Art: Enhance Your Style Series: 1

Explore color theory fundamentals, including primary, secondary, and tertiary colors, and learn to use the color wheel to create complementary, triad color schemes, analogous color schemes, and monochromatic color schemes.

Explore the elements of art—color, value, texture, shape, line, space, and form—and how hue, intensity, and value create emphasis, balance, rhythm, harmony, and visual order.

Explore emotional color theory and how color shapes perception, emotion, and message in art. Learn how warm and cool hues, from red to blue, carry meanings that influence viewers.

Experiment with unique tools and textures to think outside the box and create fascinating designs. Embrace multiple approaches, stay curious, and keep growing as an artist.

Learn 19 unique tools for mark making, from mascara brush to bottle stopper, using stamping, dragging, and brushing techniques to create dots, lines, textures, and patterns.

Explore unique tools connectivity in the art style series, and how connecting tools relates to art within this course.

Go as far as your own career; your fans are there. Explore unique tools for stenciling in art.

Explore how past and present day artists inspire technique, color choices, and innovations. Examine perspectives, sources of inspiration, and recreate works in your own style through an art journal exercise.

Explore art journaling as a flexible space for sketching, drawing, painting, color mixing, writing, and collage to capture the creative process and experimentation.

Experience an art journal slide show that combines art and style as a visual showcase.

Create a golden nebula art journal page using clear gesso, blue tones, string painting with black ink, and gold accents, adding borders and dimensional embellishments for an exploding nebula effect.

Explore a mixed media art journal process on an 11 by 14 pad, starting with a graphite underpinning sealed with Claire Jesko and a credit card. Blend cadmium red dye, burnt umber, red oxide, yellow oxide, and titanium whites to form circular discs, then add flesh acrylic paint, script, swirls, and copper highlights for warmth.

Explore art journal memories lost and their impact on style within the art: enhance your style series.

Develop art journal skills to express your style through cosmic vertigo themes in the first installment of the art journal series.

Unlock imaginative potential to boost creative thinking in art by engaging all five senses, daydreaming productively, and practicing journaling, questioning, and exploring varied styles and sources.

Explore collage making by assembling magazine clippings and ephemera with adhesives, exploring intuitive and intentional placement to build textured, mixed-media artworks.

Explore how collage redefines creativity in art through a practical demo. Learn techniques to boost your style with mixed-media collage.

Create a compelling artist portfolio by selecting polished works, showcasing your passion and individuality, and including cover letters, artist statements, resumes, pricing, and accurate dimensions.