Go deeper into AOP concepts and continue developing your painter’s mind in AOP: Refining Your Process
Revisit and rework your core ideas with more precision, more curiosity, and a stronger sense of intention.
Refine your process. Deepen your painting skills. Find good answers to tough questions.
If you’ve already completed the Signature Course, or if you’re returning to your work with more questions than answers, AOP: Refining Your Process is a great next step.
This course expands on everything you’ve already started to build in AOP: your foundational knowledge, your curiosity, and your desire to develop a stronger painter’s eye and mind.
Inside, you’ll find five additional Adventure Series packed with over 70 videos that dig deeper into AOP materials, concepts, and methods to help you refine your process through continued practice.
From better understanding your setup and materials, to building your library, to working through orchestration, this course invites you to build on your painting foundation with more nuance, more understanding, and more tools.
Because as your knowledge grows, so does your ability to ask better questions, see more clearly, and paint with more confidence.
AOP: Refining Your Process offers:
5 additional Adventure Series of short, easy-to-digest videos that further build on core AOP concepts like building your library, composition, massing, value, and so much more
Over 16 hours of additional instruction across 70+ videos, available for you to revisit at any time throughout your painting adventure
Guided, intentional assignments to advance your learning, develop your painter’s mind, and put theory into practice
Infinite inspiration to fuel your love of painting
Lifetime* access to all course content, so you can return to particular topics as needed no matter what you’re working on
The course is best for students who have completed the AOP Signature Course and want to go deeper.
* “Lifetime” access in the case of AOP refers to the lifetime of the course - or as long as the course is available.
ADVENTURE SERIES 4
Materials, Mediums, & Setup
In this series we go deeper into oil painting techniques, outdoor painting setups, and more.
7 Videos
46 min
ADVENTURE SERIES 5
Adventure & the Painter’s Mind, and Building Your Library
From arriving on a scene to gathering information outdoors, to learning from the masters, this series is about studying with intention.
14 Videos
3 hr
ADVENTURE SERIES 6
Drawing, Composition, & Value
This series guides you through limited vocabulary examples, tension, values, and more.
21 Videos
4 hr 54 min
ADVENTURE SERIES 7
Color, Form, & Elements in Nature
Buttes, trees, rocks, clouds, and more - I discuss edges, form, massing, and tension.
13 Videos
3 hr 14 min
ADVENTURE SERIES 8
Gestures, Studies, & Orchestration
This series goes through creating studies from information you’ve gathered outdoors, and using those studies to help you orchestrate as you paint larger.
16 Videos
4 hr 56 min
Continue your own adventure of painting with Refining Your Process
Refine the way you see, think, and paint.
$650 one-time payment, or 3 payments of $225
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know is right below.
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Yes. AOP: Refining Your Process builds directly on the foundation laid in the Signature Course. If you’ve already worked through the Signature Course, you’ll recognize many concepts. Here, they’re expanded, challenged, and applied in new ways. It’s perfect for students looking to go deeper.
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You can, but I strongly recommend completing the Signature Course first so you’re familiar with AOP concepts and the language I use. You’ll get the most out of Refining Your Process when you build on the concepts introduced earlier.
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The course features over 70 videos spread across Adventure Series 4-8. Each series focuses on a different area of your painting practice—from setup and materials to gesture and orchestration. You’ll have lifetime* access to all content.
*”Lifetime” in this case refers to the lifetime of the course, or as long as the courses are available.
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Refining Your Process is a library of 70+ videos that you can work through and revisit at your own pace. It’s a one-time, $650 payment for lifetime access.
The Continuing Education Membership is an interactive hub for connection with other artists, ongoing Topic Studies and discussion, bonus material, and access to register for additional in-person and online workshops, mentorship calls, and events. The Continuing Education Membership is an ongoing $25/month or $275/year subscription.
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Nope. I teach primarily in oil and gouache, but the AOP principles apply across mediums. Whether you paint in acrylic, pastel, or watercolor, the ideas here are about how you see and think, not just what’s on your palette.
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Refining Your Process is completely self-paced. You could spend several weeks or several months inside the course, and I encourage you to revisit concepts and videos as needed. Refining Your Process is designed to be an ongoing reference for you along your painting journey.
I do recommend setting aside at least 15–20 minutes a day for consistent, intentional practice to see the most progress.
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Yes. While this course is more conceptually varied than the Signature Course, I’ve added an assignment to go along with each video lesson.
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No, the videos are hosted online in your course portal so you can watch them whenever, wherever you have internet access.
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No, all images are solely meant for the use of teaching and learning. Images are copyrighted and not permitted for distribution of any kind, or derivative work for exhibition or sale.
Many course modules guide you through the process of painting from your own images, however, and those works are of course free for you to use.