Beginner to Advanced (Book 1)
This is the ideal course for all those who want to know everything about art, painting techniques, painting styles, and more.
Course curriculum
Overcome the frustration of not understanding the why and the how of what you are doing. You will get a step-by-step explanation of everything you need to know and be able to reproduce the same results, whilst understanding what you did to get there. Everything is explained in clear and simple terms with lots of examples, illustrations, videos and more.
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Yes you can!
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Gauguin made yellow skies and red suns.
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You need to know that...
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Before we go on...
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How to Blend with two colours using fast and slow Blending
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At the end...
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Student Showcase
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MODULE ONE - Basic Drawing and Painting Techniques
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Commonly asked Questions for Beginner Artists
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The Tools of the Trade
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Choosing the right Tools
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How to Blend with two colours using fast and slow Blending
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Chapter One - Hand Positions and Formal Line
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Preview: Your Tools and Hand Position will Determine your Style of Painting
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Your Tools and Hand Position will Determine your Style of Painting
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Preview: Brush Over Hand Position
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Brush Over Hand Position
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Preview: Brush under Hand Position
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Brush Under Hand Position
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Drawing and Painting Techniques using Pencil and Paint
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Formal Line
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Formal Line Exersize with HB and 9B Pencil
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Formal Line Exersize with Nylon Brush
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Exersize using Formal line with Nylon and Hogshair Brush
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How to Clean brushes
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Life Lessons: How do you know if you need stronger emotional boundaries?
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Chapter Two - Organic Line
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What is Organic Line
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Organic Line Exersize with HB and 9B Pencil
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Exersize using Organic Line with Nylon and Hogshair Brush
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Chapter Three - Hatching and Blending
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Preview: Hatching and Blending
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What is Hatching and Blending?
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Formal and Organic Hatching
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Formal and Organic Hatching.
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Fast and Slow Blending.
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Hatching with Nylon and Hogshair Brush
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Dont forget...
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Chapter Four - Cross Hatching and Cross Blending + BONUS (PRO TIP)
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Preview of PRO TIP! How NOT to make MUD!
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PRO TIP! How NOT to make MUD!
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What are Cross-hatching and Cross-blending?
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Cross-blending techniques.
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Copy of Please take one min to review this course.
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Chapter Five - What is Scribbling and Scumbling?
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What is Scribbling and Gesture Drawing?
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Gesture Drawing Practical Tips
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Practical Excersize
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What is Scumbling or Dry Brush Technique?
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The Techniques of Turner
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Scumbling Painting Technique
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Practical excersize using Sribbling and Scumbling
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Chapter Six - What is Pointelism?
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What is Pointillism, Stippling or Dot Art?
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Practical Excersize
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Chapter Seven - What is Blotting?
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What is Blotting?
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Practical Excersize
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Blotting with Paint
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Chapter Eight - What is Watercolour?
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What is Watercolour?
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Practical Exersize in Watercolour
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Practical Exersize using Acrylic as Watercolour
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How did van Gogh Paint?
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Practical Excersize in Painting like Vincent van Gogh
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Yip!...you are doing good
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Congratulations!
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MODULE TWO - Drawing Anything Accurately
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Things To Get Right Before Painting
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The Four Basic Shapes of Everything!
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Chapter One - Drawing the Circle
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Drawing a Perfect Circle using Negative Space
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Circle Drawing Excersize Sheet
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Drawing a Basic Bottle and Glass
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Chapter Two - Structural Lines and Axis Lines
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What are Structural lines and Axis Lines
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Practical Excersize in Structural Lines.
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Practical Excersize in Axis Lines.
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How to Measure Structural Lines and Axis Lines
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Chapter Three - Variations and Meaning of Line
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The Symbolism and meaning of the Five Types of Line
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Variations of Lines in Art
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Types of Lines
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Chapter Four - Drawing Ovals
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Understanding the Oval
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Ovals: Step-by-Step
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Practise Session
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Chapter Five - Creating Dimensional Cubes
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Step one - Drawing in Two Dimensions
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Practical Exercise - Lets Draw a Room!
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Chapter Six - Drawing Cones
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Step One - Exersize
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Using Basic Shapes to Draw
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Congratulations!
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MODULE THREE - Chapter One - Tonal Values
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What is Tonal Values and why do I need them?
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Color Value Scale
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Tints, Shades and Tones
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Chapter Two - How to see Tonal Values
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Colour to Value
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Value Chart
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Practical Exersize
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Chapter Three - Drawing Accurately using Negative Space
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Positive and Negative Space
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Using Negative Space
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Practical Exersize using a Tin or Bottle Opener
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Examples
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Practical Exersize - Using Tonal Value do the Shading
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How to Draw Metal, Water or any Shiny or Reflective Object.
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Congratulations!
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MODULE FOUR - How to Find Measurements, Proportions, and Angles.
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The Pencil & Thumb Method
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How to Measure Structural Lines and Axis Lines
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What are Structural lines and Axis Lines
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Practical Excersize in Structural Lines.
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Practical Excersize in Axis Lines.
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Congratulations!
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MODULE FIVE- Starting with Colour!
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Chapter One - Value creates Volume
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The Artist's Use of Value
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Caravaggio: Master Of Light
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Separate Colour from Value
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MODULE SIX - Let's Paint!
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Let's learn about different Painting Styles
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Related Reading
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Recomended Art Movies
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Let's Learn about different Painting Techniques we will be using from now on...
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Dont give up!
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Congratulations!
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MODULE SEVEN - Blending with Nylon, Hogshair and Palette Knife using Paynes Grey and White
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Materials and Set Up
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How to set up your Painting
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Draw your first item using the Hatching (called Blending in Paint)
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More Videos! (thanks to RapidFireArt)
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How to paint using only Paynes Grey with White
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You can also use this!
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Video Tutorial: How to Blend Two Colors using Fast and Slow Blending Techniques
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Video Tutorial: How to Blend and get a smooth effect.
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Examples of student paintings done with the same Technique
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Keep Going!
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Artsy Thoughts
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The Result should look something like this!
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Examples to Emulate
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Painting with Hogshair
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Why paint with Natural Hogshair Brush
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Coming Soon!
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Only use Paynes Grey and White
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Video Tutorial: How to Blend with Hogshair
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MODULE EIGHT - Cross Blending with Nylon, Hogshair and Palette Knife using Paynes Gray, Yellow Ochre and White
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Draw your first item using the Cross Hatching (called Cross Blending in Paint)
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How to mix Yellow Ochre with Payne's Grey PLUS White
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How to do Cross Blending with a Nylon Brush and Hot and Cold Colors using and using Tonal Values (Dark and Light)
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MODULE NINE - Pointelism with Hogshair and Palette knife
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The History, Influence and Famous Painters of Pointelism
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Set up and mixing Yellow Ocher + Burnt Sienna + Paynes Grey with White
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Enroll Now!
New material and chapters added by this author.
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Start your Creative Journey
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Instuctors Artwork
Learn from Contemporary Artist Leonie.e.Brown
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The Real Reason We Paint is to re-Create Ourselves.
In this view, when we make a mark on a canvas, it becomes possible not just to create a thing, but to become a human being. It becomes possible, then, not simply to take a picture of something, but to create ourselves. That is the miracle. That is the reason I paint
Leonie.e.Brown Encaustic and Cold Wax Artist