What's Included?
Are you feeling stuck in a rut?
Do you long to return to the joy and excitement you had when you first started painting?
The solution? Try something new!
You'll enjoy demonstrations and lessons covering:
Inspiration from Works by 25 Master Painters
Secrets of Using Color Schemes
Succeeding with a Palette Knife
6 Exciting Ways to Create Lines
Joyful Collage and Stencils
Breaking the Rules of Perspective
Enhancing with Metallics
Playful Patterns & Exploring Your Personal Motifs
How to Loosen Up
Gutsy Brushwork
Developing Layers
Scumbling and Glazing
Playing with Special Effects Like Splatters, Cells, Interference Paints
PLUS
“Fun with Textures”:
· How to create your own DIY custom linen or cotton canvas board
· How to make your paintings look much more interesting and professional
· Details about a wide variety of ready-made painting surfaces (substrates)
· How to achieve texture with acrylic paints
Get Inspired
Study the works of 25 master painters. Try new techniques! Learn from the brushwork of Van Gogh, the perspectives of Picasso, and the patterns and metallic enhancements done by Klimpt.
Experiment
Test drive new tools like palette knives, the silicon wedge, Stabilo crayons, big bold brushes, stencils, liner brushes, rubbing alcohol, bamboo skewers, Fineline applicators, and more.
Get Loose
Discover many new ways to get loose. Learn special effects. Observe demonstrations using unique paints and supplies. You'll even learn a fun way to relax your brushwork.
Pears — the Perfect Subject!
Let me tell you why pears are the focus of this course! I have so many fun projects lined up for you. I hope you'll join me. Get ready for some fun....
Incredible Value!
Includes Demonstrations of 26 Paintings!
This course is actually many courses bundled together. The average course can be completed in a few sessions. This course offers so much more. It's a course you can savor!
You can watch all the videos and try the techniques later. Or you can pick and choose which techniques appeal to you. Trying one new method a week or each month. There's enough to keep you inspired for quite a while.
Instead of learning how to paint like the teacher, this course draws on 25 different artists' styles and delivers a myriad of techniques and tools for you to make your own. Develop your own artistic voice with the help of a wide variety of demonstrated painting methods.
Includes Over 75 Reference Photos
As a student enrolled in "The Painted Pear" you have permission to use the reference pics. You may sell works that you create based on the photos, but you may not sell or pass on the photos themselves.
Learn simple and effective ways to make the color wheel work for you.
Try new color schemes.
Choose colors purposefully.
For example, experiment
with the triad and
split complementary themes.
Here's what students are saying
about Sue Riger's teaching:
"This course (Simply Glass) is AMAZING!!!!! Went through it all and can’t wait to go back and practice everything and practice everything I learned from you. You’re a God-send!!!!"
"I know SUE must have put in a lot of work to get her course online but HOPEFULLY she will do it again."
"I am having a wonderful time in your course, Simply Glass, SUE. It is helpful having the ability to view and review and work at a comfortable rate of time."
"Wow! A wonderful break-through for me."
"I really like the way you teach. At this moment I’m taking notes in preparation for painting. Extremely helpful."
"I viewed the entire "Simply Glass" course (and learned boatloads already). I actually took a couple days off this week just so I can rewind and practice the lessons. She’s such a great teacher!!!"
