Painting: Master Copy
January 22 – February 12, 2026 | 1:30–4 p.m.
Location: High Museum of Art, Blue Workshop, Greene Family Education Center
Registration Required
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The registration fee includes all materials, weekly access to world-class art in the museum’s galleries, hours of expert instruction, and access to a Friday afternoon Open Studio during the run of the class.
Registration opens to the public on December 3, 2025 at 10 a.m.
The registration fee includes all materials, weekly access to world-class art in the museum’s galleries, hours of expert instruction, and access to a Friday afternoon Open Studio during the run of the class.
Develop your painting skills by copying a work of art in the museum’s collection with acrylic paint. Analyze different works with the guidance of a professional teaching artist, and study techniques like underpainting, glazing, and impasto to strengthen your understanding of color, value, and expression. Hone your creative approach and gain confidence in your personal painting practice through the interpretation and recreation of a masterwork.
- Week 1: Begin with an analysis of composition, value structure, and proportion in your chosen work of art. Transfer a drawing to canvas, and learn to establish form and tone using as you prepare your monochromatic underpainting.
- Week 2: Study color theory and glazing to interpret the hues in your chosen painting. Learn how to mix colors, and practice building color depth and luminosity through thin layers and glazing. Strengthen your understanding of warm and cool color relationships as you determine how to achieve color harmony in your painting.
- Week 3: Explore texture and expressive brushwork through impasto techniques using heavy-body acrylics and gel mediums. Experiment with paint application processes, surface buildup, and gesture to create emphasis and visual rhythm.
- Week 4: Complete your painting with the addition of detail, final glazes, and surface unification. Conclude with a class discussion and reflection on the various techniques learned throughout the course.
About Studio Classes
Expand your art-making skills through guided, step-by-step instruction with expert teaching artists. Over multiple weeks, you will learn alongside other creative adults and delve deeply into the artistic process, explore new techniques, and build your practice.
This is an introductory-level Studio Class; it is designed to accommodate all levels of skill and talent. If you have never taken an art making class before, this is a great place to start. You will learn new skills that you can use in your artistic practice.
The registration fee includes all materials, weekly access to world-class art in the museum’s galleries, hours of expert instruction, and access to a Friday afternoon Open Studio during the run of the class.
About your Instructor
Jaffia Royes is a visual artist and art educator who lived and worked in New York City for seventeen years before moving to Atlanta. As an educator, she has worked with various art organizations, museums, and schools and has taught artists of all ages, including portfolio development for those entering art and design colleges and universities. While Royes’s primary medium for over two decades has been oil painting, she began developing a body of work in clay as a creative way to house her ever-growing plant collection. Her passions for art and plant life allow space for her to practice mindfulness, serenity, and self-care, which she brings into the classroom and hopes to encourage through her teaching.
Please note that in the event of a session being canceled, February 19 is reserved as a makeup date.
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