Art tutors and art classes

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

A little bit more about private tuition in art

How do art classes work? 

Private tuition in art covers different disciplines and areas of knowledge. An art tutor at your home can help you to pass your art history subjects as well as those you may study if you attend a drama school or performing arts academy.

However, higher education students are not the only ones who can receive a private art class. 

Nowadays, there are art courses and even online tuition for all subjects such as photography, drawing, painting, theatre, film or fashion design.

Whatever your artistic interest, you will be able to find a private tutor to suit you on the internet.

To achieve your academic and professional goals, all you have to do is register with an online tuition website and review the profiles of the private art tutors available.

Signs that you will like private tuition in the arts

An art class is an experience that is not limited to the mere assimilation of concepts and their practical applications.

Art classes are spaces in which students give free rein to all their creativity and express their feelings, emotions and their understanding of the environment around them in different disciplines.

If you identify with any of the following characteristics, you will love private tuition in art:

• You are a creative person. You like to give free rein to your imagination and give expression to your thoughts in any of the disciplines related to art.
• You love the performing arts in all their forms. You are a lover of cinema, theatre, dance, opera or any form of performing artistic expression.
• You appreciate the beauty of nature, its shapes and colours.

• You like painting, sculpture, music or architecture.

• You believe that you can pursue an art-related profession and that private tuition in art is the most appropriate way to broaden your skills. 

What subjects can be studied in private art tuition?

Private tuition in art can be focused on overcoming the academic challenges posed by the different subjects included in the official training cycles.

But there are also private art tutors who train and qualify students to develop their profession as photographers, illustrators, actors, dancers or multidisciplinary artists.

Here are some examples of what you can study in a private art class:

• To prepare the subjects of the art history course, both on a theoretical level and through the analysis of works of art throughout history.
• Reinforce your knowledge in the different disciplines associated with the study of drama, especially in the practical part. In the case of private tuition, students have the opportunity to visualise their practice and refine their technique and style.
• Improve your performance in the subjects of the degree in performing arts and audiovisual interpretation.
• Learn to draw in order to work as a cartoonist in publishing houses or on your own creating comics, manga or advertising design.
• Study photography to enjoy your hobby or to work as an agency or freelance photographer.
• Take classes in sewing or any other speciality associated with fashion.
• Learn how to use digital design tools such as Photoshop.
• Take acting classes for film, theatre or advertising campaigns.

What is the best age to start studying art?

There is no minimum age to start private tuition in art.

Ideally, if you detect that your children have artistic interests, you should put them in the hands of a private art tutor who can offer them the basics of each discipline to check that they really feel motivated to continue learning.

• Children: At home art classes for the youngest members of the family are the perfect way to awaken their creativity. Drawing, artistic expression, painting or plastic arts are very enjoyable subjects to engage children in private tuition in art.
• Adolescent age: Private tuition in art is divided between those tutors who reinforce the learning of subjects at secondary, sixth form or the first years of university and those who offer private tuition in art in specific areas at different levels.
• Adulthood: Private tuition at home can be used to discover a new talent, to reinforce students' professional skills in a particular subject or as a leisure activity to improve students' ability in any discipline. It is in this adult age that online art tuition can be most effective, using a multitude of technological resources to broaden knowledge.

Find private art tutors

Many students do not start their art lessons because they cannot find a specialist private art tutor close to where they live.

The problem is not so much the lack of art tutors as the lack of knowledge of the students when it comes to the search.

Here are the steps you need to follow to easily find private in-person tuition or an online tutor:

• Sign up for a tuition marketplace, which offers private tuition at home or online.
•  Use their search engine to enter terms such as "private art tutor at home", "private tuition at home in London” (or any other city) or "online tuition".
•  You will be shown those art tutors who meet your requirements.

Visit their profiles and choose the art tutor that best suits your academic goals, time availability and budget.