Classical Art Education from McEvoy Atelier

Learn Drawing and Painting with Kevin McEvoy Drawing and Painting in the Atelier Tradition- Art Instruction Lessons Combined with Art History Lessons, Woven Together for You Move at your own pace or join our live weekly zoom classes with Kevin McEvoy.

Classical Art At Home
Art Curriculum for Schools
Classical Art At School

We have classical art courses for beginner to advanced students. Each course is comprised of a series of lessons with step by step video instruction, art history references and application activities. Your Membership gives you access to all the courses so that you can move through them at the right speed for your skill level.

Join Christian Schools around the country and give your students the ability to communicate in a visual language, a skill that is useful for innovators and artists of all types.  Our curriculum makes it easy for your teachers to teach students how to draw realistically and to find the joy of creation.

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Foundations of Drawing

Begin with the most basic building blocks, the foundational principles of classical drawing. In this video series, Kevin takes you step by step and opens up the world of drawing.

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How to draw

Drawing From Life

Use common household objects to teach you how to find the Geometric Essence in everything you see. Listen to various lessons that teach you how light flows over form, and more.

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Still Life Drawing

Kevin covers composition, different lighting techniques, textures, and the dialogue between shapes. Learn how to pair different textures in order to “heighten” an object.

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Giotto Art History

Art History

Come listen to professional artist and speaker Kevin McEvoy discuss Giotto

“Blocking In A Face”

Anatomy Drawing

Anatomy Drawing of a Face. “Blocking In A Face”.

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Portrait Painting

A twenty hour portrait painting course, in which Kevin takes you step by step through the various stages of painting a portrait of his son Liam.

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Still Life Painting

How does light pass through a jar? How do you capture the heaviness of cast iron? What is the difference between titanium white and flake white? Over the course of a dozen hours, Kevin answers dozens of questions such as these, as he takes his still life painting from setting up the objects and designing the composition, to laying in the first few touches of turpentine rich paint. Each step is shown on the video, with thorough narration by Kevin as he paints. Join us, for a fascinating evolution of a beautiful still life painting.

Brightwaters in Autumn, Photographer unknown

Plein Air Pin Drop™- In Person Course

STARTS on New Dates to Be Announced! Spring is Almost Here 😉 IN PERSON -REQUIRES SEPARATE REGISTRATION, email info@mcevoyatelier.com to sign up
Paint outdoors in person, in Autumn, and in beautiful Brightwaters, Bayshore- join the October Plein Air Painting Course of the McEvoy Atelier. After an enjoyable season of painting on the southern canals of Bay Shore, we now move slightly north to Brightwaters, Long Island, on the beautiful series of lakes and bridges of this unique little town. This beautiful quiet community just west of downtown Bay Shore features many beautiful features to choose from. This location is near bathrooms, and is also near Bay Shore’s beautiful Main Street. Click the course for more information.

Classical Art Curriculum for Schools

Weekly Studio Art Classes Now Available

Studio Art Classes provide an opportunity for you to work alongside other artists on charcoal drawings, still life projects, or continuing projects you’ve been working on at home. Kevin McEvoy will be teaching the class, providing personal insight and direction on each artists piece.

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How to Oil Paint

Foundations of Painting

We desire to paint the world around us, but where do we begin? We begin with the most basic building blocks, the foundational principles of classical painting.

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Oil Painting How to

Painting From Life

Select some everyday objects from around your home, and join Kevin as he uses these common household objects to teach you how to paint in a realistic fashion. Starting in May.

Drawing From Your Imagination

Learn to draw not just what we can see, but what we can think of. By the end of this course you will design a multifigure composition of a medieval scene consisting of a knight, horse, dragon and castle.

Classical Fine Art Drawing & Painting Courses

We have classical art courses for beginner to advanced students. Each course is comprised of a series of lessons with step by step video instruction, art history references and application activities. Your Membership gives you access to all the courses so that you can move through them at the right speed for your skill level.

Kevin McEvoy

Kevin McEvoy

Having studied at the oldest active atelier in Europe for several years, and as the founder and director of a large atelier in New York, I have taught the classical atelier methods of drawing and painting for the past 12 years to students of all ages and abilities. I have learned to meet each student where they are, from absolute beginners to established professionals. I am very pleased to now offer online the full spectrum of what I myself have learned, as a professional artist. Offering scores of hours of video tutorials, students now have access to a complete and cohesive curriculum, ranging from beginner drawing to advanced drawing, from still life painting to portrait painting, from imaginative art to constructive anatomy, and much more. Really, this online art curriculum relays wherever my interest might lead (there's even an upcoming lesson in drawing the anatomy of insects, a favorite of younger students!) In addition to all of this, students will appreciate that there is always featured a comprehensive section on materials, so that students can source and purchase the optimal art supplies for each lesson. Passionate about drawing and painting, as a boy I sketched in the gentle rolling hills of Ireland, and as a teenager I studied Greek statuary at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. As a young man, I studied classical drawing and painting for several years in both South America, and in the oldest active atelier in Europe, the Charles Cecil Studios in Florence, Italy. I am now a professional artist painting and teaching in New York, and traveling internationally for my career. I enjoy painting people, still life subjects, landscapes, and interiors. For more information, visit my site: www.kevinmcevoy.com

What Our Students Have to Say

I've studied with Kevin for over five years. He has an amazing way of explaining things that i understand and am able to apply.
Atelier Art Student
Christina A.
From New York, USA
I love how Kevin teaches! When I started I loved ot draw but didn't know how to draw what I saw and now I am painting portraits.
Art Student
Melanie
From USA
Kevin is an incredibly gifted artist. His work shows his deep dedication to his craft. He is a brilliant mind, a caring person, and a rare talent. His art amazes me!
Robert Franco
VA
"When someone finds your soul and gives you the tools to explore it, you have found the ultimate teacher, philosopher and artist. Kevin is such a man. His approach to art is all encompassing: reaching into music, all periods of art, color, value... Then he proceeds to quietly give you all the necessary tools to allow you to change the blank slate of paper, that canvas and your mind into something rare and evolving."
Art Student
Kittie Davenport
North Carolina