Drawing, watercolor, natural pigment making, professional feedback/guidance.

I have a few slots open for private lessons, in-person (in the Los Angeles area) or on ZOOM. We will explore your goals, resolve the things that you are struggling with, and focus on the projects that interest you most - on a schedule that works for you.

In-person lessons at your home are $125/hour

Zoom lessons are $75/hour

Feedback only sessions: $30 for 30 minutes

For more info, email me.

Image credit: Art Institure of Chicago

This is a critique and feedback experience only - no instruction. Perfect for anyone who is working independantly and appreciates feedback on their work, or for those who sign up for one of my pre-recorded courses and would like feedback on course projects (see AVAILABLE ANYTIME listings).

Thursdays, 6:00 - 8:30 pm Pacific Time, current and ongoing

$120 for 8 sessions if you are working on independant projects

$75 for up to 8 sessions in conjunction with a pre-recorded course (see AVAILABLE ANYTIME listings)

Or $20/session “ala carte” - attend when you wish

Limited to 8 participants each session. Those who register for all 8 sessions have priority.

Image credit: Helen Simmons, student

Bring more confidence and accuracy to your watercolor paintings! If you’ve ever struggled with getting proportions, perspective, or composition just right in your watercolor paitnings, this 8-week, comprehensive drawing course is designed for you.

These videos will include project prompts and will cover essential skills including:

• simplifying complex subjects by observing simple shapes and forms

• observing and measuring relationships for accurate proportions

• understanding and translating perspective and foreshortening

• seeing value and creating a tonal map

• landscape & still life compositional tips

• several ways to transfer a photo onto watercolor paper

We will work with both live subjects and photographs.  We’ll spend the first six weeks perfecting our drawing skills using pencil, then dive into integrating pencil drawing with watercolor washes in the final two weeks.

8 pre-recorded video sessions:  $100 (videos only, no feedback)

Add eight open feedback sessions for $75 more or $175 total.

Or add Open Feedback Sessions ala carte for $20 each.

Add 30 minute private Zoom feedback sessions with Kim for $30 each.

This is not a beginning course; previous experience with watercolor is necessary. 

Image credit: Lynn van Schilfgaarde, student

You will receive 8 weekly pre-recorded video lessons that you can watch on your own time. SIgn up for Open Feedback Sessions to receive interactive feedback on your work with Kim Russo and other fun students.

You'll paint from photographed natural forms such as leaves, flowers, rocks, and fruit. We'll improve our ability to slow down and observe - to see value, shape, form, texture, light, and space in the living world and translate our experience into watercolor with awareness and sensitivity. Color mixing, paint application and brushwork will be highlighted.

8 pre-recorded video sessions:  $100 (videos only, no feedback)

Add eight Open Feedback Sessions for $75 more or $175 total.

Or add Open Feedback Sessions ala carte for $20 each.

Add 30 minute private Zoom feedback sessions with Kim for $30 each.

This course is best suited for beginning students who have taken an introductory watercolor course and want to continue to build their skills.

Image credit: Melinda Howell, student

You will receive 7 weekly pre-recorded video lessons that you can watch on your own time. SIgn up for Open Feedback Sessions to receive interactive feedback on your work with Kim Russo and other fun students.

This experimental and explorative watercolor course is appropriate for any level of watercolor experience. You'll work with a variety of materials in addition to watercolor: ink, graphite, watercolor pencils, frisket, opaque paint, oil pastel, and collage. Each week a new material will be introduced, and techniques for mixing it with watercolor will be demonstrated. You’ll choose your own photos - or work from life - to put each technique into practice.

7 pre-recorded video sessions:  $90 (videos only, no feedback)

Add eight open feedback sessions for $75 more or $165 total.

Or add Open Feedback Sessions ala carte for $20 each.

Add 30 minute private Zoom feedback sessions with Kim for $30 each.

This course is appropriate for beginning through advanced students.

Image credit: Connie Woodhead, student (after WIlliam Turner)

You will receive 8 weekly pre-recorded video lessons that you can watch on your own time. SIgn up for Open Feedback Sessions to receive interactive feedback on your work with Kim Russo and other fun students.

In this course, which is appropriate for intermediate and advanced students, you will study the watercolor paintings of three important artists - William Turner, Berthe Morisot and David Hockney -  to build a foundation of artistic techniques that will inspire your future work. During the first six weeks of this course, you will practice the watercolor techniques of each of the three artists. Sessions will include a little art history, observations about each artist’s approach and the creation of a direct copy of their work. Along the way you will expand your brushwork, color mixing, and paint application skills. In the final two weeks you will choose your own image to paint, and you’ll create three versions in the “style” of each painter.  

8 pre-recorded video sessions:  $100 (videos only, no feedback)

Add eight open feedback sessions for $75 more or $175 total.

Or add Open Feedback Sessions ala carte for $20 each.

Add 30 minute private Zoom feedback sessions with Kim for $30 each.

This is not a beginning course; previous experience with watercolor and a curiosity about art history are necessary.