Nannanxi Art Studio is a children's art school at 465 Mount Eden Road, Mount Eden, with a bilingual Chinese and English name. Its founders include people from the team behind the Lilei and Hanmeimei characters, and the studio says it has grown to six studios across Auckland. Classes are for children aged three to fifteen, and the Mount Eden studio is one of the group's sites, with others in Albany, Henderson, Flat Bush, Avondale and Browns Bay. The programme is graded from early picture-book drawing and water-based play through to primary-age lessons in coloured pencils, acrylics and watercolour, and on to still life, landscape and figure work for students with basic drawing skills. A separate sketching class prepares children for the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts sketching exams. There are also holiday programmes and an online class for children outside Auckland. The studio says the focus is on the child's creativity rather than perfection. Our pick in Mount Eden for a child who wants to draw seriously from an early age.