LIVE ONLINE COURSE
“Brushes Unleashed” Paint-Along!
with Manon Sander, Master Artist & Mentor
Learn to capture beautiful light in vibrant colors to create a painting that excites and entices the viewer.
You Will Learn:
How to build a strong painting from start to finish: composition, value, color, brushwork, and edges
Manon’s step-by-step alla prima process that makes complex decisions simple and doable
Ways to loosen up your brushwork while keeping your painting light-filled and eye-catching
Practical techniques to anchor new skills by painting in real time alongside a master
How to apply these insights to your own work so you can paint with more confidence and intention
Audience: Fine Art Painters
Mediums: Oil, Acrylic, Gouache
Stage: Aspiring, Emerging
Session Dates & Times:
Wednesday
October 15th, 2025
10:00 am – 2:00 pm MT
$108.00
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Price in USD
Course Description
Spend an exciting 3-hours painting along with master artist Manon Sander, and create a colorful and light-filled painting you can be proud of.
This workshop is designed to help you improve your painting process from start to finish – with a focus on composition, value, color, brushwork, and edges.
Manon will break down her process into the simple steps instrumental to creating an eye-catching alla prima painting.
By painting in real-time with Manon you will anchor your new learning and skills so they are readily available for your future work. This is interactive, so you will be able to ask questions, and if you need a little more time to finish your painting, you can continue to follow along via the recording at your own pace, at a later time.
PLEASE PREPARE: by making a simple drawing of the scene on a white canvas. (The reference photo will be provided in your MastriusChat group). You can use either pencil or thinned paint in a cool red. This will allow you to jump straight into painting along at the start of the workshop!
PLEASE NOTE: the paint-along is scheduled for 3-hours plus break time, totalling approximatley 4 hours.
🎥 COURSE RECORDINGS available for 1-MONTH after the course ends!
High School, University, and College students get 20% OFF. See FAQs at the bottom of page.
Supply List
- Colors (bold is what’s on Manon’s palette):
- Titanium White
- Lemon Yellow or Cadmium Yellow Light
- Cadmium Yellow medium
- Cadmium Orange or Permanent Orange (Michael Harding)
- Gold Ochre or Yellow Ochre
- Naphtol Red or Cadmium Red Light
- Quinacridone Rose/Permanent Alizarin Red
- Phthalo Blue/Cerulean
- Ultramarine Blue (Michael Harding preferred)
- Phthalo Green/Viridian
- Indian Red or Transparent Red Oxide
The colors printed in bold letters are what I’m using right now, but please don’t
go and buy all these if you are already working with a split primary palette (a cool
and a warm of each yellow, red, and blue) and already have the alternative colors.
I recommend getting artist grade paints from reputable companies like Gamblin,
Michael Harding, or Utrecht (less expensive, but still great pigment load….), rather
than student grade paints which have less pigment, more filler, and can be
frustrating to work with. If you prefer water-soluble oil paints, I recommend
Cobra by Royal Talens.
- Medium for oils: Galkyd Gel by Gamblin
Thinner: Gamsol - Brushes: Long handled firm brushes (flats or filberts) such as hog hair or synthetics like Rosemary’s long-handled long “Ivory”, “Shiraz” and “Eclipse” flats.
- Size 2, 4, 6, 8 flats or filberts with long bristles.
- 1” diamond-shaped palette knife.
No need to buy new brushes if you already have a decent set. However, I don’t
recommend painting with brushes hardened by dried paint or brushes that are
worn down to a nub (Though I do applaud those who own that kind of brush
because it means you are painting a lot!). I’m also not a fan of brushes with
short bristles like brights, because they don’t hold a lot of paint.
- Canvas: Small canvas, like 8 x 10” or 9 x 12”. My preferred brand is Centurion linen panels.
Instructor Bio
Manon Sander is a Florida-based oil painter who has taken it upon herself to savor all the flavors of life. Starting a new painting is like hearing the soft, welcoming jingle of the ice cream truck on a sweltering deep-summer day. The air is heavy with the anticipation of a sweet reward, and as the color melts from Manon’s brush onto that hungry canvas, she tastes the simple, joyous flavor of childhood, when life was lived not just to the fullest, but bursting at the seams.
Like a kid waiting for the ice cream truck to come jostling up the road, Manon never stands still for long on that hot, sun-soaked street, instead dancing from one painting to the next.
Like her love for ice cream, her love for art started at a young age in her old stomping grounds of Bavaria and Berlin, Germany, and she has spent her life thus far travelling far and wide, letting the winds of chance carry her to live in Illinois, where she painted murals professionally, to California, where under the tutelage of some of the nation’s premier artists she found her contemporary impressionist style, and on to Florida, where she truly dove headfirst into her deep love for plein air painting. On top of that triple scoop of living locations, she’s had a generous helping of creatively-inspiring rainbow sprinkle travels that range from the wild Alaskan tundra and the scarlet vortex-soaked rocks of Sedona to the crumbling haunts of emerald Ireland and the sea-smattered cliffs of the Amalfi coast. But with local treasures like Naples, St. Augustine, Palm Beach, and Apalachicola so close at hand, Manon is more than happy to call Florida her home.
