Kids Love Our Fun & Creative Workshops!

All summer long and for special school-year weeks, we enrich our world-class classical drawing and painting curriculum with engaging lessons in clay and paper sculpture, art history, figure drawing, portraiture, cartooning, and much more! Whether it's your first time at Art Steps or you're already stepping toward mastery, there's always something new to learn!

Choose the Summer Workshops tab or the School Year Workshops tab below for details and registration information:

Calling all artists, ages 4-18! Sharpen classical art skills while having FUN! Individualized, age appropriate instruction lets young artists of all skill levels immerse themselves in a full week of drawing, painting, and sculpting what they LOVE!

Register online, or call our central office: (714) 524-2248

Discounts:
Multiple workshop discount
Sign up for two or more workshops
and save $55 on each one after the first!

Early Bird discount
Sign up online and pay in full by April 30th, and save $65 per workshop!

NOTE: To collapse/expand individual workshop descriptions, please click on any workshop title.

Storybook WorkshopAges 4 - 7

Calling all little artists! This multimedia workshop is especially designed to meet your child's early developmental needs. Students learn a wide variety of media to draw, paint and sculpt their favorite characters from books! Singing songs and playing games between short periods of quiet focus keep kiddos having oodles of fun, every step of the way! 

$395 includes materials

Monday - Friday: 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.

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Monster Clay WorkshopAges 6 - 13

Develop real skills of observation while crafting adorable monsters! Draw a monster and sculpt it in 3-dimensions! Then create your own design, and your own pop-up background! 

$395 includes materials

Monday - Friday: 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.

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Anime & Cartooning WorkshopAges 7 and up

Learn to create original Anime characters, including your personal favorites! Basic cartooning principles are taught by breaking images into whole shapes before drawing them. American and Japanese cartooning are taught alongside proportion and anatomy. Fun meets quiet focus to keep students returning year after year!
                 

$395 includes materials

Monday - Friday: 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.

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Catch ‘Em All Palette WorkshopAges 7 and up

Learn a different medium each day!
-Draw a favorite Pokemon
-Sculpt and paint a Pokemon character
-Create a paper pop-up Pikachu
-Make a pokeball for your character to live in!

$395 includes materials

Monday - Friday: 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.

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Art History Adventure WorkshopAges 8 and up

Time travel through the history of art! Paint a true fresco like ancient Greeks, crack a real egg to make your own paint like Medieval masters, apply gold leaf for manuscript illumination, practice Renaissance perspective, and much more!

Hands-on, up-close imagery accompanies discussion for greater understanding of five major eras from Cave Paintings through Modernism. Active participation and enthusiastic teachers make art history come alive!

$395 includes materials

Monday - Friday: 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.

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Faces & Figures WorkshopAges 9 and up

Drawings of people become more lifelike when you study fundamental proportions of the head and the human body. Gain a deeper understanding of the human form, while using great master copies and photo references to help create more polished, portfolio-ready pieces. Beginning artists are welcomed for this introduction to figures, while teens will find it a useful springboard into college-level instruction.

$395 includes materials

Monday - Friday: 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.



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