Paint More in Less Time - Speed Techniques for Artists

[Music] hello welcome this is going to be really really fun tonight you guys uh if you have your paint stuff with you that is great you can paint along with me uh if you don't have your paint stuff that's great too you can just watch enjoy and uh try this out um on another day so uh this is just going to be really casual and really fun and I think um for some of you watching maybe this could be a breakthrough for you because I know I am a recovering uh slow painter and uh I used to paint very very slow and it would take me a long time to do anything and uh now I can get a lot accomplished much more efficiently uh create a lot more work and a uh you know faster uh time span and not sacrifice the quality and so I'm going to show you the tricks on how to do that there are some tricks there are some techniques on how to do that um I'm going to show you in some slides of process uh where you can actually see the method that I'm going to uh demonstrate here on this canvas and as you can see I didn't go small on a little tiny canvas I'm I'm using a pretty um large canvas um considering I don't have very long to paint on it and I need to pull off a painting in a short period of time so it's going to be really fun so just a little bit about me I'm going to uh kind of share a few uh slides I want to tell you how I got my start in art I think it's always really interesting especially if you're learning from somebody or you're seeing a new technique to kind of see you know where did they come from where how did they get their start in art I was not I always tell people I'm not talented and I really believe that with everything in me because I was not born with it I was not one of those kids that um you know did really really great in in art class and you know was singled out as the artist uh at all I was I was actually good at math um and art wasn't wasn't top on my list I always enjoyed coloring as a kid but what kid doesn't enjoy coloring so uh but my dad here so you see uh a picture of my dad uh he is Greek um he came to this country when he was 18 years old uh and uh came for college and he always had a a love for art and he used to take me to all these um art shows when I was little uh with the family and I found out later they weren't like great art shows these were um sort of knockoffs that were imported uh from other countries and sold you know really inexpensively and I thought my dad was some big art collector so he we would go to these you know sort of knock off shows and he would tell me you know to go find you know the next artist to be discovered and I would go looking through all the art and I think it made an impression on me because even though I wasn't talented and I didn't really have any ability or skill for art I started to see art as something important and Powerful well anyway Flash Forward to High School uh I had all these extra study halls and I didn't know what to do with them so I thought well I'll take an extra art class and uh because I thought it would be easy and I could just kind of chill out in the art room and so I my teacher she didn't she was a Potter and she didn't know how to paint so she kind of showed me the painting supplies and said here's a canvas here's some paints you know play and have some fun so I started painting and I just like never drew never painted didn't really have any um skills or anything and I just played around and had some fun painting and so I'm about to show you my very first painting I ever did when I was 15 years old um and because I was quite proud of it now when I look back at it it's you know really bad but at the time I thought this was great right it was my very first painting and um and I was super proud of it and I wanted to give it to my dad so my dad is very Macho he's very Greek and doesn't show emotion you know real men don't cry type type of guy and it was his birthday and I worked on this painting about slow painting I worked on this painting from January all the way until April okay that is 4 months I worked on this painting can you believe that and um so it's my dad's birthday I'm excited to give it to him but I'm also terrified because what if he doesn't like it or what if he tells me I'm no good um what if you know this new found joy I have in painting is all shattered because my dad doesn't like my painting so so I hear him come home from uh work and I have the painting there and I'm I hear his keys I hear his steps and he's coming closer and I tell him you know Dad I I have your birthday present and he comes over and I have the painting you know with its back to my dad and I turned it around and I said I made this for you and all of a sudden his mouth just drops and he's like and he couldn't believe it and I I see my dad cry I actually see him get teared up and he cries and he got really embarrassed he grabbed the painting and he ran to he went to his room and I went to my room and I threw myself on the bed and I started crying and uh I couldn't believe it that I made my dad cry and so from that point on I was hooked I didn't know at the time that this wasn't a very good painting you know I thought it was a great painting uh my dad thought it was a great painting um and that's all it really took and and I thought if I can make my Macho Greek dad cry right then man maybe I could change the world with my art you know maybe and that's really how I got my start in art and that's when I knew I wanted to be an artist so after that came you know art school and um uh well I I ended up marrying my high school sweetheart which is John he's also an artist uh and we went to Savannah College of Art and Design uh and then we went to University of Georgia um and got our start in art we both started our art careers uh right out of college we have four kids um so these are our four kids and they did you know art right along with us you know all growing up and we got going in the decorative Art Market so I didn't even know the decorative Art Market existed when I was in art school it was sort of this elusive you know I I don't know unknown Market to me but I kept uh I I got a job actually painting um for for the decorative Art Market and I started to realize there's all these like Galleries and furniture stores and and shops that have art for the couches and uh and so we started painting for that market um later I I we crossed over into the more collectible Market but our how we got our start was in uh the decorative Market we got into publishing and Licensing so that's like taking your artwork and putting it on you know poster prints or other products um and then you get a royalty from that so we did that for many years so okay so this is publishing um then we started making abstracts and we were doing lots and lots of paintings we were working with dealers we're working with Publishers uh we are working with um various Galleries and uh just painting lots and lots of art very very prolific um sometimes we would paint up to 20 paintings in one week week um and and that went on for years and years and years so uh we uh were collaborating my husband and I so we would both paint on the pieces together uh and um it got to the point after after uh many years of this we looked back and we counted it up and we had sold over 10,000 uh paintings and not just painted 10,000 paintings but we actually sold over 10,000 paintings and um I started to think oh my gosh am I going to start to see like my artwork show up in like garage sales or or thrift stores or something like is it going to devalue my artwork by being so prolific right because isn't that what we're taught we're taught that the more you create the more it's it the less rare it is is and therefore the less valuable it is and I started to get really worried about it and thinking this isn't you know we're paying the bills this is great you know and we're putting four kids through you know private school this is this is awesome but um you know are we creating a problem for ourselves because we're we're creating so much artwork it's making it less valuable and then I I started to do some research and I found that Picasso okay everybody's heard of Picasso right he's a household name I mean there's 5-year-olds that know who Picasso is uh so he created 147,000 piece of art this includes uh 13,500 paintings 100,000 prints and Engravings and this isn't prints like you know printful or you know this is he's sitting there you know with his like you know lenium prints and that kind of thing like making prints so um 300 sculptures 34,000 illustrations and drawings so all together 147,00 pieces of artwork and his net worth in today money is $1.3 billion so um Picasso by painting so much and having so much of it out there actually created a huge amount of wealth and it created Demand by putting so much out there the demand increased and as the demand increased then you know uh he he obviously did better and it became more valuable because being known right there's something different in the art World um and in art that's unique to other products uh in other products if if you have you know you saturate the market then maybe it becomes less valuable but not in art if you saturate the market and you're a household name everywhere and everybody's heard of you your your stuff becomes more valuable so the more that you put out there actually the more wealth you will create for yourself okay so it's it's it's really a powerful thing and it's sort of counterintuitive to all the things we've been told and T hot um so um Picasso is a great example Grandma Moses she started when she was 78 years old and she created 1,500 pieces of Art in in just that short career of you know 78 till she died at 100 101 and her net worth in today's money was $10 million and she was she was you know broke at 78 so her art is what got her to be wealthy and she wouldn't have done that if she created Five paintings or you know 10 paintings um and they were rare and hard to find and obscure as artists we got to come out of obscurity you've got to come out of obscurity the best way to come out of obscurity is to paint a lot well if you can paint a lot and be really really prolific then you got to paint fast and that is what this whole Workshop is about I want to show you guys how to paint fast but really good not just fast and sloppy and terrible fast but good so that you can be extremely prolific so you can be extremely successful that is the point um okay so then at this point John my husband and I um we begin to dream about how can we flood the Earth with more art because we realized for every new artist there's at least 50 new art collectors okay at least 50 new art collectors for every one new artist so we wanted to uh it's the opposite of what you know when I was coming up in art and I was starting my art journey I wanted a mentor so bad I I looked everywhere and I contacted a lot of artists who uh were more successful than me hoping I could pay them to Mentor me and most of them didn't return my call or my email but the few that I actually nailed down and and talked to they told me why would I want to tell you everything I know just to create competition for myself that that's not going to work for me okay and it's the opposite that's true the more artists that we can help Okay the more actually we will benefit right we all benefit we're all in the same team the more artists that we can encourage the more artists that can be successful out there then the more the world will crave more art we're never going to get to a point in the Earth where everybody is like H I've just I've had enough art there's just too much art everywhere I've had it like GH if I see one more piece of art I'm just I'm done like that's never going to happen the more art we can get out there the more people will want it have you ever bought a piece of art what is the next thing they're like tattoos what is the next thing you want to do you want to buy more art right buying more art wants you want to buy more art it's it's absolutely addictive so um the more art that is out there the more artists that are out there that actually more successful we all will be and that's not what we've been told we've been told to be stingy and um and and operate in a lack mentality and that's an impoverished mentality that is that's the starving artist mentality but that's over that's over and we are in an abundant mindset where um you know the more artists that are out there the more successful we all are and the more generous you are with the things that you know and uh and opportunities the more that will come back to you and and and on and on it goes so um that's why John and I wanted to start uh Milan art institute and our whole heartbeat for it was to help other artists succeed we wanted to see other artists be able to turn their passion for art into a profession just like we were able to and uh so we started uh Milan art institute in 2010 it took place in this little 2,000 foot uh I called it a Tin Shed in the middle of a cotton field because that's kind of what it was uh in Queen Creek Arizona um and this is what it looked like um on the inside and um and then we built uh this program called the Mastery Program um which is in one year how you can become a professional artist um so why do we need to learn how to paint fast other than what I just told you about being prolific and being prolific will make you more prosper um and you know a a lot of people you know think well if you paint fast then the quality will suffer right you you won't be able to to paint well well if you if you think back to um that first painting um I showed you I mean that's not a good painting right they're kind of eggh heads um you know no necks they're floating egghe heads let's be serious right I mean that's what they look like and it took me four months to pull that off right because I didn't know what I was doing and I didn't have a process and I didn't have any skills and really nobody told me how to do it I just I just winged it um and now I can I can paint um uh a lot faster and a lot more accurate because I I implemented some techniques and and I learned a lot of skill so what I'm going to show you tonight is is something like this um if you look here um the first step is blocking in so I'm going to paint this parrot here um this is going to be my source okay so first step blocking in and then um I'm going to sort of develop it and kind of pull the image forward uh and then the last step is rendering and if you build in layers like that um it will go really quickly what goes very slowly and this is how I did my first painting is you paint one square inch at a time and I sort of started at the ey on one of the egg heads and I I painted the ey and then I tried to paint the other eye and I couldn't get them to match right and they were always lopsided and after painting that eye like four times and not getting it right I stuck a flower on it right because I was like I can't get these eyes to match I'll just put a flower on it and then I just kind of radiated out one square inch at a time on a white canvas well that is the super slow way to paint uh and I did everything with a teeny tiny brush coloring in one little one little you know area at a time so using um I'm going to use spray paint tonight acrylics washes we're going to get sloppy and it it will it will come together you know pretty quickly here's another example of another one of my paintings blocking in developing rendering so really simple um steps and it's it's a trick of the mind you have to get yourself to see things um from what's furthest away to what's closest you have to see things from a sort of um abstract blurry messy chaotic and then start to see it you know come into fruition that's how I painted these paintings uh these paintings all took me um no more than 20 hours each I know like my daughter Deitra she told me that you know most of her paintings only take her about 10 12 hours to do and so every every artist is different maybe for some people uh they they spend 30 hours on a painting um everybody's going to be different some people might spend four hours on a painting somebody ask p also once uh when he did a painting in 45 minutes and and they were like how long did that take you to do and he said 30 years right because that's the truth like it takes 30 years to get to the point where you can pull off a painting in 45 minutes that's worth something over time you're able to get to the these places by pushing yourselves and making yourselves uh paint faster looser uh lighten up and and get those techniques sakes down that are going to really get you there um and if we go back to my first painting this took four months to do four months and it's terrible it's floating eggh heads right and um and now uh 27 years later um I'm able to you know paint something like this in 20 hours why should you learn to paint fast I'm going to tell you this is this is the key I think this is every artist's um you know dream at some point unless you're already there if you are already there and you've already sort of achieved this that's great but what makes painting slow is when you sort of get um sort of stuck in this method or this mode where you're sort of always painting the same way and you don't try anything different you're not coming out of your comfort zone you're totally safe in your comfort zone you're maybe you're painting one square inch at a time with a small brush and you're not pushing yourself to do anything different to do anything more to do anything faster you're not stretching you're not growing you're not making yourself get out of your comfort zone so you're not um your skills aren't really building over time and um and so then it feels it feels scary to get out of your comfort zone because then you don't know what to do to finish your painting you get stuck you get bored with it you have a bunch of Unfinished paintings in the corner uh things like that and and really the dream is to just go into that flow state where you're not even thinking about mixing color you're not thinking about proportion and measuring it's just really automatic and you're zoned out on your audio book and you're in la la land painting something and you kind of wake up from a dream four four hours later and you're like oh I painted that right and and so you're in this sort of automatic you have all this muscle memory ingrained in you um your body just knows what to do you know how to paint and that only happens by time behind the Paint brush and pushing yourself out of your comfort zone and that means making some bad paintings that means taking some risks that means being uncomfortable for a little while that means that you you have to sort of chart out okay I might I might not be so great for a year but at the end of that year I'm going to have some serious skills and I'm going to get to that place where it's just automatic and I don't have to wonder what do I need to do to fix my painting anymore you're just painting and every pain you make is good so that's that's where you want to get to and so if you're not pushing yourself if you're not coming out of your comfort zone and you're not trying new techniques um you want to make that switch tonight you want to make that switch tonight and it's okay if you make bad paintings I've made so many bad paintings I mean besides the eggh heads I've made a lot more bad paintings than that okay let's get started so blocking in um the first thing I'm going to do is with my acrylics I'm going to overall overall this painting is pretty dark and granted I have a square but a rectangle so this is going to elongate I got to make that part up so my parrot's going to go right in here and then I'm going to have some extra down below um and overall this painting is pretty dark I know right in through here there's some light but that's over the dark so I'm not going to worry about um the light stuff I'm going to work dark to light so I'm going to build up my darks and this is the blocking in part right so if we go back to the example if we go back to this example I'm going to build something like this lots of darks in through here and here I'm looking very general very almost like Blurry your eyes I don't see a parrot there's no parrot here I I'm only seeing the shapes and the colors I have a big brush you want to always start with really really big brushes es okay and I have water to squirt here to get nice and runny washes and I'm going to start with just kind of some dark you know black and blue together and my main objective is to just block in and get rid of a lot of this white because I want to [Music] layer he hey [Music] hey hey [Music] hey he if you are painting slow you run out of ideas Because by the time you finish a painting it takes so long you've sort of lost your inspiration and you're you're you're sort of oom for it right you you um at least that's what's happened to me in the past as a recovering slow painter is I would you know get bored and tired of it and not really um you know have another idea going um because it's it's like I get into this labor mode where all I can think about is just oh got to finish this painting um so what I found is when I paint fast and I'm completing paintings every single week more ideas come so fast faster than I can even paint them so you you just never run out of inspiration I think that's a really good place you know to be in um when it comes to you know creativity so that's another really good you know plus for for painting [Music] fast spray paint is my favorite fast technique um I use it in the beginning you know when it's not like as important to be as accurate and I it just helps get some of this see how this has all these spotty speckly things and a way to get painting fast is some of that you can just leave as is like there's some of these areas that serve as texture that I really don't have to paint too much right they're they're kind of you know can be somewhat done I'm kind of emulating this this tail here it's going to need some finessing this isn't you know done by any means but um it gets the idea going actually I'm going to hit some of that in here why not why not look see blocking [Music] in [Music] if you look at this this here is kind of a messy abstract version of the source so that would be the blocking in part that's the first first thing and as you can see that did not take me very much time how long did that take me maybe 10 minutes I don't know how long I I could have went into a Vortex and we've been here for hours I don't know basically the colors the values are sort of plotted in I got some of the visual texture that's in here um that we could live with but now what I really need to do is develop this I need to develop this so this is the second section or second part what's beginning to happen is I'm drawing in the parrot so if you can see here um I'm I'm trying to get in you know where his head is to the wing to this wing and you know develop a little bit more of the form right and then the last stage will be render and that's where I choose what area do I really want to render and make that look like uh more realistic let's say or more believable and spend more time on it so I'm economizing my time but allowing this sort of underpainting and abstraction to to work for me and the beauty of that is it actually is more sellable is what I found um over time um you know artwork that's really tight and I say this as my artwork's pretty tight um uh artwork that's tight sells not as good as artwork that's loose so uh allowing some of this expressive stuff in here um but having some areas that are more rendered really really lends itself well to sellability I am going to continue drawing in um you know where this parrot goes and I'm just in case you're wondering what these crayons are it's just kendos and I like them because they're water soluble so if you you know mitigating mistakes is a is another thing that I think will save you time so drawing in charcoal or things that are very forgiving uh starting in acrylic and then moving to oil um is is another way to sort of mitigate some some mistakes um because and save you time because I I make mistakes um it's it's pretty normal uh to you know to make mistakes but if if I don't just um work in unforgiving material and I work in something that's pretty forgiving you know then it doesn't really [Music] matter [Music] n [Music] so in the developing stage you are you know after your kind of General drawing is in and as you can see my drawing is you know clunky and um not that exact right I didn't I didn't completely just get super detailed with it I just generally plotted things in where I thought they might go um so after that stage um you know I'm sort of sticking with my my drawing a bit and now I'm I'm kind of blocking in um without getting too detailed uh the the basic colors based on my my [Music] drawing [Music] n [Music] something really important also you guys on um painting fast is you don't be afraid of brush Strokes okay if what wastes probably the most time out of anything I know is blendy blendy Smoothie smoothie that is what will waste so much much time there's no need for blendy blendy Smoothie smoothie people love brush Strokes brush Strokes sell okay brush Strokes sell just ingrain that in your head if you want to make money with your art brush Strokes sell have brush Strokes brush Strokes are evidence that they're buying a painting blendy blendy smoothie smoothie I mean who knows what it is right so brush Strokes brush strokes mean it's a painting and people love brush Strokes it means that the the energy right what what Wayne was talking about the energy that went into that Mark is recorded if I'm trying to get this uh feather here that little Dash and if I leave it was recorded if I you know want to put in you know this sort of white area here and I I do something like this to do it okay that's recorded but what if I'm I'm over here and I'm I'm doing this and I'm just kind of I put some brush Strokes down but then I'm just blending blending blending blend oh it's just not blending good enough okay maybe my fingers okay blend blend it's okay blend some more right I'm erasing all evidence of that energy I'm just erasing it I'm eradicating it why you you want you want to keep a record of of how the paint was applied that's why it sells because people can feel it that's what gives your painting emotion that's that's how everything that's inside of you all your wins all your failures all your victories all of your overcoming all of your pain everything that's made up your life every story that's stored up inside of you comes out in those breast Strokes it's recorded it's encrypted in those breast strokes and you got to leave them because when people look at your painting they're going to identify they're going to resonate with what's in those brush Strokes so don't blendy blendy smoothie smoothie it wastes time and it erases the evidence of your story so don't don't do it now every once in a while for effect if you on purpose because because it's like you intentionally decided to do it I really want this one area very very smooth very Blended because you want other areas to really um show up as as expressionistic and and those brush Strokes to really show then it's okay then I think that's you know a good time to be blendy blendy smoothie smoothie but if your default over the entire painting is blendy blendy Smoothie smoothie because it's just your comfort zone it's what you've always done and you can't help yourself then I think try to challenge yourself to get out of that comfort zone and make some brush Strokes um and it'll save you a ton of time [Music] so um at this this point of the process I'm uh I really need to uh what I'm attempting to do right now is is render so that's where um you have to be a little more accurate to be more accurate you just really look at your Source closely and try to every time you do make a mark for it to be the right one you know the accurate one the one that actually depicts what's in your uh in your in your source um instead of just kind of close to it um whereas blocking in you're you know um and developing you're kind of just getting close to it um but now I'm really looking to see where are those you know shapes colors what am I what am I really trying to get in there um and have it be accurate and not just you know close this is where I notice like what's off I feel like my bird's kind of fat um and I need to elongate this Wing here so this is like rendering I I put this feather that's what that is this feather up here and it's more down here on the hip right and so I'm kind of seeing the angle uh with the stick here I want to just kind of plant that a little more [Music] accurate and if you if you go pretty fast in these sort of first initial stages um and get a lot down and cover your canvas like I did you saw me do in the very beginning then the rendering part it's like you you have you're working with all kinds of hope that wow I'm going to actually finish this painting and I'll finish it pretty quickly so you can you can probably budget TimeWise um I think the majority of your time on rendering you know um I would say if I were to do this painting let's say in 4 hours I would say 15 20 minutes would be blocking in that initial stage um and then developing is maybe like 45 minutes and then I'd spend maybe two to 2 and 1/2 hours rendering getting it um you know accurate so that these these forms are are accurate like right now this this thing's a little big I have to kind of shave it down which is no big deal you just shave it down um and so that's the rendering part is it's it's messy and inaccurate and I'm moving it towards accurate um by really looking at the shapes um as we can see this this black thing kind of comes down a little bit more um I can I can skinny them up right here this came down too far I have to come in with this dark color and and sort of shave some of them off there um which will you know thin him out so all those little adjustments kind of come in the rendering part um and that is where you can budget most of your time um a problem that a lot of artists do is they spend too much time getting started and they don't start out loose enough and they get tight too quickly and that's what ends up taking forever on a painting [Music] hey [Music] heyy [Music] hey [Music] hey hey [Music] heyy [Music] so if we look here at the progress I would say like if I were to completely 100% finish this painting to my satisfaction I would probably want to put about 2 hours of oil into this and uh what I would do and I'd probably get a few crayons for some of these marks um you know like this kind of thing um you know like put some you know interesting little doodads in there um and and then you know really render this out I started to render just so you could get the idea it's pretty close to um you know what we have here in this diagram um where you can kind of see the process and then it would be it would be you know a a finished painting it's you know a good bit there and I got through uh I would say halfway through the rendering part I would want to really focus on this area um and I would really want to get these wings and these feathers you know a bit tighter I would let this kind of stay loose I would lighten up some of this stuff with the oil and opaque and I would render out this tail a bit more over here of this sort of abstract second second bird and get that Wing in there so that's how I would go about finishing it completely um but I feel like I got far enough along for you to see I mean it's a pretty big painting and um and I think you got to see it kind of come to life and go in the direction um where you could see with not too much more time it could be completely finished so that is sort of the process and if you think about it um to complete a painting this size in about 4 hours 3 and 1/2 hours 4 hours is pretty good if you were to add that up and you worked a 40h hour week I mean that's 10 paintings in a week right um that's how so you know earlier when I told you that we sold over 10,000 pieces of art that's how we did it uh we work two people 40 hours a week and we produce 20 paintings every single week um and we did that for years and years and um we made a really really good living at that speed um and so uh and and the more work we got out there uh and and the more prolific we were then the more buyers that we had and the more we were known out there and the more people there was more demand for our work and it got to the point actually where we were working with this this dealer that had us in so many different outlets and different galleries um really all over the world that there was more Demand on our work than we had time to paint and we were up to 20 paintings in a week and we just couldn't go any faster and so um that's when you know you obviously have to raise prices and um and you know and then demand may slow down just a little bit so it's a really good place to be and the only way we got there was by being prolific by being able to paint fast and so I just I think kind of prove to you how in a pretty short period of time you can pull together a nice piece of art um and with a little more time and some oils you know this would be a complete uh painting that would be sellable so it's it's super possible I think anybody watching um could do this and if you uh if you don't quite have the skills yet you can get the skills because as you can see I mean I showed you my first painting I did not have the skills I did not have the skills at all so um skills are acquired um and talent is overrated and and I'm saying that as an untalented person so um it's it's I I hope that you know it gives you a lot of Hope and I've seen this method over and over again this isn't just me you know that that you know believes in painting painting faster and and um being prolific there's there's countless examples there's countless examples out there of artists that do this that work like this um most of our students um graduate from our programs and they're proving um that they're selling tons of artwork they're becoming full-time professional artists making a good living selling their artwork because they're prolific and they've learned how to paint quickly and enjoy it it's not arduous it's not um stressful uh they're they're able to get more work done and the more you paint and the more pieces you produce uh the the better artist you'll be become and your skill set will increase so uh it's it's really really uh exciting things I want to show you some artists that are are really succeeding right now and doing super well and are really really prolific um so this is Rita Vari she um she graduated from the Mastery Program I think like she was in one of first four years ago she was in the first online so she she graduated in 2018 I think and um and she does shows all the time she sells tons and tons of work um you can check her out on our YouTube channel we did a a whole start to finish video um with her that's really really great and as you can see she's very prolific I cannot even keep track of how much painting she's doing and these aren't just stacking up in her Studio they're they're on collector's walls um and that's the most important thing the more you paint the more you sell uh so the people who only paint a few paintings every once in a while those are the ones that are stocked up in the studio but the people that are painting all the time several a week you know several every month consistently they're ending up on collector's walls not in studios um this is Esther franchuk she is uh from Ukraine um and she uh lives in Germany currently and uh she is a graduate of the program and she makes really incredible work that's very dreamy and this girl is fast she is so fast and we and very prolific and because she's traveled all over the world so much she literally has paintings all over the world everywhere she goes she paints a big series of paintings and and you know sells them in those countries and so you can you can find her artwork all over the place um so anyway Esther is is uh exemplifies this this whole idea and she because she's painted quickly and she's pushed herself her skills have gone you know off the charts in in just the last couple years so um you want to check her out we also have a start to finish of her video on our YouTube channel um this is zabina she's a graduate of the program and she is crazy fast she can paint she can probably paint faster than me um she is amazing how fast and accurate um she can do portraits somebody was asking about portraits earlier zabina can knock out a portrait very quickly but she couldn't always do that I know because I taught her myself and she was very slow at first and she was measuring everything and it would take her you know a whole class period just to map out where the eyes and nose were and now she can complete a whole painting in just a few hours so um you're you're this doesn't take you know years and years and years and years years to develop this literally can take months for you and within like two years you won't even recognize yourself so um I'm excited that you're excited because it it it really works and it goes It goes quickly um this is another artist uh Julie Selena now her artwork's extremely detailed and and Tighter you know and uh it doesn't look like uh you know somebody that that would um be able to paint a whole bunch of artwork but considering how let's say slow her process is in comparison to zabrina's she's very prolific and that's the thing is you kind of got to have to think about price points and if you paint four paintings in a year I mean you got to sell them for you know $15,000 to make ends meat right uh so that's that's that's not going to work usually uh but if you were to paint um a hundred paintings in a year um then the money starts to work then then those numbers begin to Crunch so uh everybody's different and you kind of have to find that um n uh Nicollet she lives in the Netherlands and she's also a graduate and she uh considering how much detail is in her paintings she paints very quickly and gets a lot of artwork done and is very prolific so uh but she wasn't always that way she used to be really really slow so like me she is a recovering uh uh slow painter uh Tanya Abu oh my gosh I think this girl could paint like isn't Tanya fast Jake she's crazy fast oh she's crazy fast I mean we well we know that because she was in the outstanding artist she was in the outstanding artist and so uh uh we saw how fast she is and um she can just do amazing work in just a very short period time and she is so prolific because her artwork sells faster than she can paint it like before the paint is dry her paintings are selling um so it's it's crazy and it's because she's prolific if she wasn't prolific you guys it wouldn't be like that the key to success is to be prolific I can't stress that enough um Alena here's somebody else who uh can paint very quickly she can do one of these portraits in like you know just a few hours and they're beautiful and they're loose and expressive and um and uh and she's able to get a lot accomplished in I've seen her make over the last year I think like three different portfolios um in in a whole range of themes she's done portraits she's done Birds um she's done all kinds of different things so um here's another artist that is uh so retia is from um India and she is uh you know very prolific has created all kinds of artwork and she just completed this whole abstract series and I was watching her post them and I'm like man she is she's made like you know 15 of these abstract paintings in just you know the last month so it's it's it's amazing um so another another person I wanted to highlight is my daughter Deitra so if you don't know who Dimitra is you definitely want to check her out you probably already know who she is uh but she got her start in when she was um you know about 10 years old she started taking art classes um at the school and by the time she was 12 um she was starting to uh be able to sell her artwork um she wasn't selling it for a ton of money um but she was starting to sell it and then by the time she uh started to develop her style um then she was selling it pretty consistently around $2 to $500 per painting uh when she was about I would say 12 or 13 years old and this is about what her artwork looked like back then so this is just when her style was developing and to get to this point she was taking these portfolio we call them boot camp classes uh where she had to paint four paintings every single week so you go for uh six weeks and four of those six weeks um you paint four paintings in a week and we do this to kind of instill uh this concept that I'm telling you in this Workshop uh so Deitra went through this boot camp three times and that's how she found her style because she had to be prolific by painting a lot lots and lots of paintings that's how she found her style so um this was her third and final uh boot camp that she went to and this is as you can see how her style um evolved and this is this is when she started to get into Gallery so at this point she's um you know about uh coming into 15 years old and she had her first gallery show um in um Scottdale Arizona and a publisher well a a newspaper printed an article and a publisher saw it and contacted her and wanted her uh to work with them so uh right after that show she got picked up by this publisher and this is her how her style developed and in um Less Than 3 months she painted 40 paintings things in this style um after that show so all the paintings from that show they either they sold or the publisher didn't want and he wanted new work and so she had to get to work and produce 40 paintings in three months for him and I remember she was painting probably 60 hours a week she was 15 years old she wasn't going to parties she wasn't going to her friends sleepovers she wasn't she was saying no to a lot of social things because she wanted this she really really wanted to to be a professional artist and not you know miss out on this opportunity so she really grinded away and got all this work done and it really cemented things for her being prolific and painting hardcore uh for that short Spurt of time is what really cemented this for her and you'll see that there was a great reward in it so um after so in her first year this publisher sold over $1 million of retail of her art demitra didn't get to see all that money um the publisher and the galleries made most of that money but they sold over a million dollars of her artwork in just her first year at age 15 and it was because she said no to those parties it was because she decided to work and to paint 60 hours a week she's not painting 60 hours a week now but at that time she did because she knew if she was prolific if she turned out a bunch of artwork there would be a reward there would be success at the end of it and that is true for you too this is not just true for Deitra or Ellie or Rita or retia or zabina this is true for you you you can absolutely have this success as well so um at age 17 she did a really Brave thing um and decided that she wanted to sort of pioneer something and go out on her own and represent herself um at the time she was just in a bunch of galleries she kind of saw that there was a new way coming a new way to sell art um that that was sort of a a little bit more of an old school way and she really wanted to Pioneer and be um on The Cutting Edge of of where the market was going and she knew the best way to do that would to be to represent herself so that's what she decided to do and um then she wanted to help other artist she was uh having tons of success with that um she helped me a lot with this uh new way of doing things uh because I was I was more the old school traditional way because that's that's that's how I always sold my work and um so she really helped me and and teaches also for the Institute and uh teaches in the Mastery Program and she found it really rewarding to to give back to to see other artists uh find that success and be able to inspire them and and show them what they need to to know so I just want to tell you a little bit about the Mastery Program because honestly that is that if you are listening right now and you want a full-time career as an artist and you want to be in that place where you are able to paint at a really high level super skilled be prolific and actually make a living selling your art remember Grandma Moses she started at age 78 and her net worth she was broke at 78 but her net worth was $10 million over over just a short span of time right so anybody who's told you you can't make a living selling your art or artists don't make any money or oh that's impossible don't believe them it is absolutely not true absolutely not true uh one of the best businesses you could ever get into is being a fine artist is painting and selling your paintings um I know so so so many successful artists that are doing it and I believe that you could do it too and the fastest way to get there is really the Mastery Program we've created this entire program that's that's only a one-ear long program that takes you through everything you would ever need to know um the skills how to draw how to oil paint how to measure how to see values how to um you know be able to just very quickly look at something and accurately get it down we teach you all of that step by step if you sort would have liked this method we have so many more other methods this is just the teeniest tip of the iceberg like there's so much more and you'll really learn how to oil paint like an expert you'll learn all kinds of mixed media techniques and the thing that we combat the most you know when we when we tell people about this program is there's so many things there so many lies that we've been told that are ingrained in us right like we were addressing those earlier about well if you do a lot of paintings you know then they're not rare and then they're not valuable but that's not true the more prolific you are the more seeds that are out there growing the Harvest is coming so you want lots of seeds you want to be prolific right so that was a lie they told you another lie is that you got to go to four years of art school and spend you know $50,000 in some fancy art school in order to be successful as an artist that you have to have this like you know really great you know CV or you have to have um you know be lucky and know just the right person all that is not true you need skills passion know what your voice is and have a style and then you got to work you got to work you got to spend time painting lots and lots of painting and you will be successful that is what the Mastery Program will get you it'll get you into those habits it'll get you those skills we teach you how to uh know your voice we um teach you how to identify your um your personal aesthetic and how to um how to know really what what you're passionate about what your gut really wants to paint what themes do you want to paint and how to identify those um we teach you how to uh identify where your taste is at and and how to grow that taste we teach you how to um paint in your temperament so you're not painting in a style that doesn't fit who you are right we talked about slow movers earlier versus Fast movers we talked about um you know people that have like that that like there's a little bit of violence to how they paint there's this directness um and and then there's some people that are very soft and they're very um you know accurate or everybody's different so knowing what your temperament is and how to paint in that is really really important and we teach you all all about that and how to really identify your voice how to develop your style how to push the envelope so you have something really unique Cutting Edge and and know what your Edge is and that's unique to you uh so it's a really really great program um and then after that the next section is um all about uh creating a portfolio so you will paint did you know in the Mastery Program that you paint and you create about a 100 pieces of Art in that year a 100 pieces of art so everybody that goes through a program by the time they graduated they look back and they're like wow I just made a 100 pieces of art this year so uh and every single piece builds into skill or finding your voice or your portfolio so 25 of those 100 pieces are your portfolio so here we have Rita again and this is an example of her in front of her portfolio it's a cohesive body of work that tells the art world that tells the collector you're serious you found your style and you're here to stay and you're worth investing in that this is a good buy so your portfolio is really important and we teach you exactly how to craft that from your style and your own unique voice um and so then once you have this beautiful portfolio you are itching to get it out there you can't wait to launch it now the thing that's so important about Picasso we talked about Picasso and yeah he created 179,000 pieces of Art and he was extremely prolific and that's why his net worth was 1.3 billion right because he's he's he was very prolific very successful but he also built a brand right p Picasso is a brand he's a household name everybody knows who Picasso is and we know it's all based on these sort of like what a weird brand right if you think about it Picasso is synonymous with a messed up face if you think about it every time we think of Picasso we think of you know a distorted face um because he he invented cubism and even though it's a weird brand it's a successful brand and that's why he's a household name uh he's everywhere and and and everybody recognized him because he knew how to build a brand and we teach you how to do that too so building a brand around your style your voice what it is you have to say and you want to tell the world we teach you how to do that and and once you know your brand and you've built this personal brand then we teach you how to create all kinds of marketing collateral and develop a marketing strategy so that when you introduce your beautiful portfolio that represents your voice into the art world people actually buy it because you have this fantastic marketing strategy um and then we teach you how to promote it and how to put fire on that and how to you know really get it out there um and and be successful with it in fact when you graduate from the program um one of the last lessons that that we teach you is how to create a one-year strategy so when you graduate you have your one-year strategy plan and your business plan and all you do month by month week by week is follow it is follow your Str straty so that your first year out is successful and so it's a it's it's a revolutionary program and I think the reason it's so good and it's so revolutionary is because it's it's created number one because we have a heart and a true authentic heart to help artists because like um the one lady said Rising tide lifts all boats that's why we created the school that is the foundation of the school is our goal is to create a movement in fact we are creating a movement but but to create a movement that hits all four corners of the earth and flood the Earth with Beauty with artwork and change the world with our art we believe that with all our heart and so we want as many artists as we can possibly touch as we can possibly you know get this message out to so that they can join us in this journey and become successful artists because I believe will change the world with that so that's one The Heart behind it but then the other one is because it it's um it's from it's derived from our careers me and my husband have had a uh we're completely unemployable I mean we haven't had jobs since 1996 it's all from our experience of selling art and and creating art and selling art the whole program is made from our experience we we know what to do uh and then we have demitra and and and that self-representation and and the modern branding tools and the modern Market marketing um and that combined is is a very revolutionary uh program so uh it's it's super fantastic this is a real beginner okay so this is Anna that was her um beginner painting she barely had touched paint she you know was just sort of uh watched a few things on YouTube was a total beginner and this after painting was only after um 16 weeks of the program so 4 months later in four months that's how much she learned um and then as you can see uh she graduated from the program in one day how many how many prints did she sell in that one day it was like 300 was over 300 yeah yeah in one day she sold over 300 prints um because um uh like some post that she did on Tik Tok just went Bonkers um but anyway so Anna was a a total beginner she had very little little experience at all and we've had people that have literally never touched paint in their whole lives uh take the program and do amazing with it so everybody's learning curve is different if you're coming in with a lot of skill um your learning curve will be less sharp if you come in as a complete beginner in fact the one of the very first drawing lessons is we literally tell you how to hold a pencil and we teach you about dirty knuckles so you we teach you how to hold a pencil and how to draw from your shoulder like this and not you know like that so from how to hold a pencil to a portfolio and a business that's that's how far you come in a whole year so you don't need experience you can be a complete beginner I just was contacted by somebody that's in the program that has gone to art school has all this experience is is really really and she says she can't believe how much she's learning and she wanted me to know that even though she has tons and tons of experience and she's already been to art school and completed it how much she's learned in this program and she said you know it's it she thought she was going to go into it she just wanted to get to the marketing and so she came into it thinking okay I'm not going to learn that much in the beginning um it's going to be really basic um and then uh she was amazed at how much she was learning so it's it's kind of a a weird thing to think that you could be a complete beginner or have a ton of skill and it works for both a lot of the things we've been told um about art school and about how to learn have been wrong they've just been wrong and I think that um as long as it's taught step by step and as long as um you have passion and you're willing to put the work in anybody at any skill level can learn and so if you're interested in it what I suggest you do is go onto the waiting list so so the waiting list you can join that right now you could join it tonight so when you get on the waiting list it's absolutely free we don't ask for credit card or anything like that you get on the wait list and um you'll start getting content about the Mastery Program and you'll get a prep course so in the prep course you we teach you how to build how to how to create a studio in your home um really practical things we teach you how to build an easel from scratch so um with just basically a hammer and nails and Home Depot and about 30 bucks um we teach you how to create your own easel um that you can and these are the easel that I work with today um in my business there's all kinds of great content in there to help you prepare um for the Mastery Program so between now and June that's what you can do is kind of go through this material in the prep course uh which is totally free and that's what I suggest you do and then that way you'll um also get a reminder from us of one registration op so that you won't miss it so um I really recommend if you are um you know excited about this to go get on the waiting list and join the ma Mastery Program when registration opens and push yourself push yourself you guys to paint a little faster get out of your comfort zone try some new techniques uh elevate your skills and um and really go for it there's there's no greater honor uh than to be able to be an artist and to be able to make a living doing it so that you can do it full-time uh and and to really just help fill the Earth with beauty and and art right and get as much art out there as we possibly can I just really encourage you to um you know try this out I'm excited I'm so excited to see how far you're going to go in your career and we're going to do this together so um hang with us join the waiting list and um get that prep course and we'll see you in the Mastery [Music] Program

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Id: KuxdokOIiT8

Length: 70min 10sec (4210 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 08 2024