Courses
Homework: Mastering Hues in Your 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 mastering HUES. For this reason, if …
Homework: Controlling the Saturation of Colors
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 …
Homework Template Blank
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 …
Abstracting from a Realistic Image
This is a short course of two videos that guide you through a sound way to create abstract paintings from any realistic reference.
How To Use the Color Wheel
In this short video, Dianne explains what color does to color. She shows us how we can identify colors we see according to how they appear within the traditional color wheel.
Composing with Visual Paths
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 …
Homework: Controlling DEGREES of Emphasis
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 …
Concept Lesson: Warm and Cool Colors Explained
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.
Color Schemes and How They Work
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!
Homework: Working with Negative Space
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, …
Determining Placement of Images
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 …
Homework: Composing with Visual Paths
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, …
Working with Warm and Cool Colors
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.
Homework: Using Color Contrast
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, …
Homework: Notan Encore Workshop
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, …
Workshop: Working with Isolated Shapes
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 …
Creating Luminosity
This course will teach you the four major skills for creating luminosity in your paintings.
Cracking the Color Code
This course will teach you the skill of identifying and mixing any color you see or want to create.
Workshop: Linking Shadows with Value Field
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 …