© 2026 francisco Braga

drawing classes

on learning how to draw


The first set of classes started in 2023 as a pilot-project pitched to Nasjonalmuseet’s educational department, after which they became official in the museum’s program for every last saturday of the month. In addition to these monthly drop-in classes, other concepts were also explored in two of Oslo’s Culture Nights and two of the museum’s Halloween Nights.

After three years, the project is exploring other artists’ approaches to experimental drawing & creative processes. In turn, the experience attained here has already taken shape in other similar workshop formats in Portugal (do Mar), Humlebæk (TBA) and Berlin (Forecast Platform).

The pedagogical approach focused on unlearning habits that can hinder a healthy and sustainable learning process, by balancing one’s self-criticism through an unconditional acceptance of “mistakes”. 

These are some of the students’ results at the National Museum of Norway:




spring 2024



class 8 _ 25/05


class 7 _ 27/04



class 6 _ 24/02





class 5 _ 27/01








Drawing task cards

used complementary with the tasks in class,
or by independently by the user







Oslo Culture Night 2023

session at the Nasjonalmuseet with a nude model




autumn 2023



class 4 _ 25/11







class 3 _ 28/10






class 2 _ 30/09



class 1 _ 26/08





pilot-project stage



10/06




18/03