This 7-week course is centered around composition, a fundamental principle of art.

Composition refers to the way you organize the elements in your artwork to guide the viewer’s eye and create balance in your painting.

A well-composed artwork makes it more visually engaging and helps convey the story, mood, or message you want to express.

You’ll learn practical rules and strategies for arranging shapes, lines, values, color, and space so your paintings feel balanced and deliver the visual impact you intend.

Throughout the course, you will apply these principles and work at your own pace to create a painting of your choice: a still life, a landscape, a portrait, or even a surrealist-inspired/ fantasy art.

Creative freedom is encouraged; the composition rules are tools you can adapt, bend, or break once you understand them.

By the end of this course, you will:

• Know how to create thumbnails before committing to a final painting,

• Understand and apply major composition rules across genres.

• Confidently plan and execute a painting with a clear focal point and strong structural coherence.

• Be able to analyze and improve compositions in your own work and others’.

• Have a finished painting that demonstrates your personal voice alongside sound compositional decisions.

Choose your subject, sketch your first thumbnails, and begin shaping your composition—this course will give you the tools to make deliberate, expressive choices in every painting you create.

Supplies you will need:

• A small sketchbook for quick thumbnail sketches

• Pencil

• Canvas/ canvas pad/ canvas panel for your painting/s

• Paints of your choice

Sign up for the course HERE.