The ultimate online drawing & painting course

An interactive art course modelled on real-life classes with a multi-award-winning artist. New classes added every month.

What is the Artory Academy?

The Artory Academy is an online drawing and watercolour painting program designed to help you draw and paint with confidence. Whether you want to become a professional artist or simply enjoy a creative hobby, the Artory Academy is filled with individual art classes designed to give you the skills and confidence to draw or paint any subject with ease. 

$60.00
Every month
$400.00
Every year
 

Online video classes

Self-paced video classes on drawing and painting with watercolour. Learn different styles and applications, from realistic botanical illustration to large and loose semi-abstracts. New classes are added every month.

Learn WHY not just HOW

You won’t just learn how to copy each artwork. You’ll learn my decision-making process, like when and why I’d use that colour, or switch to that brush. This is where real artistic-thinking is developed so you can design and create your own paintings!

Progressive learning

Start with the foundation classes on set-up and techniques, then work through the classes categorised by difficulty (beginner, intermediate and advanced). You’ll gradually build your knowledge and skills - a proven fast-track method for success.

What’s Included:

  • High definition video classes that take about 2 hours to complete. You can work at your own pace - stop, start, pause, rewind and replay as many times as you like. The good thing about drawing and watercolour is you don’t have to finish an artwork in one sitting.

    At the end of each class you’ll create a frame-worthy artwork. Many students have been so pleased with their work they’ve framed and hung them in their homes. New classes are added each month.

  • A comprehensive series of video classes covering all the fundamentals of drawing, like how to measure accurately, how to draw what you actually see not what you think you see (the number 1 mistake beginners make), how to shade and draw textures. It even includes a class on perspective.

    PLUS the “drawing daily” series covers a 30 day program of quick, 15 minute exercises designed to help you draw from life (not just from photos). It’s the basis for travel sketching, life drawing and developing your own body of work. When you can confidently draw anything in front of you, there are no limits to what you can create. 

  • A comprehensive series of classes designed to gradually introduce you to watercolour and build a thorough understanding. It covers techniques like wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, glazing, lifting-off colour, my “moozsch moozsch moozsch” and “feathering”.

    You’ll learn how to work photo-realistically and detailed as in botanical illustration, or work large and loose in a fun, free-flowing style. You’ll also learn how to incorporate your watercolour with other mediums.  I’m sharing with you over a decade of knowledge that I have gained using watercolour as an award-winning artist.

  • A dedicated class on colour theory to help you understand colour mixing, hue, value, chroma, transparency, lightfastness and tinting strength. Practical colour theory is also woven into multiple classes so you can see how atmospheric colour principles and colour mixing applies to different settings.

  • Videos explaining how to use your equipment and set up your work space for success, like what angle your table should be on or how to organise the colours in your palette. I also share material-hacks used by us professional artists to make our everyday materials work even better.

  • Videos covering simple solutions to common problems, like how to keep your brush’s fine point or how to stop the dreaded watercolour “cauliflowers” from forming (and how to create them when you want them).

What you’ll learn:

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drawing techniques that make even “hard” subjects easy to draw. Plus learn how to draw from life (not just from photos)

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watercolour techniques explained and demonstrated so you can avoid frustration and paint any subject with ease. Most students see each artwork and say “that’s too hard” but by the end of class they’re amazed at how easy it was to achieve.

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design principles so you can go ahead and design and paint your own artworks. You won’t just learn how to copy mine.

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most importantly, how to loosen up and have fun with your art!

Join the Artory Academy

Artory Academy
$60.00
Every month
$400.00
Every year

Or puchase the individual courses:

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$197.00
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Here’s some of the artworks you’ll create in class:

Why its different from other online art classes

I’ve run the Artory Art School in Kingscliff since 2015 and have hands-on experience teaching adults and children. That means, unlike many other artists who offer online art courses, I’ve spent years teaching art to real people in real classes, so I’m very familiar with how students learn. In fact, all of the Artory Academy classes have been trialed with real people in a real class setting first, so when I film the video version afterwards, I know exactly what mistakes students made in class and I adjust my online class to help you avoid those mistakes at home. Of course, you’d never notice this, you’d never notice what mistakes you DIDN’T make. But what you WILL notice is that you get to enjoy and have fun while drawing and painting, avoid all the frustration!

  • Having trouble? Can’t work out what’s going wrong in your work? Want to know how to paint a specific subject? Ask me questions or send me photos of your work and if I haven’t already got a video covering the answer I’ll film a new class based around that topic for you.

  • I’m an award-winning professional artist who’s taught real people in physical classrooms for over 10 years. I’m known for taking my students to the next level. Many of my students have even gone on to sell their work and win art competitions!

  • All classes have been trialed with real people in a real class setting first, so I know exactly what mistakes students tend to make. I film my online class accordingly so you can have frustration free art-making and prevent making those mistakes at home.

  • I hate being locked into a program, especially these days when life throws us so many curve balls! So you can cancel your membership anytime, no questions asked. You’re not locked in.

  • Join the Artory Club facebook group and discuss classes, ask questions or upload your paintings.

  • This is no “do the course and then you’re done” kind of situation. You’ll have unlimited 24/7 access to all previous and new classes while your membership is active. As the program grows, your art skills will grow with it.

  • My in-person art classes are $65 per class, and these usually sell out each term. So for less than the price of one art class each month, you’ll have access to 60+ classes!

 

What you’ll need

The entire Artory Academy is based off a simple material list. You’ll need basic drawing supplies, a stick of charcoal, 7 watercolour tubes (or pan watercolours) and 2 brushes. You’ll find the full material list is inside the Academy.

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Testimonials

Not every artist can teach and not every great teacher is a great artist. I pride myself in being both. But don’t just take my word for it:

 
 

Not sure if Artory Academy is for you?

Try my free sample class:

Membership price:

Artory Academy
$60.00
Every month
$400.00
Every year

 

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