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COLOR INTERROGATION
$99.00
One time

Build a flesh-tone mixing system you can actually use OVER and OVER. Learn how to push color warmer, cooler, lighter, darker, and less saturated using the student paints you already own.

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INNOCENT
$69.00
One time

Children look deceptively easy to paint. Smooth Skin. Rosy Cheeks. No Wrinkles. What could possibly go wrong?

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SKIP THE BOTOX
$69.00
One time

Mature skin brings richer color shifts, softer edges, folds, wrinkles, texture and character. You’ll learn how to paint all of that without making the face harsh, ashy or overworked.

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Give Me Some Skin

GIVE ME SOME SKIN
$189.00
One time

The Complete Series Bundle 3 courses: COLOR INTERROGATION • INNOCENT • SKIP THE BOTOX Learn the color system first, then learn to use it by painting both ends of the skin-spectrum: the softness and luminosity of young skin, and the beautiful complexity of mature skin.

D R O P O U T   G A L L E R Y

  • Kate Bullock - Hometown Dreams

  • Karen Mack - Lindo Perrito

  • Heather's VERY FIRST oil painting

  • Karen Mack - Snacking Kingfisher

  • Julie Flashkamp

  • Terry Nelson

  • Gail Whittet

  • Janice Peterson - Twilight in Flames

How Dropout University works:

Learning your way.
Most classes are offered LIVE first.
If you enroll while I’m currently teaching the class live, you can join the Zoom sessions, ask questions, and follow along in real time. These classes are open and quite casual.
After the live sessions are complete, the edited recording stays available as a self-paced lesson along with PDF notes and other class resources.
So depending on when you enroll:
  • Currently being taught live: join me live or watch the recordings later.
  • Already completed live: jump straight into the recorded lessons on your own schedule.
Either way, once you purchase the class, you have access to everything.

Moving at the speed of learning

Each live session runs for 90 minutes, but I don’t lock a class into an arbitrary number of sessions.

Some topics move quickly. Others need more time, more questions, more paint, and occasionally a little swearing.

We’ll meet live for as many 90-minute sessions as it takes for me to fully teach the curriculum.

I don’t rush the class just because the clock says we should be done. If you’re attending live, your questions help shape the pace. If you’re watching later, you get the benefit of all those questions and conversations in the recorded lessons.

  • Put your paints in the hot seat. Get the truth out of them by testing them under pressure.
    This is STRICTLY for flesh tones.

    This will be the precursor class to INNOCENT and SKIP THE BOTOX.

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  • Paint those sweet innocent children before they grow up and become hardened criminals.

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    INCLUDED:
    Supply list
    Live Sessions
    Replays
    PDF notes

  • Painting skin that’s been lived in

    Wrinkles, texture, scars.

  • Everything you need to know about buying, prepping and painting on aluminum panels for that amazing smooth finish.

    • Build a swatch cabinet and learn how to get predictable colors and values.

    • Learn which colors are dominant and which ones are submissive.

    • Learn the drying habits of your paints.

  • Photographing your work for perfect submissions.

    • Affinity photo for artists. Learn how to make your reference images amazing.

    • Sample colors for color

    • Keeping track of paint mixtures.

  • Learning to use brushes to their full avantage.

  • Grisaille - value before color.

  • Glazing to create depth, glow and richness.

  • Varnishing your painting for protection, longevity and a professional finish.

  • How the hell do you frame an aluminum panel in a floating frame?

    Yup, we are going there.

  • Fixing your painting post varnish.

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