Our Program Highlights
Individualized instruction
Small class sizes
Affordable tuition
Experienced teachers 
Fun, positive learning environment

How our program works  

Each child is set up with an individualized program according to age and experience.  When the student has a good understanding of the basic drawing skills and techniques, we then progress to watercolors, acrylics and then oils.  Most children begin drawing from pictures that are broken down into simple steps. This prepares them for more challenging subject matter such as a photograph or still life.  Little Artists teachers are qualified art educators that are trained in all drawing and painting media.

Specific Techniques and skills for drawing that we aim to teach are as follows:

• layout and design

• sketching and drawing variations

•  elements and principals of design

• dry media technique

• pencil type and pressure

• placement and thumbnail sketches or breakdowns

• size of shapes while practicing proportion

• positive and negative space

• location; Horizontal, Angles, Levels

Painting Techniques are as follows:

• Watercolor painting

with the study of color: primary, secondary, and complementary colors.  with the study of technique: wash, graded wash, light to dark, dry brush, Stipple, highlights, etc. 

• Acrylic painting

with technique of painting from dark to light, opaque, edge control, and color mixing.  also value and depth, while painting from background to foreground.

• Oil painting

by glazing, thin to thick appliqué, lights in lights and darks in darks.  and by painting  with wet into wet, blending and texturing.

Little Artists was opened in October, 2000 by director and head teacher Steve Symington. Steve received his bachelor's degree in December 1998 from Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, CA. He majored in Liberal Studies with an art concentration. He has worked with children since 1990 and has been teaching art since 1998.

Our teachers have been well trained in drawing , painting, and art education.