What you'll learn

Learn about cleaners and brush techniques-including what each brush is designed to do, how to hold them correctly, positioning and motion
Lesson 1 is designed to familiarize you with the terminologies I’ll be using throughout the rest of the course and get you acquainted with the 5 value greyscale
This course starts at the ground and builds every student up from there, to make sure you have a solid foundation to grow from.
You’ll learn the science behind different materials like acrylic mediums, what they do and how to use them correctly to make your colors more vibrant!
These exercises are also designed to begin teaching you the core fundamentals of acrylic painting. developed over years of teaching
You’ll do your first painting using the new techniques, based on a simple image that I'll supply you.
You’ll learn an approach to doing a drawing specifically for a painting, an easy system to get your drawing right every time
You’ll learn how to do an underpainting/how to paint in layers to achieve realism As well as shading and blending techniques that will give you better gradients
You’ll paint a still life of an old chrome kettle from a hi res photograph I’ll supply you.
This lesson is designed to teach you how to handle textures, like metal, scratches, bright highlights and reflective surfaces, as well as atmosphere
You’ll learn visualization and simplification techniques that I’ve developed to make painting easy for anyone.
Next, I'll teach you to use color in a painting and begin learning basic color theory concepts and compositions.
I’ll show you how to use a new kind of color mixing technique, that will make mixing any color imaginable easy- and make sure you never get muddy colors again!
You’ll learn the difference between chroma, color and values and how to control them, as well as how to manage a combination of colors on one palette.
Next, you’ll paint a still life of a grapefruit, based on an image I'll supply you. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to compose complex color schemes in your pa
You'll learn how to compartmentalize images to simplify them and make painting anything easier!
I'll teach you how to manage a controlled color palette with over 5 color scales on it and insure that your paintings are always bright and vibrant!
Next, you’ll paint a portrait. You’ll learn a method to mixing a perfect skin tone, every time and the rules to portrait painting.
You’ll get an in-depth lesson on painting detail and how to easily add incredible detail to a painting without needing extreme patients.
I'll show you tricks to painting eyes and hair.
I'll explain techniques to draw a viewers attention to desired focal points in your paintings.
You’ll learn how to varnish a painting and give it a beautiful, glossy, finished look.