Crown Heights Classes NYC, New York

Painting Fall's Bounty: Drawing and Watercolor

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Join this class to explore drawing and watercolor techniques, composition, color, and value. Emphasis will be on seeing and translating your own artistic vision, with individual instruction and critiques. This is an indoor class with the option to paint out in the garden.  Are materials provided and included in cost of the class? No. If you already have watercolor supplies, please bring them. This is a suggested list: HB or 2H pencil Plastic...

The Magic Hour: Photography Using Light of Dusk

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Join this class to explore ways on how to use the light of dusk using techniques such as selective focus, long exposures, and fill flash. This class is suitable for people comfortable working in the manual or semiautomatic modes of their cameras and want to extend their knowledge.  We will be photographing every session, rain or shine.  Are materials provided and included in cost of the class? No.  Bring your camera-film or digital...

Special Effects with Watercolor

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Take inspiration from fall foliage, fruit, and flowers while developing your skills and personal style. Emphasis is on drawing, composition, and understanding color.  Traditional watercolor techniques such as dry brush and glazing are demonstrated as well as some experimental approaches in this class. Are materials provided and included in cost of the class? No. If you already own watercolors bring what you have, but make sure they are professional...

Exploring Pastels

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Join this class to develop your understanding of color and composition using pastel, an opaque medium that allows layering and building of color much like oil paint.  Live plants and other still-life materials are used to focus on new concepts, with plenty of room for individual style. Soft pastels are composed only of pigment and binder in stick form. The proportion of binder or filler to the amount and grade of the pigments determines quality...

From Black and White to Color: Drawing and Color Theory

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Join this class and discover why does it often seem like a great leap from drawing to color theory. This class bridges the gap between working in black and white and working in color using structured exercises that explore the concept of value in both. We also approach color theory through color mixing with a limited palette.  This class is suitable for students at all levels, and any opaque color medium (pastel, gouache, and acrylic) is allowed. ...

Photography: Unreality of Nature

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

This is an opportunity to explore nature in abstract forms moving beyond the reality of flowers and trees as we see them with our eyes. Dutch landscape photographer, Gerco de Ruijter asks: How abstract can a landscape become while remaining a landscape? We will try to answer this question as we explore the abstraction of nature in the Garden.  Starting with the "real," we will identify and examine different ways of seeing these natural subjects...

Photographing the Garden in Winter: Inside and Out

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Winter in the Garden is a great time to explore the architectural beauty of the trees both inside and outside. Bring your winter gear as we venture outside to see trees in a new light.  If we’re lucky, we will have the challenge of taking photos of the trees with a coating of snow. Inside, we will explore the Desert Pavilion, Bonsai Museum, and Aquatic House for a very different view of winter. Please note that this class meets in person...

Salsa On1 level 1

Piel Canela Dance School @ 519 8th Ave, New York, NY

Beginner Salsa On1 moves and partnerwork. All Salsa On1 students begins here. Note: Students must bring their CourseHorse payment confirmation to class in order to participate. Piel Canela classes work in cycles. If you purchase an individual class, it will be the first lesson of the long term cycles. Should you take the first class and decide you'd like to purchase additional classes through CourseHorse, please contact us and we'd be happy to...

Painting the Garden in Fall: Watercolor Paint

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Draw and paint outdoors (weather permitting) surrounded by the exuberant late-season landscape of Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Each class starts with a one-hour lesson with demonstrations of watercolor techniques, materials, color, and value. Experienced students can choose to skip the lesson.  Students receive individual attention while painting, and each class is followed up with a discussion about the painting experience.  This class is...

Drawing Songbirds

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

This class borrows principles of natural science illustration to make detailed and lively drawings of songbirds. Our focus on basic bird anatomy will lend greater accuracy to your drawings. Use graphite alone or with watercolor to render these intriguing subjects.  Are materials provided and included in cost of the class? No. Here's the material list: Paper:  One 22”x30”sheet of Extra White or Traditional White 140lb Fabriano ...

Spring Floral Arrangements

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Learn easy techniques to make beautiful bouquets and arrangements, working with colorful spring flowers like tulips, daffodils, and ranunculus, plus fresh green foliage. Create two designs to keep or gift, with festive wrapping and enclosure cards included. Bring your clippers and a sense of fun, as well as lunch or a snack. Notes: Please bring your registration confirmation and a photo ID to the security desk at the 1000 Washington Avenue...

Herbal Spirits Tour: Absinthe

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

On a walk through the Herb Garden, discover the colorful history of this maligned spirit—from sordid tales of the past to its myth-busting recent revival. See, smell, and touch the plants that flavor this herbal concoction, and afterward, sample a local distillers absinthe served in the classic fashion.

Ballet Level 1

Piel Canela Dance School @ 500 8th Ave, New York, NY

Beginner Ballet Classes for Adults   Special Note:  Piel Canela classes work in cycles. If you purchase an individual class, it will be the first lesson of the long term cycles. Should you take the first class and decide you'd like to purchase additional classes through CourseHorse, please contact us and we'd be happy to help you.

Scarf Design Using Fabric Dyes

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Join this class to get inspired by the patterns in nature and learn the techniques of working with fiber-reactive fabric dyes to create your own scarf designs.  Class will focus on demonstration, discussion of composition, and a comprehensive look at what makes a good textile design. Students will work on one scarf per session.

Succulent Gardens, Hair Combs, Crowns: Flower Art

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Create a festive atmosphere for summer fun with your very own succulent garden, floral hair combs, and lush flower crowns.  The experts at Stems Brooklyn will help you choose flowers that work best for hair pieces and guide you in the art of drying flowers. This high-energy class will be sure to put a spring in your step all summer long.

Container Gardening on Rooftops, Terraces and Balconies

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Want to start a rooftop garden or care for an existing one? This workshop will give you the tools to get going! Learn about technical aspects like irrigation and container materials as well as soil, suitable plants, design, and proper care. Important: This workshop covers gardens but not green roof systems. Notes: Please note that this class meets in person at BBG. Instructions on how to enter the Garden will be emailed to participants...

Living Lesson in Gardening: Creating Late Summer Look

Brooklyn Botanic Garden @ 1000 Washington Ave, Brooklyn, NY

This four-part series focuses on planning and gardening-by example. Learn from a professional about garden design principles and discuss plant choices and maintenance, including pruning techniques.

Cuban Salsa Rueda de Casino Level 1

Piel Canela Dance School @ 500 8th Ave, New York, NY

Beginner Rueda de Casino moves and partnerwork. All new students start here! Note: Students must bring their CourseHorse payment confirmation to class in order to participate. Piel Canela classes work in cycles. If you purchase an individual class, it will be the first lesson of the long term cycles. Should you take the first class and decide you'd like to purchase additional classes through CourseHorse, please contact us and we'd be happy to help...

Branching Out: A Collage Workshop

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Whether you choose to create a forest, a copse, or a single tree, you will make a collage in this workshop to take it home. Found natural materials like bark, twigs, pressed leaves, and specialty papers and photos will allow for individual expression.  The starting point for your collage could be abstract or realistic: a tree of life, a favorite tree you climbed as a child, or a collection of trees here at the Garden. Are materials provided...

Edible Wild Plants and Mushrooms

Brooklyn Botanic Garden