and magazines in the 1940s and 1950s. Eventually he crossed from commercial work to fine art, blurring the line between the two along the way. In the early 1960s his huge and colorful silk-screen renderings of banal objects like Coke bottles and a Campbell's Soup can were hugely popular & established him as the leader of the Pop Art movement.

2.5-hour Class


3-hour Class


"The Starry Night": (Dutch: De sterrennacht) is a painting by Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh. The painting depicts the view outside his sanitarium room window at night, although it was painted from memory during the day. Since 1941 it has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The painting is widely hailed as his magnum opus.

"This morning I saw the country from my window a long time before sunrise," the artist wrote to his brother Theo, "with nothing but the morning star, which looked very big." Rooted in imagination and memory, The Starry Night embodies an inner, subjective expression of van Gogh's response to nature. In thick sweeping brushstrokes, a flamelike cypress unites the churning sky and the quiet village below. The village was partly invented, and the church spire evokes van Gogh's native land, the Netherlands.


2-hour Class

"San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk" is an oil painting by Claude Monet that was painted in 1908.

The painting received substantial public attention as the focus of John McTiernan's 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affair, aheist film where the painting (identified as being worth $100 million) is stolen by a billionaire, played by Pierce Brosnan. San Giorgio Maggiore is an island off of the coast of Venice, Italy. This painting is sometimes known as Dusk in Venice, or Sunset in Venice.


2-hour Class

 This is a great example of Picasso's use of bold expressive lines to create drama and a dynamic composition. 

About Pablo Picasso's "The Kiss":
The Kiss was painted a day before Picasso’s 88th birthday at his home at Mougins along the Côte d'Azur, where he lived the last fifteen years of his life. In May 2008, The Kiss was sold for $17.4 million, the highest price ever paid for a post-1960 Picasso painting.


2-hour Class

Embraced as a symbol of modern, urban life and technological progress, the Brooklyn Bridge became a popular subject for artists and writers from the moment of its completion in 1883. Georgia O'Keeffe's forceful interpretation of the bridge, one of the last works that she painted in New York before her permanent relocation to New Mexico in 1949, is considered her farewell to the city where she had lived and worked for many years. O'Keeffe's particular modernist vision emphasized essential aspects of form, resulting in a pared-down but intensified vision of her subjects. Her focus here was the Gothic-style arches of the massive bridge tower, and the arcing lines of the supporting cables, that proclaim this vast utilitarian structure a kind of American cathedral.

About Georgia O'Keeffe: Born November 15, 1887 near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O'Keeffe first came to the attention of the New York art community in 1916, several decades before women had gained access to art training in America’s colleges and universities, and before any of its women artists were well known or highly celebrated. Within a decade, she had distinguished herself as one of America's most important modern artists, a position she maintained throughout her life. As a result, O’Keeffe not only carved out a significant place for women painters in an area of the American art community that had been exclusive to and is still dominated by men, but also she had become one of America’s most celebrated cultural icons well before her death at age 98 in 1986.


3-hour Class


An exciting, colorful and almost abstract scene of Times Square at night.

In this painting we learn how to express the dynamic play of light that makes Times Square so electrifying.


3-hour Class

This painting is a monochromatic study of reds and oranges. In this lesson we learn how to blend between the different shades to create soft transitions from the lighter tones of bright orange to the deep shades of reds and maroons.

About Georgia O'Keeffe: Born November 15, 1887 near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O'Keeffe first came to the attention of the New York art community in 1916, several decades before women had gained access to art training in America’s colleges and universities, and before any of its women artists were well known or highly celebrated. Within a decade, she had distinguished herself as one of America's most important modern artists, a position she maintained throughout her life. As a result, O’Keeffe not only carved out a significant place for women painters in an area of the American art community that had been exclusive to and is still dominated by men, but also she had become one of America’s most celebrated cultural icons well before her death at age 98 in 1986.

2-hour Class

"San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk" is an oil painting by Claude Monet that was painted in 1908.

The painting received substantial public attention as the focus of John McTiernan's 1999 remake of The Thomas Crown Affair, aheist film where the painting (identified as being worth $100 million) is stolen by a billionaire, played by Pierce Brosnan. San Giorgio Maggiore is an island off of the coast of Venice, Italy. This painting is sometimes known as Dusk in Venice, or Sunset in Venice.