We've had students enroll in classes 168,000 times, with several students staying 10 or even 15 years, with some attending from age 5 through 18, and then continuing on through their college years just for the love of painting in our safe, welcoming warm studio community.  

Numbers we haven't kept track of are the 100's of contest winners, college acceptances, scholarship winners  and professional careers in art.  We've had talented students go into lucrative careers in animation, film, game design, tattoo art, illustration, mural painting, art restoration, art history education and teaching art for nearly every possible type of age and artistic discipline, including our own students who have returned to our studios as adults to teach, in a full-circle moment for them.

We teach with deep passion, because we know how empowering and centering it is for kids who love to draw to get to practice the discipline of classical realistic drawing and painting in earnest. After a quarter century of constant improvement, our team of nearly 40 amazing Orange County teachers receive 100 hours art & class training plus at least 2 hours of continuing professional development per month, so that each student benefits from team of teachers, supervisors, trainers and studio managers all watching over them in some way.

Celebrating numbers is great, but the most important number is the ONE child: yours.  

I am so grateful to Ed Warren who created our program. His vision persists to this day: to really, truly reach and teach every single ONE of the children who comes into our doors, 1 on 1, with caring, hands-on instruction every 2-3 minutes steadily transforming them into capable confident oil painters, whatever it takes.  I thank you, as well: the 1000's of parents, grandparents and so many others, for providing an amazing artistic experience for every single kid.

Curious about our process? Come sit in on a live class! Book a Free Introductory Class, and watch your child succeed.