You Love Making Art...
But Now You Want Art Lessons
To Make It Better.
In the beginning years of learning to draw and paint, where do you find art lessons that teach you the important principles and strategies needed to successfully improve your art?
Especially if you are a retired or working adult who wants to dive deeper into painting, drawing or photography, where do you look?
The Problem Is….
If you are like a lot of folks, you’ve already tried reading books in your search for art tips in drawing, painting or photography. You may have noticed, as I have, that a lot of books seem to start at chapter 5 or 6, assuming you already know chapters 1 thru 4. With 40 years of experience in art, I look at these books and shake my head, wondering how a relative beginner could understand and follow what they’re saying.
Or you may have seen the art instruction books that really don't say much of anything; they only serve to showcase the author's artwork.
And the problem doesn't end there. You may have taken a workshop or art class where you were only shown how to paint or draw the instructor’s favorite subject with the instructor’s favorite medium. You probably weren’t taught the principles of color and design, so you could paint any subject you chose. You weren’t taught how to “see” with the eyes of an artist.
But here's the real kicker – my pet peeve. You may have seen websites or magazine ads that want you to buy their single-lesson DVD's. Each DVD art lesson supposedly teaches you to paint a tree or a rock or a dog or, perhaps more appropriately, a hunk of baloney.
Will learning to paint a specific kind of tree also help you paint a dog or a landscape or a person? No! In my opinion, the only thing this kind of art lesson teaches you is the fallacy that you must buy a new DVD for everything you want to paint.
I agree with the noted artist and teacher, David Leffel, that "learning to paint things is not learning to paint". 
So What's The Solution?
The solution is very simple.
Learn the essential principles and strategies necessary to create good art in a supportive step-by-step approach, so you learn to paint or draw anything.
And Just for the record:
My goal in starting BeginningArtist.com is to make this site the premier art instruction website on the internet by providing outstandingly content and innovative ways to learn.
Yes, I realize that may sound a bit grandiose, but I've found it's a lot easier to get excited about a BIG dream than a little one, so…..
Continue Your Art Education Right Here.
I want to train your mind to conceive, train your eyes to “see” and train your hands to execute what you want to achieve.
And I want to do it in an art school atmosphere where you are exposed to many different and creative experiences. For instance…..
Study my free online lesson
It is lesson 1 from my soon-to-be released ebook, "The Shapes of Things" Drawing Art Lessons. This ebook will teach you the secrets of drawing and painting almost anything.
Sign up for my online "The Shapes of Things" course.
This course will be available soon. Students will be guided through the five "The Shapes of Things" Drawing Art Lessons. Students will get a lesson assignment to complete every two weeks followed by an online general critiques of the assignments. This course will be for students who want more in-depth instruction.
Read my Art Tips section.
This area will be loaded with practical information and strategies to help speed you along the path to being an artist. If you’d like to have access to knowledge accumulated over more than 40 years in art, click here.
Order my Art School on DVD® classes when they become available.
These art classes, as I develop them, will be an exciting future addition to my art school program. My ultimate goal is to have a curriculum that will allow you to select individual classes or enroll in a complete program that will be mailed to you, one DVD art lesson each month or two. No matter which route you choose to take, the classes will:
1. Teach you the fundamental principles of making art, like how to design every image you make, the importance of color and values in creating successful images, how to find your own style and much more. Each art lesson will also contain exercises that help you learn and incorporate that knowledge into your art. You learn art by doing and I want you to do it well.
2. Show you the work of other artists on each DVD. They will range in experience from artists much like you who are in the beginning stages of their careers, artists who have been at it a while and are in the middle of their careers and artists who have reached the top of their field. You will be shown how these artists used each principle or strategy in their art. Nothing inspires the creative juices like seeing other people’s work and understanding how and why they did what they did.
3. Emphasize the development of your own creativity. Too often new artists depend almost completely on photographs for subject matter to paint; they forget their imagination is what sets artists apart from everyone else. I want you to realize your full potential with art lessons that spur you to go beyond what you see … to what you want to see.
At beginningartist.com I don’t push one particular style, medium or technique. Just like in art school, I want to expose you to a wide range of ideas and ways of making art.
Whatever way you want to grow as an artist, I want to help you get there.
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