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Inside 2025’s Studio Scene: Our Top Picks

The Art Gazette: Your insider’s guide to discovering the perfect art class—quick, curated, and completely your style.

Step inside a world where learning meets imagination—a handpicked guide to creative expression through color. Dressed in our signature painterly hues of midnight blue, crimson, violet, and golden ochre, it’s art education with a touch of editorial elegance.

Our Six Favorite Art Classes  in 2025

In 2025, art education has shifted toward courses that invite play, expression, and individuality—and these six classes capture that evolution perfectly. They champion creativity over perfection, blending technique with experimentation in ways that feel fresh and deeply human. Whether it’s learning to let color lead the way, capturing emotion through abstraction, or finding joy in imperfect sketchbook pages, each class reflects a new era of art learning—one that values process as much as result. Together, they form a vivid palette of contemporary practice, where curiosity becomes the most essential tool.

What unites these top picks isn’t just their artistry but their accessibility. Each class opens the studio door a little wider, welcoming both first-time painters and seasoned creators looking to rediscover their spark. From whimsical pet portraits to meditative mountain landscapes, these courses remind us that art thrives where structure meets spontaneity. They are, collectively, a celebration of creative freedom—proof that 2025 belongs to artists who dare to explore, play, and paint without boundaries.

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Whimsical Abstract Portraits

This course invites artists of all levels to abandon realism and instead play with bold colour, geometric shapes and expressive character in portraiture.

31 Bright and Fun Sketchbook Paintings

A high-volume, daily-practice class that encourages the sketchbook as a site of mood, atmosphere and evolving visual voice rather than mere replication.

Learn to Paint “Glow”

Structured yet open-ended, this class guides beginners through the creation of luminous skies, layered landscapes and reflective water—emphasising mood and light over hyper-realism.

Introduction to Acrylic Mountainscapes

Designed to be accessible yet ambitious, this beginner-friendly course walks students through textured scenic painting while inviting personal interpretation and discovery.

Quirky Pet Portraits

Reframing the art-practice into a playful sketchbook journey, this class focuses on character, experimentation and growth rather than polished final works.

Beginner Painting Bundle

A curated trio of foundational courses that together offer newcomers a cohesive pathway from first brush-marks to developing a personal style in an online, self-paced format.

Our 8 Favorite Acrylic Classes this Fall

From expressive florals to sweeping landscapes, these eight acrylic classes trace a thoughtful path through style, mood, and process. Ashley Krieger’s Abstract Florals  and Boho Flowers   invite looseness and intuition—color as emotion, form as rhythm—while her Floral Painting Collection  gathers these impulses into a quiet meditation on variation and voice. Laurie Anne brings structure and sensitivity through Acrylic Painting for Beginners, Composition Class,  and the introspective Blind Contour Class,  each reminding us that seeing is as vital as making. Veronica Vale’s Introduction to Acrylic Mountainscapes  and Advanced Acrylic Mountainscapes  expand the canvas outward—into atmosphere, distance, and memory—showing how paint can evoke the vastness of place as much as its shape. Together, these courses sketch a portrait of artistic growth: attentive, expressive, and deeply human.

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Abstract Florals — Ashley Krieger

A study in looseness and intuition, Abstract Florals turns color into gesture. Here, flowers dissolve into fields of movement and mood—paint as memory, not mimicry.

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Acrylic Painting for Beginners — Laurie Anne

A quiet introduction to acrylics where learning feels like exploration. Each brushstroke builds trust—in the medium, in process, and in the small joy of starting where you are.

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Advanced Acrylic Mountainscapes — Veronica Vale

An invitation to go beyond depiction into atmosphere. Vale’s mountains rise from tone and texture, guiding painters toward landscapes that breathe rather than simply exist.

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Blind Contour Class — Laurie Anne

Drawing without looking becomes an act of faith. The imperfect line reveals something truer than accuracy—an honesty of seeing, unfiltered and immediate.

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Boho Flowers — Ashley Krieger

Loose, layered, and effortlessly alive. This class lingers in the space between structure and spontaneity, where petals become rhythm and color hums quietly beneath restraint.

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Composition Class — Laurie Anne

Here, arrangement becomes language. Laurie Anne treats composition as intuition—a balance between what’s placed, what’s left, and the silence in between.

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Floral Painting Collection — Ashley Krieger

Three floral studies unfold like a conversation in color. Each work shifts tone and tempo, tracing the evolution of an artist’s gaze from bloom to abstraction.

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Introduction to Acrylic Mountainscapes — Veronica Vale

A gentle beginning to painting the horizon. Vale’s approach slows time—layering light, mist, and motion until the landscape becomes as much about feeling as form.

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