5 Online Art Classes That Will Ignite Your Creativity This Fall

Portrait Drawing With Melissa de Nobrega

Photo: Melissa de Nobrega / My Modern Met Academy

As the days grow shorter and colder, we head indoors for the fall and winter. While inside, it's the perfect time to discover something new to love. Get expert instruction on how to do just that when enrolling in a class on My Modern Met Academy. Our e-learning platform features a variety of courses including, drawing, painting, crafting, and photography. Each online class is broken down into bite-sized lessons that you can watch from anywhere and as many times as you like.

When trying to decide on an Academy class, first consider what you’re interested in. Have you wanted to try a cozy craft like embroidery? If so, enroll in Intermediate Embroidery: Getting Creative with Printed Fabrics. Although it says “intermediate” in the title, this class is suitable for a motivated beginner because instructor Floor Giebels will demonstrate all of the stitches you’ll need to know for her project. When you complete the course, you’ll know how to produce creative embroidery on printed fabrics.

Maybe you’re looking for a class where you can really express yourself. In that case, give Abstract Realism: Introduction to Mixed Media Painting a try. Taught by Dimitra Milan, she’ll show you how to create a canvas in what she calls “abstract realism.” You'll start with an abstract background, draw out your subject, and then use acrylics to bring it to life.

Scroll down for more classes to try on My Modern Met Academy this month. Know someone who would like a class as a gift? We’ve got gift certificates just for that—just in time for the holidays!

Learn something new this fall when you enroll in an online art class on My Modern Met Academy. Here are five classes to try:

 

Portrait Drawing for Beginners: Learn How to Draw Anyone You’d Like

Portrait Drawing Class on My Modern Met Academy

Learn to draw facial features, characters, and people. Illustrator Melissa De Nobrega teaches this portrait drawing course that breaks down one of the most complex subjects, the human face, into something simple and approachable.

Portrait Drawing Class on My Modern Met Academy

Portrait Drawing Class on My Modern Met Academy

Portrait Drawing Class on My Modern Met Academy

 

Beyond Bouquets: Turning Pressed Flowers Into One-of-a-Kind Art

Pressed Flower Art by Anna Zakirova

In this class, Anna Zakirova demonstrates how to press a variety of flowers and transform the blooms into stunning, one-of-a-kind botanical art.

Pressed Flower Art by Anna Zakirova

Pressed Flower Art by Anna Zakirova

Pressed Flower Art by Anna Zakirova

 

Acrylic Landscapes: Reimagining Mountains as Polygons

Creating a Polygon Landscape Painting

Transform majestic mountains into colorful, low-poly forms with the help of contemporary acrylic painter Elyse Dodge.

Elyse Dodge Painting a Geometric Acrylic Landscape

Elyse Dodge Painting a Geometric Acrylic Landscape

Contemporary Acrylic Landscape Painting by Elyse Dodge

 

Intermediate Embroidery: Getting Creative with Printed Fabrics

iPad and Photo Printed on Fabric

Push your embroidery to new heights by using printed fabrics. Floor Giebels teaches you how to create your own images, print them on fabric, and embroider hair and clothing for a unique final project.

Demonstrating Embroidery Stitches

Stitching Hair on Printed Fabric

Floor Giebels Holding a Completed Embroideries

 

Abstract Realism: Introduction to Mixed Media Painting

Dimitra Milan Online Art Class

Are you looking for new painting techniques to bring your art to another level? Mixed media artist Dimitra Milan will show you step by step how to create a canvas in what she calls “abstract realism.”

Dimitra Milan Online Art Class

Dimitra Milan Online Art Class

Abstract Realism Painting by Dimitra Milan

Dimitra Milan Online Art Class

Abstract Realism Painting of a Fox

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Sara Barnes

Sara Barnes is a Staff Editor at My Modern Met, Manager of My Modern Met Store, and co-host of the My Modern Met Top Artist Podcast. As an illustrator and writer living in Seattle, she chronicles illustration, embroidery, and beyond through her blog Brown Paper Bag and Instagram @brwnpaperbag. She wrote a book about embroidery artist Sarah K. Benning titled "Embroidered Life" that was published by Chronicle Books in 2019. Sara is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art. She earned her BFA in Illustration in 2008 and MFA in Illustration Practice in 2013.
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