Painting
Painting
Tuesdays, Feb 10 - Mar 17, 2026
6 weeks
Instructor: Andrew Rose
Time: 6-8:30pm
Adults
Fees: $210.
supplies not included
For artists of any level who wish to learn and master their painting medium’s fundamentals and techniques, this open-studio style class helps you with friendly, one-on-one coaching as well as inspiration from others. From technical improvements in brush, material, and color choices to conceptual developments in composition, subject, scale, and series, This Painting series will help you achieve your personal and professional art goals. Beginners are encouraged to study slowly and methodically. Professionals receive expert instruction in a low-stress and welcoming atmosphere. The classroom is open before and after class for you to get started early and clean up late. There’s a potluck table to encourage sharing.
This class is in an “Open Studio” format that allows you to pursue your unique projects along with a diverse and self-directed group, and features regular mini-lectures as well as short demonstrations to help you learn how to mix paint, create new work from scratch, and take the leap from photographs and sketches. Many goals will be met with time and, in some cases, by taking other courses. Dedicated students find success in repeating the course for one, two, even five times. Also, it is recommended you do not skip classes. My mission for you is simple: to get you comfortable with the often-uncomfortable creative process. If I can help you make your own artwork using best practices in technique and composition and get you further along the path of art through a wider appreciation of art history, even better. Often I will give you “homework” to look up: artists, movements, and exhibitions to investigate. Weekly, you can expect at least one and often more private consultations during class focused on you and your art as you make it. Remember: painting is a rewarding process with a long learning curve; if you learn one new concept or skill a week then you are doing great! You will be concentrating on one or two works during the course. Please always have extra materials to work with.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Raised in Los Angeles and trained in New York, Andrew Rose earned his A.B. in Art History from Vassar College in 1993, and a dual-honors M.F.A./M.S. in Painting and Art History from Pratt Institute in 2003.
For over 35 years, Andrew Rose has pursued an award-winning career as an artist, curator, educator, gallerist, journalist, and producer in the U.S., Europe, and Hawaii with Bruce Weber Studio, Catwalk Foundation, Florida Hospital - Orlando, Fundación Valparaiso, Hawaii State Art Museum, Honolulu Museum of Art, Martha Keats Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, New York - PS1, National Portrait Gallery - London, Nuuanu Gallery, Oakwood School, Pratt Institute, the Target Corporation, Vermont Studio Center, ViTA Art Center, and his eponymous Andrew Rose Gallery.
He has published in and received press for his work from publications including Artweek, Hana Hou!, Hawaii Luxury, Honolulu Magazine, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Honolulu Weekly, Innov8, Modern Luxury Hawaii, NYArts, and The Orlando Sentinel.
From 2006 - 2020, Rose was an instructor at the Honolulu Museum of Art, teaching hundreds of adults university-level coursework in painting, drawing, and professional practices both in the studio and on location. Between 2006 and 2010, he was Chair of Visual and Performing Arts at Island Pacific Academy on Oahu where he wrote and taught the Advanced Placement arts program. Having written curricula for students from ages 18 – 80, Rose continued to develop a wealth of real-world outdoor-based experience through independent instruction of students en plein air before taking a sabbatical from teaching in 2023.
From 2011 - 2016, after opening his contemporary art gallery in Honolulu and then joining the boards of various art and charitable institutions including the Hawaii State Art Museum, Rose pursued the daily business of being a professional artist while curating a museum-quality program of contemporary art with significant connections to the Hawaiian Islands. Through a variety of solo and group exhibitions with dozens of artists, he brought over $750,000 of new art to market.
In 2016, Rose returned to his studio practice with a commission for a permanent mural at the Florida Hospital - Orlando, where he worked for six months on a 45-foot scaffolding to paint a site-specific work for the lobby of the new $125-million dollar wing for women’s health, during which, Dale Dolejsi collaborated with him and they planted the seeds for R&D. Since the beginning of the SARS pandemic of 2020, Rose resumed plein air painting and teaching on Oahu. In 2026, Rose began offering courses at the ViTA Art Center in Ventura, California, where he opened his newest studio, and launched R&D, a decade-in-the-making artistic partnership.