Low-Cost AND Good Art Lessons?

How are your lessons so low-cost with so many available?? 

 Patreon is a website that allows me to offer one to two hour-long weekly painting and drawing tutorials and other artist rewards to a large number of people at a very low cost. It’s the perfect platform because we all benefit!  You get to save a lot of money on my weekly art lessons and in turn, you allow me to keep upgrading my equipment and make even more videos. It’s an endless cycle of awesome!!

The reason there are so many lessons isn’t that they’re rushed but because you’re getting instant access to 7 YEARS worth of content! 

Are Your Lessons for Beginners too?

Absolutely! Here’s a secret about art lessons you need to be aware of. A lot of what you see online is taught by artists who themselves are truly just beginners. They will call something “advanced” because it takes more time, not because it requires more skill or pushes you to improve.  Now I’m not bashing beginner-level teachers, I even have some lessons for beginners myself to get you started.  I’m glad for anyone who gets you to pick up that pencil or paintbrush for the first time. But you need to ask yourself, do you want to stay a beginner or do you want to actually improve?

Let me explain this another way. When we learn to play music most of us learn something like “Mary had a little lamb” first. It takes little to master this song. Right away our version of “Mary had a little lamb” sounds just as good as the teachers. We feel like we are winning at music! And we are, this is a great start!! You SHOULD be proud of yourself!!  This is the equivalent of beginner art lessons. Right away your work is as good as the teachers so you feel like this is the appropriate skill level for you.

But what if you wanted to eventually learn to play Vivaldi or Bach? You’re not going to get there by playing “Mary had a little lamb” and other beginner songs over and over again. Yes, we start with those but we don’t STAY with those. Very quickly we need to start trying something harder.

When we start trying Vivaldi and other more challenging music, it’s not going to sound so good at first compared to the teacher.  This is normal and a part of the process when it comes to growth. We start by playing the song slowly, hitting a lot of wrong notes, but we KNOW we’re on the path to a higher skill level. THAT’S HOW YOU GET BETTER! You HAVE to CHALLENGE yourself! You HAVE to play (or in the case of art paint/draw) something ugly to become amazing!

While learning Vivaldi it may not sound exactly like a master, but it’s going to be far better than your perfect rendition of “Mary had a little lamb“. Don’t limit yourself to forever being a beginner because you feel it’s the appropriate skill level. I want to help you achieve much much more!

$6/month – Phthalo Green Membership

If you’re mostly interested in painting videos this tier is for you! You get ALL of my videos, not just some of them!

• Instant access to over 300 art lessons in multiple mediums
• A new lesson every week
• 5  high-resolution reference photos of wildlife and flowers taken by me that you can use in your own artwork
• NEW!! I’ve just started including step-by-step downloadable images to make it even easier for you to follow along! I’ve got samples from a recent sun conure colored pencil lesson below.

Wait a minute! THREE HUNDRED lessons?!!? Those have to be super short right? NOPE!! You’re getting access to over 6 years worth of my 1-2 hour long lessons! 

$16/month – Aqua Membership

If you’re mostly interested in painting videos this tier is for you! You get ALL of my videos, not just some of them!

• Instant access to over 300 art lessons in multiple mediums
• A new lesson every week
• 10  high-resolution reference photos taken by me that you can use in your own artwork each month
• Monthly Group Art Challenge (totally optional to join)
• A thank you postcard sent to you every month with one of my paintings printed on it
• Permission to use any of my animal or flower social media photos posted online in your artwork
• A new downloadable coloring page each week based on my paintings
• My cost on all prints from my pixels/Fine Art America print shop

This sounds like the best deal EVER!! How do I sign up?!

I don’t know, one time Starbucks had a buy one get one free deal. It would be hard to top free caffeine, but this comes close!  To get more information and to sign up head over to http://patreon.com/Lachri 

I look forward to seeing you there!! 

Well wait a minute, What if I change my mind?

That’s no problem at all! You’re free to change membership tiers or to cancel at any time. I promise this isn’t like a gym membership that won’t set you free! Patreon makes it very easy to cancel or change your pledge. Just go to your account settings and make any adjustments you like!

When do I get charged?

You will be charged for the first month the day you sign up, and then on the 1st of the month each month after that your membership is active.