Expressive Drawing, Painting & Mixed Media Techniques Course by Chad Neuman, Ph.D. & Jonathan Simon, BFA, MFA

Welcome to the Expressive Drawing, Painting, and Mixed Media Techniques Masterclass! In this online artistic drawing and painting course, you will apply creativity and learn various dynamic mark-making techniques in various drawing, painting, and mixed media projects.

You will learn how materials such as graphite, charcoal, watercolor paint, acrylic paint, India ink, ink pens and markers, and pastels can work individually or with each other to produce beautiful, amazing works of art. There are specific considerations for each of these materials, and by completing this course, you will become a “materials master”! I also show how to use optional materials such as water, rubbing alcohol, acetone, denatured alcohol, vellum paper, unique mark-making tools such as feathers and mop brushes, and masking materials such as painter’s tape, rubber cement, and masking fluid.

However, if you only have access to paper, pencil, and some paint such as watercolor or acrylic, that is okay as well! I demonstrate these techniques and how they can be applied across a variety of mediums with a variety of mark-making, erasing, and blending tools.

This course also allows you to practice creativity and expressiveness as you draw and paint in various artistic projects.

By the time you complete this expressive drawing and painting course, you will have produced a portfolio of amazing drawings, paintings, and mixed media works of art, including expressive and creative landscapes, portraits, still life drawings, and much, much more.

Once you enroll in this course, you get:

• Lifetime access to all of the content, including over 8 hours of on-demand, helpful video demonstrations and instruction.
• Various PDF handouts and support files.
• Access to our exclusive Drawing Club forum, for helpful feedback and critique from peers and me, the instructor of this course, Jonathan Simon.

After the introduction section (where we provide helpful considerations of mark-making and materials), the sections in this drawing course focus on specific projects, so you can follow along with my demonstration. Each section includes a material list and support files:

• Expressive Ink Pen Eye Drawing with Watercolor – You will draw and paint a fun, beautiful, and expressive drawing and painting of an eye using various materials, including watercolor paint and ink pen and optional materials (salt and gesso).
• Flowing Fish Drawing with Color Wash – By the time you have completed this project, you will have learned various relevant mark-making, drawing, painting, blending, and erasing techniques and how to effectively transfer images. You will also learn flowing drawing techniques for the fish drawing and various ways to produce a beautiful watercolor wash.
• Ink and Watercolor Expressive Portrait – During this project, you will learn how to produce an interesting, expressive portrait drawing and painting, by using various dynamic mark-making and painting methods with ink and watercolor.
• Atmospheric Ink Landscape with Acrylic Wash – You will draw an interesting landscape composition using ink, then we will apply a color wash using acrylic paint. Considerations of using ink and acrylic together as we draw and paint are included.
• Ink and Pastel Artistic Tulip Landscape – In this project, you will draw an artistic landscape with colorful ink and add tulips with bright pastels. Material- and tool-specific considerations are included. Have fun!
• Charcoal Still Life with Masking Methods – You will learn charcoal mark-making methods and assorted masking techniques to produce an artistic still life drawing. We will then show how to safely tear and burn the edges for artistic effect.
• Final Project: Portrait and Cityscape Artwork – In this final project of this course, we will use a variety of materials and methods used earlier in the course to produce an expressive portrait with a cityscape background. We will add layers of ink, charcoal, pastel, and gesso using two photos as reference.

Enroll now and get started producing amazing, beautiful works of art! We’ll see you in the course. There is a 30-day money-back guarantee, so if you don’t like the course, you can get a refund. But we know you’ll love this course as you produce awesome drawings, paintings, and mixed media art projects in this course.

Please note that anyone who wants to draw or paint expressively can join this course, but if you have trouble drawing the eye or face in three of the projects, we suggest you enroll in our Drawing Masterclass, which is an unofficial prerequisite for this course. It is not required, and we show you in this expressive course how to use tracing and transferring methods instead of sketching from reference or imagination, but just in case, this is an FYI. We do not go over the forms and subforms of the eye in this course, since it is more about expanding beyond that and drawing expressively and creatively and adding to the representational drawings and paintings that we produce in this course. Our other course can be found here on Udemy by clicking on our profiles.