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Charla's Class Library
Paint a face using the full color spectrum in this bold, real-time portrait class. Learn to control your palette, loosen your brushwork, and rethink color through practical mixing and troubleshooting techniques.
What if every wrinkle told a story—and you got to paint it your way? This class moves beyond the reference photo, teaching you to capture the depth and emotion of older faces with structure, intuition, and bold expression.
From elephants to hummingbirds, explore the same artistic elements used in human portraiture—color, texture, and form—while painting expressive animal faces in vibrant, unexpected palettes.
Mixology isn't just for cocktails, around here it’s about color. Mix the exact colors you need—no more muddy results or guesswork. Create your own color profiles and learn how to apply them to your work.
Painting is like telling a story—just like sentences and punctuation, mark making is the language that brings your art to life. This class will give you a new vocabulary of marks! Includes texture, tools and color!
Create art where colors just work together. This series breaks it down in a simple, 5-step way, showing you how colors “get along” and make your paintings feel alive. It's not complicated—just learn how to make your colors sing.
Remove the barriers between you, the art you love to make, and the people your art is meant to impact. This signature class alone will teach you everything you need to know to paint your first bold color portrait.
This beginner class covers the essentials of acrylic painting, focusing on the tools and understanding color in a practical way. Use color to create bold, abstract portraits, with step-by-step guidance to help you get started and build confidence in your art.
Paint With Every Color of the Rainbow
Break every old habit of matching color.
Bold color is all about the rainbow so why not paint the entire color spectrum on a face? This class will challenge your ability to control color and help you break the old habits of realism, blending and tight brushwork.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
✔️ Color Mixing Strategy
✔️ Control your Color Palette
✔️ Loosen up your brush strokes
✔️ Paint entire portrait in real-time
✔️ Troubleshooting and Analyzing your process
✔️ Plus much more!
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"Binge watched, of course! I was fascinated by your description of how you hold your brushes and which angle you use for each stroke by seeing the shapes on the reference picture before making a mark on the canvas."
- Mary-Ellen Lee
TELL A STORY WITH WRINKLES
Stop painting a face. Start telling a story.
Use color and brushwork to create art that truly impacts viewers. It’s time to go beyond just copying a reference—use structure, skill, and personal expression to bring a story to life on your canvas. Sometimes the story is clear before you start, and sometimes the painting reveals it as you go. Learn to control color and marks, while also making space for your piece to evolve naturally.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
✔️ Painting wrinkles with depth
✔️ Tell a story with color
✔️ Details without Realism
✔️ Evaluating your work
✔️ Narrow your focus
✔️ Plus so much more!
Make art that impacts those who see it.
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"I did binge watch. How could I not? I had to see what you were going to do with the area bugging you. You successfully demonstrated 'to not give up' and to make, what might seem like radical change,s to areas that aren't working quite right.
That really sunk in and has helped me already. Great class!Thank you Charla."
- Mari Van Dyke
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
CHARLA MAARSCHALK
Charla Maarschalk is a Canadian painter who specializes in painting large, bold color, gestural faces. She has been a creative all her life working in the graphic arts as well as photography.
Charla has taught art almost as long as she has practiced it and has aquired a large online following. You can see some of her work below. Check out her online portfolio at www.charla.ca and follow her on social media.
Choose the Plan That's Right for You
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"Another great class! I love being able to see the painting, the palette and the reference photo all at the same time especially since there were so many colors. I have been challenged, in a good way, and encouraged by both the classes and the community."
- Sienna
Student Gallery
Work and share with Artists Like You
Community Support (with Membership)
Instant access to our 'Discussions' which are found underneath each lesson within the course modules. This is great place to ask questions directly related to that lesson.
Private Community interaction with feedback from Bold School team members and even more importantly, peer mentoring.
MENTORSHIP
Bold School Mentors are available during specific hours to offer guidance and critique based on class work inside our community.
PREREQUISITE
New to Painting? Take Bold Color Primer
New to Bold Color? Take Bold Color Bootcamp
Both of these classes are found inside the Bold Color Bundle.
Membership:
Our entire library of Classes is included in Bold School Membership:
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Community Access
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Mentor Support
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Streaming Videos
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Color Mixing
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Workbook, PDF Download
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Events, Lives
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Satisfaction guarantee
These intermediate classes are pre-recorded in video series. We offer each lesson in a real-time (which means very little time lapse footage), step-by-step painting with bold color portraits artist, Charla Maarschalk.
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