Go deeper into AOP concepts and continue developing your painter's mind in AOP: Refining Your Process

If you've already completed the AOP Signature Course, if you're returning to your work with more questions, or if you'd like to dive deeper into AOP concepts, AOP: Refining Your Process is a great next step.

Here's what's inside:

AOP: Refining Your Process includes 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.

AOP: Refining Your Process offers:

- 5 additional Adventure Series of short, easy-to-digest videos that further build on AOP concepts like composition, massing, value, edges, 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

This 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 AOP courses are available.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

Yes. While this course is more conceptually varied than the Signature Course, I’ve added an assignment to go along with each video lesson.

No, the videos are hosted online in your course portal so you can watch them whenever, wherever you have internet access.

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.

Here's a peek at Adventure Series 4-8!

    1. Welcome to Refining Your Process!

    2. Assignment Workbooks

    1. A Kitchen to Cook In

    2. Outdoor Travel Pack

    3. Exploring Mediums

    4. Glazing with Oil to Enhance Color

    5. More on Using Vasari Neutral Grays

    6. Truck (How I Use My Car)

    7. Using Wax with Oil Paint

    1. Arriving On A Scene

    2. Finding a Dark Pattern Outdoors

    3. Good Practice

    4. The Adventure Begins: Gathering Your Information Outdoors

    5. Trip to Norway and Intentions

    6. What Did You See? (Hemingway on Writing)

    7. Zoom Session: Deciphering What You See Outdoors

    8. Art Books

    9. Learning from the Masters: Compton

    10. Learning from the Masters: Levitan

    11. Learning from the Masters: Quang Ho - Part One

    12. Learning from the Masters: Quang Ho - Part Two

    13. Learning from the Masters: Sir Alfred East

    14. The Hermit - John Singer Sargent

    15. Check-in: Adventure Series 5

    1. Abstract Shapes

    2. Drawing, Editing and Placement

    3. Limited Vocabulary Example - Rocky Stream

    4. Limited Vocabulary Example: Coastal Trees

    5. Limited Vocabulary with Trees

    6. Motif

    7. Ten Line Example - Sky Plane

    8. Ten Lines for Character and Compositional Placement

    9. Tension Through Opposition

    10. Variety and Harmony

    11. Dark Prominent to Emphasize Light

    12. Composing and Adding Variety to Lines and Shapes

    13. Light Prominent to Emphasize Dark

    14. Show me the Masses

    15. The Relationship of Value and Color

    16. Three Value Breakdown

    17. Value Pattern and Key

    18. Value Plane Choices

    19. Value Planes and Pattern

    20. Value and Clarity of Line

    21. Water Reflection

    22. Check-in: Adventure Series 6

    1. Finding Your Palette

    2. Tonality - Southwest Buttes

    3. Backlit Trees

    4. Creating Form Within a Mass

    5. Edges - Cloud Example

    6. Edges - Tree Example

    7. Facelit Trees

    8. Learning to See Form in Trees

    9. Learning to See and Create Form in Trees and Bushes

    10. Limited Vocabulary - Composing Tree Meadow

    11. Rocks - Same Value Change Color

    12. Rocks and Handling

    13. Using Form to Create Tension

    14. Check-in: Adventure Series 7

    1. Gouache Tree Grouping

    2. Meeting of Edges

    3. Photo and Study it Out - Lake

    4. Photo and Study it Out - Rocky Mountain

    5. Photo and Study it Out - Southwest Buttes

    6. Scattered vs Organized

    7. Sky Painting

    8. Texture and Mark Making

    9. Fine Darks and Variety to Create Depth

    10. Gouache Stream Scene

    11. Orchestration by Linking Dark Values

    12. Orchestration to Finish Example - River

    13. Proceeding with Edges Part 1: Bringing Elements Together

    14. Proceeding with Edges Part 2: Orchestration

    15. Winter Stream - Part One

    16. Winter Stream - Part Two

    17. Check-in: Adventure Series 8

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