The COMPLETE Program is a comprehensive, self-paced online course designed for artists who want to explore the full process of creating powerful abstract-figurative art—from generating ideas to completing full-scale paintings.
You’ll learn essential
- Realist portrait & figurative techniques,
- abstract methods,
- composition, and more
all at your own pace, with lifetime access and the support of a vibrant artist community.
Throughout the course, I’ll guide you through the signature methods I’ve developed to free up and energize figurative painting—a process that shifts how you see, think, and create. This is not just about technique—it’s about transforming your entire approach to making art.
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Enroll now to save 10% on your program fee and receive a FREE Michael Harding Skin Tone Oil Paint Set
(5 x 40ml tubes)
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The COMPLETE Program is perfect for you if you want to:
- 🎨 Master realist portrait techniques in both drawing and painting.
- 🖌️ Learn to create textured, abstract backgrounds that add depth and movement.
- 🎯 Use composition and color to craft compelling visual narratives.
- 🔓 Discover my method for freeing up figurative painting—a creative shift that will change how you make art.
- 💡 Turn creative ideas into fully realized pieces with clarity and confidence.
- 🖼️ Complete a full-scale abstract-figurative painting, from concept to final brushstroke.
- 📚 Stream a rich library of pre-recorded content anytime, for life.
- 🤝 Join a supportive artist community to connect, grow, and stay inspired.
Highlights of the Program include:
Learn head anatomy and classical techniques to create realistic drawings. Includes 2 in-depth demos and lectures (3+ hours of content).
Learn an effective and simple method to render any skin tone for any lighting condition: white, olive, brown, black. (5 in-depth demos & lectures)
Take your portrait painting to the next level. Apply your realistic skills to create powerful portraits on beautiful, textured grounds (2 full in-depth demos + lectures, 3h+ content)
Explore techniques to create abstract grounds and backgrounds in a variety of mixed media including gold leaf.
Master the creative process from start to finish: from brainstorming ideas to scaling up sketches and studies. End the program by creating a full-scale abstract-figurative painting ready to sell! (plenty of in-depth demos & references, 6h+)
Whether realistic or expressive, learn how to simplify and render hair of any colour and type!
Push the boundaries of traditional Realist Portraiture! Learn how to mount Paper on canvas and distressed grounds to use for your Portraits (4h+ in-depth demos )
Go in-depth and apply realist skills with practical, bite-sized demos on eyes, mouth, nose, and hands. (Plenty of demos, 4+ hours of content)
Stay connected, share your work, and enter the prize giveaway within our dedicated artist community.
Browse the curriculum below:
- Chapter Overview (0:55)
- An Effective Method to Mix Any Skin Colour (3:41)
- Color Mixing Demo: How to Organise your Palette (11:14)
- Color Mixing Demo: Focus on the White/Pale Skin (15:21)
- Color Mixing Demo: Focus on the Olive/Light Brown Skin (13:31)
- Colour Mixing Demo: Focus on the Dark/Black Skin (11:04)
- Concluding Notes (1:15)
- PRACTICE AT HOME: creative exercises and assignment
- A Method to Unleash Creativity (1:49)
- Priming Your Surfaces (2:43)
- Creating an Abstract Ground for a Medium Painting (1:28)
- Toning & Applying Gold Leaf (4:11)
- Spray Painting, Stencilling & Layering (9:15)
- Tips and Best Practices to Keep Inspired! (3:55)
- PRACTICE AT HOME: creative exercises and assignment
- Overview of the lesson (1:12)
- Before We Start: Surface, Composition & Transferring Our Drawings (11:01)
- Before We Start: Creating a Color Study using the ZORN Palette (35:54)
- Start Painting: Blocking-in (28:57)
- Phase Two: Get the Likeness Right (29:09)
- Pushing the Portrait Further: Finer Details and Rendering (28:58)
- Finishing Touches: Adding an Abstract Background & Varnishing Your Work (21:28)
- APPENDIX: A Review of Oil Paint MEDIUMS (8:00)
- PRACTICE AT HOME: creative exercises and assignment
- Before We Start: Preliminary Thoughts on Composition (3:54)
- Before We Start: Mixing Skin Tones for Light Brown/Olive Complexion (17:51)
- Let's Start Painting: Blocking-in (32:36)
- Painting Phase Two: Modelling (51:55)
- Painting Phase III: From Modelling to Rendering (71:33)
- Painting Phase 4: Chest, Dress, Hair (37:46)
- Final touches & Backgrounds (6:08)
- PRACTICE AT HOME: creative exercises and assignment
- Chapter Overview (2:56)
- Breaking Through Creative Blocks: Tips to Kickstart Your Imagination (13:29)
- Demo I: Warming Up with Sketching (51:57)
- Demo II: Transform Your Sketches Into Small Painting Studies (48:53)
- How to: Scale Up Your Preliminary Studies (4:01)
- APPENDIX: Composition and Alternative Methods to Unlock Creativity (20:29)
- PRACTICE AT HOME: creative exercises and assignment
- ADD-ONS: extra reference material
- Intro to the Final Part (4:08)
- Creating The Dress (23:32)
- How to: Push the Portrait Further (74:31)
- Retouching the Hair (27:27)
- Merging the Figure with the Background: The Treble-Layers Method (49:37)
- Final Touches (4:41)
- PRACTICE AT HOME: creative exercises and assignment
- APPENDIX: Brushes & Brushwork (14:15)
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