Experienced tutor in Drawing in New York, Jessica offers private lessons tailored to your needs.

My 12 year old daughter loved working with Jessica for almost 2 years before everything shut down in March 2020. They started with the basics and progressed from there. Jessica is caring, flexible and patient, which were essential with our daughter. Every once in a while they worked on a non-drawing project as well - painting and were in the beginning stages of a diorama. We miss you Jessica!

Jessica is an incredible teacher, and without parallel! I started working with Jessica in order to learn several drawing techniques and she helped me master all of them. Each class was highly professional and individualized. I admire her knowledge and understanding of the art, but above all her passion to share it with her students. She kept me focused and motivated and it is encouraging to see how much progress I made in such a short period of time. She is exceptional!

Jessica is a GREAT drawing teacher! My two daughters aged 7 and 9 had lessons with Jessica for about six months while we were living in New York and she did such an excellent job of catering to their very different personalities and preferred learning styles. She is so patient and calm. She taught them various techniques, including how to work with charcoal, and they both improved so much in such a short time. My kids really looked forward to their lesson every time, and carried on with their projects when the lesson is over. I highly recommend her!

Jessica has been so great with helping me in my drawing and shading skills. She is incredibly patient and helps without being overwhelming. I recently drew a pair of hands with her and my parents and I were very impressed with the progress that I have made with her help :)

Jessica is an amazing teacher and has really helped me blossom as a budding artist. She is patient, friendly and knowledgeable. 10/10 would recommend her!

Jessica Maffia is an amazing artist and an incredibly generous teacher. She is supportive, inventive, deeply knowledgeable and highly professional. She instills confidence in her students, along with a deep pleasure in the process. Jessica works beautifully with students of every age, from 6 to 60+(like me!), and helps us all discover the joy of our own creativity. She is an endless well of inspiration, and the extraordinary results she gets from her students is a testament to that fact. I cannot recommend her highly enough as a teacher or praise her highly enough as an artist and a person.

Jessica Maffia is a highly acclaimed artist, a master of her craft, and a devoted and well respected teacher. As an artist, and also as a teacher, she holds both herself and her students to a very high standard, but her approach is unfailing gentle, supportive and kind. She is a model of patience - she loves working with people - and her calm and gentle demeanor allows her students to get better line by line by line. She makes drawing fun and turns learning into a pleasure. I can't imagine a finer teacher than Ms. Maffia, and I am happy to recommend her without reservation.

Jessica was absolutely amazing with my daughter. She was so engaged and really kept her motivated and focused. Can't recommend her more highly.

Jessica is extremely attentive, professional, kind, and unbelievably talented! She is always willing to answer all my questions and has such a calm demeanor. I'm very new to learning drawing and she has really helped me with both my drawing skills and my confidence. I would HIGHLY recommend her to students of all ages and with varying levels of abilities!!

Jessica taught me and my 4 year old son drawing. She is super friendly, patient, adaptable and we both learned so much in the first lesson! Highly recommend her.

Jessica is the most inspiring and nurturing instructor, of any discipline, i have ever had. she is incredibly patient while also being rigorous and deeply engaged. i learned more than i thought was possible both by her pedagogical style and her many gifts of modeling skilled creative commitment and devotion. I recommend her MOST highly and know anyone who studies with Jessica will be duly rewarded while improving their craft. I will surely return to study with Jessica again.

Jessica is a gem- enthusiastic, patient, imaginative and a highly skilled artist and teacher, able to effectively communicate in a tangible way where I could see my growth as a result of being her student. I cannot more highly recommend working with Jessica.