ALMADEN SCHOOL OF MUSIC & ART
  • COVID-19
  • PROGRAMS
    • Little Mozarts Piano
    • MTAC - Certificate of Merit
    • Band Ensemble
  • Music
    • FEATURED STUDENTS >
      • Grand Corona Piano Competition
      • Student of the Month
      • Jenna Chatham (Drums)
      • Nicole Rovniaguin (Vocal)
    • Piano >
      • Soroosh Meili
      • Matthew Kho
      • Luara Tsariya
      • Richard Frazier
      • Evgenia Armishev
      • Debora Carreiro
      • Violeta Marcoida
      • Sevil Sultanova
      • Marina Menyaylenko
      • Evgenia Abramyan
    • Violin >
      • Navid Kandelousi
      • Jessica Cao
      • Alex Makarenko
      • Elina Papova
      • Sevil Sultanova
      • Steve Luft
    • Vocal / Singing >
      • Annemarie Webster
      • Lytusina Kazachenko
      • Inesa Anisonean
      • Anna Keyta
      • Tetyana Mysko
    • Guitar >
      • Quentin Jorstad
      • Felix Amirian
      • Abir B.
      • Ashot Mnjoyan
      • Denis Ryman
      • Jerad Fox
      • Peter Kulverts
      • Justin Liu
    • Cello >
      • Yong-Zi Ma
    • Viola >
      • Navid Kandelousi
      • Elina Papova
    • Flute >
      • Sarah Benton
      • Marian Concus
      • Doug Zuehlke
    • Clarinet >
      • Mark Russo
      • Doug Zuehlke
    • Recorder >
      • Marian Concus
      • Doug Zuehlke
    • Saxophone >
      • Andrew Dixon
      • Eric Abramyan
      • Mark Russo
    • Drums >
      • Quentin Jorstad
      • Ashot Mnjoyan
    • Music Theory >
      • Justin Liu
  • Art
    • Watercolor
    • Oil and Acrilyc
    • Drawing Pen and Colored Pencil
    • Claywork and Painting
    • Stained Glass Painting
    • Hand Painted Silk
    • Vania Goranova
    • Larissa Zaiko
    • FEATURED STUDENTS >
      • Sanoja Kikkeri (Art)
      • Angelina Pham (Art)
      • Yul-Hui Han (Art)
      • Elysia Du (Art)
      • Annika Kandadai (Art)
      • Haely Pham (Art)
      • Nithya Mani (Art)
      • Simran Malhotra (Art)
      • Katie Ha (Art)
      • Samantha Cusi-Asquith (Art)
      • Yangyang Lai (Art)
      • Lucas Wang (Art)
      • Zara Saeed (Art)
  • Specials
  • TEACHING JOBS
  • Online Forms
    • Registration Form
    • Cancel Lesson
    • Sick Leave
    • Vacation Notice
    • Drop Notice
  • student login
  • ENROLL
    • ENROLL - Piano
    • ENROLL - Drums
    • ENROLL - Violin
    • ENROLL - Clarinet
    • ENROLL - Flute
    • ENROLL - Saxophone

Drawing Classes

FOR KIDS AND ADULTS
As writers must learn to organize their thoughts into words, sentences, paragraphs, and chapters, artists benefit from learning the language of form, color, texture, shadow, image, and composition to better organize and communicate their thoughts. Pen and Pencil Drawing lessons help students master the ability to create visually complex artwork using fundamental techniques of line width, line shading, direction, cross-hatching and other techniques.

Students learn basic shapes and forms, starting with two-dimensional forms and then move quickly to 3-dimensional objects using silhouettes and lines. We also cover foundations of cubes and perspectives which are even more important in drawing
. Other topics include basic forms, negative forms, the process to create the illusion of depth and distance, representing reflected light, value contrasts and the quality of light. We also teach you how to represent textures.

​Approaches include both representational and abstract schools of expression.  We've taught beginners to masters and we've learned that everything builds on just a few basic concepts that we will teach you here.

Over the past 35 years, our art teaches at the Almaden School in our San Jose studio have taught thousands of young artists with many going on to successful careers in the arts.  Even more have gone onto successful lives that include art as part of well rounded and successful lifestyles.

Our instructors also always work to maintain the child’s self esteem and personal sense of creativity.  Classes meet once a week for 60 minutes year round to ensure continuity for the students.  As students complete a painting, their artwork is prominently displayed as part of the Art of the Week or Artist of the Month program.

Each of these classes has an additional $10 per month materials fee which covers all materials and supplies needed for the class.
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Vania Goranova
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Larissa Zaiko
Art teacher
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SCHOOL LOCATION

5353 Almaden Expressway, 
Suite D208
​San Jose, CA - 95118
(Next to PetSmart)

SARATOGA STUDIO

​Almaden School of Music & Art
1428 Saratoga Avenue, 
​San Jose, CA - 95129
(Next to Heritage Country Inn)
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Testimonials

I was evaluating this school for my son's piano lessons but ended up joining myself. My son is very Young and I needed to try out some lessons before committing and the school worked with me through the process of trying out multiple teachers, who were all fantastic in their own league, but I was looking for a non traditional learning for my son.

So though we decided it's not the right time for my son to start here, I myself ended up joining one of the teachers who we tried out and liked. He is Mr. Matthew. As a teacher he had understood my goals and my expectations and is challenging me accordingly. I really like the class.

​The school's management was very involved and took lot of effort to understand my and my son's requirements and constantly followed up on the experience as a new student. This is rare to see but reflects the passion of the management towards music and towards customer service. I would recommend this highly. I also love the arts program of schools which I have walked by often and seen the amazing paintings that Young students make there.

~Anshu 

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Contact Us

Call: +1.408.267.3651
Text/SMS: +1.408.359.8577

​email: info@almadenSchool.com
  • COVID-19
  • PROGRAMS
    • Little Mozarts Piano
    • MTAC - Certificate of Merit
    • Band Ensemble
  • Music
    • FEATURED STUDENTS >
      • Grand Corona Piano Competition
      • Student of the Month
      • Jenna Chatham (Drums)
      • Nicole Rovniaguin (Vocal)
    • Piano >
      • Soroosh Meili
      • Matthew Kho
      • Luara Tsariya
      • Richard Frazier
      • Evgenia Armishev
      • Debora Carreiro
      • Violeta Marcoida
      • Sevil Sultanova
      • Marina Menyaylenko
      • Evgenia Abramyan
    • Violin >
      • Navid Kandelousi
      • Jessica Cao
      • Alex Makarenko
      • Elina Papova
      • Sevil Sultanova
      • Steve Luft
    • Vocal / Singing >
      • Annemarie Webster
      • Lytusina Kazachenko
      • Inesa Anisonean
      • Anna Keyta
      • Tetyana Mysko
    • Guitar >
      • Quentin Jorstad
      • Felix Amirian
      • Abir B.
      • Ashot Mnjoyan
      • Denis Ryman
      • Jerad Fox
      • Peter Kulverts
      • Justin Liu
    • Cello >
      • Yong-Zi Ma
    • Viola >
      • Navid Kandelousi
      • Elina Papova
    • Flute >
      • Sarah Benton
      • Marian Concus
      • Doug Zuehlke
    • Clarinet >
      • Mark Russo
      • Doug Zuehlke
    • Recorder >
      • Marian Concus
      • Doug Zuehlke
    • Saxophone >
      • Andrew Dixon
      • Eric Abramyan
      • Mark Russo
    • Drums >
      • Quentin Jorstad
      • Ashot Mnjoyan
    • Music Theory >
      • Justin Liu
  • Art
    • Watercolor
    • Oil and Acrilyc
    • Drawing Pen and Colored Pencil
    • Claywork and Painting
    • Stained Glass Painting
    • Hand Painted Silk
    • Vania Goranova
    • Larissa Zaiko
    • FEATURED STUDENTS >
      • Sanoja Kikkeri (Art)
      • Angelina Pham (Art)
      • Yul-Hui Han (Art)
      • Elysia Du (Art)
      • Annika Kandadai (Art)
      • Haely Pham (Art)
      • Nithya Mani (Art)
      • Simran Malhotra (Art)
      • Katie Ha (Art)
      • Samantha Cusi-Asquith (Art)
      • Yangyang Lai (Art)
      • Lucas Wang (Art)
      • Zara Saeed (Art)
  • Specials
  • TEACHING JOBS
  • Online Forms
    • Registration Form
    • Cancel Lesson
    • Sick Leave
    • Vacation Notice
    • Drop Notice
  • student login
  • ENROLL
    • ENROLL - Piano
    • ENROLL - Drums
    • ENROLL - Violin
    • ENROLL - Clarinet
    • ENROLL - Flute
    • ENROLL - Saxophone