Art Classes in Fort Collins
Academy-style drawing and painting classes at 3 Square Art Center in Fort Collins, Colorado
Current classes
Take an art class in Fort Collins at 3 Square Art. Our courses teach classical studio technique and contemporary approaches so you build skill and confidence step by step.
Offerings include Foundations in Drawing and Painting, Introduction to Figure Drawing, Introduction to Watercolors, specialty workshops such as mosaic, and Master Courses in Classical Painting and Landscape Painting.
Classes are small and structured. Beginners learn how to see and control the medium. Intermediate and advanced students refine technique under professional instruction. You leave with finished work and a clear next step.
Register for a full course or join a single class when seats allow. Gift registrations are welcome.
Learn how to paint and draw with professional Art Classes at 3 Square Art in Fort Collins, Colorado!
Fall art classes are open for registration. Choose a course below for dates, fees, and enrollment. Gift registrations are welcome. Questions: 970-388-1969 or info@3squareart.com.
“It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.”
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Foundations in Art - Drawing I
Academy-style drawing at 3 Square Art in Fort Collins. Learn how to see: contour, positive and negative shape, and shading through short, targeted lessons. You build a practical toolset for line, form, and value — skills that carry into every later course.
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Foundations in Art - Drawing II
Drawing II advances technical control and range. Lessons cover volume through hatching, spatial planes, texture, and a finished drawing that shows your own hand. Drawing I is recommended but not required.
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Foundations in Art - Painting I
Start oil painting with structure. Learn tools and mediums, monochromatic studies, complementary color, basic abstraction, and composition, then finish with critique. You leave knowing how to control the paint — not just how to mix it.
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Foundations in Art - Painting II
Intermediate oil painting with clearer aims each week: classical landscape technique, portraiture, narrative work, and pop-art composition. Structured lessons, professional instruction, and finished pieces for the wall.
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Upcycled Masterpieces with Mosaic
Make a mosaic from found materials: broken glass, jewelry, stone, and chipped pottery. Themes rotate. Beginners are welcome. With some historical background, you will build one piece, hands-on, in the classroom at 3 Square Art in Fort Collins.
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Introduction to Figure Drawing
A six-week course on drawing the human form from observation. Gesture first, then proportion and anatomy, then focused studies of hands, feet, and the head. Builds a solid base for life drawing at 3 Square Art in Fort Collins.
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Introduction to Watercolors
A 4-class course for beginners and intermediate painters at 3 Square Art in Fort Collins.
Learn washes, brushwork, and color blending. Work with the transparency of watercolor and leave with finished paintings on paper.
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Master Course in Classical Painting
Four classes. One oil painting. Work through grisaille and glazing with chiaroscuro, depth, and composition — methods linked to Caravaggio, Rembrandt, and Rubens. For intermediate painters ready for classical technique at 3 Square Art in Fort Collins.
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Master Course in Landscape Painting
A four-week oil painting course at 3 Square Art Center in Fort Collins, taught by our expert instructors.
You paint one landscape on a prepared panel. Each week covers a clear steps in landscape painting from color harmony, block-in, rendering, brushwork and details. Intermediate painters welcome.