Beaux-arts de Paris

New Amateurs Academy (NABA)

Intensive courses

NABA, the Nouvelle Académie des Amateurs, offers courses for beginners and experienced artists alike, enabling everyone to experiment with their creative senses in a way that suits their personalities and sensibilities. Come and improve your skills in life drawing, morphological studies, acrylic and oil painting, or discover a new discipline: silver photography, ceramics, etc.

April 2025 courses from 14 April to 18 April and from 22 April to 25 April, registration underway.
One-week intensive courses, 5 hours a day from Monday to Friday, 10am to 4pm.

For further information: Email: naba@beauxartsparis.fr Telephone: 0147035057

(For the 2025 summer courses, registrations will open at the end of April for 3 sessions from 30 June to 04 July, from 07 to 11 and from 15 to 18 July.)

Live Model Drawing – Easter 2025

Focusing on the live model, this course provides an opportunity to learn the basics of drawing and to develop personal artistic work.

475 €

  • Tuesday to Friday, 10am to 5pm - 1h break for lunch
  • + 16 years / all levels
    • Maryline Genest
  • Beaux-Arts de Paris (Saint-Germain)
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Modelling from a live model – Saint-Ouen

Returning to the basics of figurative sculpture, the aim of this course is to learn how to sculpt a volume in clay from the observation of a live model.

650€

  • Tuesday to Friday, 10am to 5pm - 1h break for lunch
  • +16 years / all levels
    • Hugo Guérin
  • Beaux-Arts de Paris (Saint-Ouen)
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Drawing plants – Easter 2025

 
This course will give you the keys to observing the forms of living things in order to grasp the morphology of plants. From botany to ornamental motifs in the decorative arts, we will look at various iconographic sources to show ‘plants’ in all their drawn forms.

475 €

  • Tuesday to Friday, 10am to 5pm - 1h break for lunch
  • +16 years / all levels
    • Chloé Vanderstraeten
  • Beaux-Arts de Paris (Saint-Germain)
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Drawing, from portrait to self-portrait – Easter 2025

Support participants by providing them with a solid grounding in technical drawing and useful ideas for their personal and artistic development, using portraiture and its variations as the subject.

475 €

  • Tuesday to Friday from 10am to 5pm - 1h break for lunch
  • +16 years / all levels
    • Solène Rigou
  • Beaux-Arts de Paris (Saint-Germain)
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Live model painting, oil and acrylic – Easter 2025

This course, centred on the live model, enables students to acquire a rigorous grounding in oil or acrylic painting, and then gradually develop a personal body of work.

475 €

  • Tuesday to Friday, 10am to 5pm - 1h break for lunch
  • + 16 years / all levels
    • François Mendras
  • Beaux-Arts de Paris (Saint-Germain)
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Photographic emulsions: The Cyanotype – Easter 2025

The aim of this course is to create offbeat, funny or poetic images through experimentation with photographs, drawing and objects.

390 €

  • Wednesday to Friday, 10am to 4pm - 1h lunch break
  • +16 years / all levels
    • Mélissa Boucher
  • Beaux-Arts de Paris (Saint-Germain)
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TEENS – Painting space – Easter 2025

Learn to paint still lifes, perspective and bodies.

320 €

  • Tuesday to Friday, 10am to 5pm - 1h lunch break
  • Ages 13-16
    • Elina Huneman
  • Beaux-Arts de Paris (Saint-Germain)
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