Easel Insight Membership
Art Lessons Re-Imagined!
How Important Is Your Education To Your Art?
Let's Transform Your Time In The Studio!
Phil Starke
Founder, Easel Insight Membership
"I understand busy lifestyles. Besides teaching workshops and online courses, I'm also a professional fine artist, represented by galleries, and I participate in museum exhibitions across the country. I'm also a member of the prestigious California Art Club and the Plein Air Painters of America."
Easel Insight is a supportive & lively artist membership site.
I have uniquely designed Easel Insight to deliver video tutorials to artist members in a concise, concept-driven, focused way. This allows for maximized learning in minimal time for our busy lifestyles. Take advantage of this current budget-friendly price of $35 per month!
Join Easel Insight Membership today and gain instant access to a library of hundreds of tutorials you can put to use right now!
Why Choose Easel Insight?
I know you're busy. It's hard to find time or money to pack up and head out to art classes or a workshop. But, you still want to keep improving in your skill level and your thought process as an artist. Our large, growing library of concise, focused video tutorials - about 20 minutes long - will get you through stumbling blocks quickly. You don't have to watch an hour long video to learn a helpful concept or technique for Composition, Value, Color, Brushwork, or Depth. Regularly added content will keep you moving forward with new insights for beginners to advanced. When you get stuck, go back to your "library" and review a helpful tutorial. Our goal is to move you along at a consistent pace while fitting all this into your busy schedule. No deadlines, our large library of tutorials is open 24/7. We're here when you're ready.
We're unique! We're excited! Let's get started!
Phil is here to speed up your progress
The membership tutorials are the backbone of Easel Insight Membership, however, you'll find Phil throughout all elements of Easel Insight. He creates tutorials, critiques paintings, answers questions and offers helpful recommendations. He's in the Private Facebook Group working with our artist members, along with an amazing group of supportive artists, helping each other reach their goals. The large library of tutorials created will cover just about any stumbling block you're facing.
Phil has built a success path to help you achieve your goals
You'll find this success path right inside Easel Insight Membership. This is literally a step-by-step process that keeps you moving forward. You'll gain confidence and knowledge, seeing improvement, as you work your way through this success path. When you feel stuck, work the success path to get over that hurdle.
Phil has created a strong support community where everyone gets help
The large library of tutorials is the core of Easel Insight Membership. But while you're working in the studio, you may run into questions, or need a second set of eyes to help you see what you might be missing. That's where our amazing support community comes in. I've created a Private Facebook Group for Easel Insight Members Only! The general public never sees your posted paintings or questions, only Phil and the other artist members. The other members are also working to improve their work, and they would like your support too!!
Special Features to Serve You Better!
Weekly Q & A session with Phil Starke
Phil will do a Q & A session in the Private Facebook Group each week, answering your questions. Join LIVE and get your questions answered.
Brush-to-Canvas Painting Tutorials by Phil Starke
Along with the tutorials that Phil does in Photoshop, he will be adding short, concept-focused painting tutorials where you can see how he handles these concepts on canvas!
Lessons to give you direction on how to practice
A lesson plan is suggested at the end of the tutorials to help you practice the concept taught in the video tutorial. Your progress is our focus.
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Why Choose Easel Insight?
Here's What You Get!
1. New video tutorials 4 times each month available 24/7.
2. The Exclusive, Private Facebook Group.
3. Weekly Live Q & A Sessions with Phil Starke. I am doing a Live Q & A session in the Private Facebook Group each week, answering your questions.
4. The group critique we call Feedback Fridays, a favorite of our members.
5. 5 full-length, start-to-finish painting demonstrations.
6. Watch anywhere, cancel anytime.
7. A Library of downloadable PDF tutorials.
8. Training Sessions
9. Reference package of 50 quality photos to work from.
10. New Challenges to hone those skills!
11. Brush-to-Canvas Painting Tutorials by Phil Starke.
12. Lessons to Give You Direction on How to Practice. At the end of the tutorials, a lesson is suggested to help give you direction on how to practice the concept taught in the video tutorial.
13. We have a Search Bar so you can find tutorials with topics you’re wanting to review. If you want tutorials on trees, just type in trees, and you’ll get those tutorials. This makes our library of tutorials even more accessible and valuable!
14. I’ve also created a SUCCESS PATH for the members. This gives you some guidance on how to use your membership to its most effectiveness and see progress in your work. Just follow the path!
All This for Just $35 Per Month or $350 Per Year!
What Makes Easel Insight Different?
New Content Added Weekly
You'll always be discovering NEW videos or written content to help further your growth. Login and enjoy a short, concise video lesson, or hop into the Private Facebook Group whenever you have time. We work around your schedule, not ours. Our focused videos are about 15 min. long, so they can fit into anyone's busy schedule.
Supportive Community
Find yourself stuck? No need to go at it alone. You'll find artist members as well as the instructors to connect with. It's ALWAYS continuous help inside the "members only" Facebook Group.
Focused Learning
No need to comb through countless articles or watch hours of video that might not contain useful information. We have bite-sized content that is clear & easy to understand so you will get results. Imagine access 24/7 to a large GROWING library of tutorials.
For All Skill Levels
Whether you’re a beginner or advanced artist, or somewhere in between we provide the exact tools to help you THINK like a painter before you ever put down a brushstroke.
Knowledge + Practice = Success
No Travel Required
Eliminate airfare, hotel, and workshop registration fees. No lost time away from family or work. Your ONLY expense is a small membership fee.
Highly Economical
Weekly Classes & Workshops can add up. We know you'll agree, becoming a member is an exceptional value, a timesaver and the perfect supportive community to find your daily dose of encouragement to keep your brushes wet.
Join NOW, and you'll get our $35 per month or $350 per year membership for life!
As long as there is no break in your membership, your $35 monthly or $350 yearly price will never go up.
Achieve With A Professional And Passionate Instructor
Phil has been a professional working artist for over 30 years. Over this time he has helped hobbyists, art students, art teachers, and professional artists all build their skills to become stronger artists. He teaches proven methods that you can use to keep your work improving and progressing forward.
He has a long history of delivering exceptional online training to students all over the world.
He has been bringing art instruction to the internet since 2009 through his "Online Mentoring", "Bootcamp Workshop Online Course", "Plein Air Online Course" and "Light & Shadow Online Workshop".
Phil's work and career biography can be found at www.philstarke.com.
Phil Starke's painting, "The Basketweaver", was selected for the November 2001 cover of Southwest Art Magazine. This issue also had a feature article on Phil's work.
He is a graduate of The American Academy of Art, in Chicago, IL, trained by professional artists themselves.
Phil is represented by galleries, won numerous awards and had many publications written about his work and career.
He is a member of the "Plein Air Painters of America", and the "California Art Club".
Here are a few of Phil's paintings.
What Members Are Saying:
"PRACTICAL HELP! Really helped me to become more aware of the language of brushwork. I try to work on creating simple big shapes and value structure, but I now see that's just the springboard for creating expressive brushwork that lets me exercise more control of light and form. Thank you, Phil, for sticking to the points you were making rather than trying to just give us a slick demo. I got the help!"
- Jimmy L
"I am learning so much from these lessons. I really like that I can watch them over and over to drill the information into my brain. I have taken workshops from a lot of big name artists but the way you explain things is so much more clear than I remember from the workshops. As an example, a lot of instructors talk about how we need to simplify the information in a photograph or a scene we are seeing outdoors but, the depth you go into to explain it and demonstrate the process helps me to understand it in a way I had never understood before. The same is true for values and temperature, brushwork...everything."
- Patricia T
Many thanks, Phil! Your help and advise has pushed my painting along greatly. I'm painting every day from nature and following your sound instruction. I've learned more working with you than 3 years at art college. Many thanks again for your great help.
- Sean O
I felt like I had to let you know that I am thoroughly enjoying my new easelinsight membership!!! You are FABULOUS! I am learning so much watching your videos. The information has inspired me to get back into painting after a very long time.
Some day I hope to attend one of your classes! Thank you SO VERY MUCH for making this wonderful program available to your students!!
Warmest regards,
- Nancy P
I am an art director and graphic designer here in the great state of Utah. I grew up in Scottsdale, Arizona so I love the red rock photos you've posted as well as the mountain scenes. I graduated from NAU and have worked as a graphic designer for almost 20 years. I paint almost every night. I wish it reflected in my work.
I just joined your site and it's already one of the best investments I've made. I can't say enough nice things. It's inspirational, so informative and something about the way you teach, just speaks.
I wish I had your lessons years ago. Maybe I'm just now in tune, not sure. I can't wait to practice the concepts and join the conversation. Never stop posting, please!
- Pamela R
This "bite sized" teaching is the perfect venue for me after dvds, workshops & online teaching/courses that usually overwhelmed me, although the information was valuable. I enjoy Phil's teaching manner & know I will enjoy looking forward to the journey, and sharing it with other painter/members. Thanks so much for this opportunity!
- Susan L
I'm so thrilled about being able to study with you, finally some order on how I will go about improving my work, I used to just watch videos, read books but still was so confused on how to put all those together in such a way that I could apply the bits and pieces. Thank you!
- Chona D
I am a Canadian living in France now. You would think that there will be lots of art teachers in France? But that is not the case and I was very glad to join this group. Thank you so much. I have watched lots of videos and am very delighted by the quality and professionalism. Looking forward for enhancing my skills. Sorry for my english as I am French-Canadian.
- Michel B
After watching your videos, I realize I have given too much attention to trying to paint details that I see in the foreground without simplifying shapes and values firstly and secondly not designing a composition that leads the eye significantly into the painting. Today I'm going to use these two learnings and redesign a previously painted seascape. I'll post the before and after when I'm through.
- Susan L
I'm excited to belong to this unique community and sitting under outstanding teaching. You explain things in such an understandable way and not too fast. This is a perfect venue for all of us in our journey. God bless you for your unselfish teaching and help. I'm 71 and still have that drive to learn. This enables me to practice what you teach at my own pace.
- Linda L
Great Demos!! I'm really excited to be part of this group. I feel like I've learned a lot and it has only been 24 hours! I always struggle with rocks and I loved the demo. I mess around too much. You really simplified things. When you added the reflected light to your foreground rocks, what a difference that made. An "A-ha" moment. Really helpful. Thanks.
- Jacqueline B
These videos are enormously helpful to me. Thank you. Dividing the painting into receding sections and adjusting colors and values appropriately finally made sense to me. Sometimes it takes awhile for things to click in my thinking. It was happening intuitively SOMETIMES, but I think my crazy habit of adherence to flat photographs as truthful has finally been smashed. I like your examples with the photographs, I could see it!
- Rosemarie C
After watching many of Phil's videos and honing in on the way he mixes and uses color (from the color wheel), I set a still life up to see if I could see and mix the color I was seeing in a more logical way. I picked a couple of vases that had a difficult color to analyze. Before Phil, I would have been mixing many colors trying to get that particular color ... of course, not remembering what I had mixed! .. So, I followed Phil's line of thought .. start with a color from the wheel. I am pleased with the ease I was able to "get the color". Thanks Phil for the excellent instruction on color!
- Michael S
Frequently Asked Questions
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As long as there is no break in your membership, your $35 monthly or $350 yearly price will never go up.
Compare our monthly price with what you spend now every month for art classes!
We also offer an Annual Membership to save you even more! With the annual membership you get 2 months free.
IMPORTANT! Your subscription payment covers "access" to ALL the benefits of the membership. There are no "purchases" of videos, much like a membership with Netflix. You don't buy the videos themselves, you gain access to the membership and all it offers when you're an "active member".
Monthly
$ 35.00
Easel Insight membership is a $35 recurring monthly subscription that begins the day you sign up. Your account will automatically be billed each month on the same day.
Annually
$ 350.00
Choose the Annual Membership and you'll enjoy 2 free months of Easel Insight Membership. Your account will automatically be billed each year on the same day.
Join NOW, and get our $35 monthly or $350 yearly membership for life!
As long as there is no break in your membership, your $35 monthly or $350 yearly price will never go up.
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