Russian MFA-trained and operating since 2011, Point Loma's Okun Studio runs a Liberty Station art school from Barracks 15 at 2750 Historic Decatur Rd. Studio instruction centers on traditional European classical art — anatomy-first figure drawing, old-master color palettes, and academic cast-and-still-life work — a pedagogical track distinct from the contemporary drawing-and-discovery approach at Monart School of Art on adjacent Historic Decatur Rd. The instructor holds memberships in the California Art Club, American Portrait Society, American Impressionist Society, and Plein Air Painters of San Diego, affiliations that anchor the studio's stylistic lineage in formal portraiture and alla prima landscape traditions. Weekend live-model drawing and painting sessions fill the studio calendar for artists at all levels, complementing the fine-art degree-track programming at San Diego Art Academy and giving practicing artists a consistent figure-study workshop. The deepest instructional arc moves advanced students through a multi-session portrait commission sequence — from initial charcoal block-in and tonal underpainting through glazing, flesh-tone color mixing, and final varnish — producing a framed oil portrait that demonstrates full academic methodology.