Painting Birds: Flight & Stillness
6 Week Class | Registration opens 2026-02-10 12:00 PM
This course focuses on painting birds as expressive subjects, exploring both movement and stillness. Students will study bird anatomy, gesture, and feather texture while learning how to build strong compositions through brushwork techniques, colour mixing, and capturing rhythm and motion. Birds are approached not only as natural forms but also as symbolic and emotional subjects, whether placed within a landscape or presented in an isolated composition.
Base Tuition: $338 + Material Fee: $7 = Total: $345
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- What You Will Learn
- Understanding bird anatomy, structure, and proportion
- Gesture drawing techniques for capturing movement and flight
- Painting still birds with a sense of life, balance, and presence
- Depicting feather textures, colour patterns, and light reflection
- Expressive brushwork and selective abstraction in animal painting
Leila Refahi
Leila is an experienced art teacher and researcher with a demonstrated history of working in Visual Art. She has taught painting and drawing in different art schools and universities in Canada, Finland, Germany and Iran since 2011. Leila works with painting, installation and digital media to create participatory art experiences. Her work mainly focuses on environmental issues, climate change and endangered animals. She is interested in socially engaged art and its impact on raising and transforming environmental knowledge in communities. She has presented six solo exhibitions and participated in over 60 national & international group exhibitions and festivals.