Our Eight Favorite Acrylic Classes this Fall

There’s a quiet liberation in letting go of what a flower should look like. In this class, Ashley Krieger explores the space between observation and imagination, where color drifts into mood and form becomes feeling. Her process favors movement over precision—brushstrokes that wander, layers that breathe, and compositions that seem to grow rather than be arranged. The result is less a bouquet than a visual echo of one, something remembered rather than replicated.

Acrylic paint has long been praised for its versatility, but here it’s treated as something intimate: a medium you can meet on your terms. In this class Laurie Anne takes what might feel like a messy jumble of tubes, brushes and canvases and arranges it into a gentle invitation. She begins at the kitchen-table level—no studio required—and guides you through mixing primary colors, choosing brushes that carry character, and texture that invites touch rather than perfect polish. By the end you don’t just know how to make acrylics behave—you know how to let them respond.

In this advanced journey with Veronica Vale, acrylic paint becomes a landscape of possibility—less about imitating mountains and more about capturing their essence. The class invites you into the space where sky meets ridge, where value and color mingled in calculated harmony suggest depth far beyond the surface. Here, blending shifts from technique to language, brush-marks rise and fall like ridgelines in shadow and light. The mountainscapes you create are not mere depictions—they’re memories, impressions, and atmospheres folded into paint.

There’s something quietly radical about drawing without looking: relinquishing control, trusting hand to eye, arriving at a form that is both recognisably you and startlingly new. In this class the blind contour exercise becomes more than a warm-up—it becomes an inquiry into what we value as “correct” and how looseness can lead us somewhere unexpected. Lines overlap, proportions shift, and yet through that very uncertainty the essence of gesture and movement surfaces with clarity. The reward isn’t a tidy sketch, but a sketch that shows you how you were seeing.

In this class the ordinary vase of blooms is quietly transformed—petals recast not as botanical twins but as gestures of rhythm and attitude. Guided by Ashley Krieger, the painting becomes less about decoration and more about presence: the boho style she evokes isn’t trend-chasing but relaxed, lived-in and softly defiant. You’ll watch shapes lean into each other, lines extend beyond expectation, and color choose its own direction. As much as you’re painting flowers you’re inhabiting a mood.

Composition is often spoken about as a formula—balance the elements, obey the rule of thirds, place the focal point just so. Yet in this class Laurie Anne invites you to think of composition as something alive: a relationship between space and form, a conversation between what you see and what you might add. The course guides you through painting from a reference photo and then intentionally inserting a new element so your work becomes not a copy, but a reinterpretation of what you observed. What you learn here is less about checking off the “correct” placements and more about feeling when the painting breathes.

This collection gathers three distinct floral studies into a single arc of exploration: the abstract looseness of one piece, the vivid contrast of a wild rose against shadow in another, and the gentle bohemian stillness of flowers in a vase in the third. Together they ask the painter to engage with florals not as subjects to be replicated but as impulses to be translated. The blooms become territories of color, mark and mood—each tutorial a waypoint where the brush meets intention and the line meets possibility. What you carry away isn’t simply a finished canvas, but a sense of how painting florals can shift from “What does this look like?” to “What does this feel like?”

In this class the wide-open spaces of mountain vistas serve less as terrain to be conquered and more as invitation to breathe. Under the guidance of Veronica Vale you’ll learn to coax depth and atmosphere from acrylic paint—the misty layering of ridges, the soft drift of light across slopes, the way distant peaks retreat into haze. Techniques such as value scales, simplified palettes and intuitive brush-marks become the language that allows you to translate the quiet drama of the mountains into your own rhythm. What you carry away isn’t just a representation of landscape, but a sense of how painting can render mood as much as form.