Skillshare Courses

Learn to Fearlessly Mix and Use Color for Watercolor Painting

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Mix watercolors with confidence: swatch your paints, work with a limited palette, layer wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry, and match colors for a botanical piece.

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• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Writing Personal Essays: Craft a Powerful, Unique Piece in Three Steps

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Turn your own experiences into personal essays: choose stories that connect, find a hook that reaches universal truth, balance vulnerability with control, and revise your draft.

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• 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Outdoor Photography for Smartphone: Getting a Professional Look | Learn with olloclip

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Shoot outdoor scenes on your phone: scout locations, use clip-on lenses, compose silhouettes and leading lines, then edit in Adobe Lightroom Mobile.

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• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

The Basic Principles Of Graphic Design

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Learn the 7 core design principles — contrast, repetition, tension, hierarchy, balance, white space, scale — by deconstructing other designers' work and applying a design cheat sheet.

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• 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Creative Writing Project: Write Act 1

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Plan the first act of your novel, short story or screenplay: open with a hook, develop your character's backstory, and build to the trigger ending Act 1.

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• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Snowy Galaxy Landscape Painting with Watercolors

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Paint a dreamy snowy galaxy landscape in watercolor: gather the supplies, wash the night sky, add stars, and finish with fine detailing.

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• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Logo Design: Let the Type Do the Talking

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Design a logo driven by letterforms: choose or customize typefaces, mix fonts, digitize sketches, fill shapes with type, and add texture.

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• 4 hours 12 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

The Ultimate Guide To Using Off-Camera Flash Part I: Indoor Photo Sessions

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Follow 13 indoor photo shoots to light dramatic portraits with off-camera speedlights: triggers, umbrellas and grids, the inverse square law, manual exposure, and a DIY product box.

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• 2 hours 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Google AdWords Essentials: Getting Starting with PPC & Paid Search Campaigns

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Build a Google AdWords search campaign end to end: choose keywords, set bids and budgets, write text ads, manage ad groups, and target demographics.

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• 1 hour 6 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

30 Day Watercolor Challenge : Let's Celebrate World Watercolor Month

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Paint 30 daily watercolor landscapes across spring, summer, autumn and winter, from lavender fields and beaches to birch forests and northern lights.

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• 12 hours 33 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Music Theory Comprehensive: Part 4 - Modes and Counterpoint

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Learn how the seven church modes work, identify compound, augmented and diminished intervals, and write first-species counterpoint while analyzing The Simpsons theme and Eleanor Rigby.

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• 4 hours 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Spanish for Beginners. EL MÉTODO. Level 2

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Speak Spanish from the start: build sentences with verbs like comprender, poder and volver, everyday vocabulary and question forms, drilled through timed speaking trials.

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• 3 hours 44 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Snowy Christmas Night - Let's celebrate the season with Watercolors

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Paint a snowy Christmas night in watercolor: sketch and prep the paper, lay a night background, add pine trees, house details, and white gouache snow.

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• 1 hour 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Mobile App Design from scratch with Sketch 3 - Part 1 (UX Research)

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Use UX research to understand users, define app problems, and choose solutions before designing a mobile product.

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• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Create A Painting With Resin

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Pour resin paintings from scratch: gather supplies, do a dirty pour, build a triptych or large piece, dam the edges, make resin skins, and finish for display.

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• 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available