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Adding Detail with Fine Liners
Layers of careful looking become storytelling — learn how to define the key elements that give your sketch character and
Watercolour & Urban Sketching — Taught by an Artist Who Does It for Real
Mike Mills — artist, designer, and educator — teaches you to see any scene differently and capture it with expressive watercolour and pen & ink. Free tutorials to get started. Structured courses when you’re ready to go deeper.
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Free tutorials covering urban sketching, watercolour, and pen & ink — the best place to start if you’re new to expressive painting.
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Structured courses built around Mike’s 4-stage painting method — from composition and big shapes through to fine line detail.
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Browse Mike’s original paintings and prints — the expressive, artist-made style you’ll learn to develop in your own work.
Featured Course
Painting Beddgelert Bridge
Beddgelert Bridge is a beautifully complex scene — stone arches, river reflections, layered buildings. This course teaches you to break it down, build it up in colour, and finish it with confident pen work. Designed for beginners and improvers.
• Designed for beginners and improvers
• 7 step-by-step video lessons
• Mike’s 4-stage painting method
• Lifetime access — learn at your own pace
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Adding Watercolour to the Big Shapes Outline
Apply vibrant colour washes that set the mood and emotion of your sketch, without overworking the paint.
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Adding Tone & Depth with Brush Pens
Use tone and shade to push your sketch from flat to three-dimensional — adding structure and depth with every mark.
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Mixing Watercolours Using a Limited Palette
Simplify your colour choices with a limited palette so your colours always work together and complement each other naturally.
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How to Simplify a Scene Into Big Shapes
Take a complex scene and break it down into its main compositional elements — the foundation of every confident sketch.
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Choose a course and start building real skills. Mike’s 4-stage method gives you a clear path from blank page to finished, confident painting.