SUMMER SESSIONS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
Ages 9-17

Enjoy a week long intensive, consecutive day instruction. Please contact Instructor directly to reserve a spot.
RAI $40 student membership (yearly) required to join in.

Drawing

August 3 - August 7, 2026
2:30-4:30pm
Instructor: Rebecca Leer
rebecca_leer@msn.com
201-906-6839  

All levels are welcome. Students will learn basic techniques of line, shape, proportion, perspective and shading while working from a variety of still-life objects and the human face. Instruction will be tailored to each student.
Fee: $270 - includes supplies for the week and take home

Oil Painting

August 10 - 14, 2026
2:30-4:30pm
Instructor: Laura Paray
laura@paray.com
(201) 281-6940  

All levels are welcome. Your child will learn the basic techniques of oil painting and will create landscape and still life paintings to completion. They will learn how to create distance and atmosphere in a landscape three dimensional objects in a still life. Concepts such as massing in, color and value.

August 17 - August 21, 2026
2:30-4:30pm
Fee: $260 - includes supplies for the week  
Instructor: Bonnie McGown
bonniemcgown@gmail.com
(201) 803-1083  

All levels are welcome. Your child will learn the basic techniques of oil painting and will create still life and floral paintings to completion. They will learn concepts such as massing in, color and value.
Fee: $260 - includes supplies for the week

Watercolor

August 24 -August 28, 2026
2:30-4:30pm
Instructor: Joel Popadics
joel@watercolorpop.com
973-851-0366

Learn how to paint in watercolor during this weeklong workshop for children of all levels of ability. Participants will be taught the basics of watercolor – focusing on |washes, brushwork and the wet-in-wet approach. They will discover various methods and techniques for still life and landscape painting. Special emphasis will be placed on how to create a flat, even tone wash, the graded wash and many other techniques. They will learn how to paint all kinds of skies, trees, buildings and other objects in a “transparent” manner.
Fee: $260 - includes supplies for the week