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Andrea
- Rate $81
- Response 16h
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Number of students Andrea has accompanied since arriving at Superprof
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$81/hr
1st lesson free
- Art and Design
Professional Painting & Drawing Mentorship | BFA-Trained Working Artist & Experienced College Instructor offering private instruction for serious students who want to develop real skill, strengthen
- Art and Design
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Recommended
Andrea is a respected tutor in our community. She is highly recommended for her commitment and the quality of her lessons. An excellent choice to progress with confidence.
About Andrea
I offer private instruction for serious students who want to develop real skill, strengthen their artistic decision-making, and build a more confident and individual painting practice.
I am a professional working artist and experienced art educator with a BFA in Painting and Drawing from Concordia University. I spent approximately eight years teaching at the college and professional-development level, including several years leading a full-time 3D art program, and I now teach painting, drawing, colour, composition and visual development through workshops, private instruction and mentorship.
My own professional practice includes commissioned painting, live event/ wedding painting, landscape and figurative work, corporate art projects and educational programming. I also mentor emerging artists through Mastrius and teach in person at Luminous Elephant in the Vancouver area.
About the lesson
- All Levels
- English
All languages in which the lesson is available :
English
What I teach
Private lessons are customized to the individual artist rather than following a generic step-by-step project.
- Depending on your goals, we can work on:
- Drawing and observational skills
- Acrylic, watercolor and oil painting
- Value structure and designing light
- Colour mixing and colour temperature
- Composition and focal hierarchy
- Simplification versus detail
- Creating form without over-rendering
- Developing stronger paintings from photographic reference
- Landscape, portrait, wildlife and figurative work
Moving beyond copying reference toward intentional artistic choices
- Developing your individual visual voice
- Critiquing and improving existing work
- Planning more ambitious personal projects or a cohesive body of work
My teaching is especially focused on helping artists understand why a painting works, not simply giving you a sequence of instructions to reproduce one image.
I bring both a traditional fine-art background and years of professional visual-development experience to my teaching. My approach combines strong fundamentals with practical design thinking: value, shape, colour, hierarchy, simplification and intentional decision-making.
Who my private lessons are for
These sessions are best suited to motivated adult or older teen students who genuinely want to improve and are willing to practise between lessons.
You do not need to be advanced. A committed beginner is very welcome.
However, my private teaching is intended for students looking for structured skill development and mentorship rather than casual one-off recreational classes.
Lessons can be particularly valuable for:
- Emerging artists who feel they have plateaued
- Self-taught painters who want stronger fundamentals
- Artists struggling to translate a reference into a successful painting
- Students who know how to render but want stronger composition and design
- Artists trying to loosen up or simplify their work
- Intermediate painters beginning to develop a recognisable artistic voice
- Portfolio building to enter into higher educational arts programs
Your first meeting
Superprof requires an introductory session for new tutors on the platform.
I use this as a 30-minute consultation rather than a full complimentary lesson.
We will look at your current work, discuss your experience and goals, identify the areas that will make the biggest difference to your development, and determine whether my teaching approach is a good fit for you.
If we decide to continue, I will recommend a direction for your private lessons based on what I see.
Private lesson rate
$65 CAD/hour
Because my private teaching is highly individualised, I keep the number of private students I work with limited.
Students looking for a different learning format are also welcome to study with me through my Mastrius.com mentorship programs which run the first Thursday of every month at 5pm, or attend my in-person classes and workshops at Luminous Elephant (luminousstudio.com).
Recommendations
Recommendations come from relatives, friends and acquaintances of the teacher
J’ai eu Andrea comme professeure en 2016 dans le cadre du programme de Modélisation 3D orienté jeux vidéo au Campus ADN. Le programme était exigeant et intensif, mais ce fût une de mes plus belles expériences. Je garderai toujours un très bon souvenir de Andrea pour plusieurs raisons. C’était une professeure très polyvalente qui avait beaucoup d’expériences et de talents. C’est une professionnelle qui est très engagée et passionnée par les arts (danse, peinture, dessin, etc.) et par son travail (enseignement, rendu 3D/architecture). Même si elle nous enseignait la modélisation 3D, elle pouvait très bien nous aider dans d’autres domaines (ex. dessins, textures, couleurs, etc.). Lorsque nous avions besoin de temps et d’aide, elle était toujours présente. Même si en 2016, elle n’avait pas beaucoup d’expériences comme professeure, elle expliquait très bien la matière et nous donnait beaucoup de ressources pour comprendre les choses. Dans des moments difficiles, elle est très compréhensive et raisonnable en nous donnant une 2e chance. En classe, elle était toujours souriante et patiente, malgré toutes les difficultés du milieu (délai très court, plusieurs cours, etc.). Elle avait une bonne énergie et c’était fun de l’avoir comme enseignante.
Je me considère très chanceux de l’avoir eu comme professeure et je n’hésiterai pas prendre d’autres formations avec elle. Comme instructrice ou comme professeure, je vous la recommande fortement et sans hésitation.
YanninAndrea is one of the best teacher you can find. She is always there to help you and she is really patient. I owe her my 3D diploma because she believed in me and she found the time to push me over my limit to succeed. Andrea is a passionate person who will show you that you can do anything if you put your heart into your work. I highly recommend her as a teacher.
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Rates
Rate
- $81
Pack prices
- 5h: $407
- 10h: $813
free lessons
The first lesson with Andrea will allow you to get to know each other and discuss your needs for future lessons.
- 30mins
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- $81/h
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