In this class you'll get suggestions, tips, tricks and techniques I learned over ten years of painting. The class is designed to help you move beyond being a beginner and get more comfortable working with the medium.

To illustrate the concepts I share in class, I give examples of my own early paintings and suggestions for what I could have done to improve them. I also take students into my painting process, sharing views of my sketchbooks and practice pages.

You'll learn:

• The importance of using high quality materials


• How mixing unique colors will give you the most natural looking paintings


• That learning to study and observe your subjects will make your paintings more successful


• How to choose the right composition


• Learning to controlling the amount of water you use


• The secret, most important skill you need for learning how to paint


• How painting one petal at a time will make your flowers look more realistic


• Tips for painting overlapping objects


• Techniques for layering paint


• Suggestions for manipulating paint on the paper


• The importance of adding fine details

By the end of class I hope you'll be able to look critically at your work with an eye to what steps you need to take to improve it.