​Discover (or Recover) Your Creative Artistic Joy
online with artist Karen Lynn Ingalls

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☑️  Increase your artistic knowledge and skills

​☑️  Create paintings with beautiful, harmonious color

☑️  Develop your own unique style as an artist
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☑️  All in a supportive environment free of critiques and judgement

Join us for online classes & workshops — in virtual Napa Valley!

Dusk in the Vineyards • © Karen Lynn Ingalls

Create Art you love — your art is your visual voice! 
Do you want to:

• Discover and develop who you are as an artist?
• Learn how to make colors sing in beautiful harmony in your paintings?
• Know how to find, troubleshoot, and fix what isn't working in your painting?
• Get support for your creative process?
• Discover how to quiet your inner critical voice, so you can create without interference and judgment?
• Create paintings based on what interests you, and develop your own individual style? (Because it's NOT about copying!)
• Make art that makes your heart happy?

That's what we do here. Welcome!

Here's what's coming up:

The Secrets of Color Harmony — Wednesdays in May and June, 2026

You know how sometimes the colors in your paintings just don't come together the way you wish they would?

In this class, you'll discover and apply 14 foolproof secrets — specific, surefire methods you can use to create beautiful color harmony in your paintings.

You'll test each method and put it into practice, so you can experience the results firsthand, and apply it to your own paintings.

It's Color Theory made practical, so you get immediate results, and happy, harmonious colors in your art!

Learn More Here...

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​Acrylic Painting 101 — coming up again later in 2026

An introduction to acrylic paints for beginning painters or painters who are new to acrylics....

You'll get comfortable:

• working with acrylics,
• mixing and applying your paints
• making different kinds of marks with brushes, palette knives, and more,
• and wind up with your own unique abstract paintings at the end of the class.

Learn More Here.... 

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Acrylic Painting Online: Create with Color & Composition

Explore and expand your painting skills and knowledge, including:

• How to make your colors play together happily
• A practical method to help you design your painting compositions
• A special (critique-free) process to troubleshoot, find, & fix what isn't working in a painting
• Different ways to approach your painting, so you can see what works best for you! 

Learn More Here.... 

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Creative Calm: Drawing Your Way to Inner Peace

Reduce Stress with Simple Mark-making — No Art Experience Needed in this free mindful art session on Zoom. No charge — let's just de-stress!

Has life felt a bit overwhelming lately?

Whether it’s disaster-related, personal overwhelm, chaos and craziness in the world around us, or anything else — art can help you find your calm and carry on.

Learn More...

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​Acrylic Painting 102  — possibly coming up again later in 2026

Have fun and play as you explore even more about painting with acrylics and acrylic mediums!

You'll discover how to:

• add different kinds of collage to your paintings
• find and create collage papers
• create texture in your paintings
• create your own texture mediums​
• bring them all together in yor own abstract paintings

Learn More Here....

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Coming up again later in 2026 — Abstract Landscape Painting

Would you like to simplify your landscape painting to get at essentials?

​Or use the scenes you see as a springboard to a completely new creation, instead of just reproducing what you see?

​Discover 9+ different approaches to creating abstract landscape paintings, and see which ones you like best!

Find out more — it's coming up again in 2026....

And more classes ...

The #1 Secret to Great Color Harmony

Do the colors in your paintings drive you a little crazy sometimes, when they seem to fight each other — or, at least, not get along the way you'd like them to?

Colors are not easy to manage!

What if you could discover one method that would ensure your colors all got along well together?

​It's all about how you start out....  
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Find out more....

The Secrets of Color Harmony

Discover foolproof secrets to creating beautiful color harmony in your paintings, and put them into practice!

​You'll learn 14 different specific, surefire methods of creating color harmony — and get great results right away!

Find out more....

Acrylic Painting Online: Create with Color & Composition

(Previously called Acrylic Painting Online)
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Discover how you can use color and composition to create stronger paintings!

Go beyond the "Rule of Thirds,"  without critiques....

​It's a step-by-step method you can apply to any kind of painting.

Find out more....

Could you use a little help dealing with your Inner Critic?

Nine Ways to Tap Into Your Creativity and Tame Your Inner Critic

by Karen Lynn Ingalls

Taming that inner critic is an essential part of the path of making art — because, if left to its own devices, it can stop us in our creative tracks.

And none of us want to stop creating the work we love! Right?

Nine Ways to Tap Into Your Creativity and Tame Your Inner Critic helps you deal with those annoying inner critical voices that pop up and interfere with our creativity.
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It's just 31 pages — and it gives you nine different, effective methods you can use to quiet your own inner critic. 

Contact me through the form at the bottom of this page, and let me know if you'd like a copy. I'll be glad to send it to you in PDF format. 

​And let me know how it works for you! — Karen Lynn

Karen Lynn Ingalls • Photo by Cornelius Collins

Hi! I'm Karen Lynn Ingalls

I'm a professional artist and credentialed art teacher,
​and I have:

• Made art since I was 18 months old.
• Shown my artwork professionally for over 25 years.
• Taught art to adults (mostly) for over 20 years.
• Taught high school before that.

My art and articles about it have appeared in local, regional, and national publications; I've been interviewed for podcasts, radio, and television; and I've even had one of my paintings appear on a billboard.
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(Here are some examples below....)

And over time, I've developed a teaching method that:

• simplifies everything, so you don't get overwhelmed
• supports and helps you develop your artwork — in your own style and the ways that work best for you
• helps you approach what you do in the spirit of experimentation and discovery
• is free of critiques and judgment, so you can drop perfectionism and quiet that inner critical voice that holds you back
• gives you a step-by-step process to help you understand what your painting needs as it develops
• and enables you to grow as an artist, and create beautiful paintings more easily

Why does it matter? Because Art is your visual voice — and your voice matters!

This is not about copying someone else's style — or paintings. It's about you being you.

Why? Because no one else can express things quite the way that you can — and if your visual voice is missing, the world is missing out.

These classes and workshops are all about creating beauty and joy — so we can all bring more beauty and joy into the world. And that matters!

What Karen's students say...

Whether it's in person or live online...

I've learned more about how to make a real painting in three hours than I have in three years.
— Catherine Singels,
​Calistoga, CA

I've learned so much about composition, value, and color! She can teach you how to take a painting from the "green goo" stage to the beautiful butterfly you know is in there!
— Debbie Jorgensen,  Kelseyville, CA ​

I've taken many arts & crafts classes, and KAREN is my favorite teacher! She is encouraging and supportive.  You learn so much about color, composition, inspiration, etc., in easy to understand lessons!    Try it!
— Jenni Grunschlag,
​San Francisco, CA

What I found in Karen was a kind, enthusiastic, and patient teacher who is able to meet you at whatever level you're at, to give you instruction and positive feedback without negative criticism. I look forward to her class each week and recommend her to anyone, from a novice like me to someone with years of painting experience.
— Michelle Seale, 
Angwin, CA

And, when you take a class,
​a portion of your fee goes to support the Calistoga Art Center.
Thank you! 

Art Workshops, Classes, & Lessons Now Online

Karen is currently teaching online only, and is happy to be able to teach students from all over the United States and abroad. Upcoming classes include:

• Painting Abstract Barns • November 2, 9,16, 23, December 7, 14, January 4, & more
• Landscape Painting • to be scheduled in Winter 2026
• Abstract Landscape Painting Online • Saturday mornings — April 4, 11, 18, 25, & May 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, 2026
• Acrylic Painting 101 • Saturday mornings (Pacific Time)— January 10, 17, & 24, 2026
• Acrylic Painting 102 • Saturday mornings (Pacific Time)— February 7, 14, 21, 28, 2026​
•  The Secrets of Color Harmony • Sunday afternoons (Pacific Time)— coming up as an on-demand class 
• Color, Composition & Creation: Bringing It All Together (formerly called Acrylic Painting Online) • possibly to be scheduled on Wednesday aftenoons in 2026
• Discover the #1 Secret to Great Color Harmony in Your Paintings • Saturday Masterclass, plus Bonus follow-up Q&A session • to be scheduled again in 2026

Napa Valley Art Workshops • all artwork © Karen Lynn Ingalls

Karen's online classes meet live on Zoom for instruction, camaraderie, and individual consultation. Instruction includes:

• slides with examples and information,
• time lapse video demonstrations,
• session handouts you can take notes on,
• and video recordings that you can access later.
• You'll also get Karen's Bonus e-Books and printouts you can refer to.

Join us from the comfort of home, without having to travel — as we gather in virtual Napa Valley!

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Continuing Online Art Classes for current and former students in 2025:
Acrylic Painting & Mixed Media Classes • Fridays, 1 PM to 4 PM • Online for current and former students only
Meeting online nurtures our creativity and makes sure we all stay healthy, and you're welcome to join us here, in virtual Napa Valley! Wherever you are, be well, and keep creating!

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