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Learn to Paint With Impact (Udemy.com)

From ordinary to stunning paintings! What makes a painting stand out from the rest? Learn how to add impact to your art.

Created by: Malcolm Dewey

Last updated January 2023

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What you will learn

  • This course will show you how to assess a subject like an artist. Compose and paint a subject with confidence for maximum impact.
  • You will know how to mix colors to the correct value.
  • Why edges are so important.
  • How to use brushwork effectively.
  • Apply this system to studio and plein air painting.

How it compares

Against the other 194 rated Udemy courses in Drawing on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 34% of them
  • Reviews984#61 of 195 by number of reviews
  • Length7.6 hourslonger than 69% of them
  • Last updatedJanuary 2023more recently than 65% of them

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Course Description

This course is designed to fill in the gaps left by conventional art instruction. We all want our paintings to stand out. To express our feelings or catch the eye of a collector. What is it that makes a painting move from ordinary to stunning?

The secret is learning how to see like an artist. No matter what your subject the basic foundation for color, value, edges and shapes needs to be in place. I take this further with extensive video demonstrations that give you the confidence to try yourself.

Challenging and fun assignments with demonstrations will help you put theory into practice. In this course you will learn by doing - the best way! Supplemented with over 200 pages of notes, video, slideshows and full demonstrations you will be able to take your painting to higher levels quickly and confidently.

This course will give you the confidence and direction to paint with impact.

What Others are Saying:

  • I've been painting for many years, but never had formal study. This course is a great way to learn the foundations of painting & tools that will help drive my painting to the next level. (Lynne)

  • Very well done. Very professional. (Bruce)

  • Malcolm is an excellent instructor. He is welcoming and knowledgeable..I am looking forward to learning A LOT! (Joyce)

  • Very thorough course. Unbelievable amount of information for the money I paid. Great instruction, Malcolm! (Linda)

With over 202 Five Star Reviews on Udemy there is a good prospect that you will find useful and practical painting tips from my courses. My primary goal is to make a difference to YOUR painting and increase your enjoyment of painting for years to come.

I hope you can join me today.

Sincerely

Malcolm

(Course Updated October.2018)

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Instructor Details

Malcolm Dewey

I am a professional artist with twenty years experience in painting mainly in oil, acrylic and watercolor mediums. I have studied art for most of my life and continue to develop my style of painting. I enjoy teaching art, which has led to me developing courses to help artists seeking to improve their work.

I am also concerned with helping people find their calling to create. This includes using art to release creative blocks, achieve mindfulness and more calm in our lives. Art has great potential to ease the burdens of modern living.

I follow a representational approach to subjects using a painterly or impressionistic style. Plein air painting is a favorite part of my approach to painting. I currently produce paintings for sale to collectors worldwide.

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Reviews

4.5

984 ratings on Udemy

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By Đuro Mandinić on 12/16/2024

This course has a few things that I needed to learn. That would be notans and use of notans when starting a painting. Also the way how shadows are to be made and importance of it. I am now practicing mostly by turning a landscape reference photo into the notan study, and I feel a lot of progress already. The course is packed with valuable info, I will go over it again to pick up more important details that I have missed. Thank you Malcolm!

By Tracy Odart on 3/2/2022

This is the most comprehensive course in beginner oil painting focusing on landscape I’ve come across. It takes you through all the basic elements to creating a painting such as value, composition, colour theory etc and puts it all together in a simple way that is easy to remember while you are painting. All aspects can be adjusted to portraits and still life too although this really focuses on landscapes. Thanks I really enjoyed it.

By Betty Jean Mounce on 2/1/2022

On the whole I did enjoy the course very much. There was alot of very good information. At times some of the demos appeared to be blurry. The course seemed like a collection of utube videos.

By Nahil Alsheikh on 2/28/2021

Malcom is nice talker easy to understand and a lot of helpful information like every minute and enjoy trying to use the methods i learned in the course thank you so much

By Christina Poulengeris on 11/22/2020

I am learning from this course but i am unable to open the downloads. They are not the normal JPGs or PDFs and they won't open. How do i do this?

By Christina Poulengeris on 11/18/2020

I have just fiished this course. The teaching was excellent and I learnt many new things. My only slight difficulty was downloading the PDFs which were in an unusual format for me. Perhaps my old computer is to blame, I don't know. In the end, I used my daughter's computer to download the documents and she then sent them to me. The tasks were excellent and I made great progress in my painting. I think I made real breakthroughs in understandiong colour and value thanks to the excellent assignments. I also improved my brushstrokes. I have purchased another course by Malcolm Dewey and am looking forward to starting. Thanks for the great teaching.

By Daniel Kuzdale on 10/20/2020

wealth of information

By Donna Thornton on 10/13/2020

Great course. Thanks

By Veronica Clarke-Oscarson on 10/6/2020

Good foundational basics.

By Joan Wages on 9/25/2020

Good detail on supplies needed and explanations for why that you seldom get.
This is an excellent course! It covers the important aspects in an interesting and informative way. Breakthrough Workshop is a good name for it. It is for more than beginners. Thank you for a wealth of information.

By Sylvia Mann on 9/22/2020

This course is equivalent or better than a university course. It is packed full of easy to understand/learn instruction. Malcolm does an excellent job of explaining things.

By Steven P Masters on 9/18/2020

The course was very well done and met my expectations.

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Overall Score : 90 / 100