Everyone Has a Story To Tell: Inventing Narrative Paintings with Modern Tools

$200.00

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 & painting 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, no expiration

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 Is Perfect For

  • Artists feeling stuck using a single photo as a reference

  • Self-taught painters looking to level up with structure and clarity

  • Creatives 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

$200 — One-Time Payment

✔️ Instant access
✔️ Lifetime access
✔️ Self-paced — start anytime

Why Now?

This version of the course is only available through May — after that:

  • It will be retired

  • 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. 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. I finally made work that looked the way it felt inside.

This course is the process I wish I’d had earlier. And now I get to share it with you.