Painting studio Zurich - Your creative side

Light. Flowing. Wonderfully unpredictable.

Watercolour has a magic unlike any other painting medium. Transparent colours, delicate layers and the gentle movement of water create paintings full of light, atmosphere and spontaneity. Rather than fighting the medium, you’ll learn how to work with it—and discover that some of the most beautiful effects happen when you allow the water to do part of the painting for you.

In this four-week course, you’ll build a solid foundation in watercolour painting while learning to balance control with creative freedom. Whether you’re completely new to the medium or looking to deepen your painting skills, we’ll guide you through the essential techniques step by step.

Throughout the course, you’ll explore washes, layering, glazing, blending and lifting techniques while learning how pigment, water and paper interact. With every exercise, you’ll gain more confidence in controlling the flow of colour while embracing the happy accidents that make watercolour so unique.

Every class combines demonstrations, practical exercises and plenty of individual painting time, allowing you to immediately apply what you’ve learned while receiving personal guidance from your instructor.

Watercolour rewards patience, observation and experimentation. Some artists create delicate botanical studies, others loose landscapes or expressive abstract compositions. This course gives you the technical foundation to confidently explore whichever direction inspires you most.

✏️ What to Expect

• A structured four-week introduction to watercolour painting
• Weekly guidance from a professional artist
• Live demonstrations introducing each new technique
• Plenty of individual painting time with personal feedback
• A relaxed and encouraging atmosphere to experiment and grow
• Step-by-step exploration of water, pigment and transparent colour

🧠 What You’ll Learn

• Wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry techniques
• Building depth through transparent layers and glazing
• Controlling water and pigment flow
• Lifting, blending and correcting techniques
• Creating light, atmosphere and texture
• Developing confidence with one of the world’s most expressive painting mediums

🤔 Is This Course Right for Me?
Absolutely.
Whether you’re discovering watercolour for the first time or looking to build on your painting experience, this course offers the perfect introduction to one of the most elegant and rewarding painting techniques.
No previous watercolour experience is required. All you need is curiosity, patience and a willingness to let the paint surprise you.

Rich colours. Timeless techniques. Paintings that only get more beautiful with time.

There’s a reason the world’s greatest masterpieces were painted in oils. Rich colours, incredibly smooth blending, luminous light effects and the freedom to keep refining your work make oil painting one of the most rewarding artistic mediums to learn.

In this four-week course, you’ll discover everything you need to start painting with confidence. Whether you’ve never touched a tube of oil paint before or would like to build a stronger foundation, we’ll guide you through the essential techniques step by step.

Unlike acrylic paint, oils stay workable for much longer, giving you time to blend colours seamlessly, soften transitions and gradually build beautiful layers. Throughout the course, you’ll learn how to mix colours, understand light and shadow, work with brushes, palette knives and painting mediums, and create paintings with depth, atmosphere and personality.

Every class combines live demonstrations with plenty of hands-on painting time, allowing you to immediately apply what you’ve learned while receiving individual guidance from your instructor. Along the way, you’ll also become familiar with the materials, tools and studio practices that artists have used for centuries.

✏️ What to Expect

• A carefully structured four-week learning journey
• Weekly guidance from a professional artist
• Live demonstrations introducing each new topic
• Plenty of individual painting time with personal feedback
• Practical tips, techniques and professional workflows
• A relaxed, encouraging atmosphere where you can experiment and grow

🧠 What You’ll Learn

• Colour mixing and the unique properties of oil paint
• Brushwork, palette knife techniques and painting mediums
• Creating depth through light, shadow and colour
• Layering techniques and understanding drying times
• Choosing the right materials for your artistic goals
• Building confidence to continue painting independently

🤔 Is This Course Right for Me?
Absolutely.
Whether you’re completely new to oil painting or would like to revisit the fundamentals with professional guidance, this course offers the perfect introduction to one of history’s most celebrated artistic mediums.

Soft morning light. Quiet air. A moment before the heat sets in.
In this painting session, we capture a delicate yellow butterfly resting on a chamomile flower — a scene that feels like an early summer morning in a blooming field. There’s still a hint of coolness in the air, a trace of fog lingering, even though you know the day will soon turn warm and heavy.

This piece is all about paint handling and contrast: thick, expressive application without using modelling paste. You’ll work with a combination of brush and palette knife, learning how to push, shape, and layer paint to create rich, tactile surfaces and a sense of movement within the subject.

We’ll also explore colour in two directions — how to achieve those clean, vibrant tones in the butterfly and flowers, and how to mix softer, muted shades for the background to create depth and atmosphere. You’ll see how these contrasts bring the subject forward while keeping the overall feeling calm and balanced.
A session that’s both technical and intuitive — where texture, colour, and light come together to capture that fleeting, quiet moment of a summer morning.

Saturday morning art fun for kids (and cool parents too)
No need to change out of your jammies — just roll in, grab a brush, and get painting!

This fun-filled Saturday class is made for kids aged 6–12 and packed with creative projects, giggles, and good vibes. Parents are welcome to join and paint side-by-side with their little artists (yes, matching masterpieces are totally a thing).

Here’s how it flows:
🕥 10:20–10:30 → Arrival / Drop-off
🎨 10:30–12:00 → Guided art project time
📸 12:00–12:15 → Pick-up + silly family photos (encouraged!)

Each participant paints on 30 x 40 cm canvas. The theme changes every week, but one thing’s for sure: it’ll be a crowd-pleaser — colourful, fun, and totally kid-approved. 

PJs optional. Creativity? Always.

Pour. Flip. Watch the magic happen.
Some painting techniques are carefully planned. Acrylic pouring isn’t one of them; is all about letting the paint do its thing.  It’s unpredictable, a little messy, and incredibly satisfying.

In this guided workshop, you’ll discover two of the most fascinating acrylic pouring techniques: Tree Ring and Flip Cup. Instead of painting with brushes, you’ll work with flowing acrylic paints, gravity and movement to create stunning abstract effects that are impossible to achieve any other way.

Your artist will first introduce each technique through a live demonstration before guiding you through the creative process yourself. You’ll learn how to prepare your paints, achieve the right consistency, create beautiful flowing colour transitions and discover how those famous organic “cells” appear naturally on the canvas.

Although everyone learns the same techniques, no two pours will ever look alike. Every movement, every colour combination and every decision creates a completely unique artwork.

During the workshop you’ll create three individual 30 × 30 cm canvases. The first introduces the first pouring technique, the second explores the next one, and for your final artwork you’ll choose your favourite technique and create another unique piece.

Whether you’re completely new to Acrylic Pouring or simply looking for a wonderfully relaxing and satisfying creative experience, this workshop offers the perfect balance between learning, experimentation and colourful surprises.

Landscapes? More like dreamscapes. Let’s get surreal — in texture.
Ready to take your imagination one step further? In this textured edition of our dreamscapes, we move beyond the flat surface and start building dimension into your world. Using acrylic paint, modelling paste, sponge, and palette knife, you’ll create surreal landscapes that don’t just look deep — they feel deep.

Think shifting skies, floating forms, glowing colours, and layered structures that play with perspective. You’ll learn how to build up surfaces, combine abstract and semi-real elements, and use texture to guide the eye through space — reinforcing depth while keeping that dreamy, intuitive flow.
This isn’t about painting what’s “real” — it’s about constructing what feels real to you, layer by layer.

A field in bloom, high in the mountains in May — where the air is still cool, but already carries the sweet scent of coming summer evenings.

In this watercolour painting session, we’ll capture a vast, flowing meadow filled with flowers and rich, warm green tones stretching across a mountain landscape. It’s a scene full of softness, atmosphere, and quiet movement — where light, mist, and colour gently dissolve into one another.

This is the perfect painting to explore the wet-on-wet technique, learning how to let pigments bleed, blend, and flow naturally on the paper to create that airy, luminous quality unique to watercolour. You’ll discover how to control just enough — and let go just enough — for the landscape to paint itself.

We’ll also focus on how to create the illusion of depth and perspective: how softer edges, cooler tones, and lighter washes can push forms into the distance, while richer greens and more defined brushwork bring the foreground to life. Step by step, you’ll build a sense of space that draws the eye through the field and into the mountains beyond.

Bloom, breathe & paint the promise of spring in the verge of winter
Step into van Gogh’s softer side — delicate branches, sky-blue serenity, and blossoms bursting with quiet joy. Almond Blossom is more than a painting; it’s a love letter to new beginnings, painted with tenderness and hope.

In this session, you’ll learn to layer soft blues, whites, and greens, capturing that light, airy feel that makes this masterpiece so timeless. Gentle brushstrokes, a calm mind, and a heart full of colour — that’s all you need.

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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It’s a flower. Or is it?
Step into the bold, zoomed-in world of Georgia O’Keeffe, where petals become landscapes, colours whisper and shout, and every brushstroke feels intimate.

In this guided session, we’ll paint our own version of Hibiscus and Plumeria — soft, elegant, but full of mystery. Whether you see a flower, a feeling, or something a little more… interpretive, you’re in good company. O’Keeffe always left the door open.

You’ll learn how to build form through soft gradients, focus on detail through abstraction, and use colour to create intensity and softness all at once. No experience needed. Just curiosity, colour, and an open mind.

Every great artist starts by learning to see.

Drawing is much more than putting pencil to paper. It’s the foundation of almost every visual art form—the skill that teaches you to observe, understand and interpret the world around you.

In this six-week foundation course, you’ll develop the most important artistic ability of all: seeing like an artist. Together we’ll explore observation, proportion, perspective, light, shadow, composition and form while learning how to transform the three-dimensional world around us into convincing drawings.

Every week introduces new concepts through demonstrations, structured exercises and practical projects that gradually build your confidence. Rather than simply learning how to copy what you see, you’ll discover why objects look the way they do—and how artists simplify, analyse and reconstruct them on paper.

Drawing is often described as the language of visual art. Whether you dream of becoming a painter, illustrator, designer, sculptor or simply want to draw with confidence, the skills you develop here will support everything you create afterwards.

If you’ve ever thought “I can’t draw,” this course is here to change your mind. With the right guidance and plenty of practice, you’ll soon discover that drawing isn’t a talent reserved for a few—it’s a skill that anyone can learn.

✏️ What to Expect

• A comprehensive six-week introduction to drawing
• Weekly guidance from a professional artist
• Live demonstrations introducing essential drawing techniques
• Structured exercises that gradually build your observation and drawing skills
• Plenty of individual drawing time with personal feedback
• A relaxed and encouraging studio environment where curiosity and experimentation are always welcome

🧠 What You’ll Learn

• How to observe like an artist
• Shape, proportion and perspective
• Light, shadow and creating three-dimensional form
• Line quality, values and texture
• Composition and visual storytelling
• The universal drawing principles that support every artistic medium

🤔 Is This Course Right for Me?
Absolutely.
Whether you’ve never held a pencil with artistic intention before or you’d like to build a stronger creative foundation before exploring painting, illustration or other artistic disciplines, this course is the ideal place to begin.
The skills you’ll develop here won’t just improve your drawings—they’ll change the way you observe the world and support every creative step that follows.

Catch the first light of day!
In this painting session, we’re greeting the dawn. Against a glowing horizon, you’ll paint fields of red flowers shimmering with morning dew, grasses touched by cool colours, and the rising sun just peeking through. With soft strokes and fresh tones, you’ll capture that fleeting moment when night turns into day.

Along the way, you’ll learn how to build soft, seamless colour gradients for a morning sky, and how to control transitions so they feel natural and atmospheric rather than harsh. We’ll also explore how to break down strong tube colours and refine them into muted, misty tones that match the softness of dawn light.

A special focus will be on creating textural floral elements using a professional tool: the palette knife – learning how to layer, shape, and add expressive texture to your foreground. You’ll also get an introduction to colour harmony and atmospheric colour mixing, helping you better understand how light, mood, and colour temperature work together in a landscape.