UPCOMING CLASSES​
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Starting a Sketchbook Practice: 4-Week Online Workshop
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 painters refine painting design and composition, learn to simplify complex scenes, improve value understanding, and investigate color relationships.
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Each session includes a lecture, live demo, and Q&A, and sessions 2–4 include a review of student exercises. Throughout the course, students will also have access to a shared platform for posting work, receiving personalized feedback, and connecting with other students.
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Classes will be conducted over Zoom, and all classes will be recorded. Students will have access to the recordings within 24 hours of each class and do not have to attend the class live.
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Materials used for the course include a sketchbook, pencil, and fast-drying paint. A full materials list will be sent to students upon registration.
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Time Commitment: 1.5-hour class each week, plus 15–30 minutes each weekday for sketchbook exercises.
Class Dates: Mondays, August 4, 11, 18 & 25
Time: 5:00pm – 6:30pm PT (California, USA)
Price: $285
Registration: Register here
Refund Policy: Class registration is non-refundable. If students are not able to attend the class live, they will still receive access to the recordings. In the unlikely event that a class is cancelled, students will receive a full refund.
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PAINTING LESSONS
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Portrait Painting Lesson
Want to improve your portrait painting? In this lesson I show you my process for painting a portrait, starting from sketching the basic shapes of the portrait to adding color and detail. Through the painting process, I will also show how to easily mix skin tones using a limited palette. The lesson includes over 1 hour 15 minutes of painting demonstration plus instruction. The class is suitable for all skill levels, however some drawing and color mixing practice is recommended.
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PREVIOUS CLASSES
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Starting a Sketchbook Practice: 4-Week Online Course (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.
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Starting a Sketchbook Practice (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.
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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.
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