Art Courses Menu 2024
Dhoby Ghaut Studio – above MRT Exit B
Art Courses
Professional art courses by Visual Arts Centre – Drawing and sketching course, Oil Painting, Acrylic Painting course, Art Immersion Course, Chinese ink painting course and others. In addition, the Portfolio Preparation course and Private Art Course provides for more customised and tailored art learning suited to the individual. Suitable for all learners, from beginners to advanced.
Fully guided in a small group class setting. Our professional art teachers provides guidance, art demos and instructions to students individually. All classes except the Creative Kids Art Immersion course are for teenagers and adults; younger teens aged eleven and above may attend the professional art courses.
All art materials are provided and inclusive of the stated course fees
Portfolio Preparation Course
Suitable for those looking to apply for Art Schools! DSA Portfolio Preparation | Diploma / Tertiary Art Portfolio Preparation
Full Year : Art Training Foundation Course + Private Coaching Lessons
Suitable for students seeking to prepare and build a portfolio of works for art/design school admission. The Portfolio Preparation Course is split into foundation training and portfolio coaching. Students will be prepping their skills and working on observational works in Foundation Training, and develop creative works in Portfolio Coaching.
Depending on the requirements of your portfolio (and your current foundation level), it is advisable to to take one year (48 sessions) to two years (96 sessions) of art courses (108 to 216 hours) in training and preparation for a portfolio body of artworks.
Option 1: 1 year – 48 sessions Foundation Training ( 3 mediums Art Immersions $2788) & 8 sessions Portfolio Coaching ($2000) at $4788
Option 2: 1.5 year – 72 sessions Foundation Training ( 3 mediums Art Immersions $3888) & 8 sessions Portfolio Coaching ($2000) at $5888
Option 3: Ala carte 8 sessions Portfolio Coaching ($2000)
Art Immersion Course (3 Medium)
Drawing and Sketching | Acrylic Painting | Watercolour Painting
12, 24, 48, 72 and 96 Sessions Available!
12 sessions: $798 | 24 sessions: $1,488 (most popular) | 48 sessions: $2,788 | 72 sessions $3888 | 96 sessions $4989
With the Art Immersion Course (three medium) – choose any three art mediums to learn! – Drawing & Sketching, Acrylic Painting and/or Watercolour Painting!
In each of the mediums, look forward to acquire skills and techniques through progressive learning (students may switch between art mediums)
- Learning the art medium – (begin from your favourite art medium), skills and techniques through the practise and approach of various subjects
- Still life, landscapes and sceneries and many more!
A private art class/course is tailored according to the individual’s learning objectives and learning needs. Our professional art instructor will instruct based on the student’s current foundation. All art materials/mediums provided.
Theories and techniques in your chosen medium
- Direct and fully supervised one-to-one learning
- Explore any subjects/mediums with a professional instructor.
- Flexible schedule according to student’s preference
Acrylic Painting Course
8, 12, 24 and 48 Sessions Available!
8 sessions $548 | 12 sessions: $768 | 24 sessions: $1,468 | 48 sessions: $2,698
Suitable for beginners and those with previous experience, Acrylic Painting course is for great for those who want to pick up painting and develop a foundation or enhance their skills in acrylic painting. Learning objectives are based on your current foundation. Beginners may start with landscape acrylic painting or still life acrylic painting.
Look forward to learning:
- Theories and techniques in Acrylic Painting
- Learn to paint still life/landscapes and sceneries, animal portraits and various subjects of your choice and even portraits!
Watercolour Painting Course
12, 24 and 48 Sessions Available!
12 sessions: $768 | 24 sessions: $1,468 | 48 sessions: $2,698
With the learning objectives based on your current foundation, you can look forward to learning:
- Theories and techniques in Watercolour Painting
- Learn to paint still life watercolour, flora and botanical subjects, landscapes and sceneries, architecture and even portraits!
Oil Painting Course
Master oil painting techniques with acrylic paints!
Acrylic Painting: 8 sessions $548 | 12 sessions $768 | 24 sessions $1468 | 48 sessions $2698
3 Medium Art Immersion: 12 sessions $798 | 24 sessions $1488 | 48 sessions $2788 | 72 sessions $3888 | 96 sessions $4989
With the learning objectives based on your current foundation, you can look forward to learning:
- Theories and techniques in Oil Painting using acrylic paints
- Begin to learn oil painting from still life or landscape subjects, and acquire oil painting skills and techinques.
- Be able to explore a range of subjects of your interest and gain confidence as an oil painter
- Contrary to popular belief, oil painting is suitable for beginners and you can pick up oil painting without prior foundation in other art forms!
- Also, all art materials are provided in all our art courses, and you will be fully guided in class.
Drawing & Sketching Course
8, 12, 24 and 48 Sessions Available!
8 sessions: $544 | 12 sessions: $698 | 24 sessions: $1,298 | 48 sessions: $2,498
With the learning objectives based on your current foundation, you can look forward to learning:
- Theories and techniques in Drawing and Sketching
- Have the opportunity to draw still life setups, plaster casts, landscape, human anatomical structures and more!
- Drawing and sketching is a very popular course at VAC! Many sketchers pick up a strong foundation with this course!
- Achieve your ultimate goal of drawing beautiful portraits with consistent practice and learning with our professional teachers!
Have the chance to work with Urban Landscape Sketches as well!
With the learning objectives based on your current foundation, you can look forward to learning:
- Theories and techniques in Chinese Ink Painting
- Have the opportunity to paint subjects such as flora and fauna, animals, landscape on Chinese Rice Paper
- Explore the depth of Chinese Ink Painting, it is more similar to watercolour painting than other mediums and the key to it is to achieve the poetic feeling associated with the art form!
Creative Kids Arts Immersion
For 5-7 Years Old/8-9 Years Old
Only 12 and 24 Sessions Available!
Creative Junior Explorer(5 – 7 Years Old): 12 sessions $568
Creative Junior Learner (8 – 9 Years Old): 12 sessions $698 | 24 sessions $1298
Creative Kids Art Immersion course is a great course for children to begin or continue in their art learning journey. We emphasise on teaching children fine art and providing kids exposure and learning on various art mediums from young! With various subjects and themes to inspire and encourage their creativity, kids develop a foundation in traditional art forms, as well as explore multi-media, craft and sculpture art.
- Various art mediums include: Drawing, Watercolour Painting, Acrylic Painting, Chinese ink painting, Face mask painting and design, Air clay moulding and construction, Paper cutting art and art and craft projects
- Build up their motor, observation and creative skills!
This holiday, the Art Exploration Course is the perfect programme for children between the ages of 7 – 9 to explore new mediums and build up their foundational art techniques. This fully immersive holiday programme allows your kids to learn the basics of fine arts, like painting, colour theory and sketching.
Workshops @ Visual Arts Centre
Suitable for all learners, from beginners to advanced.
Fully guided in a small group settings. Our professional art teachers provides guidance, art demos and instructions to students individually. All workshops are for adults and teens aged eleven and above.
All art materials are provided and inclusive of the stated course fees.
Portrait/Nude Life Drawing
Only 1 and 4 Sessions Available!
1 Portrait Drawing session: $75 | 1 Nude Life Drawing session: $85 | 4 sessions: $280
With the learning objectives based on your current foundation, you can look forward to learning:
- Theories and techniques in Life Drawing
- Learn observational, rendering skills required to draw life models in accurate proportion, tone and anatomical structure.
- Drawing from life brings a different level of challenge as compared to drawing from references, it trains your observational skills and understanding of the human anatomy required to render your own portrait works in the future!
- With professional artist guidance provided in this workshop, you will gather some tips and tricks when it comes to penning down short and long poses!
