Lesson Testers
Want to be a lesson tester for some upcoming acrylic painting workshops?
If you'd like to participate, that means free painting lessons for you, in exchange for your honest & detailed feedback--and if you get good results, a testimonial too : )
No previous painting experience needed!
You'll come away with a mini gallery wall of pieces you made!
Since we'll be using different examples, you won't get bored or hung up on any one thing.
You'll be creating finished small projects to really show off your progress. The project pieces go together, so you'll be able to create a gallery wall collection to display at home. (Easy framing tips included!)
You'll need some art supplies...
You can set up a basic painting kit and build as you go!
Paints
I'll recommend an essentials set of 12 colors. Enough to get you started, and you can add from there.
Brushes
We use a variety of smaller brushes for our projects. I'll recommend 11 to start with, and again, you can build as you go.
Surfaces
We practice on canvas paper and in sketchbooks--saving canvas on frames and art boards for final pieces.
Extras
Simple things like a spritzer bottle, brush water container, glazing medium and gesso will get you all set up.
Think Like a Painter
A good painting mentor knows all the skills you'll need, and can explain it all to you in a way that actually makes sense.
Eventually you'll start to know what to do on your own.
That's when you know you're learning to think like a painter.
Feel Like an Artist
Another thing an art teacher can do is help you feel free to create without worrying about how it'll come out--and to think of yourself as an artist. (Sounds easy, but you'd be surprised by how much you can get in your own way).
If you want to make art--and you actually do it--you're an artist.
It's that simple.
Start learning to paint...for real
The lessons work from specific pictures that you'll do your best to copy...but it doesn't end there. The Skillset Toolkit lessons are part of a series designed to teach you the skills you'll need to start painting on your own.
Painterish is about building real skills so you can paint anything you like.
The Painterish Method
All the best teaching methods take something complex and make it feel simple--or at least very doable with practice!
My method centers around what I call the Skillset Toolkit. It's all the essential skills a painter needs, organized into categories, starting with the simple stuff first.
We learn basic skills, then combine them in a lesson.
We build on that by using them in different lessons, adding more skills and complexity as we go.
What's the Skillset Toolkit?
It's a framework for all the main skills acrylic painters need.
