Unlock your creative potential. Creating beautiful realistic paintings is a skill and way of thinking, that you can achieve faster than you think.
We’ve all seen paintings so vibrant and realistic that they jump off the page. Some artists seem to have a special gift that allows them to make paintings that take your breath away. They seem to make every stroke count.
Have you felt you’d love to achieve this but don’t know where to start? Not having success matching what you imagine with what you actually paint? Have you purchased expensive art supplies but still don’t get the result you are after?
True enough powerful paintings are not easy to achieve. What if I told you that creating paintings with impact is not an innate gift but a learnable skill?
I’ve created this course to build your confidence. The confidence to know how you can create stunning paintings.
It’s an online course with one year access you can watch whenever you want. You can ask me questions when you want some feedback.
Give you confidence in painting.
Help you build creativity into your life.
Teach you a model for painting that will allow you to paint and still get on with the rest of your life.
Help you accurately mix the colours you see.
Teach you valuable techniques you can use to tackle any painting subject.
Let you learn at your own pace.
We use nature - specifically Australian native plants, to help us learn about colour and to create 6 realistic paintings. The tools you will learn can be applied to any subject. The course includes full step by step video instruction, reference photos.
I want to inspire you to realise your dreams. How to Paint with Acrylics is a 7 module online course. The first module is the Orientation. When you enrol you immediately get the Orientation Module to help you get set up, practice some of the skills you will need and prepare yourself to paint. Every fortnight after that you receive the instructions for a new painting 1-6.
Anyone ready to have a go, young or old. With step by step instructions participants will learn to paint with confidence and to see nature around them differently.
Enrolment is Open Now! You get access to the Orientation module on sign up which gives everything you need to get set up with materials, your creative space and how to’s. Orientation and Module 1 comes at the start and then 6 modules that cover a painting start to finish in each module.
I don’t want you to feel under pressure to get a painting finished every week so I plan to send out the modules fortnightly. You can cover the modules at your own pace. If you get stuck or want feedback just ask me.
The course uses video and written material to support you to create beautiful paintings. There are over 56 videos, including time-lapse (over 70 hours of video condensed to 6.43 hours).
We start with an orientation module as soon as you sign up and then the 6 modules each covering the creation of a realist painting of Australian Flora end to end.
The techniques you will learn can be used to paint portraits or landscape, still life, but we start with nature, to help us learn about colour and form.
Orientation
Covers materials and getting ready with exercises in blending creating colour palettes and more. I just made some bonus videos on Smart Memory - using your smart phone for learning about composition and also on setting up your painting space.
Modules 1 - 6 each cover the creation of 1 painting with Instruction videos for each part of the process as well as time-lapse videos of the creation of the painting.
The paintings we create are chosen to cover different aspects of painting eg. creating impact, painting folds, creating depth, blending, colour intensity, shadows, smooth lines etc
We cover everything you’ll need to create a painting and then we do it 6 times creating 6 paintings to make sure you’ve got it!
Creating Depth
Compositions with impact
Blending
Why use certain materials
The Creative Process
Your Creative Space
Colour Palettes
Colour Intensity
The 8 Step Luscious Painting Model
Underpaintings
Making sure your painting makes sense
Tips on finishing the painting, technology and your painting
Getting on with Life while you paint
Yes. If you have tried the lessons and you are not happy with the results just ask for a refund.