UPCOMING LIVE CLASSES
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Starting a Sketchbook Practice: A 4-Week Live Intensive
The sketchbook is a transformative tool for painters. It is the place to deconstruct light, simplify complex compositions, and take the risks that eventually lead to successful, large-scale oil paintings.
In this frequently sold-out intensive, I share the exact exercises I use to keep my skills sharp and study light and form before I ever touch a canvas. This course is an interactive, practice-focused experience designed for painters who want to move past the "fear of the white page" and build a habit that leads to rapid improvement.
What You’ll Master:
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Simplification: Learn to break down complex scenes into powerful, essential shapes.
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Atmosphere & Mood: Study how specific lighting choices impact the emotional weight of your work.
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Color Relationships: Improve your ability to see and assess color through targeted sketchbook studies.
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Artist Forensics: Learn how to study your favorite master painters to unlock their secrets.
The Live Experience:
Unlike a self-paced course, this live cohort is focused on direct feedback and accountability.
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Weekly Live Sessions: 90 minutes each week of live lectures, technical demos, and Q&A.
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Personalized Feedback: Every student receives individual written feedback from me each week to troubleshoot their progress.
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Vibrant Community: Connect with a cohort of motivated peers for mutual support and inspiration.
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One-Year Access: Can’t make a session? You’ll have full access to all recordings for a year.
Course Logistics:
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Dates: Mondays, June 8, 15, 22, & 29
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Time: 5:00–6:30 PM PT (8:00–9:30 PM ET)
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Format: Live via Zoom
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Capacity: Limited to ensure personalized attention.
Registration:
This class is now full and I am not able to accept additional students. If you would still like to register and are open to independent study, you can still access the lectures, demos, and tools from this course from the self-paced version listed below.
ONLINE COURSES
Starting a Sketchbook Practice
This four-week, self-paced class is designed for representational painters who want to build a consistent sketchbook habit, strengthen their understanding of composition, value, and color, and take their paintings to the next level.
If you'd like to be the first to know about new class offerings, you can sign up for my class waitlist.
PREVIOUS CLASSES
Starting a Sketchbook Practice: 4-Week Class (2025)
This 4-week workshop is designed for traditional painters looking to use sketchbooks to enhance their painting skills. Tailored to artists with some experience in drawing, painting, and color mixing, the course covers essential sketchbook exercises that help refine painting design and composition, simplify complex scenes, improve value understanding, and explore color relationships.
Starting a Sketchbook Practice Workshop (2023)
Starting a sketchbook practice is a great way to rapidly improve your art skills. In this workshop we will show how sketchbooks can be used to study composition. Using inspiration from daily life, we will practice breaking the complexity of reality into simple light and shadow shapes that can serve as a foundation for future work.
Simplifying the Portrait (2023)
In this workshop we take the complexity of the portrait and simplify it into basic shapes. This will give a solid foundation to build upon for future portrait painting.