Drawing / Painting Classes for Children & Adults in Paris

Pauline Fraisse Art & Culture, Paris:
Pauline Fraisse Art & Culture is an art school in Paris city center that provides customized drawing and painting classes to young children & teenagers (3 to 17 years old), adults and tourists. Available in summer and year-round, mediums taught include drawing with colored pens and pencil/ ink, sketching with pencil, watercolor painting, acrylic painting and mixed media; oil painting, and more. Classes are taught in English and / or French.

Courses take place in our studio in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, a chic and refined neighborhood on the Left Bank (South Side) of the River Seine, near to the Eiffel Tower. It is also conveniently close to the metro stations Ecole Militaire and La Tour-Maubourg (Métro Line 8).

Customized Art Classes for Children & Teens:
- Groups of children, ages 4-17
- Basic supplies are included. For long term courses, it is recommended to buy a "Canson XL" sketchpad, size A4.
- Classes cover subjects and themes that include architecture, figures, imaginary characters, animals, Paris or other cities, real and imaginary landscape, and more.
- We also provide private / customized art lessons for families.

Pauline Fraisse is a Parisian artist who has been teaching live drawing, mixed media and acrylic painting to adults and children since 2010. As a painter and writer, part of the French “Travel sketchbook” trend, she enjoys anything related to telling stories, combining words and images.

Having taught a great number of adults, young adults and children, in China and in France, she adapts her teaching to each student. Children learn how to express their ideas in a visual way, developing drawing and painting skills, and using their imagination.

They can also start their own art-journal, becoming future “travel-sketchbookers” or illustrators, with Pauline who is the author of sketchbooks about Yunnan, Tibet and South-East Asia (Autour du Yunnan, Reflets d’Ailleurs publishers, 2009), and had her work exhibited by the French Museum of Postal Services (Musée de la Poste) during its six months exhibition on travel sketchbooks in 2010.

• "From the age of 10 years old, my daughter has spent 4 years having weekly art classes with Pauline - a gauge of quality in itself ! The classes are always with very small groups ensuring optimum conditions in which to work.

Pauline is not only very talented, but kind and patient with her younger pupils and allowing them to develop their own personal ideas (of which my daughter has many!), whilst also pointing them in the right direction from a technical and artistic point of view. I highly recommend Pauline's art classes!"
- Judy

• "When I asked each of our children about what they enjoyed most on the 7 weeks in Europe, Hannah thought before saying "sketching, in the studio and especially in the Louvre".

You topped Disneyland Pauline, well done!..Thank you for your helpful, gentle guidance. It has been inspirational and the source of happy memories. Some time I will email you a few images of how we have progressed!" 
- Diana, Adelaide• "Pauline has been the best drawing instructor I have had in my 30 years of drawing. She is great at taking every student at their skill level and working with them.

Pauline is very clear with her instructions and takes us to great places to draw. Of course we often stop at a cafe for coffee. She made my experience in Paris unforgettable and I am hoping to return next fall to take more instruction from her. Thank you."
- Patty
• "Pauline is lovely and fresh and efficient. I learnt so much from her, in such a short time, and in such a fun and interesting way. I felt inspired for weeks in a row by what I learnt from her."
- Anna