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Course Category: Online

  • Figure Painting Phase III

    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    • Painting Courses - $119.00 / month
    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    by Jeffrey Watts
    31 Lessonsin ,

    This course will expand upon your figure painting foundational skills, and introduce you to the loose style and expressive edge work of gesture figure painting. These lessons will help you understand color and color mixing in a more instinctual way, as well as help hone your understanding of edge work and your ability to push and design from your reference. This charismatic approach to figure painting is a wonderful way to "loosen up" your painting approach and work on expressive brushmanship.

  • Figure Painting Phase IV

    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    • Painting Courses - $119.00 / month
    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    by Jeffrey Watts
    17 Lessonsin , ,

    In this course will feature Jeff painting from various masters and demonstrating how they approached rendering the figure in oil.  These lessons will help you focus on your observational painting, applying your knowledge of anatomy, and sharpen your sense of design by differing to the masters.  It will cover a wide range of stylistic interpretations, drawing upon the work of William Adolphe Bouguereau, Diego Velasquez, Solomon J. Solomon and Anders Zorn.

  • Still Life Phase I

    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    • Painting Courses - $119.00 / month
    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    by Jeffrey Watts
    19 Lessonsin

    Basic composition, staging, and limited palettes will be the emphasis of this phase.  The phase begins with one object rendered in each of the 3 palettes: Burnt Umber Pick-Out, Burnt Umber White, and Phthalo Blue Black and White. You will then work up to two (and ultimately three) objects. Instructor Jeff Watts will go over… Continue reading →

  • Still Life Phase II

    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    • Painting Courses - $119.00 / month
    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    by Jeffrey Watts
    21 Lessonsin

    You are now ready to study some of the key patinas you will need to paint in your artistic career.  In this phase Jeff Watts has selected five of the patinas he has had the most calling to do in his career, as well as ones that were the most challenging.  Watch in the following… Continue reading →

  • Still Life Phase III

    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    • Painting Courses - $119.00 / month
    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    by Jeffrey Watts
    19 Lessonsin ,

    In this course, Jeff will show you how to approach still life painting with shorter, more gestural techniques.  This course focuses on the "direct" approach, and understanding how to paint wet into wet.  Watch as Jeff teaches you how to add life and vibrance to your still life pieces by keeping a quicker pace and laying confident marks, all while learning how to navigate the common hurdles that await still life painters, such as color harmony, texture, and composition.

  • Gouache Phase I

    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    • Painting Courses - $119.00 / month
    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    by Jeffrey Watts
    19 Lessonsin

    In this phase Jeff Watts introduces you to his second favorite medium after oil: gouache. He will demonstrate this medium using a traditional approach that is rarely taught in contemporary art schools. It will be instrumental to your future growth. Jeff refers to this technique as “tiling”, but you can think of it as shape… Continue reading →

  • Gouache Phase II

    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    • Painting Courses - $119.00 / month
    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    by Jeffrey Watts
    21 Lessonsin

    Now that you have successfully completed the Phase I gouache you can open up your palette some more, to a warm/cool palette. This will allow for a full treatment of color. We will again be working up our paintings through the chain of values, but now we will have a greater opportunity to use a… Continue reading →

  • Gouache Phase III

    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    • Painting Courses - $119.00 / month
    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    by Jeffrey Watts
    18 Lessonsin

    Painting from the master’s was an instrumental learning tool for Jeff as a student and still plays an important role in his current training regimen. In this phase Jeff picked a few of his favorite illustrators to emulate. Each one possess certain qualities that he feels will help cultivate your design skills, color harmonies, edge manipulation and much more.

  • Landscape Phase I

    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    • Painting Courses - $119.00 / month
    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    by Jeffrey Watts
    30 Lessonsin

    The goal of this phase is to introduce you to the fundamentals of landscape composition.  Jeff will go over 13 different compositional “stems” used throughout history by some of the great landscape painters.  He will then use black and white gouache to do several small thumbnail paintings of each compositional stem, while explaining each one… Continue reading →

  • Landscape Phase II

    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    • Painting Courses - $119.00 / month
    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    by Jeffrey Watts
    19 Lessonsin

    Now that you have begun to understand the basics of landscape composition, let’s break apart various concepts within landscape and learn to tackle them. In this phase Jeff Watts will be introducing you to a fabulous limited palette–similar to the Zorn palette–but more ideally suited to the landscape painter. It features four colors: cadmium yellow,… Continue reading →

  • Landscape Phase III

    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    • Painting Courses - $119.00 / month
    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    by Jeffrey Watts
    18 Lessonsin

    In this class Jeff Will walk you through breaking down Landscape paintings from some of his favorite painters. Emphasis will be on picking up the chosen artist’s brushmanship, color harmonies, compositional choices, and shape design. Jeff will work from 4 artists; noted seascape painter Frederick Judd Waugh, Northern Californian impressionist painter Percy Gray, California Impressionist Edgar Payne, and lastly Russian impressionist Isaac Levitan. This Phase is a must do for aspiring landscape painters, conceptual designers and illustrator’s.

  • Creating Environments

    • Creating Environments - $49.00 / month
    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    by Robert Watts
    16 Lessonsin ,

    In this course we will discover what makes environments and images feel the way they do. This is essential for the storyboard and environmental design, Illustrators and fine artists. We will cover the four main types of images: hostile, mysterious, romanticized and tranquil.

  • Observational Color

    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    • Observational Color, with Meadow Gist - $49.00 / month
    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    by Meadow Gist
    12 Lessonsin

    One of the greatest gifts of sight is our ability to distinguish colors. The human eye can distinguish around 10,000,000 colors. This may be why the Impressionist movement had and continues to have a large following. The transition from black and white training can feel daunting. There are so many choices, so many variations of paint colors and formulas. Do we use viridian green or pthalo green? Opaque or transparent? What about limited or extensive palettes? How do we learn to observe color? With a plethora of combinations, it is wise to break our studies into small manageable portions. We will first learn some of the terminology of the color language, followed by simple color exer- cises, and graduating to more complex observations.

  • Studio Still Life

    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    • Studio Stilllife, with Meadow Gist - $49.00 / month
    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    by Meadow Gist
    16 Lessonsin

    This video showcases a longer-format still life painting. We will cover the tools necessary to embark on a more complicated scene. A cohesive theme can be formed with a basic arsenal of elements such as flowers, metals and glass. Other topics are discussed ranging from the supply of a still life "larder" to color comps. This video is a fifteen part exploration of a garden theme with roses, bird nests, and antique metal objects.

  • Painting Mood & Atmosphere in Gouache

    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    • Painting Mood & Atmosphere in Gouache, with Robert Watts - $49.00 / month
    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    by Robert Watts
    13 Lessonsin

    Join Robert Watts, Jeff’s father, as he walks you through a variety of illustrative scenarios and visual problem-solving solutions, using one of his favorite mediums, Gouache.  Robert will lend insight from his 40 plus years as a commercial illustrator and fine artist, and use his eclectic and masterful skill sets to demonstrate how to put… Continue reading →

  • Drapery

    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Drapery, with Erik Gist - $49.00 / month
    by Erik Gist
    19 Lessonsin

    The goal of this class is to familiarize you with each of the seven key folds, as well as their function and usage in the process of drawing and painting. Through diligent practice of these principals you will eventually gain a mastery of drapery that will open you up to explore your creative and artistic potential.

  • Composition and Staging

    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    • Composition and Staging, with Robert Watts - $49.00 / month
    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    by Robert Watts
    14 Lessonsin

    The goal of this class is to simplify the elements and procedures that produce excellent compositions…from motifs, overlap, linking and the monster power of shadows to the concept of contrasts and that mysterious thing called mood.

  • Perspective Essentials

    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    • Perspective Essentials, with Erik Gist - $49.00 / month
    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    by Erik Gist
    13 Lessonsin

    Join Erik Gist as he delves into the essentials of perspective.  The goal of this course is more than simply learning the techniques and geometry for creating a convincing illusion of three- dimensional space;  It is about dictating how an individual perceives your image, how they enter and interact with the scene you have created.… Continue reading →

  • Studio Landscapes: Structures

    • Studio Landscapes: Structures, with Robert Watts - $49.00 / month
    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    by Robert Watts
    15 Lessonsin ,

    In this course, Robert Watts will show you how to execute a studio landscape painting with a focus on structures..  Watch as Robert explains the differences between plein air painting and studio landscapes, and learn the importance of color studies and how to properly utilize reference in the studio.  Follow along as Robert demonstrates these… Continue reading →

  • Anatomy Intensives - Arms and Legs

    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    • Anatomy Intensives - Arms and Legs, with Erik Gist - $49.00 / month
    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    by Erik Gist
    13 Lessonsin

    In this phase we will be exploring one of the most important aspects of figure drawing, anatomy.  We will be taking an in depth look at the arms and legs, starting with the skeleton and working our way up to the surface morphology.  Along the way we will be examining the form and functionality of… Continue reading →

  • Features and Facial Expressions

    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Features and Facial Expressions, with Lucas Graciano - $49.00 / month
    by Watts Instructors
    12 Lessonsin

    This Course will cover the fundamentals of drawing features and facial expressions. Construction of each feature will be the focus of the first portion of the course. Facial anatomy will then be taught as a transition into drawing facial expressions. Students will then move on to cover the seven main facial expressions.

  • Fundamentals of Character Design

    • 7 day Free Trial - $0.00
    • Character Design, with Lucas Graciano - $49.00 / month
    • Drawing, Painting, & Master Class Program - $199.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    • Instructor Mentored Program - $499.00 / month
    by Andrew Ballesteros
    18 Lessonsin

    This course will cover the fundamental aspects of Character design for work in Conceptual Design. Here you will learn various methods for maximizing a high creative potential. There is introduction and demonstration of mediums commonly used in the industry. The course covers fundamental aspects of design and how to add personality to your characters. You will also be walked from sketch to completion through a common way industry professionals achieve their results.