Psst- the teacher isn’t looking. 🤡 🌅 Get your phone and post your favorite pic. Drop it in the comments below. __________________________________ 👆🏻Cliff Notes Version 👇🏻 A little more detail. The why 👉🏻 In LESSON 1, _________________________ The amount of detail we put into realism paintings simply isn’t stored in your brain. Not yet… and honestly, maybe not ever. That is NORMAL! The first lesson is in classroom HERE After you read the lesson, find 1 or 2 or even 3 images that mean something special to you. They do NOT have to be images you plan to paint. Think of it as building your inspiration library for this entire community. Later, we will VOTE on the one to paint in class. Drop it. What makes that image so special to you?

Just finish my diamond art

🧑🏻‍🎨 Yes YOU! I know you probably want to argue with me here and I get it. I didn’t call myself an artist until I was 50 yr old! Miriam Webster says: ARTIST: a person who creates art (such as painting, sculpture, music, or writing) using conscious skill and creative imagination. 🎯 CONSCIOUS SKILL No mystical powers. No divine talent that you were born with. Not a right brain, left handed dominant mind. A SKILL 🌁 CREATIVE IMAGINATION We all have this! Remember being a kid? Your brain was a wild playground. Then you trained it: school, career, parenting, making money. We ALL have the ability to call ourselves an artist. The only thing holding you back is You. Together, we will build your skill. Please consider inviting someone here that says “I can’t even draw a Stick Figure”. I would appreciate it.

The one on the left is oil paint. The painting on the right was done in acrylic paint. They were painted one year apart. ONE. YEAR. No angels descended from heaven and anointed my paintbrush. No sudden burst of divine talent. What changed? SKILL. I Stopped GUESSING. I found help. Then, I developed and tested a system to teach others to paint realism. You CAN learn this too. The painting on the left sold for $2,500. Prints and cards of it have brought in over $7,000. This is PROOF. Painting isn’t magic. It isn’t a gift only handed out to mysterious left-handed children. (Literally I used to believe that.) It’s a learned skill. And if a former Stick Figure Drawing Dropout like me can figure it out… You can too. Are you drawing anything now? Even a digital drawing is ok @Kamal Webb. Even an adult one if you are willing to share.