On Line Guided Painting

I love hydrangeas, they are such unlikely flowers. I was so surprised I could grow them in Queensland. One of the first drawing assignments I ever did at art college was a pencil and wash drawing of a dead hydrangea head, carefully rescued from an English autumnal garden.  "Hydrangeas" Guided Painting, first ran in May 2014 and proved to be a massive learning curve for me and this fledging style of class. I have learnt so much since the early step by step classes and you get all the benefits of that knowledge when you choose this downloadable class. I have ironed out all the problems my " live" class encountered back in 2014 .  My Guided Painting classes often have quite whimsical imagery and feature animals. My practice was once concerned with narrative and illustration and many of the Guided Painting images I have used over the years are based on paintings from back then.  “Hydrangeas” was my third live Guided Painting class. I wanted to have a more represe...

I rebranded my art teaching business The Art Train in 2019. This was a great opportunity to enable customers to book and pay online for classes and this was a prime goal for my new website.  I have been running Guided Painting classes 2 or 3 times a term since 2014. Students come along to a 3-hour session to paint the same image. I provide fully illustrated instructions plus afternoon tea for extra inspiration. The homemade cake really works to get flagging students over the line. A few years ago a friend had suggested I sell classes online. Of course, I procrastinated... a lot, until I gradually I assessed all the classes I had run as live Guided Painting sessions. I had created 38 individual images for Guided classes over the previous five years. I had quite an IP. The online class benefits massively from having been previously taught live I have been able to see first hand if the instructions don't make sense or I have over complicated the process. During ...