FOUR COURSES TO BRING FRESH ENERGY INTO YOUR ART PRACTICE WITH NEW TOOLS, TECHNIQUES, AND IDEAS.

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1. Drawing Nature

This course is designed to help you jump into drawing and painting nature. You will learn some simple techniques to help you make quick and accurate drawings. You’ll find out about different materials: pencils, pens, pencil crayons, and watercolour, to bring your drawings to life.

Plants, shells, bones, feathers, stones, trees and clouds—they can all be captured in quick sketches.

Not only is drawing a wonderful way to be “in the moment” but a vivid record of travels, hikes, or even home. 

Three sessions of 1 hour live online demos, notes on materials and techniques, and ideas for developing your drawing and painting practice.

Capture the moment in your own illustrated journal

2. Precious Memories-Keeping and Illustrated Journal

Learn about paper, pens, and coloured media as well as great techniques for drawing quickly and accurately. Explore drawing plants, people, and scenes, paint watercolour skies, and learn about telling a story on your journal page.

Set your acrylic, mixed media paintings free

with two short fun courses, first offered as Play Dates. I have gathered the three downloadable videos and augmented with notes, to give you the chance to work through ideas and fundamentals like colour, value, surface, and composition, at your own pace.

3. Rich Surfaces—Strong Images

Where we: find surprising palettes around us, make beautiful harmonious mixes, create rich surfaces with mark making, printings, transferring, resist, and glazing.

Images emerge with painting out (negative painting) and are developed with glazing, collage, and creating connections in the composition.

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4. Joyful Plant Abstractions

Where we: start with loose contour drawings of our favourite plants, add mark making, pattern, and dark value, and create lively paintings in a limited palette, enriched with glazing, printing, painting out, and collage.

Each course includes over 2 hours of videos and downloadable PDF’s filled with everything you need to know about mindset, materials, tools, and techniques.