Student Success Stories

One of the best aspects of providing lessons for acrylic and oil painting, sketching and drawing is receiving and seeing the end results of my many students. I’m continually inspired by the work they produce by following my simple step-by-step processes. I truly believe that drawing and painting, regardless of medium, are skills that can be taught.

Below, I’ve shared results from my premium course projects and free acrylic painting tutorials. Please enjoy viewing them as much as I do. And if you haven’t yet tried painting, please do take inspiration from them and give it a go!

Student Success Stories

Student Success Stories - Monet Landscape

Click to see student’s results following the How to Paint a Monet Landscape painting course. The course is in acrylics, but students have also created paintings in oils and water-mixable oils

Student Success Stories - Beginners Acrylic

Click to see some inspirational student results from The Absolute Beginners Acrylic Course, combining watery washes, thick impasto and textural mediums to create this exciting still life final piece.

Student Success Stories - Pink Peony

See student’s results following the How to Paint a Peony still life acrylic course.

Student Success Stories - Peaches Still Life

Click to see some fabulous student results from The Peaches Acrylic Course, turning a form, painting fabric and creating depth in this still life painting course.

Student Success Stories - A Cornish Seascape

Click to see some impressionistic student results from A Cornish Seascape Acrylic Course, brilliant turquoises, glimmering water and painterly brush handling in this Seascape painting.

Student Success Stories - Beginners Acrylic

Click to see some impressive student results from The Absolute Beginners Acrylic Course, establishing the 3 tone masses, introducing brush handling and applying thin glazes of colour to add depth and complexity to complete this first landscape study.

Student Success Stories – Floral Still Life

Click to see some fabulous three-dimensional results from The Floral Still Life Course, mixing and balancing naturalistic greens and creating a realistic sense of sunlight hitting the leaves & petals.

Student Success Stories - Cherry

Click to see some amazing student results from the Free Cherry Tutorial, many of the pieces are students first ever acrylic painting!

Student Success Stories - Light & Shade

Click to see some impressive student results from the Free Light & Shadow Tutorial, subtle observation of ‘turning the form’ and creating a glow from within

Student Success Stories - Still Life E-Book

Click to see some inspiring students results from the Still Life Project E-Book, an impressionistic approach throughout, developing your observational skills and adding three-dimensional richness to your still life paintings.

Student Success Stories - Colour Mixing

Click to see some fabulous student results from the Simple Colour Mixing Course, this warm and cool painting of apricots balances saturation and muted mixes using a blue and orange complementary colour scheme

Student Success Stories - Colour Mixing

Click to see some superb student results from the Simple Colour Mixing Course, observing colour in the shadows, using the principles of the colour wheel and creating a tonal range just using two complementary colours

Student Success Stories - Modern Still Life

Click to see some impressive student results from the Modern Still Life Acrylic Course, created with just a handful of materials, keeping it very simple

Student Success Stories - Masterclass

Click to see some dramatic student results from the Masterclass Course, a more complicated subject tackling the reflective surfaces of ceramics and mahogany whilst utilising optical glazing techniques

Student Success Stories - Glazing

Click to see some fantastic student results from the Free Acrylic Glazing tutorial, combining a monochrome underpainting with colour glazes to create a luminosity.

Student Success Stories - Acrylic Portraits

Click to see some fabulous student results from the Acrylic Portrait Course, a cool, naturalistic painting working in an ‘in-direct’ style. This is a method of building up many layers working with glazing and scumbling

Student Success Stories - Acrylic Portraits

Click to see some fabulous student results from the Acrylic Portrait Course, a warmer palette working with colour strings and base colours. A more direct Alla Prima style for this poster study

Student Success Stories - Acrylic Portraits

Click to see some fabulous student results from the Acrylic Portrait Course, a more challenging piece combining thick impasto work with the palette knife and subtle delicate glazes for a darker skin tone. Glazing scumbling & blending creates atmosphere, mood and sophisticated tonal shifts

Student Success Stories - Fishing Boats

Click to see some atmospheric student results from The Free Fishing Boat Painting Tutorials, looking at light fall, colourful shadows and capturing the allure of the sea.

Student Success Stories - Harbour

Click to see some fantastic student results from the Free Cornish Harbour Acrylic Tutorial, focusing on composition and drawing. A little bit more complicated, so perfect if you want a challenge!

Student Success Stories - Sunlit Room

Click to see some fantastic student results from the Free How to Paint a Sunlit Room Interior video, balancing different areas of light and shadow (chiaroscuro) when working on a sunlit interior scene

Student Success Stories - French Café

Click to see some fantastic student results from the Free Acrylic French Cafe Scene. In this five-part video tutorial series, paint on board rather than canvas, work on drawing techniques and learn the importance of paint consistency and underpainting