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I am so excited to share with you that my newest online art course is OPEN for early registration!!!

Beneath the Surface | Painting with Translucent Layers

Early registration is $42 and will go to full price of $62 on August 12th.

This course will go live September 10th and the 7 hours of content will be available for download and lifetime access

This course is all about exploring the beauty of translucency, allowing each part of the process to have a voice. We will dive into exploring various mediums, tools, and techniques to build translucent layers. We will form beautiful conversations through creating florals, landscapes, and abstracts on various surfaces.

I am honored to be a guest teacher for Jeanne Oliver on her beautiful Creative Network.

I have poured so much into this course and cannot wait to
create with you!

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Join me on a journey to dive beneath the surface to create beautiful art with depth, interest, gorgeous layers and color. In this course you will learn how to use various tools and mediums to build translucent layers. We will also cover techniques such as lino printing, hand stitching, and mark making within our projects. Get introduced to the dance of watercolors and acrylic paint as they join together to create unique and beautiful effects. The techniques you will learn here will translate beyond this course and influence the work you continue to create long after you complete it.

You will create artwork featuring florals, landscapes and abstracts on paper, canvas, and wood substrates. This journey will lead you to new creative discoveries and to experience the joy of creating artwork that is meaningful to you.

You will be guided through the processes of gathering inspiration, creating color palettes, following your own creative intuition to discover and use your own marks as the foundation for creating a painting.

Our hope is that you will fall in love with the depth and interest created by translucent layers. So come along on the journey with Melissa and others to try your own hand at creating translucent layers.

Techniques Taught in this Course

Painting with acrylics, pastels, ink, and watercolors
Using translucency to highlight underlayers
Lino printing basics
Lino printing with water soluble mediums/watercolors to create translucent layers
Carving floral and landscape Lino prints
Use tracing paper, water soluble mediums, and mark making tools to form into beautiful layers
Paint intuitively
Create small studies for future inspiration
Let go of perfection and allow the process to guide you
Mark making exploration
Painting florals on paper and canvas
Create translucent layers with a limited palette
Abstract techniques and mark making
Create landscape paintings
Pulling a palette together
Image transferring onto a Lino block
Creative stitching to add a unique touch to your artwork