This course is for any painter wanting to strengthen or build on the fundamental elements of painting. This in depth and step-by-step online course is developed to give you a strong grounding and understanding of the important properties it takes to build a painting and create the illusion of light and form.
An online course teaching the fundamentals of painting.
Study painting online at your own pace - start today!
Learn to paint anything you desire by seeing and understanding the fundamentals of painting
What you’ll learn
Learn the essential elements of values for creating the illusion of light in your paintings.
Values
Improve and build confidence in your drawing by working from life using Kami’s step-by-step drawing recipe.
Drawing
Breaking down the properties of light and shadow to create the illusion of light.
Properties of Light & Shadow
Using a primary limited palette of yellow, red, and blue, plus white - learn to master the properties of color.
Properties of Color
By eliminating the tertiary from the primary limited palette - learn Kami’s two color per average strategy to seeing and painting Color Relativity with letter codes.
Strategizing Color
Tertiaries
Using the primary limited palette, learn to make infinite nuances in color.
Supplies & Setting Up
Kami will walk you through the supplies you will need and how to set up your space and lighting.
Learn to see plane changes through the properties of form. Every time there is a plane change, there is a color change.
Form
Building Form with Color
Identifying and strategizing the relationships of color to create the illusion of light with form.
Kami Mendlik, Instructor
Welcome to a place where you will master the essential tools to strengthen your paintings and grow with confidence as an artist so that you can fulfill your dreams and goals of becoming your best painter!
This self-paced, series of videos was created out of a true passion and love for teaching and helping my students bring their work to their highest level possible. I have found throughout my twenty-five years of teaching thousands of students, the number one thing preventing their work from growing to the next level is not a lack of talent or desire, but the need to invest the time to slow down by starting at the beginning to strengthen the FOUNDATION and truly understand the TOOLS OF PAINTING with complete confidence.
In this online series of videos you are able to work at your own pace, fitting painting into wherever you are in life. I tell my students, we don’t find time to paint, we MAKE time to paint.
Each video begins with a lesson plan, followed by a full painting demonstration, then you will paint the instructed exercise. Each comprehensive and approachable lesson builds on the previous one. Once you have worked through each video, you will have learned not how to paint, but to truly understand why and what you are seeing, along a strategy to get you there. Your drawing will improve, your painting will improve, you will understand why it is important to use a halftone palette to create the illusion of light, how to create form with color, and how to make any color in nature using a primary limited palette!
I am excited to help you achieve your painting dreams and goals. Let’s get started!
Happy Painting! Kami
“Kami’s focus is on teaching students how to see, not how to paint, and this makes all the difference! After taking this course, I walked away with answers and a clear path on how to move forward. I’m excited to paint again!”
TEstimonials
— Nan, Student “Kami’s targeted exercises are designed to help you think through your entire approach to painting, whether it is a still life or a landscape. I’ve learned to see where color gets lighter/darker, warmer/cooler, more saturated/less saturated, and more importantly, why this happens.”
— Mary, Student“This Fundamental course has filled in gaps in my knowledge that I didn’t even realize were there. If you are ready to move beyond “how” to paint an object to the “why” behind it, this course is for you.”
— Laura, Student
Frequently Asked Questions
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Anyone who wants to learn and strengthen the fundamentals of painting, from beginners to advanced painters. This course will benefit all!
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No! The concepts of fundamentals are not only applicable to oil painting. Although Kami uses oil paints, she has several students who use acrylic, water-based oils, pastel, gouache, and watercolor. The medium is your choice. Studying the fundamentals will arm you with the tools to paint anything you desire without limits and without fear!
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You will have unlimited access for 2 year from date of purchase.
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You will have unlimited access to this course for 2 years. You will be able to take this course as many times as you like within these 2 years.
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