"In the process of becoming a

professional painter, I have spent countless hours and tens of thousands of dollars gathering and organizing knowledge to help me personally grow as an artist. I have searched out key discoveries from a wide variety of sources including apprenticeships with several world- class contemporary artists, a personal library of over 100 contemporary and out- of-print historical textbooks on painting, and my own personal discoveries in color harmony. I have found that if you want to learn to paint well, there are at least 700 key

discoveries you need to know about and become proficient in. I have now structured these key discoveries into the Virtual

Art Academy ® programs of self-study courses to provide a quality alternative to expensive art schools and professional artist workshops for those who want to make a serious study of painting. Hopefully by sharing this knowledge more widely we can bring more beauty into this world."