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Painting Courses

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Courses created for artists who want to improve their technique, understand colour, express emotion through art, and develop a personal creative style.

Painting With Emotion

Beginner · Online · 6 weeks · 14 lessons

Painting With Emotion

Begin with feeling rather than subject. A gentle, structured introduction to expressive painting.

You will learn

  • Translate a feeling into a colour decision
  • Build a personal palette
  • Finish three complete paintings

Materials

  • Acrylic or oil starter set
  • Three 16 × 20 canvases
  • Filbert brushes 2, 6, 10
Creating Depth Through Colour

Intermediate · Online · 8 weeks · 20 lessons

Creating Depth Through Colour

Value, temperature and glazing — the three tools that make a flat painting breathe.

You will learn

  • Control temperature across a canvas
  • Glaze confidently
  • Diagnose a dead passage and revive it

Materials

  • Oil paints, limited palette
  • Linen panels
  • Glazing medium
From Blank Canvas to Finished Story

Intermediate · In Person · 2-day intensive

From Blank Canvas to Finished Story

A full painting begun and resolved in two days in the Charleston studio. Ten places only.

You will learn

  • Work through the ugly middle stage
  • Know when a painting is finished
  • Write the story behind your work

Materials

  • All materials provided
Fine-Art Portrait Painting

Advanced · Online · 10 weeks · 26 lessons

Fine-Art Portrait Painting

Structure, skin and the pursuit of presence over likeness.

You will learn

  • Construct a head from planes
  • Mix convincing skin across tones
  • Paint attention, not resemblance

Materials

  • Oil paints
  • Portrait-grade linen
  • Mirror and easel
Developing Your Personal Painting Style

Advanced · Private · 6 private sessions

Developing Your Personal Painting Style

One-to-one coaching for artists ready to stop imitating and start deciding.

You will learn

  • Identify your recurring subjects
  • Edit a body of work
  • Prepare for exhibition

Materials

  • Your existing work
Azera Graham's teaching studio

Your Instructor

Taught entirely by Azera

Every lesson is filmed and narrated by Azera in her own studio — no assistants, no generic demonstrations. Over 900 students have worked through these courses since 2021.

Private coaching is available for artists preparing a body of work for exhibition.

We have collected for eighteen years. Azera is the first artist whose work our guests stand in front of in silence.

Marguerite & Paul DevereauxCollectors, Savannah

Her course changed how I mix colour permanently. I have taken six others and none of them came close.

Ines FallonStudent, Painting With Emotion

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