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Art Classes in Honolulu
Drawing, watercolor, oil painting, portraits and figure work — every studio class in Honolulu we can verify, from a $35 evening at Fishcake to a ten-week HoMA term. Prices are the ones the venues print; dates roll forward as terms are announced.
FRI, OCT 16Senior Fair & Senior WalkPearlridge Center (Wai Makai Center Court) · Central OahuSee listingDetails →Honolulu Museum of Art
SAT, SEP 5The Collection in Context: Music and PaintingHonolulu Museum of Art · DowntownIncluded with admissionDetails →Pearlridge Center (Wai Makai parking lot)
SATURDAYS · 8:00 AMOpen-Air Farmers' MarketPearlridge Center (Wai Makai parking lot) · Central OahuSee listingDetails →Waikiki Community Center
MONDAYS · 10:45 AMChair YogaWaikiki Community Center · WaikikiFree to registered participantsDetails →Fishcake
$45WED, OCT 21The Charcoal ForestFishcake · Downtown$45Details →Downtown Art Center
$60/person/sessionTHURSDAYS · 9:00 AMBasic Watercolor & Sketchbook Techniques With Michelle DolanDowntown Art Center · Downtown$60/person/sessionDetails →Honolulu Museum of Art School
$37FRI, OCT 23Sketching in the Galleries: Landscape & SeascapeHonolulu Museum of Art School · Downtown$37Details →Fishcake$50FRI, OCT 23portraits of dogs (oct)Fishcake · Downtown$50Details →North Shore Arts Center
$40SAT, OCT 24Hulaween Skeleton Paint-on-Canvas ClassNorth Shore Arts Center · North Shore$40Details →Downtown Art Center
WED, NOV 4Intermediate Acrylics Part 2 With Marina BorovokDowntown Art Center · Downtown$180/person (3-session package)Details →Honolulu Museum of Art School
$37FRI, NOV 6The Hand SeesHonolulu Museum of Art School · Downtown$37Details →Honolulu Museum of Art School
$37FRI, NOV 13From Marble to Bronze: Sketching from SculptureHonolulu Museum of Art School · Downtown$37Details →Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaiʻi
FreeSAT, NOV 14Craft & Collectibles Fair x Aki MatsuriJapanese Cultural Center of Hawaiʻi · DowntownFreeDetails →Zwick Academy of Fine Art
THRU SUN, OCT 25Introduction to Classical Oil PaintingZwick Academy of Fine Art · DowntownSee listingDetails →Zwick Academy of Fine Art
THRU TUE, DEC 1Color TheoryZwick Academy of Fine Art · DowntownSee listingDetails →Zwick Academy of Fine Art
SAT, OCT 17Master Copy Workshop: Anders ZornZwick Academy of Fine Art · DowntownSee listingDetails →Zwick Academy of Fine Art
SUN, OCT 18The Oil Painter's Studio: Materials & TechniquesZwick Academy of Fine Art · DowntownSee listingDetails →Zwick Academy of Fine Art
SAT, NOV 7Construction Drawing and Artistic AnatomyZwick Academy of Fine Art · DowntownSee listingDetails →Honolulu Museum of Art School
$325THRU THU, DEC 17Drawing and Painting PortraitsHonolulu Museum of Art School · Downtown$325Details →Honolulu Museum of Art School
$305THRU THU, DEC 17Drawing: Basics and BeyondHonolulu Museum of Art School · Downtown$305Details →Honolulu Museum of Art School
$290THRU THU, DEC 17Non-Traditional Oil PaintingHonolulu Museum of Art School · Downtown$290Details →Zwick Academy of Fine Art
THRU THU, DEC 17Anatomy of a PortraitZwick Academy of Fine Art · DowntownSee listingDetails →Honolulu Museum of Art School
$280THRU THU, DEC 17WatercolorHonolulu Museum of Art School · Downtown$280Details →Honolulu Museum of Art School
$316THRU FRI, DEC 18From Draped to DressedHonolulu Museum of Art School · Downtown$316Details →Honolulu Museum of Art School
$318THRU FRI, DEC 18Landscape en Plein AirHonolulu Museum of Art School · Downtown$318Details →Honolulu Museum of Art School
$325THRU FRI, DEC 18Figure DrawingHonolulu Museum of Art School · Downtown$325Details →Honolulu Museum of Art School
$310SAT, OCT 17Drawing with ConfidenceHonolulu Museum of Art School · Downtown$310Details →Zwick Academy of Fine Art
SAT, JAN 9Introduction to Classical Drawing (weekend)Zwick Academy of Fine Art · DowntownSee listingDetails →Zwick Academy of Fine Art
SAT, JAN 9Introduction to Portrait Drawing and PaintingZwick Academy of Fine Art · DowntownSee listingDetails →Zwick Academy of Fine Art
SUN, JAN 10Introduction to Figure Drawing (winter)Zwick Academy of Fine Art · DowntownSee listingDetails →Where the art classes actually are
Honolulu's art teaching is concentrated in three places. The Honolulu Museum of Art School on Victoria Street runs the deepest programme: six drawing courses and four painting courses in a typical fall term, ten weeks each, at $280–$325 — Drawing: Basics and Beyond, Figure Drawing, From Draped to Dressed, Watercolor, Non-Traditional Oil Painting, Landscape en Plein Air. Terms start in October and again in January, and the popular sections fill.
Fishcake in Kakaʻako is where you go for a single evening: Everyday Watercolor ($100), Cat in Watercolor ($45), Birds in Brushstrokes ($35), and a rotating “study a master” session ($100). Nothing to commit to beyond the one date. And Zwick Academy of Fine Art runs classical atelier-style workshops — it publishes dates but not prices, so we list the workshop and tell you to ask.
The honest advice for a beginner: HoMA's single-evening “The Hand Sees” drawing workshop ($37) exists precisely so you can find out whether you want the ten-week course. Do that first.
At a glance
- Cheapest class
- Fishcake “Birds in Brushstrokes” ($35) and HoMA’s one-evening “The Hand Sees” ($37)
- Most complete programme
- HoMA Art School — 38 courses in the fall term across drawing, painting, ceramics, fiber and kids’
- Figure drawing
- HoMA runs Figure Drawing (live model) and From Draped to Dressed (clothed figure) on Fridays, $316–$325 a term
- Outdoors
- HoMA’s Landscape en Plein Air is the only outdoor painting course we track ($318, Fridays)
How we choose what to list
A class appears here only after someone on our side has opened the studio's own listing and read the price, the dates and the level. We don't list a price the venue hasn't printed, we don't roll over last year's term hoping the dates hold, and when a section shows as full we say so and point you at the next one. For the studios that only teach occasionally, our fun classes guide is the fuller list; paint and sip is a separate guide because that's a different kind of evening.