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Oil Painting Class

Learn Oil Painting at Elena Chestnykh's art studio in Brooklyn!

Elena Chestnykh

5.0 (103)

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3 hours

Brooklyn

1 to 6 (public classes), 1 to 30 (private) (private classes)

$100 - $130 ($130 per guest when you book for 1 guest, $125/guest for 2 guests, $120/guest for 3 guests, $115/guest for 4+ guests, $100/guest for 6+ guests)

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What you'll do

Whether you're looking to refine your technique or start a new hobby, enjoy an educational and engaging Oil Painting lesson in NYC! Learn the art of oil painting from the comfort of your instructor's art studio in Brooklyn!

Your instructor will suggest a variety of painting ideas, giving you plenty of options to choose from. You’re also welcome to bring your own ideas to life. Many guests opt to paint portraits of each other, favorite New York spots, their pets, or just things they love. Whatever you choose, your instructor will be there to guide you.

During a 3-hour lesson, you will learn about composition, color, and tonal relationships, how to mix colors and paint with a palette knife in an impressionistic style. You can follow the teacher’s instructions step-by-step or trust your intuition and eyes, either way, you will have a fantastic time and leave with a unique masterpiece of your own!

All levels are welcome! Whether you’re a beginner or looking to enhance your skills, you'll enjoy a private or semi-private oil painting lesson where you can receive individual guidance.

Drinks, snacks, and art supplies are included in your lesson! All you need to do is come ready to learn, explore art, and enjoy a hands-on painting class.

Prefer to paint at your own location? Your instructor can also bring the class to you! Whether you're planning a birthday, bachelorette party, corporate team-building event, or simply a creative get-together with friends and family, your instructor can bring the painting experience to your home, office, or event space. All art materials are provided, so you can simply gather your group, enjoy the experience, and create something together.

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Times are New York time. Dates and prices as of 14 Nov 2026, 6:37pm; availability and price are confirmed live when booking on this page.

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What you'll get

3-hour oil painting class at a professional artist's studio
Hands-on guidance from a professional artist
Your handmade oil painting to take home
A unique, relaxing artistic experience
All art supplies are included

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Recent reviews of Oil Painting Class

5/5 from Sandra Maesta Pereira, attended Sep 2026: Teacher was amazing! Super well prepared and gave helpful individual help even though we were such a large group. Highly recommend!
5/5 from Lael Manalo, attended Sep 2026: We had a great time with Elena! She is truly a professional. We are both beginners with minimal experience using oil paints or palette knives as a medium. We were able to paint what we wanted from our own photos and Elena even helped us with sizing and putting our photo on a grid. She shows you some methods to apply paint and mix color but you have an opportunity to explore and experiment on your own. You will be surprised what you can make with Elena as a guide. It was nice to be able to feel it out but still have her there for guidance. This class is a great way to try oil painting!
5/5 from Sailor Kuzmina, attended Aug 2026: Amazing instructions and welcoming atmosphere! Was an amazing time and would 100% recommend to anyone
5/5 from Laila Ram, attended Aug 2026: This is my second class with Elena— she is a gifted artist and an even better teacher. I highly recommend this class!
5/5 from Ashley Mensch, attended Aug 2026: It was great! Elena is very knowledgeable and super talented! Really happy I took this class!
5/5 from Dana Alonso, attended Jun 2026: Elena was fabulous! We loved not only the oil painting but the enriching cultural experience as well. Highly recommend
5/5 from Galina Perel, attended May 2026: I had a wonderful experience in this oil painting class. Yelena was incredibly helpful, supportive, and encouraging throughout the entire process. She provided clear guidance and helpful techniques that made painting feel approachable and enjoyable. With her support, I was able to complete a beautiful botanical gardens painting that I’m truly proud of. The class was both relaxing and inspiring, and I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in learning or improving their painting skills.
5/5 from Lexie Kelly, attended Apr 2026: Really enjoyed the experience
5/5 from Yael Bushoy, attended Apr 2026: Amazing. Highly recommend this class!
5/5 from Kika Oldakowski, attended Mar 2026: Great oil painting class, definitely more based on your intuition and go with the flow than guided but help was available!
5/5 from Daniel Modica, attended Feb 2026: I loved how Elena was able to adjust the levels of help she offered based on our experience levels. I had never worked with oil paint and have not done art outside of mandatory high school art classes while my partner had more art experience. We both left with artwork we felt proud of and are able to hang in our apartment. Elena also provided boxes for transporting our artwork via the subway. I would recommend this as a fun date night for couples, something new to do with a small friend group, or a solo activity to try new things.
5/5 from Ari Abrams, attended Feb 2026: Our teacher (Elena) was very nice and accomodating. We really enjoyed the class. It was our very first time, but we were able to paint a pretty decent painting. Great experience.
5/5 from Christine Suszko, attended Jan 2026: With a calm, encouraging and clear instructions, Elena helped me and my daughter learn some basics of oil painting technique. I recommend this private class for the special one-on-one attention and also as a memorable bonding experience for friends, mother -daughter, etc.. A special and intimate experience.
5/5 from Lisa Law, attended Jan 2026: Great for improving one’s painting skills!
5/5 from Ann Hannah, attended Dec 2025: Really enjoyed this class and Elena was a brilliant teacher. Would recommend! Very easy to redeem the gift card. Great present.
5/5 from Kaylia Dykstra, attended Nov 2025: This experience was worth it 100% Elena was very knowledgeable and is amazing at what she does.
5/5 from Anna Langbert, attended Nov 2025: I had such a wonderful time in this class! I had never done oil painting before this and I am so proud of what I made. The instructor was great and super helpful! Would definitely take this class again.
5/5 from Bram McGinnis, attended Nov 2025: Couldn't be happier with our oil painting class w/ Elena. She was calm, cool, collected, very knowledgeable, gentle and helpful. Neither of us has any experience with painting and we never felt as if we were out of our element or trying to do things without guidance. Elena allowed us to choose whatever wanted to paint and gave us a very helpful rundown of the main elements of a painting, most important the contrast between light and shadow. She encouraged us to go deeper into detail as we became more comfortable with the medium and tailored her style to fit the kind of teaching we each responded to. The result was an incredibly calm and relaxing 2.5 hours after which we took home 3 paintings (I finished one early and Elena encouraged me to do another). Thank you, Elena, for such a wonderful experience!
5/5 from Anamaria Ferferi, attended Oct 2025: Wonderful class, our teacher was so helpful and friendly, would definitely come back for more classes. I was surprised at what I was able to complete in just 3 hours! Truly a credit to Elena’s skills as a painter and teacher
5/5 from Rinat Atiya, attended Sep 2025: Perfect, professional, nice, kind teacher, I enjoyed every moment. I will come for more lessons.
5/5 from Cheryl Haines, attended Sep 2025: Elena is a kind and helpful teacher, and a very talented artist. I really enjoyed taking her class!
5/5 from Naika Bellande, attended Sep 2025: Elena was awesome! I wasn’t too confident and a little bit nervous. I came in to paint my angel. She was super patient with me. My painting came out even better than what I expected. It was an emotional experience for me and just rewarding overall. I will totally come back again and paint with Elena.
5/5 from Abhy Vytheeswaran, attended Aug 2025: My favorite painting I've ever done - I love looking at it! Elena is very kind, helpful, and talented. She taught me the importance of certain lines for detail and perspective, to paint objects closer to the foreground thicker, and how different objects should have different textures. Elena would help me paint when I felt stuck or overwhelmed. I had access to plenty of paints, ample brushes and palette knives, and the choice between painting on paper vs canvas. I'll definitely be back
5/5 from Mikhail Arkhipov, attended Jul 2025: Came here with my mom for an oil painting class. It was my first time Oil Painting and Elena was fantastic. She is very talented and knowledgeable, and offered very good instruction for us to get the most out of our time. I did not think it would be possible, but in 3 hours we finished our paintings to a level that surpassed out expectations. I cannot wait to hang up my picture and show it off.
5/5 from Nina Vascotto, attended Jun 2025: Such a helpful way to get back into painting! Wonderful teacher.
5/5 from Agathe Balayn, attended May 2025: I really enjoyed the oil painting class! Although I didn't have much prior experience with the technique, I managed to paint something I was very happy with. This is thanks to Elena! Elena let us choose the reference picture we wanted to paint from, and provided great advice all along the class to get to a successful painting. I was surprised with what each student could achieve in only 3 hours!
5/5 from Maurice Keyes, attended May 2025: Elena was a great instructor for myself and my partner during our first oil painting experience. Elena’s was excellent in her approach, she had a great balance of guidance while letting us take ownership of our art. Before the class we were not sure if we’d be able to paint something we’d like but we left extremely happy with the result of our pieces. We also feel we have a great basic foundation to grow from. We would love to take another class with Elena!
5/5 from Anthony Mejias, attended May 2025: Had a wonderful time getting my artist mojo on...not the best but enjoyed spending the afternoon with my husband and brother.
5/5 from Nyoka Joseph, attended Apr 2025: Elena is a great teacher. My friend and I took this class with no experience painting with oil paint. She gave us a good overview of technique and where to start and encouraged us to paint. We were both pleasantly surprised by the results and would 100% take this class again.
4/5 from Criselda Sy, attended Apr 2025: 4.5. Fun class and Elena helped us along the way to make sure we actually have something at the end of the session. Would be great to have more concrete guidance during some parts. overall would go again
4/5 from Toby Brown, attended Apr 2025: Good experience. Given the time available and the fact that everyone is allowed to do different styles it does make the level of pure teaching less - might not be suitable for people looking for more structured approach.
5/5 from Jennifer Dunn, attended Mar 2025: Had a good time! Was very knowledgeable about the subject.
5/5 from Vicky Rybnick, attended Mar 2025: Elena is a great teacher! We were both complete beginners but she walked us through all of the steps we needed to mix colors, use the palette knife and brush correctly, and start painting our chosen photos. She had a lot of great images to work with if we didn't have one ready. She gave us space to experiment and make some mistakes with the process, but stepped in when we were having a hard time finding the right color or technique. I highly recommend this class, or any of Elena's other class offerings!
5/5 from Esha Bhatia, attended Mar 2025: Elena was lovely! We were both beginners new to oil painting, and she did a wonderful job of balancing teaching us and giving great guidance with encouraging us to explore and try our ideas out ourselves! We had an amazing time :)
5/5 from Dylan Webster, attended Mar 2025: Took my family here as a Christmas gift and ever had a great time. Instructor provided everything which was awesome and generous. You’re 100% getting your moneys worth! You can bring a picture you’d like to paint or they have plenty to select from! 12/10 recommended
5/5 from Caroline Stolfi, attended Feb 2025: Had such an amazing experience in this class! As someone who has never taken an art class as an adult, or done oil painting, I was so impressed with my final product! Elena was very helpful, patient and kind. Will be coming back!
5/5 from Anton Louthan, attended Feb 2025: Absolutley fantastic experience with Elena. I had 0 experience working with oil paints and Elena patiently guided and instructed me throughout the process. Was thrilled with the end result and had a wonderful time learning to paint!
5/5 from Dean Klimek, attended Jan 2025: This was a Christmas present for my girlfriend. We learned so much about Oil Painting and Elena was a phenomenal teacher. She truly excelled with helping everyone in the class on their own specific painting. I would highly recommend this class to anyone who wants to get into oil painting or to just have a great time!
5/5 from Alexandra Goldy, attended Jan 2025: So much fun in a special/cozy studio space! Will definitely come back
5/5 from Caralie Chrisco, attended Jan 2025: It was a great experience with Elena!
5/5 from Claire Wolinsky, attended Dec 2024: Fun experience. Elena was super friendly and kind
5/5 from Mel Moore, attended Dec 2024: Elena was so inspirational, and taught with patience and intuition. Would definitely recommend!!!
5/5 from Kristina Creadore, attended Nov 2024: We loved this class! We did this for our one year wedding anniversary and it was so much fun. Making the reservation was very easy and Elena was SO helpful during the class. We were amazed how well our paintings turned out and are excited to frame them to hang in our home as sentimental artwork. The class was a great value for the price!
5/5 from Nanhua Yang, attended Nov 2024: The class was fantastic! Love the teacher, so warm and patient. During the whole process she will constantly checking on our progress. Only 4 people in the small class so everybody got a lot of attentions. And the final results are great as well. She will answer every question we have and not in hurry even we are using more than the time supposed to be. Must try if you are interested in oil painting.
5/5 from Cyril Scovens Ii, attended Oct 2024: Elena was an amazing instructor very kind and patient. I purchased this class as an anniversary gift to my girlfriend and I. Everything was provided from the smock to the painting utensils. You learn how to sketch from a reference photo, how to mix paint to make colors lighter or darker, and of course how to paint using oil based paint. Elena was a hands on instructor not shying away from helping you with areas you might have trouble with. This class is definitely worth the price, Elena also said she does a watercolor and drawing class! Overall, I would recommend this class to anyone interested in learning how to paint or just wanting to try something in the city.
5/5 from Jose Francisco Merino Zerna, attended Sep 2024: The occasion was for a birthday. The teacher was very helpful and gave a lot of pointers for beginners like us. The venue was nice and with all the right tooling. She had all the paints we needed. We learned the different ways to shade while using oil paintings. The class was the definitely worth it. We really liked the way the paintings came out.
5/5 from Leila Foulon, attended Sep 2024: Elena was awesome! Really helpful and sweet. Would recommend this class for any special event.
5/5 from Paul Monasterio, attended Sep 2024: My wife and I had a great time painting with Elena. We are both beginners but she guided us to a painting we were proud of. We recommend her and look forward to another one of her classes in the future.
5/5 from Colleen Lee, attended Sep 2024: I really enjoyed Elena’s oil painting class! It was in a lovely, clean studio space with endless supplies and paints that Elena made sure to replenish when needed. She was very attentive and helpful, answering any and all questions I had. This class was definitely good value for money, highly recommend!
5/5 from Mikhail Aronov, attended Jul 2024: Wonderful class! I came in as an absolute beginner and learned a lot about how to approach painting in general, and how to work with oil paints specifically. Elena was attentive, helpful, and encouraging. I can't wait to go back for another lesson. Highly recommend!

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Elena Chestnykh

5.0 (103)

Women-owned

I am a professional exhibiting Artist and Art Teacher in drawing and painting with extensive experience. I am offering private art lessons at my studio in Brooklyn.

I can teach you the basics of painting and drawing and help you complete a personal project, incite inspiration if you are stuck, or build up your skill set as you explore new media. I will show you various techniques and give you feedback on your work. Private sessions are also perfect for teens looking to progress into a visual arts career and apply to college. I can help you build a unique portfolio of work.

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