workshops
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Acrylic Painting Basics
5-week quick-start for beginning acrylic painters!
Tuesday, Feb 25 – March 25
12 pm – 1 pm Central / Chicago time
Check your time zoneMeet once a week over zoom, or watch the recordings
Traditional or water mixable oil paint, or acrylic paint.
Learn about
- Choosing and caring for art supplies
- Setting up a painting station
- How to paint!
- Practice painting, ask questions, and get personalized feedback
- The basics of painting from life
- still life setups, models, and plein air (outdoor) painting
- The basics of painting from photos
- cropping, simplifying, and drawing on your canvas
If you’re new to painting or if you’re switching from another medium to acrylic paint, this workshop is for you. Get a confident start to your painting journey.
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Oil Painting Basics
Quick-start for beginning oil painters!
Recording of a 3-week live online workshop
Fully recorded / Watch any time / Go at your own pace~4 hours total workshop length
Traditional or water miscible oil paint.
Learn about
- Choosing and caring for art supplies
- Setting up a painting station
- How to paint!
- Practice painting, ask questions, and get personalized feedback
- The basics of painting from life
- still life setups, models, and plein air (outdoor) painting
- The basics of painting from photos
- cropping, simplifying, and drawing on your canvas
If you’re new to painting or if you’re switching from another medium to oil paint, this workshop is for you. Get a confident start to your painting journey.
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Develop Your Painterly Approach!
Meet online almost-weekly from June 19 to August 14, 2026
Fridays from 10 am – 1 pm Chicago time
Or watch recordings any timeJoin us this summer for a workshop-style class aimed at developing and improving fundamental skills while motivating you to paint regularly.
$250
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Painting 102: the Fundamentals
Live lessons (recorded if the time doesn’t work for you)
This is a solid path to stronger representational painting skills. Contact me with any questions.When: 5 Tuesdays from 10am – 12:30pm Central / Chicago time. Dates TBD.
Skill level: Beginning painters.
Painting medium: For traditional oil paint, water mixable oil paint, or acrylic paint. Demos are in oil paint (or pencil for the drawing section). The ideas apply to any medium.