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Focal Points	Value Exercise 1	Value Exercise 2	Value Exercise 3
Instructor: Mike Rooney	Instructor: Mike Rooney	Instructor: Mike Rooney	Instructor: Mike Rooney
Join Mike Rooney as he shows you what you need to know about focal points.	Mike Rooney provides a helpful lesson and exercise on values.	Mike Rooney provides a helpful lesson and exercise on values.	Mike Rooney provides a helpful lesson and exercise on values.

Homemade Gadgets	Lukas 1862	Plein Air Tips	Sight Drawing 1
Instructor: Mike Rooney	Instructor: Mike Rooney	Instructor: Mike Rooney	Instructor: Mike Rooney
Mike lets you explore some interesting homemade gadgets that can help you with your artwork.	Join Mike again for a lesson on Lukas 1862 Oil paints.	Mike is here to give helpful tips for people interested in plein air painting.	Mike gives another helpful lesson, this time on sight drawing.

Sight Drawing 2	Packing a Bag	Basic Palette Skills	Color Charts
Instructor: Mike Rooney	Instructor: Mike Rooney	Instructor: Mike Rooney	Instructor: Mike Rooney
Join Mike Rooney for the second part of his sight drawing lesson.	Mike shares his method of packing up for a day of plein air painting.	Join professional plein air painter Mike Rooney for an exciting Free Art Lesson on the basic palette skills.	Join Mike Rooney to learn more about color theory through the use of charts.

Camera	Magnify	Mirror	Perspective
Instructor: Luana Luconi Winner	Instructor: Luana Luconi Winner	Instructor: Luana Luconi Winner	Instructor: Luana Luconi Winner
Luana discusses how helpful the "fresh eye" of a camera can be in critiquing your artwork.	Luana discusses the importance of looking at your work through different eyes with a reducing lens.	Luana uses a mirror to study the alignments of her painting to make sure everything is in order.	Learn about checking to see if the perspective in your painting is correct.

Enriching Darks	Interesting Picket Fence	Barbed Wire	Textured Pots
Instructor: Luana Luconi Winner	Instructor: Tom Jones	Instructor: Tom Jones	Instructor: Tom Jones
Join Luana Luconi Winner to find out some neat ways to enrich the darks in a painting or drawing.	Join Tom Jones for an exciting Free Art Lesson on how to create an interesting picket fence.	Tom Jones demonstrates how to use watercolors to make a painting with barbed wire.	Join Tom to learn a fun and easy way to paint textured pots.

Creating Smoke	Lifting Color to Create Shapes	20 Minute Drill	Painting Upside Down
Instructor: Tom Jones	Instructor: Tom Jones	Instructor: Chuck McLachlan	Instructor: Mike Rooney
Join Tom Jones for an exciting Free Art Lesson on creating smoke.	Join Tom Jones to learn about his rechniques for lifting color to create shapes.	Join Chuck for his "20 Minute Drill" on watercolors.	Join Mike Rooney as he steps you through the process of painting upside down.

Painterly Lines	Enjoying Painting	Flat Brush	Planned Spontaneity
Instructor: Dan Nelson	Instructor: Dan Nelson	Instructor: Dan Nelson	Instructor: Dan Nelson
Dan talks about painting styles and specifically, the painterly lines in his painting.	Join Dan as he explains that you should always enjoy your time painting.	Dan shares how to use the flat brush and how to avoid the "flat brush syndrome."	Dan explains how and why your artwork should have a spontaneous element.

Spraying Pastels	Applying Pastels	Negative Painting	Painting From Photos
Instructor: Dick Ensing	Instructor: Dick Ensing	Instructor: Dan Nelson	Instructor: Dan Nelson
Dick Ensing explains the process of spraying and fixing your pastel artwork.	Join Dick Ensing to learn about how to apply your pastels to the surface you are working on.	Dan Nelson describes the process of negative painting and you can benefit from it.	Dan gives tips on how to approach painting from photographs.

Connecting the Dots	Big Brush	Color Mixing	Setting Up the Palette
Instructor: Dan Nelson	Instructor: Dan Nelson	Instructor: Dick Ensing	Instructor: Dick Ensing
When creating artwork, the brain likes to connect the dots as Dan explains.	Join Dan Nelson to learn why it is best to use the biggest brush you can get away with.	Dick Ensing shares his helpful wisdom on color mixing methods.	Join Dick Ensing to learn how to set up the palette before you begin painting.

Three Point Guide	Ratios	Meaning Vs. History	Don't Paint the Barn
Instructor: Dick Ensing	Instructor: Dan Nelson	Instructor: Dan Nelson	Instructor: Dan Nelson
Dick Ensing explains the three point guide.	Join Dan Nelson to learn how ratios are applied to artwork.	Join Dan Nelson for a discussion on meaning vs. history.	Dan gives a reminder to never turn your brain off while painting.

Adding Foliage	Values	Darkening Bright Colors	Lighten Bright Colors
Instructor: Susan Scheewe	Instructor: Mike Rooney	Instructor: Mike Rooney	Instructor: Mike Rooney
Susan demonstrates how easy it is to add foliage to your paintings.	Learn how to break down things into five different values with Mike Rooney.	Mike Rooney gives a lesson on darkening bright colors.	Join Mike Rooney for a lesson on lightening bright colors.

Three Color Painting	Cleaning Your Pastels	Using Frisket	The Eye
Instructor: Dick Ensing	Instructor: Dick Ensing	Instructor: Susan Scheewe	Instructor: Luana Luconi Winner
Join Dick Ensing as he takes you through the ways of painting with a three color palette.	Join Dick Ensing to learn about how to clean your pastels.	In this lesson, Susan shows you how to use frisket.	Luana Luconi Winner shows you how to create the properly structured human eye.

Helpful Tips	Landscape Project Part 1	Landscape Project Part 2	Landscape Project Part 3
Instructor: Linda Kemp	Instructor: Linda Kemp	Instructor: Linda Kemp	Instructor: Linda Kemp
Join Linda Kemp for an exciting series of Lessons demonstrating negative painting techniques with watercolors.	Join Linda Kemp for an exciting series of Lessons demonstrating negative painting techniques with watercolors.	Join Linda Kemp for an exciting series of Lessons demonstrating negative painting techniques with watercolors.	Join Linda Kemp for an exciting series of Lessons demonstrating negative painting techniques with watercolors.

Wisteria Part 1	Wisteria Part 2	Wisteria Part 3	Wisteria Part 4
Instructor: Linda Kemp	Instructor: Linda Kemp	Instructor: Linda Kemp	Instructor: Linda Kemp
Join Linda Kemp for an exciting series of Lessons demonstrating negative painting techniques with watercolors.	Join Linda Kemp for an exciting series of Lessons demonstrating negative painting techniques with watercolors.	Join Linda Kemp for an exciting series of Lessons demonstrating negative painting techniques with watercolors.	Join Linda Kemp for an exciting series of Lessons demonstrating negative painting techniques with watercolors.

Landscapes	Layers Negative Space	Layers Watercolor Techniques	Tapping in the Foreground
Instructor: Linda Kemp	Instructor: Linda Kemp	Instructor: Linda Kemp	Instructor: Susan Scheewe
Join Linda Kemp for an exciting series of Lessons demonstrating negative painting techniques with watercolors.	Join Linda Kemp for an exciting series of Lessons demonstrating negative painting techniques with watercolors.	Join Linda Kemp for an exciting series of Lessons demonstrating negative painting techniques with watercolors.	Susan uses her tapping techniques to put in the foreground of her painting.

Adding Detail	Adding Texture	Increasing Brights	Layering
Instructor: Susan Scheewe	Instructor: Susan Scheewe	Instructor: Susan Scheewe	Instructor: Susan Scheewe
Professional artist Susan Scheewe gives a lesson on adding detail with acrylics.	Learn more about how to add texture to your acrylic paintings in this lesson.	Join Susan Scheewe to learn more about increasing the brights using acrylics.	Join Susan Scheewe to learn more about layering your acrylic paints.

Making Gradients	Pushing in Clouds	Underpainting	Using Acrylics
Instructor: Susan Scheewe	Instructor: Susan Scheewe	Instructor: Susan Scheewe	Instructor: Susan Scheewe
Watch and learn the different methods to making gradients using acrylic paints.	Learn how easy it is to push the color onto the paper to create clouds.	In this lesson, Susan explains the uses of underpainting with acrylics.	Learn the basics of how to use acrylic paints with Susan Scheewe.

Pushing to the Background	Opacity	Making Clouds	Frisket Remover
Instructor: Susan Scheewe	Instructor: Susan Scheewe	Instructor: Susan Scheewe	Instructor: Susan Scheewe
Watch as Susan Scheewe shows you how to push things into the background.	Susan Scheewe teaches about the opacity of paints.	Join Susan to learn how fun and easy it is to create realistic looking clouds.	Join Susan for an example of how to use frisket remover.

Working with Gel Medium
Instructor: Susan Scheewe
In this lesson, Susan gives examples of how to use gel medium.