
Fill Your Brush with Elegance
Announcing our E-Courses in the newly designed Online Classroom. Scroll down to see all of the current available classes.
Daisy Swirl
Concentrate on painting daisy petals, creating a single bloom and a unique display for your home or a gift. This is an excellent lesson for beginners and accomplished artists alike with 3 hours of videos. There are video clips on brush mixing and brush care too.
Clicking on the Purchase button connects you to our online shop. After you have purchased the course, you will receive an email with the URL and login information to access the course. The class materials and video clips will be available to you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for lifetime access.
Fleur di lis
Learn how to paint this beautiful iris with all of its rolls and ruffles. There are seven video clips totaling just over five hours of instruction. The iris is painted on a digitally created background which is available on the website as a download or an artist panel. Also accompanying the class are pdf files with a project photo and written instructions.
Clicking on the Purchase button connects you to our online shop. After you have purchased the course, you will receive an email with the URL and login information to access the course. The class materials and video clips will be available to you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for lifetime access.
The Elegant Rose - Reprised
Learn how to paint the basic stroke rose in this online class with over 2 1/2 hours of video. You will learn rose structure, petal placement, color selection and execution, a basic rose leaf, and finishing touches. Also accompanying the class are pdf files with a project photo and written instructions. Loaded with tips and techniques, there is also a video on brush care.
Clicking on the Purchase button connects you to our online shop. After you have purchased the course, you will receive an email with the URL and login information to access the course. The class materials and video clips will be available to you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for lifetime access.
Love Letter
Love Letter is the white rose study from The Elegant Rose series. This is a comprehensive lesson showing the technique of painting a grouping of white stroke roses, leaves, a rosebud, and all the finishing details with video clips totaling over 2 hours of instruction. Also included are pdf files with a project photo and written instructions. The rose motif is painted on a digitally created background which is available in the classroom.
Clicking on the Purchase button connects you to our online shop. After you have purchased the course, you will receive an email with the URL and login information to access the course. The class materials and video clips will be available to you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for lifetime access.
Petal It Pretty
Learn how to use color to create a mood painting these lovely hydrangeas. You will learn the structure of a hydrangea, brush mixing, color selection and execution, dry detailing, and rouging, plus a compliment of leaves. There are seven video clips totaling 100 minutes of instruction. Also accompanying the class are pdf files with a project photo and written instructions.Clicking on the Purchase button connects you to our online shop. After you have purchased the course, you will receive an email with the URL and login information to access the course. The class materials and video clips will be available to you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for lifetime access.
French Perfume
Painted on a copy of a vintage French perfume label, this violet nosegay is a wonderful project for the beginner and accomplished oil painter alike. Printed on paper, it can be torn, stained and then mounted to mat board and, then framed for a lovely accent in a bedroom or vanity. With just over 3 hours of video clips, and the accompanying instructions and photos, you will enjoy painting this fun project. Perfect for gift giving.
French Perfume Trailer from Jeanne Downing on Vimeo.
Clicking on the Purchase button connects you to our online shop. After you have purchased the course, you will receive an email with the URL and login information to access the course. The class materials and video clips will be available to you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for lifetime access.
Vintage Christmas
Learn how to paint Christmas Roses and holly leaves nested in a vintage shoe and accented with tiny red berries. With over five hours of video instruction and downloadable pdf files with written instructions and a reference photo, you will a festive Victorian piece for your holiday decór.
Clicking on the Purchase button connects you to our online shop. After you have purchased the course, you will receive an email with the URL and login information to access the course. The class materials and video clips will be available to you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for lifetime access.
Just the Basics - The Basics & Interfaces
Learn the very basics of photo editing, cropping, sizing, tweaking color, watermarking and sharing your photo with others, using Adobe® Photoshop Elements®. Plus, learn how to use the printer, importing photos from a scanner or digital camera and electronic devices. Want to know about pen tablets? This class has that too! What are you waiting for? For one low price you get two full classes.
Clicking on the Purchase button connects you to our online shop. After you have purchased the course, you will receive an email with the URL and login information to access the course. The class materials and video clips will be available to you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for lifetime access.
Just the Basics - Selections
Learn how to make selections using Adobe® Photoshop Elements®, and then learn how to use them to create new artwork that you only dreamed of before. Adobe® Photoshop Elements® and your computer is your new art tool!
Clicking on the Purchase button connects you to our online shop. After you have purchased the course, you will receive an email with the URL and login information to access the course. The class materials and video clips will be available to you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for lifetime access.
Just the Basics - For Design
Learn how to create a composition with design elements from photos, make a line drawing, a color map, even turn a photo into a pencil sketch, using Adobe® Photoshop Elements®. Enhance your creativity and experience how Adobe® Photoshop Elements® and your computer energizes your artistic journey!
Clicking on the Purchase button connects you to our online shop. After you have purchased the course, you will receive an email with the URL and login information to access the course. The class materials and video clips will be available to you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for lifetime access.
Just the Basics - Brushes
Learn how to create your own scrapbook paper with digital brushes available in Adobe® Photoshop Elements or Adobe® Photoshop®. Experience the excitement of making your own digital brushes, then learn how to install them for use over and over again. The course includes 17 videos along with the files used in the exercises so that you can actively participate in each of the lessons. This course covers the basics of digital brushes. You will be well on your way to making composites that you can use with your artwork or promotional material. You have lifetime access too!
Clicking on the Purchase button connects you to our online shop. After you have purchased the course, you will receive an email with the URL and login information to access the course. The class materials and video clips will be available to you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for lifetime access.
Just the Basics - Textures
Learn how to use the filters in the Filter Gallery to create textures from photos and combine them with blending modes to create composites and artistic compositions using Adobe® Photoshop Elements®. Follow along with your version, 9 or above of Photoshop Elements® installed on your computer.
The course includes 10 videos including the files used in the exercises so that you can actively participate in each of the lessons. And that is not all because this is the course that just keeps on giving with bonus content, such as additional textures ready for you to use in your compositions, being added, along with additional video tutorials.
Clicking on the Purchase button connects you to our online shop. After you have purchased the course, you will receive an email with the URL and login information to access the course. The class materials and video clips will be available to you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for lifetime access.
Enjoy!

Jeanne Downing Decorative Art Designs
468 43rd St., Loveland, CO 80538-1777
Phone: (970) 667-1006 Fax: (970) 667-6902