Zwick Academy of Fine Art
Honolulu, Hawaii
Welcome to Zwick Academy of Fine Art
ZAFA offers introductory, intermediate, and advanced drawing and painting workshops, as well as private instruction. Our curriculum is rooted in the traditions of classical realism, providing students with a strong foundation in the timeless principles of drawing, painting, and visual design. These fundamental skills can be applied to any artistic medium or style.
Workshops
ZAFA offers a series of rotating introduction, intermediate, and advanced level workshops throughout the year. These workshops cover the fundamentals of drawing, oil painting, portraiture, figure, landscape, artistic anatomy, master copies, composition and much more.
Private lessons
ZAFA offers one on one instruction. These lessons are highly flexible and customizable. Lesson plans are custom tailored to address the aspects of drawing and painting you are most interested in learning.
Friday Morning Open Studio
9AM-12PM
Free
Join a community of artists for a relaxed but focused open studio session. Set aside dedicated time each week to work on your own projects in a shared creative space.
ZAFA gift cards
Give the gift of creativity this holiday season. ZAFA Gift Cards are now available and can be used for private lessons, bundles, and workshops. A perfect, meaningful present for the artist in your life.
ZAFA is committed to demystifying the art process and teaching students how to create proportionally accurate and balanced drawings and oil paintings, both from live models, still lives, and photo reference.
The vast majority of art is a quantifiable, learnable craft. We can break it down into several categories.
Linear drawing accuracy.
Value organization.
Color mixing/ dealing with oil paint as an art medium.
Composition.
There are tools and techniques to tackle each of these topics. It is ZAFA’s goal to teach these tools to the next generation of Hawaii artists.
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