Colorado Art Lessons and Paint Parties

Tonal pencil study with a 10 year old private art student! We're learning how to push values of light and dark to create depth and interest.

Taught a student (11) how to use PanPastels to speed up a colored pencil drawing yesterday! I think she did an amazing job!

Accepting signups for back to school art lessons! Only a couple after-school lesson slots left, message me today to check out availability!

Below: Hand studies with 15 year old online student.

New blog post! Click here to read:

Where to Begin a Watercolor Painting? How to organize and simplify each step of a painting for beginners!

Sometimes we don't know what to paint and draw! So that's why I've developed The Prompt Bucket. It's full of random words and suggestions, and sometimes we'll combine two or more together into super silly results! The paintings below were the result of the prompt "Movie Character." The house from Encanto is a character, right?

Done in acrylics on canvas panel. 14 year old homeschool student.

Message me today about art classes for ages 5-adult! Both group and private lessons available!

Learning how to draw a jellyfish with colored pencils on black paper! This series is from my group of 8-10 year olds on Mondays.

This is a new sister page for my main art page Shaking Bird Art! I’ve decided to separate posts about art classes, paint parties and paint’n’sip events from my fine art business more, so that each page can have a cleaner look and it will be easier to make announcements to the appropriate audiences. Please share with your friends! 😁❤️🎨