Learn Persian miniature painting from the first line to a finished work, at your own pace, with feedback on every exercise.
Qajar Miniature
A serious route into Persian miniature painting — from the first line to showing and selling your work.
Taught from real manuscripts and schools, not second-hand interpretations.
From holding the brush to a finished miniature, with no stage skipped.
You send each exercise and the instructor answers seriously, not politely.
Your work is exhibited and offered for sale here.
Seyedeh Neda Seyed-Ashrafi
Neda Seyed-Ashrafi is a painter working in traditional Persian miniature, gol-o-morgh and contemporary miniature, and the founder and director of the Khorshid gallery.
Craft and Technique
Art History
Craft and Technique
Art History
Craft and Technique
Art HistoryFor two years I looked for an in-person class and found none. I started here from zero, and my first miniature is now framed on the wall.
Negin SharifiThe pigment-making section is something I found nowhere else. Understanding where colour comes from changed how I work.
Amirhossein GhanbariThe feedback on exercises is serious, not polite noise. That is exactly what I needed to improve.
Maryam TavakkoliThe illumination course began with a compass, which surprised me at first. Then I understood why.
Saeed MoradiThe Khorshid atelier
Persian miniature painting is not learned from a book. It is learned sitting beside someone who knows the brush. What happens in this atelier is the old relationship between master and apprentice — the same patience, the same repetition, the same care a single illuminated leaf demands.
Seyedeh Neda Seyed-Ashrafi
An artist working in traditional miniature painting, gol-o-morgh and contemporary negargari, and the founder of the Khorshid atelier. Years of steady work at the light table with a sable brush, and students who now sell their own work and hold their own exhibitions. Meet the masters of this atelier and read what each of them has done.
Meet the mastersGood work deserves to be seen. Selected pieces by students who came out of these very classes — from a first tashir to a panel hung in a group exhibition — are on a wall of their own.
Students' work
