Introducing:
Unlock your creative potential with Shelby Dillon
Somewhere deep inside, you’re an artist.
You just aren’t sure how to start.
Or get unblocked.
Or find the time.
Or the inspiration.
But you know.
You’re meant to play with paint and brushes. You can see yourself sighing over beautiful sights and thinking, “I’d love to paint this”.
You can’t wait for someone to ask what you do and to tell them, “I’m an artist”.
But you're not sure how to get from:
Blank-Canvas-Paralysis
to
"OMG did you paint that?!".
Welcome to the Painting of the Month Club!
""Had much fun painting the flamingo!"
Heika Williams
"Enjoyed this one, may try again!"
Linda Young
"Love flamingos! Felt good to paint along with the video and not overthink it. Trying to get looser."
Mary Ladd
For just $19 a month, you get full access to a follow along video breaking down each step from inspiration to set up and every step along the way so you can produce beautiful acrylic work even if you’ve never picked up a brush before.
Every month, you’ll get a:
The best thing about the POM videos is that you can pause at any time (“Wait! I can’t paint that fast!”)
Rewind to review (“HOW did she do that?”’),
And revisit them again and again as your skills improve.
Think you can’t paint even from a step-by-step?
Here are some results from our members:
Janette is rising to the challenge
"Finally got around to doing the May painting of the month. I’ve never done an ocean scape and this was a challenge. Shelby was helpful in pointing out the need for carefully observing the changes in color temperature. A good lesson! Thank you Shelby."
Janette Reeves
The Painting of the Month Club takes you from “I’d like to paint but…” to “YES! I painted that!”
For just $19 a month - that’s 63 cents a day! - you can get inspiration AND the how-to delivered right to your inbox.
And, if you join in the next 48 hours, you’ll get the first month FREE!
Just think of what you can spend your savings on: More paint, another brush, more paint, a canvas, more paint….
But you have to join now to get a month free.
This is a special offer just for you!
Get your first month FREE
This offer is available to you for the next 48 hours so don’t miss your chance to take advantage of your free month!
Membership is automatically billed either monthly or annually.
There’s no other artists’ resource quite like the Painting of the Month Club with Shelby Dillon. Every month it delivers a high-quality, in-depth tutorial that provides all the inspiration and guidance you need.
Your hand will be held from the very start: Layout, composition, canvas prep, material selection, paint mixing, color matching, and then, the real fun starts:
A walk through the mind of a professional artist as you’re taken from the very first brush stroke to the very last detail of your own painting.
Best of all, are the insightful nuggets sprinkled in along the way that left one member asking, “Why didn’t they teach me that in art school?!”.
Here are some of our members’ favorite takeaways from past tutorials:
- Simple tricks to make your paintings feel natural and alive
- How to use small differences in value to add movement and depth
- What to change up to create the illusion of distance
- The 2 step method to making realistic leaves
- Easy trick with your brush to make things look like they’re really moving
- What to do when your first pass isn't quite right (Step one: Don’t panic!)
- How to sketch out your image from a phone right to your canvas
- How to paint without being an incredible sketcher
- The number of items you need to include to balance a composition
- How to make a mass of tiny things SO much easier to paint!
- How to keep your greens from looking fake
- When to go by the reference photo and when (and why) to change it up
- What to do if your painting reaches an awkward phase
- How to keep your paints from drying out
- How to identify the exact color from a photo
- Painting with multiple lines of perspective
- How to know when to stop
- What the most powerful paintings have in common
- How to mix colors with strong tinting power
- How to use value and temperature to create tension
- How to choose which color to use to tone your canvas
- Why your position to the canvas is so important
- The secret to mixing a hot pink that doesn’t look chalky
- How to avoid making your painting look like a poster or graphic
Even if you’ve never painted before, even if you’re totally blocked, even if you haven’t touched a brush in years, the Painting of the Month Club will inspire you week after week to create. To play with paint.
And to produce beautiful paintings that you’ll be happy to tell people,
“Yes! I painted that!”
SHELBY DILLON
Meet Your Teacher
Hi! I’m Shelby Dillon. I’ve been teaching new artists how to capture the image in their mind on canvas for 15 years. And I can show you how to do it, too.
I’ve been an artist my whole life. Not that I could paint the whole time! In fact, when I first started, it was a now-familiar struggle:
I’d see a beautiful ocean scene and its energy would fade under my brush, a gorgeous bird’s feathers would fall flat on my canvas, and streaming sunlight lost its glow when I painted it.
So I know how it feels to want to paint and have no idea how to get started - or unblocked!
That’s why I created the Painting of the Month Club; So soon-to-be-artists can create beautiful work even if they’ve never picked up a brush.
I included everything I wanted when I first started: Someone to explain every single step along the way from what supplies are needed, to how to mix paint, to how to decide what to paint.
The inspiration and how-to are ready and waiting, all you have to do is join!
The Painting of the Month Club is for artists who aren’t ready to call themselves artists yet...
It’s for anyone who wants to capture a feeling, a moment, an energy on canvas
and whose attempts have looked like a hot mess
It’s for frustrated artists
and someday-I’ll-be-an-artists.
The POM is for anyone who wants to play in paint.
If you’re ready to get past the fear and create something you’re proud of, join the POM now.
Lisa is Enjoying Art as Therapy
"March Painting of the Month Tutorial. Good paint therapy. Thanks Shelby."
Lisa Edwards
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FAQ
In a few weeks, you could be struggling for painting inspiration or staring at yet another failed attempt. Or you could join the Painting of the Month Club and get access to on-going inspiration and direction so you can create the art you’ve dreamt of, month after month.