Monday Morning Art School: please learn to draw
Drawing is the cheapest and most liberating of all media. All you need is a sketchbook, a mechanical pencil, and a straight-edge.
Reverse aging by learning to draw
Use it or lose it? No, train it and gain it. Learning a new skill develops mental acuity in the aging brain.
Learning to draw without a teacher
Can you learn to draw from a book? Absolutely! Here are some suggestions, and I’d love to hear about your favorites. Occasionally, I’ll send a student home from a workshop with the advice that he or she should take a basic drawing class. I’ll see that person the following summer only to learn that there …
Learn to Paint in 2026: Plein Air Painting Workshops with Carol L. Douglas
Come paint with me in 2026. Discover new places, new friends, and new ways to see the world — one brushstroke at a time.
Monday Morning Art School: how to draw trees
If you understand a tree’s canopy, branching, and bark, you can paint it in any style. Get it right in the drawing, and the painting will follow.
Learn to oil paint at home, on your own schedule.
If you pay attention and apply these lessons as you go, you will learn to oil paint with flair and confidence.
Monday Morning Art School: what we can learn from JMW Turner
While there are many lessons to be learned from JMW Turner and “The Fighting Temeraire,” here are two that stand out to me.
Bespoke: the advantages of online learning
This is going to be a going bespoke class, tailored to you—your strengths, your weaknesses, your needs, your aspirations.
Monday Morning Art School: Abstract Drawing
Learning to draw non-figuratively frees you to start combining elements in striking new ways. Even if you never want to abandon realism, it will make you a better designer.
Monday Morning Art School: transferring your drawing to canvas
Gridding is a fast and easy way to set our best drawings in paint.