Online Art Courses

Watercolor is a technique-based medium. What we call “technique” is the understanding of the special properties of watercolors that you have to know to make the best of this material. The course will help you become comfortable with watercolor’s fluid nature and with the technical aspects of color-mixing and brushwork, as well as explore creative approaches with this versatile medium.

Just in time for the holidays, this course will teach you how to confidently take on portrait commissions, and you’ll paint a portrait from start to finish in your unique style while learning how to approach commissioned work professionally.

Discover the secrets behind the mastery of drawing drapery. Learn how to sculpt the folds of different type fabrics and depict how they simultaneously hide, hug, and reveal the form underneath. We will study the techniques of the Great Masters Bernini, Leonardo da Vinci, Dürer, and Michelangelo and then create realistic drawings of drapery on the human body. While developing the technical skills, we will observe how by means of drapery we can express action, movement, and emotions. Suitable for all levels.

In 12 classes, you’ll learn the techniques of drawing from the beginning. The drawings above are by students who joined this course as absolute beginners. You will build the skills by rendering objects and environments with a teaching method found nowhere else. All drawings will be created in monochrome (black and white) to focus on the basics: light and shadow, line, and dimension.