Explore the joy of painting pets using acrylics, even as a beginner! Lauren teaches the fundamental drawing and acrylic painting techniques needed to paint any pet, not only cats and dogs.
Discover simple, low-stress drawing and painting methods that help creatives break free from perfectionism and progress efficiently from a photo to a quality portrait.
Students can learn and grow together with optional artwork critiques and live paintings! Only Masterclass students can access tutorial items for all live paintings on YouTube including the reference/s, traceable, and materials list.
Let loose in your pet paintings using a playful, colorful style! Within each lesson Lauren explains her breed specific techniques, fur painting methods, pet anatomy, and proper brush use so creatives can adopt a similar loose, yet realistic style.
Students begin the class learning the versatility and forgiving properties of acrylic paint in a simple, relaxing way. Students progress to learning the fundamental drawing and painting techniques and Lauren’s unique color methods.
The next phase is Lauren’s beginner friendly 12-step pet painting process, step-by-step. Lessons can be viewed out of order and at your own pace!
The Masterclass is not only a place to improve your acrylic pet painting skills, but also it’s a supportive, creative family!
A safe space away from all the negative noise for creatives to feel encouraged, inspired, uplifted, and while gaining regular constructive feedback.
Learn to create pet portraits that are dimensionally realistic, but also colorfully abstract! Discover how fun and freeing it is to choose, mix, blend, layer, and apply color heavily guided by value.
Look forward to new painting projects each month capturing the likeness of a variety of different pets, not just cats and dogs. Students will discover quickly the joy and therapeutic benefits of animal art!
“My pet portraits have improved 100% since joining the Masterclass. Not only in skill, but also in my confidence as well. Lauren I cannot thank you enough for this class and all you have done.”
“Lauren, thank you so very much for all your help. Your encouragement and tutorials these past years have helped me to arrive at this point. Having my own solo show was a dream come true!”
“My mother passed away unexpectedly in October and once I made time to paint again the peace and joy of painting returned to my heart! Thank you Lauren for your love, direction, and guiding all of us through the healing world of art!”
“I’ve never painted this consistently in my life! This is Woodrow, his owner was my classmate who turned out to be a neighbor who turned into a friend. I’m so grateful I can now create something special for him.”
“This is truly the most giving and helpful painting community I have ever been in, and there are HUNDREDS of tutorials I have yet to explore. I’m learning so much Lauren!”
“I never would have tried painting on wood if it were not for your Collie wood ornament tutorial. I still cannot believe that it led to hundreds of custom mini ornament commissions! Thank you so much Lauren!”
“I cannot thank you enough for what your class has given me. Your encouragement, the way you make beautiful art attainable, the variety, the calming nature of you and your class in such a crazy world. Your class has become my safe space! I could go on and on. You have changed my life and I will be forever grateful.”
“I realized I now have the ability to paint from a reference photo without a tutorial! You have been instrumental in that achievement and I thank you from the bottom of my heart!”
“I signed up for the Masterclass to get painting again and to help me through the hardest 7-months of my life, and it did! I was intimidated to paint something like this that I really wanted to turn out well, but now I’m done and very please to share it!”
“This Masterclass is more than an art class for me. It has helped me to be calm and relax while learning to paint animals, which I love. I am a student forever as there is always something to learn.”
