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The Art of Painting Beyond Technique
Rating: 4.6 out of 5(127 ratings)
944 students

The Art of Painting Beyond Technique

Groundbreaking ideas to refine and inspire your artistic vision.
Created byNancy Reyner
Last updated 1/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • New contemporary ideas about painting. Learn how to convey emotion through the work.
  • How to create powerful and exciting images. Ways to keep painting from your right brain.
  • Understanding realism and abstraction for painting
  • Best tools to create the illusion of space

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Course content

1 section • 13 lectures • 7h 10m total length

  • Introduction7:18

    Welcome from your instructor. How to get the most from this course, preparation and supplies.

    Download pdf book Create Perfect Paintings included with this course. Download pdf document Course Assignments and Resources.

  • Lecture 2: Ideas About Painting36:03

    Explore a variety of ways to define painting. Gain insights into the painting process and the viewing experience.

  • Lecture 3: What's Your Story?23:43

    The idea of story plays a significant role in what we paint and how our paintings are viewed. Explore a variety of ideas about stories to deepen your concepts about images.

  • Lecture 4 - The Illusion of Space in Painting45:19

    Learn how the illusion of space can attract viewers to your work. Gain a wide range of expressive spatial tools — from the Renaissance methods of perspective to contemporary notions of “push-pull”.

  • Lecture 5 – Best Ways to Create Illusion of Space42:00

    New tools and concepts to create the optimal type of space for your paintings.

    Download three supplemental pdf documents for this lecture.

  • Lecture 6 – Realism vs Abstraction22:04
  • Lecture 7 – Left & Right Brain Sides39:31

    Learn to paint with more ease and flow by accessing the creative side of your brain.

    See one supplemental pdf document for this lecture.

  • Lecture 8 – Mastering Eye Choreography51:46

    New concepts and techniques for exciting visual movement. How to heighten viewer experience.

  • Lecture 9 – Expressing Emotion in Painting40:54

    Discover ways to portray emotion in a painting that will convey in a dynamic way to the viewer.

  • Lecture 10 – How to Analyze Paintings58:01
  • Lecture 11 – Your Work Space14:02

    Explore how your work space can influence your painting and ways to improve it.

  • Lecture 12 – Is It Finished?44:06

    Learn to recognize when your painting is truly finished, and how to get the results you want.

  • Lecture 13 - Conclusion6:07

    Concluding thoughts from your instructor.

Requirements

  • Some previous painting experience in the medium of your choice.

Description

Learn Nancy’s comprehensive and systematic critique method to improve and enhance your paintings. These contemporary concepts will help you create your fine art paintings quicker, with more ease, and better results. Exceptional self-analysis methods will bring more attention to your paintings and expand your audience. Enjoy watching your paintings progress from good to great. Shrink the learning curve and master painting in record time! This course beats years of art school training. Realistic or abstract – all painting mediums and styles will benefit.

The course uses a proven step-by-step process that teaches you exactly how to:

  • add new inspiration to your work.

  • quickly move forward when you get stuck.

  • make ideal choices to maximize results right from the start with any new painting.

  • find perfect solutions to resolve any painting issue.

No need to change your painting style or subject matter (unless you want to). You don't need to learn to paint like someone else. Instead, this course empowers you to make your own unique paintings. You become a smarter painter. You will learn how to improve your painting's viewing power. Learn to push 2D images into the illusion of 3D with contemporary and classic spatial concepts. Learn to enhance and extend the viewing experience so your art can't be ignored!

Achieve exciting images, quickly resolve painting issues and easily move your painting to the next level.

Who this course is for:

  • Intermediate and advanced painters, or any painter wanting to broaden their scope about art and improve their skills.

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