Painting Demos Video Library

Improve your painting and artistic abilities with Amy's demos.

Enjoy free access to videos to better understand studio materials, flower arranging, and brush cleaning, as well as for purchase videos that will assist you in your quest to loosen brush strokes, strengthen color, and energize compositions. 
All videos have lifetime access!

Free Tutorials

  • Free

Flower Arranging for Painting -18 minutes

In this free video, Amy describes how she arranges flower bouquets for painting. She makes three very quick arrangements and describes why she arranged each one. If you struggle with making a bouquet that will be engaging and interesting to paint, this is a video that may help!

  • Free

How to Clean Your Brushes-8 minutes

Would you like to learn a way to clean your brushes that uses little water and doesn't clog your septic system or ruin your sink? In this free video Amy explains her brush cleaning method that will work with your oil or acrylic brushes.

  • Free

My Studio Materials- 18 minutes

This video is an overview of materials Amy uses and suggests for oil painting. Very helpful to see what she uses the materials for that are listed in her supply lists for the demo videos. Free lifetime access!

Painting Demo Videos for Purchase

  • $285 or 2 monthly payments of $150

A Flower Painting Library--Six Stand Alone Videos Bundle- Discounted 30% When Purchased Together

  • Includes 3 additional products

Six of Amy's standalone painting videos are now available as a bundle! Almost 7 hours of instruction available. Purchasing alone costs $410; as a bundle you save 30% $350 for all and enjoy continuous access! There are numerous techniques and strategies for making better paintings here: paint mixing; collage; values; stroke liberation; and making strong compositions. Enjoy!

  • $65

Understanding Values by Making a 5 Value Grey Scale Painting-50 minutes

This 50 minute video explains the concept of "value" in oil painting; we will create a painting using only black and white and make five values from which we will create form, volume, and space. Question your assumptions about what is "black" , "white", and "grey"! Once you understand the role of value in your painting, you will more easily describe objects and distance.

  • $65

Windows and Gerber Daisy Painting Demonstration-55 minutes

This video is a perfect follow up for the 5 grey scale painting lesson using the same gerber daisies and window composition. Now you can work on a painting using full color palette and a better understanding of the use of values in creating a spacious, dynamic painting. Amy introduces the split primary limited palette and moves into composing with major shapes, and creating a sense of space inside versus outside.

  • $65

Working with Peonies (Part 1)- Cut Outs and Stroke Limitation-55 minutes

Do you struggle with boring brush strokes in your painting? Reluctant to commit to a composition on your panel? In this video, Amy utilizes two exercises that help her make a composition without stress and energize her brush strokes. Watch Amy use collage and limited stroke activities prior to making a full session painting (to see the follow up painting demo, see the companion video listed in the library).

  • $65

Working with Peonies (Part 2 after the Collage and Limited Strokes Activity)-50 minutes

Watch Amy as she follows up on the collage and limited stroke activity with the peony composition. She mixes paints using the split primary painting palette, uses major shapes to define her composition , and then has a surprise repaint near the end of the video. This is a great way for participants to see that everyone experiences the need to re-do a painting. Enjoy lifetime access with this video!

  • $85

Domestic Interior and White Roses Demonstration-1 hr and 20 minutes

Watch and learn with Amy as she goes through the process, from beginning to end, of painting an interior with white roses as the star of the show. She works to make the roses and sunlight on the kitchen counter vibrant, while suggesting her kitchen interior as a frame around the blooms. She works in oil paints and reviews her limited palette. You have lifetime access to this video!

  • $65

Garden Flowers with a Rich Purple Background Demonstration-50 min

In this demonstration, Amy paints summer blooms from her garden in Maine: hydrangeas, cosmos, and zinnias. In the background she uses a rich purple, bringing out the vibrant color in each bloom. In addition, she demonstrates painting a colored (green) vase, one of her favorites. The beginning of the video reviews mixing paint using her double primary palette, a highly valuable skills for all painters.

  • $85

Dog and Interior Painting Demo

Painting your favorite pet AND an interior is fun! In this one hour + video, Amy demonstrates a painting featuring her favorite boy, Lefty the Boston Terrier, as he sleeps in her studio. It's a close up view of him, with a "look up" view at some tables and window, painted in oil. This demonstration uses a limited amount of colors, so it's great for those newer to paint mixing. LIfetime access for all videos!

  • $85

Square and Rectangular Composing with Flowers- 2 demos in one-1 hour and 20 minutes

In this course, Amy shows the difference between a bouquet painted with a square format, and a second painting created using a rectangular format. Both paintings are painted in a bold, loose manner, yet they "feel" different due to the format. Amy reviews paint mixing using a split primary palette and moves into two separate demos using the same bouquet.