Compose your own reference image. Stop wasting time in the studio - Build a dynamic portfolio - Make art that matter
Class Collection
🌱 Starter - beginner or refresher
🔹 Build - growing skills, exploration
🎨 All Levels - beginner friendly, advancing fast
💥 Intensive - full immersion, mastery
Composition will make or break a painting. Are you depending on stock photos for ideas? Do you want to start creating portraits that are fully your own? Learn the rules that hold a viewer’s attention, how to design your own references, and techniques that give your work structure and clarity.
🌱 Starter
Flow In Compsitin
Craft compositions that keep people coming back for more.
Instructor: Liz Ranney
🌱 Starter
Too many artists leave their work up to fate and don't have a clear direction on how to compose a painting. 'Flow in Composition' will help you create unique compositions that communicate the ideas behind your art and create engaging masterpieces.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
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The fundamental rules of composition
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How to formulate your own reference image
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Paint Sketching Technique
Composition gives your work structure and plays a big role in how your work is perceived and understood. A bad composition can lead a viewers eye off your canvas and onto the next one. A good composition will hold the viewers attention!
Get started with simple techniques to upgrade your composition skills and keep the viewer focused on YOUR work!
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"GREAT class, Liz!
I thoroughly enjoyed the teaching and how you walked us through coming up with our own dynamic compositions!
I'm really looking forward to putting these techniques into practice in my future paintings. Thank you so much. :)"
- Heather Beers
Flow In Compsitin
Craft compositions that keep people coming back for more.
Instructor: Liz Ranney
🌱 Starter
Too many artists leave their work up to fate and don't have a clear direction on how to compose a painting. 'Flow in Composition' will help you create unique compositions that communicate the ideas behind your art and create engaging masterpieces.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
-
The fundamental rules of composition
-
How to formulate your own reference image
-
Paint Sketching Technique
Composition gives your work structure and plays a big role in how your work is perceived and understood. A bad composition can lead a viewers eye off your canvas and onto the next one. A good composition will hold the viewers attention!
Get started with simple techniques to upgrade your composition skills and keep the viewer focused on YOUR work!
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"GREAT class, Liz!
I thoroughly enjoyed the teaching and how you walked us through coming up with our own dynamic compositions!
I'm really looking forward to putting these techniques into practice in my future paintings. Thank you so much. :)"
- Heather Beers
Learn how to apply composition techniques in your painting, weave in storytelling details, and combine expressive faces with natural elements to design artwork that feels alive and original. This class gives you the tools to build portraits from imagination, not just references.
🎨 All Levels
COMPOSING BOLD PORTRAITS
Dive into a world where painting and imagination become one.
By Liz Ranney
🎨 All Levels
Can you imagine composing a piece of art entirely from your own imagination without having to worry about copyrighted reference photos? Liz Ranney is the Canadian artist behind this piece. Her work unites expressive faces with elements of nature to create bold imagery.
Liz teaches the basic techniques of composition and shows you how to combine elements to make your own unique work, becoming less reliant on reference images and leaning more on your own imagination.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
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Apply rules of composition
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Tell a story with visual elements
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Add Florals to a portrait
- Complete a Portrait Painting
This class follow Liz's Composition Basic Training called, Flow in Composition.
"Wow that's a beautiful painting, your style is so amazing. I am looking forward to using everything you taught in my next painting as I do struggle with placement and never considered motion that unintentionally takes a viewers eyes off target before.
Awesome tools, thanks for sharing them."
- Heather Leduc
COMPOSING BOLD PORTRAITS
Dive into a world where painting and imagination become one.
By Liz Ranney
🎨 All Levels
Can you imagine composing a piece of art entirely from your own imagination without having to worry about copyrighted reference photos? Liz Ranney is the Canadian artist behind this piece. Her work unites expressive faces with elements of nature to create bold imagery.
Liz teaches the basic techniques of composition and shows you how to combine elements to make your own unique work, becoming less reliant on reference images and leaning more on your own imagination.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
-
Apply rules of composition
-
Tell a story with visual elements
-
Add Florals to a portrait
- Complete a Portrait Painting
This class follow Liz's Composition Basic Training called, Flow in Composition.
"Wow that's a beautiful painting, your style is so amazing. I am looking forward to using everything you taught in my next painting as I do struggle with placement and never considered motion that unintentionally takes a viewers eyes off target before.
Awesome tools, thanks for sharing them."
- Heather Leduc
Compositon Bundle
Both Classes Together
Build your composition skills start to finish with these two classes. Learn to design solid references, then bring portraits to life with expressive faces and storytelling details straight from your imagination into bold color.
🎨 All Levels
"I thoroughly enjoyed the teaching and how you walked us through coming up with our own dynamic compositions!"
Heather Beers
"I love the pace of your teaching and that you to tell us exactly what you’re thinking.
My biggest Takeaway was the idea that the initial sketch didn’t need to be accurate.
This was a very worthwhile!!"
Kimber Heineman
"Wow that's a beautiful painting, your style is amazing. I am looking forward to using everything you taught! I do struggle with placement and never considered unintentionally takes a viewers eyes off target before.
Awesome tools, thanks for sharing them."
Heather Leduc
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Liz Ranney
Liz Ranney is a painter, muralist, illustrator, and graphic designer living in the Okanagan Valley with her husband and two daughters. Her work is high energy with bright and bold color. She likes to explore visual stories and ideas of connection, interaction, expression, and beauty. Liz earned a BFA in Visual Arts at UBC Okanagan.
WEB: www.lizranney.com
IG: @lizranneyart
Other Works by Liz:
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Consumer Testimonials. As with any program, your results using The Color Playbook may vary from these consumer testimonials. Your results will be based on many variables, such as your level of effort, personal qualities, knowledge, skills, and a host of other factors. Since these factors differ for each individual, we cannot guarantee your success or results, nor are we responsible for your success or failure. Becoming a better artist takes time, effort, and dedication. We believe that we provide you a great toolbox to achieve your desired results, and our grads agree.
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GREAT class, Liz!
I thoroughly enjoyed the teaching and how you walked us through coming up with our own dynamic compositions!
I'm really looking forward to putting these techniques into practice in my future paintings. Thank you so much. :)"
- Heather Beers
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