MINI COURSES
EDGES Online Mini Course
Transform Stiff, Tight Paintings into Loose, Atmospheric Work
Do your paintings feel stiff and overworked? Discover the language of edges and bring the atmosphere, depth, and life you've been reaching for to your work!
THE PAINTERLY PET Online Mini Course
Transform Your Passion for Animals into Expressive Pastel Portraits
Struggling to capture a pet's unique personality in your artwork? Join this joyful journey to create vibrant portraits that bring their spirit to life!
EXPRESSIVE MARK-MAKING Online Mini Course
Transform Your Mark-Making into a Language That’s Unmistakably Yours
Pastel techniques have you feeling restricted or overworked? Get ready to unleash a whole new language in your work!
SIGNATURE COURSES
THE PAINTERLY PORTRAIT COURSE
ENROLLMENT IS NOW OPEN
The Painterly Portrait Course is one of Alain’s Signature Courses, designed to help artists build strong foundations while developing a loose, expressive, painterly approach.
For the first time, this course is available as a self-study experience, with immediate access to all lessons.
In this thoughtfully structured online course, Alain shares proven methods and inspiring demonstrations to guide you toward confident, expressive portraits in pastel. You’ll explore everything from painting convincing skin tones and simplifying backgrounds, to working with loose edges, bold marks, and capturing a compelling likeness—without overworking your paintings.
The Painterly Landscape Course
Experience a PROVEN PLAN and ESSENTIAL TECHNIQUES that lead toward looser, more expressive paintings in pastel.
READY TO TRANSFORM YOUR STILL LIFE PAINTING?
Experience the Painterly Roadmap that leads you step-by-step from design all the way to your destination.
Learn bold mark-making approaches, vibrant color and compositional techniques that take your work to new levels, and so much more!
Cultivate is A Private Membership Community For Painterly Course Alumni
We’ll help you implement all that you’ve learned in the Painterly Portrait, Still Life or Painterly Landscape Course and gain confidence as an artist so you can break through to new levels of freedom and impact in your work.
IN PERSON WORKSHOPS
Alain is currently taking a break from in-person Workshops.
“Alain’s approach to painting and his teaching style will help anyone improve their painting, and he provides so much information that will give you direction in your painting for months, even years to come!”