The Art of Painting Beyond Technique

Course Overview and Preview

Groundbreaking ideas to refine and inspire your artistic vision.

Learn Nancy’s comprehensive and systematic critique method to improve and enhance your paintings. These contemporary concepts will help you create your fine art paintings quicker, with more ease, and better results. Exceptional self-analysis methods will bring more attention to your paintings and expand your audience. Enjoy watching your paintings progress from good to great. Shrink the learning curve and master painting in record time! This course beats years of art school training.  Realistic or abstract – all painting mediums and styles will benefit.
 
The course uses a proven step-by-step process that teaches you exactly how to:

• add new inspiration to your work.
• quickly move forward when you get stuck.
• make ideal choices to maximize results right from the start with any new painting.
• find perfect solutions to resolve any painting issue.

No need to change your painting style or subject matter (unless you want to). You don't need to learn to paint like someone else. Instead, this course empowers you to make your own unique paintings. You become a smarter painter. You will learn how to improve your painting's viewing power. Learn to push 2D images into the illusion of 3D with contemporary and classic spatial concepts. Learn to enhance and extend the viewing experience so your art can't be ignored!

Achieve exciting images, quickly resolve painting issues and easily move your painting to the next level.

Welcome from your instructor. How to get the most from this course, preparation and supplies.

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Welcome from your instructor. How to get the most from this course, preparation and supplies.

The idea of story plays a significant role in what we paint and how our paintings are viewed. Explore a variety of ideas about stories to deepen your concepts about images.

Learn how the illusion of space can attract viewers to your work. Gain a wide range of expressive spatial tools — from the Renaissance methods of perspective to contemporary notions of “push-pull”.

New tools and concepts to create the optimal type of space for your paintings.

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Explore these two popular terms commonly used to describe a painting’s style. Discover what they mean and how to best use them for your artwork.

Learn to paint with more ease and flow by accessing the creative side of your brain.

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New concepts and techniques for exciting visual movement. How to heighten viewer experience.

Discover ways to portray emotion in a painting that will convey in a dynamic way to the viewer.

Learn to enhance the viewing experience of any painting. Discover how to easily identify and then resolve design issues.

Explore how your work space can influence your painting and ways to improve it.

Learn to recognize when your painting is truly finished, and how to get the results you want.

Concluding thoughts from your instructor.