Why Learn with Me?
Professional Expertise: I have over a decade of experience working in the animation industry with clients such as Marvel, Disney, Warner Bros, Titmouse, Sony, and more. I have also taught many gouache workshops around the world with my artwork being featured in elite publications like Plein Air Magazine and more.
Teaching Experience: I have over 6 of experience teaching online classes and physical workshops in gouache and digital painting, mentoring over 200 students from around the world.
Proven Techniques: My exercises are uniquely designed to help students tackle common problems in painting, and students have repeatedly shared how much it has helped them.
Step-by-step Guidance: With the discord community, I am available to look at student progress from my courses and provide written feedback on a regular basis.
Artist Community: My courses don’t just educate- I seek to build a community with my students and help foster their artistic mindset. All students get to join my private discord server for all my courses with over 100 students and growing!
All courses are lifetime access — for the lifetime of the course.
Enroll once and get ongoing access to all lessons and materials for as long as the course is available online (guaranteed for at least two years). No subscriptions or renewals needed — just keep learning at your own pace.
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If you are new painter or a seasoned professional wanting to discover new perspectives on painting, this course is for you. Whether you prefer a stylus or a paintbrush, the fundamentals of a great painting remain exactly the same and Essentials of Painting is meant to bridge the gap between worlds, offering a flexible curriculum designed specifically for both digital and gouache artists to learn side-by-side.
In this course taught by Mike Hernandez and Tiffanie Mang, you will learn how to plan the overall design of your painting through matrix studies and free yourself from being tied to every detail in a photo. You will also learn how films use color to shape emotion and mood --- and how to bring that same power into your paintings. Mike will demonstrate how to use the gamut mask tool to design unique, harmonious palettes and apply that in a digital and gouache painting.
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Essentials of Cinematic Lighting is for intermediate to advanced painters who want to learn how to use light and color cinematically to support mood and story. We go deep into notan, value keys, three point lighting, and color psychology, all studied through the lens of real film and animation. I built this course from the inside out, drawing on years of experience as a color key artist to give you the same tools and ways of seeing that I use every day in professional animation.
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Please note: this is an on-demand, pre-recorded workshop — you’ll get access to videos after purchase and can watch anytime at your own pace.
In this 3-hour on demand workshop, I walk you through my complete master study process, from analyzing color, value, and composition, to creating a timed gesture study, and finally refining it into a finished painting. You’ll learn how I break down master paintings, make intentional visual decisions, and translate observation into design. This class includes a full landscape study demo plus a bonus lesson and demo from my Essentials of Painting Course on applying these ideas to photo reference.
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If you want to go from strong painting fundamentals to cinematic, story driven lighting, these two courses are designed to take you there together. Essentials of Painting builds the foundation you need to see and think like an artist, covering the core visual tools of composition, value, color anatomy, edges, and light through plein air painting and studying the masters. Essentials of Cinematic Lighting then takes everything you have learned and pushes it further, teaching you to apply those same fundamentals cinematically through the study of real film and animation, so you can create paintings that are emotionally resonant and story driven.
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The Essentials of Painting Guided Track is a 4 month program that combines the flexibility of the Essentials of Painting on demand course with LIVE monthly sessions where Tiffanie provides paint overs and feedback to students. Students watch lessons and do the homework on their own time, and class meets online 4 times, once a month.
Next Enrollment opens up in June - July 2026
Next Term: August 2nd - November 29th 2026
Dates of live sessions will be sent out to all students after signing up.*
Spots are first come first serve upon payment. Join the waitlist below to get notified when enrollment opens.
My color scripting mentorship is a 12 week course aimed to train students to use lighting and color cinematically to create impactful color keys for animation. Students will learn how to push mood and storytelling through light, master the color key workflow, and build the skills needed to succeed as professional color key artists. Classes will meet weekly in live zoom sessions.
Next Term: Sep 24th- Dec 10th 2026
Applicants will be selected based on portfolio review.
Deadline to apply is September 5th.
Chosen applicants will be notified by September 7th.
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Tiffanie’s courses have transformed students’ art journeys and leveled up their skills faster than they would have imagined.
