Free painting courses Zurich
Free painting in Zurich
Colours, brushes and endless freedom. There is no right or wrong in free painting - just you, your ideas and lots of colour. Whether you are a beginner or already know how to paint - with us you can forget about everyday life and really let off steam creatively. We provide the perfect ambience, you provide the creative flow.
Action Painting, Neon Edition
Guided Expressive Abstract Art Workshop
- Workshop
- Beginner
- ZÜRICH · PIE Action Painting Park
- 2.5 hours
Up to 20% discount for Members
Splash. Drip. Splatter. Then… Glow.
Looking for a creative experience that’s energetic, expressive and unlike anything you’ve tried before?
Our Neon Action Painting Workshop combines the freedom and excitement of Action Painting with the spectacular world of fluorescent colours and UV light, creating abstract artworks that transform before your eyes.
After a short introduction, your instructor will guide the group through a series of Action Painting techniques while explaining the artistic principles behind strong abstract compositions. You’ll explore layering, movement, colour relationships, texture and composition as your painting gradually develops over approximately two hours. Rather than following a predefined design, every splash, brushstroke and creative decision becomes the inspiration for the next, allowing your artwork to evolve naturally from one moment to another.
Action Painting is an intuitive creative journey. Every mark on the canvas invites a new response, creating a continuous process of experimenting, observing and building upon what has already emerged. Throughout the workshop, you’ll work with a wide variety of paints, bottles, brushes, palette knives, rollers and other creative tools while your instructor demonstrates techniques, shares artistic insights and offers individual guidance whenever you need it.
And then the magic begins.
As the studio lights fade and the UV lights come to life, your painting reveals an entirely new personality. Fluorescent colours begin to glow, hidden details suddenly appear, and layers you barely noticed under daylight transform into vibrant, luminous compositions. What felt exciting before suddenly becomes immersive.
No two paintings will ever look alike. While everyone explores the same techniques together, each participant follows their own creative path, discovering a unique balance between spontaneity, intuition and artistic intention.
Whether you’re looking to switch off after a busy week, celebrate with friends or simply experience painting in a completely different way, the Neon Action Painting Workshop combines creative freedom, artistic guidance and an unforgettable visual spectacle unlike any other workshop.
You’ll leave with a one-of-a-kind artwork that tells two stories—one in daylight, and another that only comes alive under UV light.
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Swiss Summer
Guided Acrylic Painting Workshop
- Workshop
- Beginner
- ZÜRICH · PIE Creative Café
- 2.5 Hours
Up to 20% discount for Members
Bright mountains, a shimmering lake, and light that feels almost alive.
Step into a radiant alpine world where the air is crystal clear and colours glow with a quiet, powerful intensity. Inspired by the luminous spirit and rhythmic compositions of Ferdinand Hodler, we’ll step into his footsteps and explore how to build a landscape through expressive brushwork and layered painting.
In this session, you’ll learn how to create depth and perspective in a landscape — how distant peaks, water, and sky can unfold through colour, contrast, and structure. We’ll explore how to bring dynamic, energetic detail into the brushwork while still holding the whole composition together as a unified, harmonious scene.
We’ll guide you through shimmering water, luminous layering techniques, and the gentle geometry of alpine peaks. You bring your curiosity and calm focus — and a willingness to enter a landscape that feels slightly brighter, more alive, and more structured than reality itself.
Abstract Series: Chromatic Medley
Guided Acrylic Painting Workshop
- Workshop
- Beginner
- ZÜRICH · PIE Creative Café
- 2.5 Hours
Up to 20% discount for Members
Abstract art. No rules.
Time to throw perfection out the window and lean into the mess. In this semi-guided abstract session, we’re mixing bold colours, big moves. After feeding you with some of the coolest inspiration from contemporary abstract painting, you’ll play with layering, texture, and all kinds of expressive techniques until your canvas screams: “Yeah, I meant to do that.”
It’s not about knowing what you’re doing — it’s about trusting your creative gut and having a damn good time doing it.
Heavy Dose of Spring
Guided Acrylic Painting Workshop
- Workshop
- Beginner
- PIE Creative Café Zürich
- 2.5 Hours
Up to 20% discount for Members
Soft petals, bold texture, and paint you can almost feel.
Step into the tactile world of textured acrylic painting, where a floral bouquet becomes something you build, shape, and sculpt. Using acrylic paint and modelling paste, we’ll focus on creating rich, dimensional forms that lift off the canvas.
You’ll learn how to mix the paste to the right consistency — smooth, workable, and easy to control — and how to apply it in layers to create depth and structure. We’ll explore how to form petals, add movement, and bring dynamic texture into your brushwork while keeping the composition balanced.
No flat surfaces — just texture, rhythm, and a painting that feels as alive as it looks.
Endless Chase
Guided Acrylic Painting Workshop
- Workshop
- Beginner
- ZÜRICH · PIE Action Painting Park
- 2.5 Hours
Up to 20% discount for Members
Run, reach, repeat.
In this acrylic session, you’ll paint the little girl from the famous Banksy artwork — this time chasing a heart-shaped balloon — set against a classical Swiss mountain landscape with a contemporary twist. You’ll learn how to create those crisp snow caps on the mountains using a palette knife, while adding your own colour and energy to the hills and sky.
No experience needed — just roll up, follow the guided steps, and enjoy painting something playful, bold, and full of movement.
Swimming Jewels · Watercolor Painting
Guided Watercolour Painting Workshop
- Workshop
- Beginner
- ZÜRICH · PIE Painting Studio
- 2.5 Hours
Up to 20% discount for Members
Two fish, one pond, and a world of flowing colour.
In this playful watercolour session, we dive into a serene pond scene featuring two beautifully loose, colourful white fish gliding between water lilies, floating pads, and delicate blossoms. It’s all about movement, softness, and letting the water do part of the work for you.
This piece is perfect for exploring the wet-on-wet technique — watching pigments bloom, blend, and surprise you as they spread across the paper. You’ll learn how to control (and sometimes release control of) your washes, creating different levels of pigment intensity to suggest depth, light, and transparency in the water.
Alongside the fluidity, we’ll also gently introduce selective detail — knowing when to let edges dissolve and when a few thoughtful marks can bring a fish, a petal, or a lily pad into focus.
It’s a balance of spontaneity and intention: soft washes, flowing colour, and just enough detail to guide the eye through a calm, living pond scene.
Action Painting
Guided Expressive Abstract Art Workshop
- Workshop
- Beginner
- ZÜRICH · PIE Action Painting Park
- 2.5 hours
Up to 20% discount for Members
Splash. Drip. Splatter. Total Freedom.
Looking for a creative experience that’s energetic, expressive and completely different from traditional painting?
Our Action Painting Workshop combines the excitement of throwing, dripping and splashing paint with the artistic principles behind creating a powerful abstract artwork.
After a short introduction, your instructor will guide the group through a series of Action Painting techniques while explaining how abstract paintings are built through composition, layering, colour relationships and texture. Rather than recreating a predefined motif, you’ll gradually develop your own artwork over approximately two hours, allowing every splash, brushstroke and creative decision to influence what comes next.
Action Painting is an intuitive journey. Every mark on the canvas becomes the starting point for the next, creating a continuous process of acting, observing and reacting. Along the way, you’ll experiment with a wide variety of paints, tools and creative techniques while your instructor shares demonstrations, artistic guidance and individual feedback whenever you need it.
No two paintings will ever look alike. While everyone explores the same techniques together, each participant follows their own creative path, discovering their own balance between spontaneity and intention.
Whether you’re looking to switch off after a busy week, reconnect with your creativity or simply experience painting in a completely different way, Action Painting offers the freedom to experiment while giving you the artistic guidance to turn expressive marks into a finished abstract composition.
You’ll leave not only with a unique artwork, but with a deeper understanding of how abstract paintings evolve—and the confidence to trust your own creative instincts.
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Atlantic Beachscape
Guided Acrylic Painting Workshop
- Workshop
- Beginner
- ZÜRICH · PIE Action Painting Park
- 2.5 Hours
Up to 20% discount for Members
Sculpt. Swipe. Splash. Let the coastline take shape.
In this hands-on textured art workshop, we’re heading seaside — no swimsuit needed. You’ll use plaster, modelling paste, and a mix of tools and materials to sculpt your own beachscape, building up textures that feel like real sand, foamy waves, and weathered shoreline details.
You’ll learn how to create and shape those beautiful, foamy waves, and how to work with different materials to achieve a variety of tactile effects within one piece. From soft, grainy sands to dynamic water movement, this session is all about turning your canvas into something you can almost feel.
The Atlantic has many faces — calm, wild, deep, or shimmering — and that’s exactly the spirit of this workshop. You’ll choose your own colour palette, define your own wave dynamics, and shape the mood of your coastline in a way that feels personal to you. It’s one of our favourite examples of how a simple theme can lead to completely different, unique creations.
If we had to recommend one workshop to start your journey with modelling paste, this would be it.
Paint & BRUNCH: Golden Marine Hues
Guided Acrylic Painting Workshop & Brunch
- Workshop
- Beginner
- ZÜRICH · PIE Creative Café
- 3 hours
Up to 20% discount for Members
One Glow. All the Mystery. Maximum Vibes.
Ready to get lost in colour and atmosphere?
In this abstract painting session, we’re diving into deep marine blues and shimmering golden tones — building rich layers of texture, light, and mood without needing to paint anything specific.
You’ll learn how to blend soft transitions, create depth with contrast, and let the colours do the talking. No rules, no right or wrong — just a moment to get fully absorbed in the flow.
Blueberry Night & Days · Oil Painting
Guided Oil Painting Workshop
- Workshop
- Beginner
- ZÜRICH · PIE Painting Studio
- 2.5 Hours
Up to 20% discount for Members
Deep blues, soft purples, and a subject that keeps things beautifully simple.
In this beginner-friendly oil painting session, we zoom in on a close-up composition of blueberries — rich, luminous, and full of subtle variation within a single colour world. It’s a monochrome study, making it the perfect starting point for anyone new to oil painting, where the focus can stay on form, light, and brushwork rather than complex colour mixing.
Because the palette is intentionally limited, there’s no risk of “messing up” the colour — instead, you can fully concentrate on building structure and depth. You’ll learn how to shape round, three-dimensional forms using light and shadow, and how to create convincing volume through shifts in tone rather than changes in hue.
We’ll explore how to layer oils to develop softness and richness, how to suggest texture on the skin of the berries, and how small variations in value can make each blueberry feel solid, glossy, and alive.
It’s a calm, focused exercise in observation and control — a simple subject that becomes surprisingly expressive once light, shadow, and paint start working together.
A Mile of Camomile
Guided Acrylic Painting Workshop
- Workshop
- Beginner
- ZÜRICH · PIE Creative Café
- 2.5 Hours
Up to 20% discount for Members
Chamomile in Bloom: Texture, Light & Depth
This one is gonna be a beautiful painting session dedicated to our favourite, the chamomile flower. This time, we’ll be working with textured paste and the palette knife as our second protagonist.
You will learn how to shape the simple yet iconic chamomile petals, placing them in perspective to create a real sense of depth and movement. Along the way, we’ll also explore the basics of colour mixing, focusing on achieving those vibrant, high-contrast harmonies between warm yellows and cool blues.
A tactile, expressive session where texture, light, and colour come together to bring the chamomile to life.
Hidden Layers of Time
Guided Acrylic Painting Workshop
- Workshop
- Beginner
- ZÜRICH · PIE Creative Café
- 2.5 Hours
Up to 20% discount for Members
Uncover hidden layers of time.
In this abstract painting session, we’ll explore surfaces that feel ancient and alive. Using textured strokes, scratches, and washes of soft peach and glowing gold, you’ll build your own modern “palimpsest.” Think walls that whisper stories, light catching on roughness, colours both faded and luminous.
Why take a free painting course at Paint It Easy in Zurich?
Let's be honest: who wants strict painting rules or grey theory? Our free painting courses are all about experimenting and finding your very own style. No boring step-by-step instructions, no dusty art talk - just you, colours and brushes ... and lots of creative freedom. Acrylic, watercolour or simply painting with your fingers - anything goes. Sounds good? Then come along.
Of course you can. You don't need any previous knowledge at all.
We have everything on site, which means you don't have to bring anything with you.
Of course - that's possible. The course is great fun in a group.
Learning to paint - but without rules
This is not about creating the perfect masterpiece, but about the creative process. Free painting is the most original form of art. Simply try things out, discover new techniques or paint wildly and let your imagination run wild. Play with colours and shapes, let your imagination run wild. Whether beginner, hobby painter or professional - everyone experiences free painting in their own way. Our courses are available for adults and children.
Creative, colourful & a little crazy
We are definitely not a traditional painting school. Our team is as colourful as the colours on a palette. We love art and you can tell. We'll show you new techniques in a relaxed, inspiring and humorous way, help you if you get stuck and make sure you're in a good mood. When are you coming round?
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Free painting in Zurich
Whether you're a beginner or a pro, alone or in a group - free painting allows you to develop, try out new things and get creative. Discover our offer in Zurich and Basel and immerse yourself in a world full of colour and inspiration.
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FAQs - Everything you need to know about free painting courses
Fun, relaxation and creative freedom! There are no guidelines here - you do your thing.
Nope! This is about trying things out, not about perfection. Just get started!
Our programmes vary: There are two-hour sessions, four-hour workshops, events lasting several days or simply free painting to suit your mood. Check out our programme!
Nope! You can paint whatever and however you want.
Sure! If you don't finish, you can just carry on next time.
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