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** Save $100 on a PLUS Membership and/or a Starter Kit. Cannot be combined with any other coupons **
** Starter Kits can only be shipped to the 48 contiguous United States. No AK, HI, or international orders.**
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Every other week LIVE Sessions, MEMBER CRITIQUES, LIVE MENTORING and LIVE PAINTING HELP!
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LIVE sessions happen wednesdays 11am eT (NYC)
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Exclusive discounts just for PLUS Members!
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LIVE educational content (technical material, techniques, artistic development)
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LIVE guest speakers and panel discussions
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LIVE critiques of member work
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LIVE focused Q&A
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automatically part of our exclusive ONLINE CLASSROOM where Artists are invited to post work, ask questions, get and give advice, and offer their thoughts, experience.
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priority response to technical and artistic inquiries
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first notification and registration for Rebecca & Jerry's in-person workshops
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giveaways that will include gift cards, tools, mentoring sessions, and CWA merchandise
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exclusive streaming access to the Cold Wax Video Workshop
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Exclusive Access to Jerry’s 12 Essential Lessons
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Exclusive Access to Jerry's 6 Mentoring Messages
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Beginning July 2024 We will switch to monthly sessions with LIVE Q&A, Critiques, and guided learning
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Essential PLUS Membership Details
This level offers the most opportunity for learning and growth. In addition to all the advantages of the Essential Membership, Essential PLUS Members will have exclusive streaming access to lessons, mentoring, and Rebecca and Jerry’s highly praised Cold Wax Video Workshop, with nearly seven hours of content.
PLUS Members have exclusive access to Jerry’s 12 Essential Lessons:
Bad Habits
Jerry reviews over 20 bad habits that impede artistic growth and discusses ways to overcome them.
Lesson 1Ergonomics and Thoughtful Work
Make sure your time in the studio is comfortable, productive, and educational.
Lesson 2Using Your Brayer
Achieve both dramatic and subtle surfaces with your brayer.
Lesson 3Using Your Squeegee
Get the most out of your squeegee.
Lesson 4Using Your Palette Knife
Create interesting surfaces and edges with your palette knife.
Lesson 5Combining Your Tools
Discover unique and beautiful surface effects and textures by combining your tools.
Lesson 6Texture
Developing and purposeful use of texture.
Lesson 7Keeping Color Interesting
Create and use color effectively.
Lesson 8Whites, Grays, and Blacks
How Jerry creates the beautiful neutral colors in his work.
Lesson 9Edges, Borders, and Boundaries
Keeping a painting unified by attending to these three areas.
Lesson 10The Importance of Pervasive Contrast
Tending to contrast in shape, color, line, texture, and value will bring your work to the next level.
Lesson 11The Importance of Practice
Focused practice will help your art grow at an accelerated pace…stop spinning your wheels.
Lesson 11“These 12 lessons helped me in areas I didn’t even know I was struggling. I feel so much more confident when I paint! Thank you!” – Janet S.
Jerry McLaughlin introduces his 12 Essential Lessons
“Even though I had taken several workshops, within minutes, I learned something that helped me with a painting I was working
on.” – Swasan A
Jerry shares how he mixes his beautiful, deep grays in Essential Lesson 9: Whites, Blacks & Grays
Essential PLUS Members have exclusive access to 6 Mentoring Messages: ‘addressing the inner aspects of making art’
1. The ‘Gap’ – keeping perspective and avoiding frustration
2. Going Deeper in Your Work – choosing, committing, and overcoming negative selftalk
3. Setting Limits – to promote learning and creativity
4. Intentionality – the importance of a visual vocabulary
5. Going Deeper in Your Work (Part 2) – working in series
6. Daily Domino – grow your art practice
Essential PLUS Members have exclusive streaming access to Rebecca and Jerry's Cold Wax Video Workshop: everything they teach in a 5-day workshop and more!
PLUS Members also have exclusive access to Jerry's 12 Essential Lessons and 6 Mentoring Messages: focused lessons and advice Jerry has developed through teaching nearly 600 workshop students.
Jerry McLaughlin and Rebecca Crowell take their highly respected teaching practice beyond the classroom with this 29-part High-Definition (HD) video that packs in all the demonstrations, techniques, and topics they present in the 5-day workshops they teach around the world. Over a year in the making, it was filmed and edited by a professional team of videographers and is nearly 7 hours long!
“I just finished watching the videos for the first time. My goodness, they are wonderful!!! Congratulations on this amazing work. Thank you for creating these videos, for your hard work, for your passion.” – Barbara
Video Topics include:
- Introduction to the Video
- Getting Started: Intro to Cold Wax Medium
- Tools & Supplies
- Materials
- Appropriate Painting Surfaces
- Studio Safety
- Studio Set-up and Cleanup
- Alla Prima: Working Wet-In-Wet
- Techniques: Foundation Layers
- Techniques: Drying Time
- Techniques: Creating Texture
- Techniques: Stages of Dryness
- Techniques: Building Layers
- Techniques: Contrast
- Techniques: The Toolbox
- Techniques: Veil of Color and Brayer Techniques
- Techniques: Mark-making
- Techniques: Creating Shapes and Dividing Space
- Techniques: Mechanical and Solvent Reductions
- Techniques: Compression and Blotting
- Techniques: Dry Pigments, Particulates, and Pours
- Techniques: Techniques for a Dry Surface
- Mounting Paper to a Cradled Panel
- Prepping your Panels for Hanging
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Beyond Techniques: Using the Elements of Art for Strong Painting
- Beyond Techniques: Approaches to Abstraction
- Rebecca Crowell – A Painting from Beginning to End
- Jerry McLaughlin – A Painting from Beginning to End
Essential Membership Details
This is where learning begins. Essential Members are part of our quarterly online learning academy. Each quarter we will cover essential topics through 8-10 weekly live sessions (LIVES). LIVES include a rotating schedule of:
• educational content (technical material, techniques, artistic development)
• guest speakers and panel discussions
• critiques of member work
• focused Q&A
Essential Members can join the live sessions or watch the recorded version. At the end of each session we will offer artists focused exercises and challenges to encourage deeper learning and growth. Essential Members are automatically part of our exclusive Online Classroom.
Artists are invited to post work, ask questions, get and give advice, and offer their thoughts, experience, and encouragement.
Rebecca demonstrates a painting from beginning to end, showing how she creates her subtle beautiful shapes and layering.
“After looking all over the internet for the best teachers, you are it.” – Darcy G
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