The West Side YMCA offers an impressive slate of visual arts classes, including a basic drawing workshop that would be ideal for beginners. The class meets in Central Park so you can take inspiration from both the natural landscape and art reproductions as you learn to sketch. Later, you’ll discover how to turn your drawings into watercolor paintings.
If you always catch yourself doodling shapes in the margins of your notes, you might want to take your sketching skills to the next level in these drawing classes in NYC. Whether you want to ease into a beginners drawing workshop or go straight to sketching from a live model, these artist-taught workshops include options for every skill level. And once you’ve perfected your sketching, why not expand your creative talents with some of the other awesome art classes in NYC? You can become a regular Picasso in painting classes in NYC, have a romantic Ghost moment in pottery classes in NYC and even get your embroidery on in crafting classes in NYC.
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