Painting and Sketching: A Beginner’s Guide
A course by user13372273 surname13372273 , Artist & Art Educator
Joined November 2023
Explore painting with Daphne Frizzle! From inspiration to creation, learn essential sketching and painting techniques to enhance your artistic skills.
Explore painting with Daphne Frizzle! From inspiration to creation, learn essential sketching and painting techniques to enhance your artistic skills.
Joined November 2023
Discover the beauty of transforming everyday moments into art with Daphne Frizzle, an experienced artist and art educator specializing in drawing and painting techniques. Learn how to capture the essence of your memories and bring them to life on canvas using accessible and effective methods.
You'll explore the fundamentals of art and painting, including materials, image selection, sketching, and base layering. Later, you'll dive into color mixing techniques and how to bring your painting to life, capturing the atmosphere and details that make each landscape unique.
You'll gain the tools and knowledge necessary to create landscapes that are not only visually appealing but also evoke the emotions and memories that inspired them.
What will you learn in this online course?
18 lessons & 19 downloads
- 100% positive reviews (8)
- 772 students
- 18 lessons (3h 33m)
- 19 additional resources (8 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: English, Spanish
- English · Spanish · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
What is this course's project?
The project involves creating a landscape painting based on a personal photograph that captures a meaningful moment for you. You will translate the image into a painting that reflects the essence and feeling of the memory, applying all the techniques you have learned.
Who is this online course for?
This course is aimed at individuals who wish to start painting, especially those with little or no prior knowledge. It's ideal for art enthusiasts looking for an accessible way to express themselves creatively.
Requirements and materials
You will need a basic set of painting materials, including brushes, acrylic or oil paints, canvases, and sketch paper. It's also useful to have a set of drawing pencils and an eraser.
Having a comfortable and well-lit workspace is also recommended.
Reviews
A course by user13372273 surname13372273
Daphne Frizzle is a prominent artist and art educator. Known in the online art community as Miss Frizzle Art, she has devoted her life to creating and teaching various drawing and painting techniques.
She has collaborated with well-known brands and worked on educational projects, sharing her passion for art through platforms like TikTok and YouTube.
Her work is characterized by realistic landscapes inspired by personal photographs, capturing the essence and emotions of each lived moment.
Content
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U1
Introduction
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About Me
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Influences
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U2
Setting the Foundation
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Materials
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Gathering Inspiration
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Composition Basics
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U3
Sketching Your Underpainting
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Understanding the Underpainting
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The Stain
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Sketching With Line
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Sketching With Value
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U4
Sketching with Color (“The Fun Part”)
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Color Theory and Pre-Mixing Your Palette 1
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Color Theory and Pre-Mixing Your Palette 2
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Adjacent Color Comparison 1
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Adjacent Color Comparison 2
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Adjacent Color Comparison 3
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Adjacent Color Comparison 4
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Adjacent Color Comparison 5
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Creative Problem Solving
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Final Adjustments and Stepping Back
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FP
Final project
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Sketching for beginners
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What to expect from a Domestika course
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Learn at your own pace
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Learn valuable methods and techniques explained by top experts in the creative sector.
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Meet expert teachers
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Certificates
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Share knowledge and ideas
Ask questions, request feedback, or offer solutions. Share your learning experience with other students in the community who are as passionate about creativity as you are.
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FAQs
Domestika's courses are online classes that provide you with the tools and skills you need to complete a specific project. Every step of the project combines video lessons with complementary instructional material, so you can learn by doing. Domestika's courses also allow you to share your own projects with the teacher and with other students, creating a dynamic course community.
All courses are 100% online, so once they're published, courses start and finish whenever you want. You set the pace of the class. You can go back to review what interests you most and skip what you already know, ask questions, answer questions, share your projects, and more.
The courses are divided into different units. Each one includes lessons, informational text, tasks, and practice exercises to help you carry out your project step by step, with additional complementary resources and downloads. You'll also have access to an exclusive forum where you can interact with the teacher and with other students, as well as share your work and your course project, creating a community around the course.
You can redeem the course you received by accessing the redeeming page and entering your gift code.
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Very good course for those who are starting to paint or want to reconnect with their art practice. Especially the part about the importance of the underpainting was very helpful.
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It was an easy to follow course
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Good course and a good level of challenging for beginners
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The class is super fun and easy to follow along. I found her explanations through the course to be really helpful. Thank you!
displayname7147111
These courses are always good for those who like and want to improve their painting techniques.
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