Fully developed courses. These are ready to teach with:
– A complete syllabus
– Examples of student work
– A clear pedagogical stance and teaching framework
These are subjects I’m confident in teaching and have a clear vision for, including defined student outcomes. While I don’t yet have a syllabus or student examples, these will be developed as I get the opportunity to teach them.
I teach drawing as a system of clear, modular skills — not trial and error. By breaking down observation and technique into intentional exercises, students gain the tools to diagnose and improve their work with purpose. Skill becomes freedom: the more you understand, the more choices you have in how to express your ideas.
Foundation 1 | Seeing with Precision
Train your eyes and hand to work in sync. Develop accuracy, visual clarity, and control — the essential starting point for all drawing disciplines.
Foundation 2.1 | Color | Language of Light
Learn how color functions — hue, value, temperature, and harmony — through direct observation.
Foundation 2.2 | Color | Painting
Apply value, color, and edge control using paint. Explore how light and material interact on the surface.
Foundation 2.3 Color | Invented Color Systems
Move beyond realism. Strategically design color to convey mood, abstraction, or visual narrative.
Foundation 2.1 | Anatomy | Portraits
Understand the face through careful observation of proportion, gesture, and structure.
Foundation 2.2 | Anatomy | Human Form in Reality
Understand the figure through careful observation of proportion, gesture, and structure.
Foundation 2.3 | Anatomy | Constructing Human Form
Use anatomy knowledge to invent figures with accuracy and dynamic expression from imagination.
Foundation 2.1 | Space | Drawing Perspective
Learn how objects exist in space using perspective principles rooted in observation.
Foundation 2.1 | Space | Designing Imagined Spaces
Use structural understanding to build spatial environments and compositions from imagination.
Foundation 3 | Strategic Execution
Bring it all together — form, space, anatomy, light, and color. Learn how to choose the right tools, approaches, and visual strategies to serve your artistic goals with intention and clarity.
Mastery of tools deepens expression. This section focuses on how digital mediums — when used intentionally — can unlock new possibilities in drawing and painting. Students learn not just what tools can do, but how and why to use them in service of their ideas.
Watercolor
Manage the bead, execute smooth gradient washes, and understand the subtle relationship between brush moisture, paper wetness, and timing.
Pen & Ink
Master line quality, hatching, and texture for structure and atmosphere.
Mixed Media Exploration
Combine materials to create layered, dimensional works.
Large Scale Acrylic Painting
Develop mural-scale compositions with bold gestures and layered color.
Material Studies & Process
Investigate how surface, absorbency, and tool choice affect outcome.
Layer Strategy
Understand how to build drawings and paintings using layers for structure, flexibility, and refinement. Learn naming systems, grouping, masking, and flattening without losing control.
Blend Modes & Digital Effects
(Procreate or Photoshop) – Understand how to manipulate light, color, and form digitally.
Digital Painting Techniques
Learn brush settings, edge control, color building, and value separation for painted forms that feel deliberate and dimensional.
Traditional x Digital Integration
Bridge the gap between analog and digital. Scan, photograph, or layer traditional media with digital techniques to create unique hybrid works. Learn how to preserve the strengths of both worlds without diluting either.
This section explores the why behind the work — how to shape narrative, make meaning, and design visual decisions that resonate. Students learn to reflect, analyze, and build a cohesive creative language rooted in both personal insight and shared human experience.This isn’t about following a formula — it’s about building a toolkit of conceptual lenses to make intentional, powerful work.
Visual Intent & Creative Direction
Learn to set a conceptual foundation for your work and build upward from it. Every visual decision — from scale to silhouette — becomes a deliberate expression of that core idea.
Style as Self
Discover how your preferences, values, and creative instincts shape a visual identity. This course helps students move from mimicry to authorship.
Narrative Through Perspective
Explore how beliefs, worldview, and framing shape the stories you tell. Learn to position your subject matter in ways that feel truthful and intentional.
Designing Clarity & Mystery
How much do you want your viewer to understand — and when? Learn to guide attention, build tension, and control the delivery of meaning through pacing, focus, and omission.
Story in Structure
Explore how format — book, scroll, panel, screen — becomes part of the storytelling. Learn to choreograph the rhythm of a viewer’s experience through layout and interaction.
Archetypes & Resonance
Use timeless narrative structures and emotional blueprints to build visual work that resonates deeply. Learn how to avoid cliché while tapping into shared emotional truths.
Drawing Time
Explore how time is experienced, implied, or compressed within visual work. From sequential art to implied motion and emotional duration, learn how to shape the viewer's sense of time through rhythm, repetition, memory, and delay.
This section offers a range of formats designed to spark personal expression while encouraging thoughtful structure. These aren’t assignments with a right answer — they’re containers for creative exploration. Each practice gives students space to experiment with ideas, discover their voice, and learn through critique what’s resonating and what isn’t. The goal is to build a body of work that reflects both intentionality and freedom.
Plein Air Painting
Capture the emotion of a place in real time. Work outdoors with shifting light, weather, and energy — developing responsiveness and presence in your work.
Sketchbook Journalism
Document your life visually. Blend drawing, writing, and observation into sketchbook spreads that tell personal, lived stories.
Travel/ Subway Sketching
Draw people in motion in public spaces. Learn to simplify forms, capture presence quickly, and find beauty in the unposed.
Artist Books & Zines
Tell stories through sequential image and layout. Combine content, pacing, and material choices to craft handmade narratives.
Visual Poetry
Combine image and text into emotionally resonant pieces. Focus on rhythm, whitespace, and the relationship between visuals and meaning.
Visual Series
Explore a theme or concept across multiple works. Build visual cohesion, deepen an idea, and learn how repetition opens creative doors.
Creating Prints to Sell
Learn how to prepare artwork for print, choose formats, and make artistic decisions that translate well to physical media.
Character Design
Invent compelling characters with personality, clarity, and expressive form. Focus on visual storytelling through design.
Merch Design
Explore what people want to buy — and why. Design T-shirts, stickers, or objects that maintain artistic integrity while considering audience appeal and usability.
Mastery of tools deepens expression. This section focuses on how digital mediums — when used intentionally — can unlock new possibilities in drawing and painting. Students learn not just what tools can do, but how and why to use them in service of their ideas.This section translates professional creative practice into hands-on, outcome-driven classes. Students don’t just learn how branding, UX, and product design work — they build them while grappling with the real priorities behind every decision.
Visual Language for Startups
Design a complete brand guide — including logos, typography, layout, and color — rooted in a clear narrative and visual logic. Students learn how to craft a brand that feels cohesive, adaptable, and emotionally intelligent.
End-to-End Product Design with Figma
Create a fully-realized software product from user flow to final prototype. Learn how to wireframe, design interfaces, and build interactive prototypes that prioritize clarity, experience, and usefulness.
Building Meaningful Websites with Webflow
Students design and launch a portfolio, landing page, or small company site. Focus is on balancing structure, visual identity, and usability in a responsive system.
Design Beyond Data
What makes a product actually good? Explore how to design experiences that serve emotional, ethical, and human goals — not just KPIs. Students design a product that matters and explain its value without relying on buzzwords or metrics.
Asking the Right Questions(Discussion-Based)
Go beyond a static style guide. Teach how to create systems that grow with a company — balancing flexibility with consistency.Sometimes the biggest design mistake is solving the wrong problem. This class is a guided, discussion-style exploration of how to diagnose the real issue, challenge surface-level assumptions, and design toward actual resolution — not patchwork.
Human-Centered Research & Insight Mapping
Go beyond a static style guide. Teach how to create systems that grow with a company — balancing flexibility with consistency.Students learn how to conduct interviews, collect insights, and visually map patterns to understand what people actually need — not just what they say.
Art Direction & Concept Moodboarding
Explore how to set visual tone and create narrative cohesion through concept boards. Students learn to synthesize abstract themes into concrete visual worlds.
Entrepreneurial Thinking for Artists
How do you bring creative work into the world without compromising meaning? This course trains students to think like founders — building projects that are intentional, viable, and values-aligned.
This section is built from real creative experiments — projects made not to impress coders, but to express feeling, idea, and presence using web tools. You don’t need to be a developer. You just need curiosity and a desire to make something alive and interactive.
Storytelling Through the Web
Use simple HTML and CSS to tell interactive stories online. Emphasis is on layout, sequence, and emotional clarity — not technical complexity.
Web Tool Scavengers
Discover strange and wonderful online tools. Learn to creatively repurpose platforms, generators, and free resources to make unexpected art.
PNG Puppets with p5.js
Use layers of illustration (PNG images) to animate simple characters in the browser. Learn how images can respond to time, input, or logic.
Mobile Phone Stories
Create intimate, vertical-format stories designed specifically for mobile viewing. Explore how scrolling, swiping, and tap-based interaction can be used to shape pacing and emotional tone.
Drawing & Animating for the Web
Learn how to create simple, looping animations and motion drawings that display well on screen. Focus on clarity, file optimization, and expressive timing.
Web Code Fundamentals(Vanilla JS, HTML, CSS)
Build interactive sketches, story layouts, or experimental interfaces using beginner-friendly code. No frameworks — just raw building blocks, creatively applied.
Simple Machine Learning for Artists
Use tools like ml5.js or Teachable Machines to make projects that respond to gesture, voice, or objects. Learn how simple AI can open playful, emotional interaction.
Making the Web Feel Tangible
Design digital experiences that mimic material feeling — like drag resistance, bounce, friction, and delay — using motion and feedback to create presence.
Symbolic Interactions & the Senses
Explore how interface gestures (scroll, hover, zoom, etc.) can become metaphor. Use interaction to evoke meaning, memory, or ritual.
Interactive Story Worlds
Build nonlinear, ambient, or layered narrative experiences using web structure and interaction. Explore tension, pacing, branching, and discovery as storytelling tools.
