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Are you a frustrated artist? Do you have a beautiful image in your head and find that you just can’t put it down successfully onto paper or canvas? Why struggle, when you could become a Bodacious Brushcrusher.

Let me guess … you watched a trillion YouTube tutorials but still feel that you’re still painting in the dark, without the techniques and skills you need to create that incredible image in your head. Or you worry hat if you follow an artist you end up creating cookie-cutter art that’s more their’s than your’s.

If this is you, I’ve got great news! What you’re looking for is solid and entertaining fine art instruction. Solid to help you achieve the results you want and create your own unique beautiful art. And entertaining to keep you from going out of your ever-loving mind.

I have created a very personal approach to learning in my online art academy - dLauren Fine Arts on Patreon. I’ve always believed that my job is to work myself out of a job, by empowering learning artists (that’s all of us, really) with the tools and techniques to create their own beautiful masterpieces.

Imitation and replication plays a part in teaching some techniques, but offering solid art concepts in combination with technique training is how I accomplish gifting You with the ability to branch out and attain the skills and inspiration you need as a creative and an artist. I’ve had nearly a dozen of my former students go on to become professional painters, children’s book illustrators and art instructors. This is my proudest accomplishment as an art instructor. I’d love to help you join them in their success!

If you are interested viewing your frustration from the rear view mirror instead of continuing down that same road that hasn’t worked up until now. Remap your course and join my art family. Allow me to be your art guide for the brief stint of a month to decide if we’re a good fit for each other go to www.patreon.com/dlaurenfinearts and you can sign up for as little as $10/month. There are several free lessons to sample as well. Let me help you onto the road less traveled while I equip and empower you with skills, concepts and techniques that will free your inner artist.

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