Download Your Free Guide: 9 Essential Tips On How To Start Painting Again
Are you a former painter wanting to return to your art after a long break but don’t know how to get started? Or a new painter at the beginning of this exciting path? Returning to or beginning your creative practice is not always easy. Here is a free guide with tips to help you reconnect with your creative side and either begin or reignite your painting journey.
New Mini Course
Dive Into Abstract Painting®:
Painting From Start To Finish
In this two part video program I will walk you through my own painting process, showing you how I start a painting, what I’m thinking when I start as well as my insights along the way, what types of tools I use and how I use them, how I embrace risk and experimentation during the process, how I work through the difficult and sometimes scary middle phase and how I know when I am reaching the finish line, as well as some of the criteria I use to evaluate knowing when my painting is done.
The program includes nearly an hour of video instruction plus two bonus handouts and membership in our private Facebook Community Art Smart. There you can share your thoughts and ideas and interact with artists just like you, gaining courage and inspiration.
Registration for the course is now available!
Dive Into Abstract Painting®: Exploring Fundamentals Online Workshop
This 6 week online course is perfect for beginners who feel lost, overwhelmed and fearful about starting or resuming their creative practice after a long absence or for painters with some experience but who feel stuck and want to shake things up with new ideas.
Together we will explore what basic materials to have on hand, setting up your studio, how to get and stay loose, finding your artistic voice, and certain of the elements of abstract painting including color value, mark making, and composition, as well as various ways to start and move through a painting to the end.
Our focus is on you learning to trust your creative intelligence, which will lead to you to approach your painting practice with confidence and joy.
Registration for the course is now available!
Dive Into Abstract Painting®: Exploring Contrast Online Workshop
Working with color, mark making and shapes, together we will explore ways to infuse and transform your abstract paintings with contrast, exciting you and your viewer’s eye.
This is a self-paced online course designed to be completed in 4 weeks depending upon the amount of time you have available. Delivered in a password protected virtual classroom, it is organized into different learning modules by subject.
Registration for the course is now available!
Dive Into Abstract Painting®: Exploring Mark Making Online Workshop
Find and develop your own unique expressive marks and painting vocabulary in this abstract acrylic painting workshop. Learn about a variety of painting and drawing tools, both conventional and unconventional, discover your own signature marks and how to communicate through them in your work. Create depth by layering marks with paint. Learn how to use marks to energize your work with contrast and value. You will be working on either paper or canvas with acrylic paint and different kinds of drawing tools such as charcoals, graphites, Stabilo Woody pencils, art crayons, pastels, and the like.
Registration for the course is now available!
Boldly Abstract Online Workshop
A self-paced online course consisting of pre-recorded studio demonstrations, video talks, and bonus downloadable PDFs delivered in a password protected virtual classroom. The course is divided into different learning modules divided by subject. We explore:
- What is means to paint boldly abstract
- How to approach your painting with a useful mindset to encourage growth in your process
- How to accept and develop your own unique voice and trust your own creative intelligence
- New materials and tools and setting up your studio space
- Ways of starting a painting to encourage boldness
- What your signature marks are and how you can increase their boldness
- The fundamentals of color and how you can use color to create harmonious paintings and reduce color chaos that detracts from your paintings
- And much more! We will give you an insider’s view of how we each go about creating a painting in start to finish video demonstrations in which we reveal our individual thought and decision making process as we go along.
About The Instructors
Julie Schumer is a self-taught artist. Her work is shown in galleries across the United States and is in many private collections. She lives and works in Santa Fe, NM and since 2014 has been teaching expressive painting workshops.
Cat Tesla is an award winning international artist with gallery representation in the U.S. and U.K. She provides a unique perspective to abstract painting in a supportive environment. Formerly a genetic counselor, she has been a professional artist for 22 years.
The Business of Art Membership Program
Do you want to improve your business and marketing skills and make more money from your art? Cat Tesla and I have created the Business of Art Membership program to arm you with the knowledge and skills necessary to be successful in your art business in today’s fast paced and ever-changing art world, as well as help you navigate successfully the inevitable problems and issues that arise that can throw you off track. The Membership provides weekly fresh content on a variety of topics designed to help you build your art business and stay the course. Receive valuable one on one coaching, included in the cost of your membership. Participate in a vibrant and supportive community via the Membership Hub as well as through monthly Zoom goal setting sessions.
About The Instructors
Julie Schumer is a self-taught artist. Her work is shown in galleries across the United States and is in many private collections. She lives and works in Santa Fe, NM and since 2014 has been teaching expressive painting workshops.
Cat Tesla is an award winning international artist with gallery representation in the U.S. and U.K. She provides a unique perspective to abstract painting in a supportive environment. Formerly a genetic counselor, she has been a professional artist for 22 years.
