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Painting Light: Value & Color
This intimate class is for anyone who wants to grasp the secrets of painting light using oil paints. Whether you wish to paint better from life, or in the studio. This course is designed to help you unleash your creativity and enhance your skills representing light.
Studio Fabuloso 2026
Painting Light: Value & Color
Now starting in june
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 the aspects of lights and how the fundamentals of light interact with the environment and objects. We will take a deep dive into the how and why light works, in order to de-mystify scenes and quickly access how scenes are lit. This knowledge will give students the framework to block out their painting with more confidence and speed.
This class is will be divided into three different main sections. Each section will have three classes, each class being two hours long:
I. Properties of Light
Form and light, Light Types, Shadow Types, Electromagnetic spectrum
Intro Surfaces: Lambertian, Local Color & Reflectivity
Bounce lights, Basic Lighting Schemes
II. Surfaces & Interaction
Local Color, Global illumination
Keys, Reflectivity, Temperature
Light & Shadow Harmony
III. Complex Surfaces & Atmosphere
translucent, transparent objects & sub-surface scattering
Water, Fresnel effect
Skin & Hair
Now starting in june
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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