Watts Atelier - Art's Courses & Workshop Collection

GIVE YOURSELF THE STRUCTURED LEARNING EXPERIENCE YOU DESERVE

Build a Stronger Foundation
With over 20 years of experience teaching thousands of students at the Watts Atelier, Jeff Watts has prepared an unprecedented program based on the traditions of the masters. Let us be a part of your learning journey, and give yourself the instruction you need to meet your professional and personal goals.


Online Art Courses
OUR ONLINE COURSES IN DRAWING, PAINTING, AND MORE PROVIDE YOU WITH THE STRUCTURE YOUR SKILL GROWTH NEEDS AND THE FLEXIBILITY THAT YOUR BUSY SCHEDULE DEMANDS

From establishing strong foundational drawing skills to finding your personal voice in your art, our online lessons are designed to not only instruct, but to guide you in your learning journey. Our classes are perfect for beginners as well as experienced students. Choose one of several customizable online art curriculums to help you navigate our hundreds of hours of instructional video lessons and utilize our downloadable PDF workbooks to receive feedback from our team on your progress. Study around your schedule, with access to all content from the moment you enroll. If you find yourself struggling with a particular lesson or concept, our grading team is ready to assist along the way. You can even upgrade your subscription to a personalized mentorship with one of our senior instructors, and watch your skills grow under their close guidance.


The Atelier
JOIN US IN PERSON AT OUR ON-LOCATION ATELIER, AND ACCELERATE YOUR LEARNING

Located in the beautiful beach community of Encinitas, California, our brick and mortar school offers students the opportunity to train with our renowned art instructors in person. Learn usable skills to help you attain your goals, while studying in a classical Atelier environment. With class sizes limited to only fifteen individuals, you’ll receive the personalized attention you deserve. Join us for our ten week terms, or plan a shorter visit and participate in one of our workshops or boot camps. If in person options aren’t for you, choose one of our multiple video curriculums! With courses on figure drawing, landscape painting and more, our online art videos are easy to follow and helpful.


Hybrid
WATCH OUR BRICK AND MORTAR CLASSES LIVE, AND PARTICIPATE IN THE COURSE FROM THE COMFORT OF YOUR OWN HOME.

Bring the Atelier itself into your home, and give your online studies the boost they need. Watch weekly live instructor demonstrations from the Atelier classes themselves on your laptop, desktop, or mobile device. Join in in the digital classroom atmosphere by chatting with your fellow live stream students during the instructor demonstrations. Receive new photo references of the Atelier’s models each week, and submit your drawings for a personalized, video traceover from your instructor. Give yourself the personalized hands on instruction you need to overcome your hurdles and grow your skills to new heights.


The Atelier Experience
I would like to take a moment to welcome you to Watts Atelier of the Arts. I hope you are as excited to start this discipline of drawing as I was some 30 years ago. The technique we will be teaching you is a very unique one. It has given me thousands of hours of pleasure both as a student and now as a teacher and professional.

I would like to make it known before you start that this method of working is not one of immediate gratification. One must understand that learning and progress in art comes from doing–painting, drawing, studying–and we get from it what we put into it. There is no shortcut to experience!

In representational art, drawing is one of the basic skills necessary to communicate one’s artistic message. The repeated practice of drawing from life renews our skills so that we can express our ideas with less struggling during the painting process.

Good drawing is successful coordination of eye, mind and hand. To draw well, artists must develop the ability to look at their subjects and see relationships and proportions among shapes. When successful these relationships and proportions also guide the viewer’s eye through paintings.

As with anything worth doing, there will be difficult times. Some of you will need to unlearn some old habits, others will need to open their eyes to new possibilities. The role of the instructor(s) will be to train your eye through constant demonstrations and critiques. We will attempt to encourage and inspire you through this difficult but worthwhile pursuit. The teaching style will be direct and to the point. My hopes are that within each one of you we will be able to spark the love of learning to draw, and ultimately to paint. The environment has been designed to inspire and intrigue students, not to intimidate. It has helped produce some incredible artists, which I hope will continue on to great things in the not so distant future.

One last point: realize that each one of us shares the same gift, from the same giver, and that we are all companions in the same struggle, the same dream. That dream is to paint, draw and create from the heart, which requires leaving your ego at the door.

-Jeffrey Watts, Founder of the Watts Atelier of the Arts

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