The Big Game "Dreams of Venice"
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Oct 1-22, 2026
October 2026
October 2026
Streams
The Big Game "Dreams of Venice"
This time we'll do something we haven't done before in our Games. We won't paint Venice the way it looks in a photograph. We'll create our own city made of a face, architecture, canals, gondolas, light, and almost abstract painterly fragments. "Dreams of Venice" an experiment on the border of realism, surrealism, and contemporary painting. The face will dissolve into the architecture, palaces become part of the portrait, real forms coexist with free patches and textures. And the familiar space of Venice will turn into a fantasy that never existed. And we'll experiment not only with the subject. Oil, acrylic, texture paste, and gold all in one piece. We won't just paint Venice. We'll invent it.
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The Secret of Mother-of-Pearl
When the Sea Becomes Art A whole world of color lies hidden within a seashell. Cool, silvery shimmer, delicate pearly shades, complex transitions from blue to graphite gray, and warm golden reflections. In our new painting Marathon, "The Secret of Mother-of-Pearl," we will create a striking painting of two open oysters, combining natural beauty with expressive contemporary painting. An exciting exploration of color, light, texture, and contrast awaits us. We will learn to capture the intricate mother-of-pearl surface, create a sense of wet sheen and depth, and combine realistic elements with painterly freedom and decorative effects. What will we create? A stylish painting for your interior that combines the realistic beauty of seashells with the energy of contemporary abstract painting. This work will both enhance your interior and serve as an excellent exercise in working with complex color relationships, texture, and expressive accents. Who is this Marathon for? For everyone who loves painting and wants to try new artistic techniques. The Marathon will appeal to beginners as well as those who already paint in oils and are looking for new ways to make their paintings more expressive. Discover the secret of mother-of-pearl and create your own treasure of the sea! Join "The Secret of Mother-of-Pearl" painting Marathon at ARTCLASS.
from €12.80 €20.70
Among a Thousand Stars
A two-day live painting Marathon A familiar story in an entirely new language. In this Marathon, we will create a contemporary interpretation of the Little Prince: a tiny planet, an endless expanse of stars, and that very Rose but instead of a classic illustration, we will try telling this story through cubism, geometry, and contemporary painting. The main experiment in this painting combining figurative painting with abstract space. We will break the figure down into expressive planes of color, work with an angular silhouette and large shapes, and build the surrounding world from intersecting geometric elements. ACRYLIC + OIL We will combine two mediums and use the strengths of each. With acrylics, we will establish the composition, large planes of color, geometry, and space. With oils, we will continue working on the character: adding subtle shades, depth, light, volume, and painterly nuances. We will pay special attention to the color red learning to create it by combining a variety of warm, cool, light, and deep tones instead of using a single pure shade. The result will be more than an illustration of a famous story: a substantial work of art in its own right recognizable in its mood and symbols, yet entirely contemporary in its painterly language. Two days. Two live Streams. Acrylic + oil. Cubism, color, geometry, and one story among a thousand stars.
from €12.80 €20.70
Window to Provence
Two-day oil painting marathon In this work we will create not just a landscape, but an almost surreal space, where the window becomes the border between reality and dream. On one side an old wall, shutters, architecture, the texture of plaster. On the other light, air, clouds, warm fields and sunny Provence, which seems to begin penetrating inside the very space of the painting. "Window to Provence" is a painting about light, space and the feeling of summer that can be preserved on canvas.
from €12.80 €20.70
The Big Game "Facets of Vrubel"
A Great Game in oil painting. We paint a copy of the famous picture by Mikhail Vrubel, "The Swan Princess". This time one of the most enigmatic and beautiful paintings of Russian art awaits us. Over 5 big streams we will step by step create our own copy of "The Swan Princess" and try to unravel the particular artistic language of Mikhail Vrubel. Why "The Facets of Vrubel"? His painting seems to be assembled from a multitude of separate facets strokes, shades and reflections. Form does not dissolve in smooth transitions but is built up like a crystal. It is this principle that we will try to understand and apply in our own work. 5 streams from the first drawing and the large color relationships to the final highlights and details. "The Facets of Vrubel" a Great Game about color, light, texture and one of the most unusual painterly languages of Russian art. The Great Game "The Facets of Vrubel" Mikhail Vrubel. "The Swan Princess"
from €16.30 €27.20
Portrait of Autumn
Two-day oil painting marathon Autumn here is not just a season. It becomes an image, a mood, almost a living character. Behind the heroine's back, warm sunlight still lingers the last touch of the departing summer. It dissolves into gold, ochre, flashes of red and orange, as if warmth is still trying to hold on. But cool bluish reflections are already appearing on the face. This is the first breath of approaching winter barely noticeable, yet already changing the whole mood of the portrait. It is precisely on this contrast of warmth and cold that we will build our work: summer is still nearby, autumn has already come into its own, and winter is only beginning to be felt in the air. Over two days, we will go through the entire path from building the composition and the first color masses to working on the face, light, reflections, hair, leaves and final decorative accents. This will be "Portrait of Autumn" a moment between warmth and cold, summer and winter, light and the approaching chill.
from €12.80 €20.70
Courses
Intensive "Accent"
Why does a single detail make our gaze linger on a painting? Why does a bright color become the focal point in one work, but disrupt the composition in another? And does an accent even have to be bright?
from €29.90
The Path to the Painting
Start: September 29
from €29.90
The Line of the Flower
In this intensive we will work on the border between realism and abstraction.
from €29.90
The Mystery of the Unknown Woman
Who is she? For more than 140 years, the woman in Ivan Kramskoy's painting has looked down at the viewer calmly, confidently, and almost defiantly. We know where she is depicted and can examine every detail of her clothing, the carriage, and wintry St. Petersburg… but we still do not know the most important thing who is this woman? The new Intensive "The Mystery of the Unknown Woman" continues our new format, in which we do not...
from €29.90
Vermeer's Gaze
What happens if one of the most enigmatic images in the history of painting is carried from the 17th century into the present day?
from €29.90
"Pomegranate Garden"
"Pomegranate Garden" is an intensive on creating a decorative painting in mixed technique, where texture, multiple layers, complex color and a sense of a precious surface are especially important.
from €29.90
Theorium "Bouquet Behind the Curtain"
How do you paint sunlight so that it really glows on the canvas? In the new Theorium we will look at painting a bouquet by the window a complex and very beautiful subject built on the interplay of light, color and transparent fabric. The main character here is not even the flowers but the light. It passes through the curtain, dissolves the edges of objects, changes the shades of the petals and the greenery, creates colored…
from €6.90
Garden on the Water
Recording available
from €19.90
Kids
Lion by the Sea
Learning to make a watercolor collage with a kind and sweet lion
from €12.90
Kitten in Love
Making a watercolor collage with a sweet little cat holding a heart
from €12.90
Kitty in the Garden
We make charming cats in the appliqué technique
from €12.90
Snail
We make a three-dimensional snail in cut-paper collage
from €12.90
Caterpillar
Making a three-dimensional moving caterpillar in the appliqué technique
from €12.90
Fairytale Fish
Making a fairy-tale fish with the paper collage technique
from €12.90
About
14 years of experience · online and offline
ARTCLASS is an online encyclopedia of creative practices: from painting to crafts.
Starting out fourteen years ago as an offline art school for adults and children, we gained experience and built up a body of creative knowledge that we now share with you.
The variety of ARTCLASS courses lets you try your hand at different creative disciplines and pick the one you take to. Our lessons recreate the atmosphere of a studio we film the video with several cameras at once and edit it so that you are drawn as deeply as possible into the process.
New courses are added all the time, and every lesson you finish is one more completed work in your own creative collection.
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Beginner or experienced artist everyone will find a format that fits. Detailed step-by-step explanations at every stage.
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News
New Intensive "The Line of a Flower"
Dear friends! 🌸 Presenting a new oil painting intensive "The Line of a Flower" This time we'll combine a realistic flower, graphics, and contemporary decorativeness in one work. We'll paint an iris that will become part of a complex composition: painterly petals will be combined with large color spots, thin lines, and graphic elements. In the intensive we'll cover the form and plasticity of the iris, working with deep purple, pink, and turquoise shades, the combination of realism and stylization, and how to introduce graphics into oil painting. The main feature of this work is freedom part of the painting can be painted in detail, and part left flat and decorative. It's precisely this contrast that gives it a contemporary sound. "The Line of a Flower" an intensive for those who want to try a new painterly language and go beyond the usual depiction of flowers ✨ ➡️ Intensive "The Line of a Flower" https://art-class.online/course/428/ Link for those outside Russia: https://ru.art-class.org/course/428/
New Marathon "Autumn Finds"
NEW MARATHON "AUTUMN FINDS" There's something special about the first days of autumn. You come back from the forest with mushrooms, cut a branch of rowan, bring in golden leaves and realize that a finished painting is already in front of you. This is exactly the autumn we'll be painting at the two-day oil painting marathon "Autumn Finds." 🍄 Porcini mushrooms with warm caps, scarlet rowan in a ceramic jug, golden leaves, light fabric, and a cool background everything is built on the contrast of warm and cool. Over two days we'll go from a blank canvas to a finished painting. We'll work through composition, color, volume, and texture of the mushrooms, ceramics, berries, and rowan branches. The main thing we'll learn not to "draw out" every single object, but to pull it all together into cohesive painting. 🍁 We'll capture our "Autumn Finds" on canvas. Marathon "Autumn Finds" https://art-class.online/streams/osennie-nakhodki/ For those outside of Russia: https://ru.art-class.org/streams/osennie-nakhodki/
New Intensive "The Mystery of the Unknown Woman"
Dear friends! Introducing a new oil painting intensive "The Unknown Woman's Mystery" Start September 15 This time a true art history investigation awaits us. In the Theorium we'll examine Ivan Kramskoy's famous "Unknown Woman": the historical context, theories about the heroine of the painting, and details that a 19th-century viewer perceived quite differently than we do today. And in the practical part, we'll bring this image into the 21st century and paint a modern Unknown Woman in snow-covered Paris in a black coat, driving a convertible Porsche. We'll keep the essentials: character, gaze, and the sense of mystery. And, of course, 20+ additional author references await you, so everyone can create their own version of the Unknown Woman. Not just copying a masterpiece but investigating its mystery and continuing the story "The Unknown Woman's Mystery" https://art-class.online/course/427/ Link for those outside Russia: https://ru.art-class.org/course/427/
New Marathon "Fairytale Dreams"
Dear friends! ✨ Introducing a new two-day oil painting marathon "Fairytale Dreams" 📅 September 7 and 9 This time we'll combine two worlds in one painting: the tender image of a sleeping child and the space of their fantasies. We'll work with portraiture, subtle skin tones, white fabrics and reflections, light and complex color combinations. And when creating the fairytale world, we'll allow ourselves more painterly freedom bold strokes, patches of color, the shimmer of light, and almost abstract fragments. And the most interesting part this dream can be different for everyone. Mikhail has prepared more than 20 additional references with different subjects, so you can choose your own version and create a unique piece. Two days. Oil. Painting. And a journey into a world that exists only until waking up ✨ ➡️ Marathon "Fairytale Dreams" https://art-class.online/streams/fairytale-dreams/ Link for those outside Russia: https://ru.art-class.org/streams/fairytale-dreams/
New Intensive/Theorium "Vermeer's Gaze"
Dear friends! We present a new Intensive in oil painting "Vermeer's Gaze" This time Theorium and Practice go separately, but are united by one idea. In the Theorium "Vermeer's Mystery" we will analyze the original "Girl with a Pearl Earring": light, composition, the turn of the figure, the gaze, and that very mysteriousness of the image. And in the Intensive "Vermeer's Gaze" we will transfer this idea to the 21st century and paint a modern girl in a car with reflections of the evening city in the glass and an earphone instead of a pearl. The program will also include 20 additional author's references: metro, taxi, airport and other modern subjects in different formats. We don't copy Vermeer we understand his techniques and create our own. Intensive "Vermeer's Gaze" https://art-class.online/course/426/ Link for those outside Russia: https://ru.art-class.org/course/426/
New Marathon "Eden"
Dear friends! Introducing a new two-day oil painting Marathon "Eden" An unusual piece awaits us: a white heron among large poppies and flowers a true garden of Eden. We'll break down how to paint complex white plumage, preserve light and color purity, build a deep blue wing, and not overload the bird with detail. We'll work separately with colors: coral, scarlet, peach, and soft pink shades. We'll learn to combine all this richness of color into one harmonious composition. The feature of this piece the combination of an almost realistic bird and a decorative garden. It will be bright, unusual, and very painterly "Eden" Marathon https://art-class.online/streams/eden Link for those outside Russia https://ru.art-class.org/streams/eden/
FAQ
Do I need experience to take part in the streams?
No, our streams are designed for any level of preparation from beginners to experienced artists. Mikhail explains every step in detail, so you will manage even if you have never picked up a brush before.
What materials do I need for the lessons?
The list of materials needed is published before every stream or course. Usually it is a canvas, oil paints in the basic colors, brushes of different sizes and a thinner. We also suggest budget alternatives.
Can I watch recordings of the streams?
Yes, recordings are available depending on the package you choose. With the Basic and Standard packages the recordings are kept forever you can come back to them at any time.
How do the kids' courses work?
Kids' courses are held as online lessons with detailed video tutorials. A child can work at a comfortable pace. The lessons are adapted to age groups: 5-8, 9-12 and 13-16 years.
Is there feedback from the teacher?
Yes, depending on the package you get a review of your work a group one or an individual one. There is also a private group of participants where you can ask questions and get support.
How do the packages differ?
The Free package gives access to the live stream. Basic adds recordings and video helpers. Standard adds extra references and a work review. VIP adds an individual review and priority support.