Explore cut paper with Sharyn Sowell. Expand your understanding of shape, form, positive and negative space, and gather a wealth of fresh ideas to bring to your other art practices. Using simple, basic materials, Sharyn guides you through a buffet of ideas, techniques...
This course is a tried-and-true recipe, oh-so carefully crafted just for you! You’ll need a pen and pencil; some paint, a brush or two, too, and a little love for splish-splashy rainbows and mess-making with a little attention to detail. We’ll start with the basics—an...
This course is all about You! Using mixed media techniques you will discover what excites and inspires you to create. You will develop your visual vocabulary – the marks, the shapes, the line and texture that you are drawn to and expand upon them. You will be...
Join Mary Gregory for a floral still life art course for all levels. Using acrylic paints, brushes and palette knives among other things, we will paint beautiful, fresh blooms. I’ll guide you step-by-step and layer-by-layer. This course is suitable for beginning...
Linocut is a relief printing technique. The idea of using the easy to cut linoleum instead of hard wood as block-material for printmaking originated from the late 19th century and was primarily invented to teach printmaking in school classes. It is a very versatile...
Be moved by the wild idea of flowers to paint a still life arrangement found only in your imagination. You’ll learn to find inspiration in images from various sources, build an arrangement on the canvas, paint a variety of vessels, and bravely mix paint in...
This is a free video with Renee Mueller taken from her course Les Femmes . This course is inspired by her deep love for dance, theater and the women who were a part of its history. This free video gives you a taste of the course and we hope you will join us for the...
Graceful Muse Teacher: Renee Mueller The grace and beauty found in nature is a rich source of inspiration for your artwork. In this class, I will encourage you to take a walk, look, and listen to the beauty of nature and allow it to inspire and ground your work....
“Where is beauty to be found? …In small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment….” -Muriel Barbery Join Debbie in her first course at the Jeanne Oliver Creative Network. If you love teacups and coffee mugs, love the...
Join Connie as she explores Deep Conversations with the soul and how this practice can transform your art to reflect the beauty inside. Hidden deep in every artist is a reservoir of wisdom that can be accessed each time we come to our creative practice with intention...
This free video with Jeanne Oliver is taken from her course Underneath | Oil + Cold Wax. Have you ever wondered where to even start with a painting, needed guidance in how to begin on a larger piece, or abstracts seem so out of your comfort zone? We will start by...
Join Andrea Garvey for her first course on the Jeanne Oliver Creative Network! This course is inspired by her love of color, mark making and florals. “There are always flowers for those who want to see them” Henri Matisse Andrea’s style is a combination of intuitive...
This free video with Carolina Della Valle is taken from her course Show Up and Shut Up. Understanding how paint behaves is an important part of learning a new medium. Discovering your favorite brushstrokes or ideal paintbrushes, learning the marks that make you melt...
Join Idania “Danita” Salcido for her first course here at the Jeanne Oliver Creative Network! Once upon a time, an artist stumbled upon a great discovery, It was called the Secret Forest. Many creatures inhabited that place, and she became friends with...
Join Pam Carriker and her course, The Working Art Journal – the practice of keeping and integrating sketchbooks and art journals to explore self portraits. Creating a self-portrait can be a daunting task but through the exercises in this course I will guide you...
Create mood and atmosphere in your landscape paintings in this course with Beth Cole. Discover how to give depth and life to your work with just a few simple brush strokes. Learn the beauty of lost and found edges and create flow through your painting with line, color...
Join Lucy Cooke as we explore a variety of ways to create authentic pieces of art with pencils, ink, twigs, acrylic paints, threads and more! As artists, we love to collect art supplies. But sometimes, we hesitate to play with them, waiting for the perfect art project...
Join artist Stephanie Lee as you combine paper, paint, encaustic medium, and soulful exercises. Being able to tell our most sacred stories and express or work through feelings are well-known benefits of the creative process. But what if your creativity is even more...
Do you love to paint flowers? How about portraits? I have created this course to paint the things I love to paint most. In this course we will be painting several types of flowers both in acrylics and watercolors. We will work on watercolor paper as well as stretched...
What others see at the surface rarely tells the story of what it took to get where we are now. Only when we dig below the surface do we find what lies underneath and all that it took to create something so complicated, rich, thought provoking, broken and beautiful....
Join Leslie Rottner as you create art within your art by creating your own collage material. This free lesson is taken from her course Creative Collage. The possibilities are endless, but Leslie will discuss a couple of simple ways to make your own papers and then you...
Join Jeanne Oliver as you gather the tools and supplies you love and create a plaster and fabric art journal. These 2 free videos are taken from her course Wandering Muse. This free video gives you a taste of the course and we hope you will join us for the full...
Join Jeanne Oliver and create a gorgeous and layered art journal taken from her course Storytellers and Mavericks. Using papers, fabrics, vintage elements, wire, plaster and more you will create a treasured journal. This free video gives you a taste of the course and...
Join Lexi Grenzer for her first course here at the Jeanne Oliver Creative Network! Lexi shares her love of nature, animals and her unique approach to watercolor. Meet Fawn, Dink, Daffy and Babe…every animal has a story, thoughts, daydreams, and interests…. Starting...
Show Up and Shut Up: Strategies of an Insecure Artist Join Carolina Della Valle for her first course here at the Jeanne Oliver Creative Network! Sometimes we need a swift kick to get us moving or a little tough love to shut down those fears that prevent us from doing...
Captivate the artist within this Holiday Season with Kelly Hoernig. Create an altered book full of windows, pockets, hidden messages and so much more. Make pages of collage, painting and creative layers filled with art that is personalized and meaningful. Discover the...
Join Charlotte Lyons for her first course here at the Jeanne Oliver Creative Network! I grew up with my grandmother’s motto, Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without. When I started hooking rugs in the 80’s, the process began with collecting wool clothing to...
Join Noelle Mena for her second course here at the Jeanne Oliver Creative Network! While you’re here, please take a look at her first course The Art of Alcohol Ink. It is not a prerequisite but Noelle does not repeat the content of the basics introduced in the...
Join Angela Kennedy for her first course here at the Jeanne Oliver Creative Network! Learn to draw and paint a portrait with beautiful flowing hair. In this course you will learn to create a more detailed sketch which will enhance your watercolor painting. You will...
Join J. Kirk Richards for his first course here at the Jeanne Oliver Creative Network! – It’s been said that the physical and spiritual, when combined, create the soul. In this class we combine the spiritual–in the form of imaginative design, with the...
Join Mary Gregory for her first course here at the Jeanne Oliver Creative Network! If home is your happy place, if buildings of all kinds make you happy, join Mary in this structure-painting course. Think of the places that house your heart — your home or that...
Join Sheila Atchley in learning powerful rituals and techniques to bring fresh fire into your practice of art and of life. This course is faith-based and is specifically centered in the Christian faith. Please note that the teacher’s faith is discussed in this...
Les Femmes Join Renee Mueller for her first course here at the Jeanne Oliver Creative Network! This course is inspired by her deep love for dance, theater and the women who were a part of its history. The theater is rich in history and virtually overflowing with...
Join Emma Petitt for her first course here at the Jeanne Oliver Creative Network! Create deeply personal portrait and figurative work that moves away from the generic or ‘pretty’. Techniques Taught in this Course -Creating energetic and unusual...
This is free video with Pauline Agnew taken from her course Feel The Pose. When the penny dropped for me and I really ‘got’ how to see negative space when I was drawing, my drawing really improved. It’s one thing to be able to see the vase/face, but a bit trickier...
Minimal Collage | Creating More with Less Focusing only on imperfect papers and book parts from the past, explore the notion of creating beautiful collage work using very few supplies. No marks, no paint, just paper. Clear the clutter to create space, both mentally...
Join Tiffany Goff Smith in her first course here at the Jeanne Oliver Creative Network! Searching for a way to let your inner muse run wild and free? Tiffany shares an easy book binding technique on constructing your own art journal. Dig deep into your creative flow,...
An Illustrated Journey | Travels with My Sketchbook Welcome Lorraine Bell for her first course on The Jeanne Oliver Creative Network! I have long had a wanderer’s heart and nomadic soul. I yearn for parts unknown and when I am not traveling, I am usually busy...
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