Bold School Class Library

Soft Pastels Bootcamp
By Luzdy Rivera

New Class Coming This Fall. 

Rainbow Portrait
By Charla Maarschalk

Bold color is all about the rainbow so why not paint the entire color spectrum on a face? Challenge your ability to control color and help you break the old habits of realism, blending and tight brushwork.

Wrinkles
By Charla Maarschalk

Use the language of color and brushwork to tell a story. Let's do more than recreate a reference image. Use structure, skills and unique expression to put a story on canvas.

Painting The Wild
By Charla Maarschalk

Do you struggle with getting your portraits to come alive? Eyes hold tremendous power to communicate emotion. This bootcamp will teach you the keys to master the power of the eyes. 

Color and Mood
By Luzdy Rivera

 Create a specific mood in your work by choosing the right palette. Luzdy focuses on how to use a Split-Complementary Color Scheme.

Composing Bold Portraits
By Liz Ranney

Can you imagine composing a piece of art entirely from your own imagination without having to worry about copyrighted reference photos?

Sketching to Paint
By Marijanel Knight

Elevate your sketching technique so that your paintings will flow.

Landscape Bootcamp
By Noémie L. Côté

Alla Prima Oil Paint is introduced in Landscape Bootcamp. Learn the fundamentals of composing landscape paintings in bold sugar-pop colors with thick buttery oil paints

Moody Sky
By Noémie L. Côté

Find and create movement while painting the subtle nuances of sky with Alla Prima oil paint. 

Water and Reflection
By Noémie L. Côté

In the third class of the Bold Landscape Series you will learn ways to balance the space around landscape elements while painting the movement of water. 

Start with the Skull
By Marijanel Knight

Understanding what lies beneath the layers of the portrait will help you successfully render and troubleshoot every face you paint!

Children and Likeness
By Luzdy Rivera

Part Two of Principles of Art: Emphasis

Creating Visual Movement
By Corey Moortgat 

Part Two of Principles of Art: Movement

Bold Eye Bootcamp
By Corey Moortgat

Do you struggle with getting your portraits to come alive? Eyes hold tremendous power to communicate emotion. This bootcamp will teach you the keys to master the power of the eyes. 

Adjusting Features
By Axel Martinez

Ever step back from your canvas and see a strangely distorted face with features all out of place? No longer work with anxiety of portraits gone wrong.

Stunningly Simple Braids
By Corey Moortgat

Manage the details of hair without taking focus away from the face. Paint the details of braided hair demonstrating simple techniques that still allow the face to take center stage. 

Magenta Youth
By Corey Moortgat

There's more to a portrait than just the features of the face. There's a connection between the subject and the viewer, emotions waiting to be shared. Use expressive brushstrokes and color to capture those emotions.

Movement
By Corey Moortgat

Creating movement through abstraction, brushstrokes, and color placement allows you to control your viewer's experience. You have a story to tell, and there are tried and true practices you can use today to keep your viewer engaged. 

Paint A Hand
By Corey Moortgat

Understanding its structure will help you to grasp the unique poses of the hand.

Know the Face
By Marijanel Knight

Knowing the face is a science. If you learned how to count to 10 then you can learn the steps to painting a face! It is that easy! The art of faces comes after you've learned the science. 

How to Grid
By Corey Moortgat

Transfer your reference onto your canvas with ease so you can start painting faster!

Choosing Bold Color Palettes
By Axel Martinez

You don't have to fake it till you make it. Join Bold School and learn how Axel's process works to create a cohesive color palette every time you paint. 

Emphasis
By Luzdy Rivera

Emphasis is what we call the focal point, the dominant element – where you want the viewer to stop and stay in your painting. It can be achieved in many ways and a painting can have one or multiple elements of emphasis. 

The Figure Simplified
By Luzdy Rivera

Learn a method that destroys the complexity of the figure and gives you the skills to successfully paint the figure every time you're in the studio. 

Flow in Composition
By Liz Ranney 

No longer leave your compositions up to fate. Create unique compositions that communicate the ideas behind your art and make painting a breeze. 

New Classes Coming Soon