The Art of Painting Beyond Technique from Udemy

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.

What's inside

Learning objectives

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

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

Syllabus

This section is the entire course. It includes thirteen videos, a pdf book and several supplemental pdf documents. By the end of this course you will feel confident about how to improve your paintings

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.

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

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.

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”.

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 Abstraction

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

See one supplemental pdf document for this lecture.

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

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

Lecture 10 – How to Analyze Paintings

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

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

Concluding thoughts from your instructor.

Good to know

Know what's good

, what to watch for

, and possible dealbreakers

Teaches new spatial concepts for adding depth, which is standard in the fine arts industry

Taught by Nancy Reyner, a recognized artist

Suitable for all painting mediums and styles

Examines ways to convey emotion through paintings, which is highly relevant to art

Develops self-analysis methods for assessing painting progress

This course is designed for intermediate painters, as it requires painting experience to fully benefit from the concepts

Activities

Be better prepared before your course. Deepen your understanding during and after it. Supplement your coursework and achieve mastery of the topics covered in The Art of Painting Beyond Technique with these activities:

Review what you know about the concepts of painting

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Fine tune your grasp of the basic concepts of painting before you start the course to succeed better.

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List the names of the 3 main types of painting mediums
Name the 3 main divisions of color theory
List the 7 elements of art
Define what 'value' is in the context of painting

Read 'The Artist's Way' by Julia Cameron

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This popular book is a great way to get inspired and motivated to paint.

View The Artist's Way Toolkit on Amazon

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Read one chapter each week and complete the exercises

Follow Bob Ross tutorials on YouTube

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These calming tutorials demonstrate oil painting techniques that are also applicable to other mediums.

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Choose a tutorial that looks interesting and follow along

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Join a painting group or online forum

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Connect with other painters to share ideas, get feedback, and stay motivated.

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Find a group or forum that aligns with your interests
Introduce yourself and share your work
Participate in discussions and ask for feedback

Create a portfolio of your paintings

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Showcase your best work to potential clients or employers by creating a portfolio of your paintings.

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Select your best paintings
Decide how you want to present your portfolio
Create a professional-looking portfolio

Start a blog or YouTube channel about your painting journey

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Share your experiences and insights as a painter to inspire others and build a following.

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Choose a platform and create your channel or blog
Develop a content calendar
Create high-quality content that is informative and engaging

Contribute to open-source painting software projects

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Give back to the painting community by contributing to the development of open-source painting software.

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Find a project that interests you
Learn the basics of the project's codebase
Make a contribution to the project

Career center

Learners who complete The Art of Painting Beyond Technique will develop knowledge and skills that may be useful to these careers:

Art historian

This course will teach you what to look for when analyzing an art piece which will help you to date and provide context for artwork, which are skills that an Art Historian uses.

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Art Consultant

An Art Consultant helps bring the work of new artists to the forefront, which usually comes with analyzing their work before determining if they will work with them. This course will help you learn how to analyze and critique paintings, making you more efficient in your role as an Art Consultant.

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Art teacher

This course can help build a foundation for an Art Teacher as it will help you learn how to analyze paintings so you can better understand how to teach your students.

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Illustrator

This course can help build a foundation for an Illustrator as it will help you enhance and extend the viewing experience so your art can't be ignored.

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Fine Artist

This course can help build a foundation for a Fine Artist as your learning curve will be lowered and you will be able to master painting in record time. You will also learn how to move forward when stuck, making the learning process go by faster.

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Art Director

This course can help build a foundation for an Art Director as it will help you create your fine paintings much quicker, and with better results. You will learn how to add new inspiration to your work, and how to resolve any painting issue, which creates better results.

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Art gallery director

This course may be useful for an Art Gallery Director as you will learn how to master painting in record time. You will also be able to learn how to resolve any painting issue, and will learn how to move forward when stuck, which will be beneficial when working with artists.

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Curator

This course may be useful for a Curator as you will learn how to analyze and critique your own paintings, which is a helpful skill to have when analyzing the work of others.

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Museum Educator

This course may be useful for a Museum Educator as you will have a better understanding of creating depth and mastering the illusion of space through painting.

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Art Therapist

This course may be useful for an Art Therapist as you will have a better understanding of creating depth and mastering the illusion of space through painting.

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Photographer

This course may be useful for a Photographer as you will have a better understanding of creating depth and mastering the illusion of space through painting.

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Graphic designer

This course may be useful for a Graphic Designer as you will have a better understanding of creating depth and mastering the illusion of space through painting.

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Art dealer

This course may be useful for an Art Dealer as you will have a better understanding of creating depth and mastering the illusion of space through painting.

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Art conservator

This course may be useful for an Art Conservator as you will have a better understanding of creating depth and mastering the illusion of space through painting.

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Framer

This course may be useful for a Framer as you will have a better understanding of creating depth and mastering the illusion of space through painting.

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