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I teach people to see.

Then to paint, grade, and finish what they saw. Twenty years at the easel and in the compositor — now most of it goes into mentoring artists one at a time, and finishing film for the people who made it.

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Fig. 01 massing study — synthetic, stands in for a photograph of the workdivision 38.2 : 61.8·ratio 1.618≈ φ

Three disciplines, one method.

01

Painting

Original paintings and studio work, built on twenty years at the easel — exhibited across Egypt, Italy, and Germany.

oil, tempera, works on paper
02

Mentoring & tutoring

One-on-one with artists and photographers at any stage — from fundamentals, through DaVinci Resolve, to finding a practice of your own.

in person or remote, by the quarter
03

VFX & colour grading

Compositing, colour grading, and finishing for independent films — and the visual identity and workflow systems studios ask me to build.

DaVinci Resolve · Nuke

Craft first, theory after. The research exists to make the teaching better — testing what actually helps an artist see.

The Photography Intensive.

Seven sessions, from seeing light to a finished, edited photo essay — the same course I teach one-on-one, now in your dashboard. Application required; enrolment is limited each quarter, deliberately.

Editing more than shooting? The Resolve Course — free, self-paced, DaVinci Resolve from the first cut to the final grade.

  1. S1Seeing lightHow light describes form before it describes colour.
  2. S2Value before colourReading an image in greyscale, and why it decides everything.
  3. S3Composition as decisionWhat to leave out, and how the eye is led.
  4. S4Colour & temperatureWhy an image feels warm or cool, and how to steer it.
  5. S5The camera as instrumentExposure, focal length, distance — chosen, not defaulted.
  6. S6Grading in DaVinci ResolveA grade, not a filter: intention held from shot to shot.
  7. S7The photo essaySequencing a finished, edited set that holds together.
curriculum outline · dark to light, the way a study is built

Ongoing work.

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Plate 01massing study · synthetic study
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Plate 02massing study · synthetic study
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Plate 03massing study · synthetic study
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Plate 04massing study · synthetic study

More is in progress — check back soon, or get in touch about a project of your own.

A colour wheel you can actually think with.

Free, no account — the same instrument I use inside the photography intensive’s white-balance and colour sessions, open to everyone.

You don’t have to see this alone.

Four doors, four different rooms — pick the one you need today.

WaterPantheon

Your account, your progress, your appointments — a dashboard built like it's worth showing up to.

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FireArena

Write, comment, and read what other artists here are working through — in public, in your own words.

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EarthDiscrimination Map

A live data-art piece: real reports rendered as an always-shifting map. Make an account there to submit your own.

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AirA free account

Your own avatar and dashboard from the moment you sign up. Free to join, nothing to lose.

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A few students and projects, every quarter.

I work by the quarter, not the hour, and chosen to fit — not first come, first served. Tell me what you’re after and I’ll tell you if I’m the right fit.