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Painting Fundamentals
This intimate class is for anyone who wants to grasp the fundamentals of painting using traditional mediums both acrylics and oil. Whether you wish to paint better from life, or in the studio. You will learn the fundamentals which support the craft of representational image making. This course is designed to help you unleash your creativity and enhance your skills. Based on the core principles and academic fundamentals of painting.
Studio Fabuloso 2026
Painting Fundamentals
April 28 - June 23 (Tuesdays)
After teaching and lecturing hundreds of students since 2004 across schools and institutions, I’m excited to introduce a new approach with this painting class. This time, I’m focusing on a much more personal, hands‑on training experience. To make that possible, each session is limited to just 3–5 students. With such an intimate group, I can truly understand each artist’s needs and offer guidance that’s specifically tailored to their individual goals and skill level.
Class Outline
Aimed at painting landscapes and the Fundamentals of light, value and composition this class is will be divided into three different main sections. Each section will have three classes, each class being two hours long. These class groups will be aimed at a certain set of main principles.
- The first section will focus on value as well as cover, tools, mixing, forms and simplification.
- In the second section we will move our focus onto color and the image components of the color model to reinforce the fundamentals of constructing a painting.
- The last section will be used to further these concepts while focusing on composition, design elements and secrets to what makes a good painting.
I. Tools, Techniques & Workflows | Values
Intro, Tools & Mediums | Brushes | Paints | Mixing
Values: Darks & light – Acrylics
Simplification, Grouping, Thumbnails
I. Foundation & Fundamentals | Color
Intro to Color (H.S.V.), Keys
Local color, Temperature
Color Harmony
II. Application & Practices | Design
Design, keys, thumbs
Composition, motion & Flow
Composition, Balance,
April 28 - June 23 (Tuesdays, 18:00)
This class will meet staring April 27 and run every Monday until June 22. Each class is two hours long and there are 9 Classes total.
Douglas Prince is a painter, art director, and educator with over 25 years of experience, combining hands‑on professional expertise with international teaching and workshops.
His multidisciplinary background spans traditional media—oil painting, acrylics, gouache, and watercolor—as well as digital disciplines including concept painting for environments and characters. Alongside his professional work, Douglas is an experienced educator who has taught and lectured in Germany, Chile, and the United States, including at Media Design Hochschule Berlin, Games Academy Berlin, and Austin Community College, Game Academy.
Now based in Wiesbaden—not far from where his great‑great‑grandfather Arthur Hutschenreuther worked as a painter—Douglas brings both experience and artistic heritage to a new endeavor: Studio Fabuloso. Through Studio Fabuloso, Douglas has co-established a dedicated painting studio in the Rhine Valley, grounded in the methods he developed while working and teaching in professional environments worldwide. His approach is shaped by decades of collaboration with artists across multiple disciplines and cultures.
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