Beneath the Surface | Course Description

Dear creative soul,

I want to invite you on a journey together as we dive beneath the surface to create beautiful art with depth, interest, gorgeous layers and color. 

We will dive into learning how to use various tools and mediums to build translucent layers. We will also explore techniques such as lino printing, hand stitching, and mark making within our projects. 

Get introduced to the beautiful dance of watercolors and acrylic paint as they join together to create unique and beautiful effects. As you create artwork featuring florals, landscapes and abstracts on paper, canvas, and wood substrates, my hope is that this journey will lead you to new creative discoveries and to experience the joy of creating artwork that is meaningful to you.

You will be guided through the processes of gathering inspiration, creating color palettes, following your own creative intuition to discover and use your own marks as the foundation for creating a painting.

My hope is that you will fall in love with the depth and interest created by translucent layers. So come along on the journey and try your own hand at creating translucent layers.


Lets get creating!

Course Details

Registration Price: $62

Instant Access

7+ Hours of Content

Instructor: Melissa Fink

All video lessons pre-recorded

Self-paced class

Lifetime access

Downloadable videos

Techniques Taught

Painting with acrylics, pastels, ink, and watercolors

Using translucency to highlight underlayers

Lino printing basics

Lino printing with water soluble mediums/watercolors to create translucent layers

Carving floral and landscape Lino prints

Use tracing paper, water soluble mediums, and mark making tools to form into beautiful layers

Paint intuitively

Create small studies for future inspiration

Let go of perfection and allow the process to guide you

Mark making exploration

Painting florals on paper and canvas

Create translucent layers with a limited palette

Abstract techniques and mark making

Create landscape paintings

Pulling a palette together

Image transferring onto a Lino block

Creative stitching to add a unique touch to your artwork

Course curriculum

    1. Welcome!

    1. Supply List & Links

    2. Supply Video

    1. Supply List PDF

    2. Floral Lino Template

    3. Landscape Lino Template

    1. Pulling Together a Palette Video

    1. Exploring Mediums & Translucent Layers Video

    1. Abstract on Wood Part 1

    2. Abstract on Wood Part 2

    3. Abstract on Wood Part 3

    4. Abstract on Wood Part 4

    5. Abstract on Wood Part 5

About this course

  • $62.00
  • 24 lessons
  • 7 hours of video content

Instructor

Melissa Fink

Welcome creative soul! I am so glad you are here! Thank you for joining me in this course. I am Melissa Fink, a painter living in Western New York, creating in my home studio in our old 1870s farmhouse. Most days you can find me doing life with my husband Jesse and with our four young children. I believe beauty has great power to kindle hope. I am deeply inspired by nature and am often reminded that in spite of all that can go wrong in the world, some things can go so right. Nature is evidence of this reality – that beauty can emerge from barren places and broken things can be made new. This is why I paint and why nature deeply inspires me. My work is an invitation to see beauty in the unfolding moments of life, to offer a glimpse of hope and joy.