For your course work, you will need your painting gear and a painting surface appropriate to your medium. It is important that you approach your course work as a study exercise. YOU ARE NOT MAKING A PAINTING, but you are doing a practice exercise that is studying methods for composing with visual paths. For this …
For your homework, you will need your painting gear and a painting surface appropriate to your medium. It is important that you approach your homework study as just that–a study exercise. YOU ARE NOT MAKING A PAINTING, but you are doing a practice exercise that is studying methods for controlling DEGREES of emphasis. For this …
This concept lesson is also the first video lesson for the course, Working with Warm and Cool Colors. If after watching the lesson and taking the quiz, should you decided you’d also like to pursue the rest of the course, the price of this lesson will be deducted.
This concept lesson was created as the first lesson for the course, Using Color Schemes. If you choose to take the course after doing the concept lesson, when you purchase it, use the coupon code 35off at checkout to get the cost of this concept lesson deducted for you final. Enjoy your concept lesson!
For your homework, you will need your painting gear and a painting surface appropriate to your medium. It is important that you approach your homework study as just that–a study exercise. YOU ARE NOT MAKING A PAINTING, but you are doing a practice exercise that is studying methods for using color schemes. For this reason, …
This course will teach you how to place images in your paintings for the best composition for what you are expressing. The course includes four video lessons followed by an opportunity to email Dianne with any questions you might have about it. The lessons will guide you through doing your own study for practicing principles …
For your homework, you will need your painting gear and a painting surface appropriate to your medium. It is important that you approach your homework study as just that–a study exercise. YOU ARE NOT MAKING A PAINTING, but you are doing a practice exercise that is studying methods for using color schemes. For this reason, …
This course will teach why we call colors warm or cool, how we can distinguish whether a color is warm or cool, and how we can control warm and cool colors in our paintings.
For your homework, you will need your painting gear and a painting surface appropriate to your medium. It is important that you approach your homework study as just that–a study exercise. YOU ARE NOT MAKING A PAINTING, but you are doing a practice exercise that is studying methods for using color schemes. For this reason, …
For your homework, you will need your painting gear and a painting surface appropriate to your medium. It is important that you approach your homework study as just that–a study exercise. YOU ARE NOT MAKING A PAINTING, but you are doing a practice exercise that is studying methods for using color schemes. For this reason, …
Overview For your homework, you will need your painting gear and apainting surface appropriate to your medium. It is important that you approach your homework study as just that–a study exercise. You are not making a painting, but you are doing a practice exercise that is studying methods for working with isolated shapes. For this …
This course will teach you the four major skills for creating luminosity in your paintings.
This course will teach you the skill of identifying and mixing any color you see or want to create.
Materials: Your Reference Photos Here are links to your reference photo choices, or you may work from your own photo. Your Homework Materials For your homework, you will need your painting gear and a painting surface appropriate to your medium. It is important that you approach your homework study as just that–a study exercise. You …
This mini course uses the video instruction from Dianne’s lessons in Series 39, Creating Distance. As images move into a distance their characteristics gradually change. We will see value contrasts decreasing from strong to close, hues might gently merge from one to another, intensities often become more neutral, textures can progressively disappear, and sizes will …
This mini course uses the video lessons in Series 2, Guiding the Eye. The mini course focuses on using the tools of value contrasts and value gradation for guiding the eye around the painting so that it makes visual sense and so that it keeps the viewer’s eye within the painting.
This mini course uses the instruction recorded in Dianne’s video lesson, Gesture Drawing Explained. There are exercises for you to do in this course. They are to give guided practice for learning how to practice gesture drawing. Please follow these instructions carefully to be sure you get the most out of each section.
This course will teach you now to recognize degrees of value contrast in your subjects, and how to use them in your paintings.
This course will teach you how to see foreshortening and how to translate what you are seeing into your paintings and drawings.
This course will teach you the types of shadows, how to find them and how to communicate them in your painting.
