As you know ..... we never stop learning ..... including me, I am always looking for more ways to create art, more ways to teach and share, and to make it easier for you to master.

My main goal for this class is to sharpen your artistic skills, and get you more comfortable with your brush strokes.  Through different class projects and exercises, you will be able to gain the confidence and ease in your painting, there by giving you a giant leap in your  painting skills!

Class Overview:
• Create your very own workspace
You will learn to create your own brush Variants that will be specific to your needs, and then save them as your very own workspace.

• Color Theory for Painting
Understanding color: how to use complementary colors to make your painting pop!

• Its time to take the training wheels off !!!
Try your hand at "free hand painting" Start with a blank canvas! Learn to use your photo as a reference for painting in different styles, and interpret your photo as you see it!

• Explore painting in different Media ......
Acrylic, Pastel and Chalk.

• Learn how to get 3D effects with "Selective
Sharpening"

• Make a Mess and call it Art!
This will be a fun class exercise that will help you develop your creative side!

• Create abstract Art using the Auto Photo Painting Palettes!!!

• Backgrounds:
Many of you have sent me your paintings, and they are beautiful! But, as you know, the background is what makes the painting sing, any we need a little more work in creating them. You will learn specific guidelines and new tips to help in your creations of backgrounds in all different media types!

• MODERN ART and the 20th Century!


In past classes we have covered the different styles of the Famous Old Masters.

We will fast forward to the 20th Century all the way until today. Discover the major artists that helped transform art into the Modern Period that we know of today.


With different projects of the "Modern Art" movement, you will be able to bring your skills of color and detail, and much more into an advanced state!

As an artist you are constantly evolving.

Learn the different techniques from the Modern Masters, and how art evolved in the 20th century, and how it can affect your art skills today!



Some of the artist and their specific styles that will be covered in class:

1. Paul Cézanne was a Post Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century artistic styles to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. "Cézanne is the father of us all" Quoted by : Matisse and Picasso!

A Class project will get you painting like Paul Cezanne and Vincent Van Gogh free hand! “I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream!”
-Vincent Van Gogh

2. Georges Braque was a major 20th century French Artist who, along with Pablo Picasso developed the art movement known as Cubism. In cubist artworks, objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context. Class projects in Cubism will train the artist how to view and paint an object from many different angles. Even if you don't like, or plan on painting in the cubist style, the exercise in the cubist style will be a wealth of help to your art career.

"Painting is stronger than I am, it makes me do whatever it wants" -Pablo Picasso

3. Henri Matisse was a French Artist known for his use of color and one of the best-known artists of the twentieth century. His mastery of the expressive language of color and drawing, displayed in a body of work spanning over a half-century, won him recognition as a leading figure in modern art.

"Seek the strongest color effect possible. The content is of no importance" Henri Matisse



4. Edward Hopper's classic works captured the realities of urban and rural American life with a poignancy and beauty that have placed them among the most enduring and popular images of the 20th century. Hopper's influence on the art world and pop culture is undeniable. After learning "Hoppers" technique, you will proceed to paint in his style, but on a topic depicting the world as you see it today! You will need to bring to class images of people talking on cell phones, working on computers, or strolling in a park, as long as the image shows life as we live today in the 21st Century!

“If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.” -Edward Hopper

"No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination" -Edward Hopper



5. Andy Warhol, was an American Artist and a central figure in the movement known as POP ART. Learn to think "Outside the Box" and create a painting from multiple images or just one collage. And even more will be covered in this fun filled project!

“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.” -Andy Warhol



Learning from the modern artists will teach you discipline and train you to paint straight lines, follow shadow, highlight and more!

No matter what style of art you like to paint these exercises will bring you to the next level!

Printing and Output:

From capture to layout specific for canvas and the Water Color paintings, to the final printing process on the latest Canon IPF printers !
You will print and learn to bring your printing skills to the next level !

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