Everyone Has a Story To Tell: Inventing Narrative Paintings with Modern Tools
Self-Paced Online Course · Lifetime Access
Learn the process I developed as a self-taught painter to create emotionally powerful, visually rich narrative paintings.
What You’ll Be Able to Do (After This Course)
Create meaningful paintings that reflect your life, your story, and your perspective
Blend sketches, photography, history and memory into one cohesive composition
Build a complex idea from the ground up—even if you’ve never used Photoshop before
Design a full painting (digital collage + gouache study) ready to scale up to a large canvas
Whether you're self-taught or classically trained, this method meets you where you are—and helps you level up.
What’s Included
🎥 10+ hours of recorded lectures & demos
🖼️ Step-by-step process for composing narrative paintings
📚 Printable course outline, homework & materials list
🧰 Tools, techniques & digital workflows (no Photoshop experience required)
💻 Instructions for accessing Photoshop’s free 21-day trial
🔒 Lifetime access—revisit anytime
A Peek Inside the Course:
💬 What Students Are Saying
Honestly loved the course. It was so reasonably priced and had AMAZING CONTENT. I felt like I learned so much. Thank you for offering this and for doing such an incredible job. — Becky Coleman
I had the most fun I have ever had on a computer! I am feeling so grateful for this new tool! There is so much amazing potential here. Thank you Caitlin! — Casey Field
Your references open my mind to bigger personal possibilities. I'm thrilled with the doors you are opening. — Christine Price
I couldn’t be more thankful for this life-giving/life-changing class. — Liz Mehl
Who This Course Is Perfect For
Artists feeling stuck using a single photo as a reference
Painters looking to level up with structure and clarity
Artists who want to develop a repeatable process to make meaningful work
Anyone who has a story to tell, and wants to learn how to express it in paint
Why Now?
This version of the course is only available through May 1st — after that:
It will be retired and future versions will be priced higher
This is your last chance to get it at $200 with lifetime access
Why I Built This Course
As a self-taught painter, I spent years struggling to create work that felt intentional and layered with meaning. For a while, I relied on single reference photos, hoping they would do the heavy lifting—and they never quite did.
Everything changed when I started blending multiple references: photographs, sketches, historical paintings, even memory into intentional compositions. I finally was able to make work that felt true to my life experiences.
This course is the process I wish I’d had earlier. And now I get to share it with you. Over ten hours of recorded lectures and demos we will study history, take reference photos, build a digital collage and make a gouache study to use as a blueprint for a larger painting.