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If you like the way Tereza Barnard paints ruffles, you’d likely like this course. A series of videos will introduce you to painting ruffles, both realistic and abstract. You’ll have a choice of reference photos of ruffles of various colours to work from and several videos to watch and grasp the process of creating a beautiful and realistic painting of a fabric.

This course is charged as a membership. Cancel whenever you feel like you’ve learnt what you needed.

Painting ruffles membership
£22.00
Every month

The How to Paint an Eye online course is here for those of you wanting to upgrade their portraiture game. This course offers over 5 hours of documented approach to painting realistic skin, realistic eyebrows and of course, as the title suggest, realistic eyes.

How To Paint an Eye Online Course
£115.00
One time

This course offers 10 lectures from The Realist Academy. These lectures are designed to test whether you’ve got what it takes to take your realism to the next level and whether the teaching style suits you.

We cover topics such as how to understand shadows as well as demonstrations.

The mini RA
£97.00
One time

The signature course. Your one-stop shop to starting a career of a realist painter. This course has it all. The lectures and demos to help your painting, the mindset lectures to help your self doubt, the tutorials to help you understand what galleries are looking for and how to find a good fit for YOU, and to top it all up there are also lectures on how to market your art and create viral reels with a strategy.

Skin Masterclass no limit version
£2.50
One time
The Realist Academy
£1,649.00
One time
£497.00
For 4 months

For those who are tempted to join The Realist Academy but want to find out whether the teaching style and lectures will work for them, here is a taster session masterclass on how to paint skin. It is structured much the same way as lectures inside The RA.