Discover painters and educators whose studio practice and teaching reflect a deep engagement with Natural Pigments and Rublev Colours. Explore their artwork, learn about their painting methods, and see how carefully selected materials are used in courses and workshops.
Featured Artists highlights painters and educators whose work demonstrates a thoughtful and disciplined approach to materials and studio practice. Each profile introduces an artist’s work, teaching philosophy, and the materials they rely on in their own painting and instruction.
By bringing together practicing artists and instructors, this section provides painters and students with insight into how experienced professionals structure their palettes, select materials, and integrate them into real teaching environments.
The goal is simple: to help artists learn not only what materials to use, but how they are used by painters who actively teach and work in the studio.
Featured Artists profiles focus on painters whose work reflects a serious and sustained studio practice grounded in observation, craft, and material understanding.
Each profile connects artistic work with real teaching—through workshops, courses, or atelier-style instruction—offering insight into how artists share their methods with students.
Students and painters can explore recommended materials used in courses and workshops, helping them understand how materials function within specific painting methods.
The Featured Artists collection introduces painters whose work and teaching reflect a deep engagement with painting materials and traditional studio practice.
Each artist profile provides insight into their artistic approach, their teaching philosophy, and the materials they use in the studio and classroom.
For painters and students, these profiles offer an opportunity to see how experienced artists structure their palettes, approach color and form, and select materials that support their working methods.
Catherine Bobkoski is a fine artist and educator known for luminous floral paintings that combine classical oil painting techniques with a refined sensitivity to light, color, and form. Through workshops and international teaching, she guides students in developing strong observational skills and a confident personal voice in painting.
Michael Jones focuses on landscape structure, color harmony, and durable painting systems suited to both studio and field practice. His teaching emphasizes disciplined observation, careful palette design, and methods that support long-term stability in oil painting.
Carrie Ann Baade combines Renaissance and Baroque painting methods with contemporary allegorical imagery. Her teaching emphasizes egg tempera, indirect oil painting, traditional pigments, layered modeling, glazing, and a disciplined understanding of materials as foundations for personal expression.
Featured Artists helps painters connect studio practice with instruction. By highlighting artists who actively teach their methods, this section offers a practical view into how experienced painters approach materials, palette design, and painting systems.
Exploring these profiles allows artists to see how materials function within real teaching environments and how different painters organize their studio practice.
Discover how professional artists and instructors use paints, pigments, mediums, and grounds in workshops and courses.
Learn how different painters structure their palettes, select mediums, and build their painting process around their artistic goals.
Explore materials recommended for specific courses and workshops, helping students prepare with the same tools used by their instructors.
Many Featured Artists teach workshops, courses, and independent study programs. This section highlights selected opportunities where artists can study directly with these instructors and experience their methods in depth.
Workshops range from focused studio intensives to immersive destination experiences, offering painters the opportunity to refine their technical skills while working alongside experienced artists.
Join Catherine Bobkoski for an immersive week devoted to floral painting, artistic study, and cultural exploration in Italy. This workshop invites artists to deepen their understanding of color, light, and composition while painting floral subjects in an inspiring setting.
Through demonstrations, guided painting sessions, and personalized critique, Catherine helps students strengthen their technical skills while developing greater confidence in their artistic voice.
Learn MoreStudy landscape painting through durable studio methods, carefully designed palettes, and material choices suited to long-term stability in oil painting.
Learn MoreJoin Carrie Ann Baade for an advanced exploration of egg tempera and Northern Renaissance painting methods. Students study traditional pigments, underdrawing, grisaille, glazing, and layered modeling to create luminous, carefully constructed surfaces.
Through demonstrations, guided studio work, and material investigation, Carrie helps students build technical confidence while using historical methods as a foundation for contemporary personal expression.
Learn MoreDiscover how working painters and educators integrate Natural Pigments and Rublev Colours into their studio practice and teaching. Explore artist profiles, learn about their methods, and see how materials are used in real workshops and courses.
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