Sadie Valeri Atelier Courses

Create luminosity, depth, and surface variation in your paintings. Learn Sadie’s advanced painting techniques for building up thick impastos of paint with lush textural marks, and creating even more texture by applying a glaze over a dry scumble.

• Sadie Valeri Atelier
• On-Demand
• $48.00

Learn how to draw accurate proportions and smooth shading in this 8-week course. Each lesson introduces exercises for developing hand dexterity and visual perception.

• Sadie Valeri Atelier
• 8 weeks, 5-10 hours a week
• On-Demand
• $54.00

Bargue Plate Drawing (Graphite)

In this 8-week course our instructor demonstrates every step of making a detailed graphite Bargue plate copy, resulting in a drawing that sets the gold standard for contemporary atelier training.

• Sadie Valeri Atelier
• 8 weeks, 10-20 hours a week
• On-Demand
• $144.00

Cast Drawing (Graphite)

This 8-week course also includes the 8-week Intro to Classical Drawing and the 8-week Bargue Plate Drawing courses, so students of all levels who work through all the lessons are well-prepared to execute their own masterful cast drawing.

• Sadie Valeri Atelier
• 8 weeks, 10-20 hours a week
• On-Demand
• $234.00

Drapery Drawing (Charcoal)

Shade a draped sheet with chalk and charcoal to a high level of refinement, following classical methods. Sadie’s demonstration shows how she creates a drawing of a white sheet tacked on her studio wall.

• Sadie Valeri Atelier
• On-Demand
• $24.00

Cast Drawing (Charcoal)

Follow along step-by-step with Sadie’s detailed demonstration and voice-over instruction to learn how to create a strong, beautiful cast drawing with charcoal and chalk on gray toned paper.

• Sadie Valeri Atelier
• 1-2 hours
• On-Demand
• $39.00

Figure Drawing (Charcoal)

Sadie teaches her classical approach to figure drawing in this comprehensive demonstration as she works from the live model on an 8-hour pose with chalk and charcoal on toned paper.

• Sadie Valeri Atelier
• 3-4 hours
• On-Demand
• $48.00

Introduction to Oil Painting (Direct Method)

Suitable for absolute beginners, this course teaches how to start oil painting, first with just one brush and one color, then moving on to create a complete oil painting in color, using Direct Method which is the most accessible method for beginners.

• Sadie Valeri Atelier
• 1-2 hours
• On-Demand
• $24.00

Common Errors in Still Life Painting (Direct Method)

Learn the direct oil painting method, from drawing to final layers, while avoiding common errors. Gain insights on time management, planning, and creating compelling illusions.

• Sadie Valeri Atelier
• 2-3 hours
• On-Demand
• $68.00

Alla Prima Roses

Watch Sadie Valeri paint a bouquet of white and peach roses with high-definition close-ups of her color mixing and brushstrokes, including detailed voice over explanation of the whole process.

• Sadie Valeri Atelier
• On-Demand
• $19.00

Alla Prima Peonies

Starting with a colored under painting wash, Sadie shares every step for how she creates a one-day painting of a beautiful arrangement of pink peonies and white roses.

• Sadie Valeri Atelier
• 1-2 hours
• On-Demand
• $24.00

Portrait Painting from Master Copy and from Life

Sadie paints a master copy of a head study by Van Dyck, and then paints a portrait of her husband, Nowell, using the same technique.

• Sadie Valeri Atelier
• 3-4 hours
• On-Demand
• $39.00

Mastering Value and Color

Sadie designed this series of oil painting exercises as an introduction to Indirect Method painting, in which many thin layers of paint are built up with small soft brushes on smooth wood panel to create detailed paintings of stunning realism.

• Sadie Valeri Atelier
• 3-4 hours
• On-Demand
• $48.00

Still Life Painting

In this 3-hour video course Sadie demonstrates her method for creating a layered, indirect oil painting, working in the tradition of the Dutch Masters of still life.

• Sadie Valeri Atelier
• 3 hours
• On-Demand
• $75.00

Advanced Still Life Painting: Venus

Sadie paints ethereal, subtle layers using Indirect method to create her masterful Dutch-Master-inspired still life paintings of crumpled wax paper, often spending weeks on a single small painting.

• Sadie Valeri Atelier
• 4-5 hours
• On-Demand
• $75.00