Middle Makers with Sheila Atchley
“The Middle” is less an age-range, and more a state of being. The “middle” can feel like simply being scattered; you experience the pull, in all different directions, of this relatively new digital lifestyle. The middle can manifest as an...
Ten Days of Art with Roselyn Pratt
Joining ‘Ten Days of Art’ provides you with a start to finish look at my creative process. Leonardo da Vinci said, ‘He who can copy, can do.’ This class sets the goal of creating art over ten CONSECUTIVE days. Establishing a habit. The process of becoming an ‘artist’...
Free Art Video: Marking with Flame with Aimee Irel Bishop
Join Aimee as she shares two fun techniques for adding marks and interest to your work. In the first free video she shows you how to safely use fire for mark making and adding dimension to your work. In the second free video you’ll learn how to transfer rust...
Alla Prima with Marian Parsons
Still life painting might seem like an art school exercise that is a fall-back for when more thrilling subjects like a landscape or live model aren’t available. Not so! Still life is an integral part of improving your art and plays a vitally important role in...
Free Art Video: Creating a Color Wheel with Marian Parsons
Join Marian as she invites us to play with paints, exercise with color and value, and show us a beautiful world of color wheel making. You will find yourself immersed in her teaching and appreciate the subtle shifts and differences in color. Gather your supplies and...
Free Art Video: Texture with Plaster Gauze with Stephanie Lee
Join Stephanie Lee as she prepares multiple substrates using foam board and plaster gauze. With simple tools you will learn how to create unique substrates full of texture and layers. Learn to experiment and create beautiful and easy washes ready for your next layers....
The Inspired Line with Zane Prater
There is a thrilling satisfaction to inking a line just right. In this course, we will explore materials and techniques to grow confidence in your pen and ink work. We will develop the skills to create inspiring, visually stimulating ink drawings by experimenting with...
Poets and Misfits with Jeanne Oliver
Do you see beauty all around you? Do you gather words, nature, and objects that others toss aside? Do you create to bring new ideas to life and to also calm the stirrings inside of you? Are you open to what is and what can be? You are a poet! In this course we will...
Free Art Video: Sketchbook Exercises with Diane Reeves
Join Diane Reeves as she shares her process for interpreting the world around her with lines and forms. Using a sketchbook, images of interior spaces, brush and ink, she will walk you through her stunning process of seeing. Each piece leaves you with a work of art and...
Free Art Video: Gathered Marks
Join Jeanne as she shares her process for creating patterns on different kinds of transparent papers, vintage ephemera, and even elements that may usually get thrown in the trash. Using a limited color palette she creates a library of marks which she can later use in...
Big and Bold with Kristi Beattie
Join Kristi Beattie for an abstract acrylic painting course about harnessing your expressive energy into large, bold dynamic art. Abstract painting can feel daunting and developing a process can feel overwhelming. Kristi will share tips on how she developed her own...
Clay Alchemy with Idania Salcido
What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think about ceramics? Idania thinks of magic and beauty. A tactile experience that is also beautiful and functional. Of alchemy and transformation. Ceramics can be as simple as a rough pot or as complicated as a...
Rebel Encaustics with Stephanie Lee
Encaustic medium offers unique dimensional quality and luminosity to artwork that has often felt intimidating and overwhelming to artist who are interested in trying their hand at it. The gatekeepers of encaustic knowledge have created so many rigid rules with scary...
Expressive Ancestor Portraits Erin Faith Allen
Join artist and historian Erin Faith Allen for the life-changing experience of vividly storytelling the people who roam in your bones. You will explore evocative characters of your lineage through collage, expressive mixed media drawing and painting, mark-making, and...
Deconstructed Faces with Kate Thompson
Learn from Kate Thompson how to break down a face for success with portraits. In this course you will be working on two faces. One is painted and the other one is a pencil drawing. Kate will show you how to render the pencil drawing using the cross hatching...
Holiday Home*ologie with Daune Pitman
Home is the beating heart of the holidays. Our homes are visual representations of the things we love and hold dear; and our most powerful place of ministry—to those under our roof and all that cross its threshold. They are a sacred space of beauty, experiences, and...
Foraged Landscapes with Kristy Kensinger
The natural world allows us to connect to ourselves and our surroundings. Being part of nature has a way of heightening your senses and allowing you to be fully immersed in the present moment. By bringing nature into your artwork, you can obtain a broader connection...
The Magpie’s Nest with Aimee Irel Bishop
Are you a collector of the weird and wonderful? Do you long to find your truest artistic expression? Do you find yourself picking up little things that catch your eye when you are on walks? Do you save little pieces or special paper and fabric? Let’s explore the...
Words and Art with Shaunna Parker
Life is made of stories. Whether you are a natural born writer or not, the beauty of storytelling through words and art is a powerful expression. Learning to lean into your own stories and transforming the power of words into painting from your own imagination is...
Beneath the Surface | Painting with Translucent Layers with Melissa Fink
Join Melissa Fink on a journey to dive beneath the surface to create beautiful art with depth, interest, gorgeous layers and color. In this course you will learn how to use various tools and mediums to build translucent layers. Melissa will also cover techniques such...
The Alchemist with Kate Poole
So many friends who have come to our home for the first time walk through the door and ask me, “What is that smell?” It is hard to explain to them that it is never one thing. It is a layering of fragrance over the whole house that makes our home smell the way it does....
Textural Minimalism with Stephanie Lee
If you ever struggle with creating dimension and depth to your art in a way that feels intentional and integrated, this course offers solutions that are much more accessible than you may have thought. In this workshop, you will learn new ways of seeing and modifying...
Wallflowers with Renee Mueller
This course explores the beautiful subject of flowers and how to weave them into our work with intention—by taking inspiration from the graceful moody paintings of the Old Dutch Masters and a nod to the moving florals of the Impressionist. We will begin with floral...
Painting With Wool with Deanne Fitzpatrick
In this course I want to introduce you to the craft and art of rug hooking as I do it at Deanne Fitzpatrick Studio. Rug hooking is more than making rugs. You can use it to express yourself and become creative. In fact, it can be painting with wool. It is just another...
The Atelier with Marian Parsons
It’s so easy to be wooed by the wide array of paint colors available on the market, but there is beauty and harmony to be discovered in creating paintings with a limited palette. In this class, Marian Parsons, a paint enthusiast and lover of color, will show you...
The Art of Gathering with Jeanne Oliver
Over the past 17 + years we have gathered others through live workshops here in the United States and abroad. Whether we have been leading a group making art along the Seine, taking a bike ride through the vineyards of Austria, baking croissants in Paris or opening...
Free Art Video: Doodle Drawings with Julie Hamilton
In this free art lesson you will begin by creating organic ground markings on a simple piece of paper with your sharpie. These markings can be slow and controlled or chaotic mindless scribbles and doodling. Either way you end up with an amazing piece. In this easy to...
Free Art Video: Sketchy Roses with Mary Gregory
In this free art lesson you will begin by creating a floral still life sketch using three colors in a sketchy and loose format that will bring your piece to life! In this easy to follow lesson, Mary’s emphasis is to keep it simple and light for all skill types. ...
Free Art Video: Brave Color Mixing with Hayley Morgan
Join Hayley Morgan for Brave Color Mixing. In this free art lesson you will create your own imaginative palette. In this easy to follow lesson Hayley will show you step by step how to color mix as she also shares more about her own choices and the colors she likes to...
Free Art Video: Expressive Portrait with Renee Mueller
This is a free video with Renee Mueller taken from her course Graceful Muse. Finding grace and beauty in the face of someone you care about will give you a deeper connection to your artwork. In this expressive portrait, we will abandon perfection and allow the...
Artful Junk Birds with Lori Siebert
These artful “Junk Birds” began with a challenge Lori took part in from the NBC “Making It” show during Covid. The first challenge was to make something using stuff from your junk drawer. She decided to create a bird sculpture using toothpicks, popsicle sticks, dice,...
To Make A Macramé Workshop with Jesse Jicha
To make a macramé is to __________. I hope by the end of this course you will be able to fill in that blank. Maybe for you, it is to create something new, explore your skills, a time of rest, to work with your hands, decompress from the day, or challenge yourself....
Line + Form with Diane Reeves
A blank canvas can be a high roadblock of doubt and fear, or an open door of imagination and possibility. I paint because I must; painting is how I process, create, and express my interior life, and maybe you want to paint for the same reasons. So, how can you get...
Free Art Video: Face Mapping with Pam Carriker
This is a free video with Pam Carriker taken from her course The Working Art Journal. This is a two part video (yes, both are included!) What better way to practice drawing and painting faces than by using the face you see reflecting back from you every day. By using...
Alter Ego with Idania Salcido
They say that every artist paints himself, and I couldn’t agree more. Every artwork you create is a reflection of your story and yourself, and in this class I want to share with you how being mindful of my emotions and symbols has made me a better, more honest artist...
Free Art Video: Portable Art Studio with Jeanne Oliver
Jeanne Oliver is sharing the ease and intention of creating and using a portable art studio in her day-to-day life. Whether you want to start connecting more with your creativity, you make art regularly or even if you are a working artist…the portable art studio...
Soul Mosaic with Melody Ross
In this life, we get the chance to create and then recreate the version of ourselves that feels most true to us. At any time, we get to sort through the pieces of ourselves and decide what pieces we will continue to grow and develop, and what pieces it might be time...
Gathered Inspiration Boards with Jeanne Oliver
I am a gatherer. I gather vintage papers, photographs, leftover bits of my own work, words from magazines, color palettes that inspire, foraged finds and composition ideas wherever I can find them. I often use these gathered pieces in my new works but first they often...
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