LEARN HOW TO CREATE ART YOU WILL BE PROUD OF
LEARN HOW TO CREATE ART YOU WILL BE PROUD OF
You are just one click away from the essential resources, support and guidance you need to become a confident artist with a unique sketching style.
You are just one click away from the essential resources, support and guidance you need to become a confident artist with a unique sketching style.
You love sketching, but love is not enough to make progress?
You love sketching, but love is not enough to make progress?
- With tons of Youtube tutorials available online, you still can't practice in a structured way.
- You feel like you're stuck in the same place or going around in circles.
- You are lonely on your artistic path. It's not fun sketching alone.
- You have no idea if you're doing it right.
- You need a trajectory, a direction. A framework that will lead to steady growth.
- You want to work on your sketching techniques consistently so that you can actually become an independent and adventurous sketcher.
- You want to have fun while sketching.
- You need feedback on your artwork so that you stop making the same mistakes.
What if you had a space to grow your passion with a clear, structured process, so you could feel proud of every art piece you created?
Introducing Brave Brushes Studio…
Where amateur artists and urban sketchers grow and thrive!
Where you will find impactful resources and guided tutorials that build your sketching techniques within a friendly, supportive community.
This is your place to be brave and explore your creativity!
HERE'S WHAT YOU WILL GET AS A MEMBER
Resource Library
The library is a collection of lessons on gouache, watercolors and alcohol-based markers. We add new lessons every month. The library also has an archive of Julia Henze's Skillshare classes, live workshops and PDF tutorials.
Live Sketching Sessions
This is where you get to sketch with us in real time, ask your questions as you sketch, and meet other members of Brave Brushes Studio. These monthly sessions are recorded and added to the resource library.
Community
We have a Facebook group in which community members post their art projects, interact with each other, ask their questions and find sketching buddies. It is a great way to get support, encouragement and inspiration.
Monthly Adventures
These are monthly topics for focused practice. Each month we practice an aspect of urban sketching (proportions, textures, perspective, color theory etc.) and guide you towards improved technique. These lessons are exclusive to Brave Brushes Studio.
Live Q&A Events
Face-to-face time with Julia Henze. Get feedback on your artwork and recommendations for practice. Ask any questions about techniques, sketching supplies, or anything else. Join live or watch the reply later.
Immediate Access to All Resources
When you join Brave Brushes Studio, you get immediate access to our dedicated website: monthly adventures, class archive, workshop replays, recordings of live sessions. Access any time and work at your own pace.
I'm Julia Henze, an urban sketcher and an art teacher, and I'm here to help
“You are hopeless at drawing. You will never learn!” this is what my art teacher in elementary school told me. While I was hurt and upset, I didn’t let those words define me and discourage me. Art was my passion back then and remains my passion to this day.
It is my mission:
- to help artists believe in themselves
- to help them realize that they ARE artists
- to teach them to love colors and see the beauty of lines and textures
- to help them grow and thrive
To help YOU grow and thrive!
I’m here to help you:
- focus on the process of making art instead of worrying about the result
- have realistic expectations and stop comparing yourself to other artists
- work on your sketching skills at your own pace
- get that easiness, playfulness, and freedom back
"You are brilliant and talented. Even if you think you're hopeless, you WILL LEARN!"
Explore bright colors, draw confident lines and conquer perspective!
To do great things, you need a partner. So here's the other co-founder of Brave Brushes Studio
I’m Anna Kozyreva, an instructional designer and a beginning artist.
Here’s what I do in Brave Brushes Studio:
- I act as Julia’s guinea pig: I test all of Julia’s lessons and make sure they are easy to follow and not too overwhelming.
- While Julia is in charge of art, I take care of the tech side of things and make sure everything is running smoothly: the website, the Facebook group, live events.
Here's what people are saying about Brave Brushes Studio
Here's what people are saying about Brave Brushes Studio
"I am painting every day and getting into a rhythm that works for me."
"I have learned that I can accomplish something new and hard, no excuses."
"Learned so many things... and most of all, I love being part of a community."
"I have learned so much these last few months! ... I got very brave."
"It really feels like I am following an art program with a plan, instead of just aimlessly following random tutorials"
You can make significant progress within just a few weeks, too!
You can make significant progress within just a few weeks, too!
We have created simple, actionable roadmaps to help you build a solid foundation and help you become a confident and independent artist with a unique sketching style.
Here's what's inside our Monthly Adventures (get access to this month's adventure and all past adventures when you sign up!)
October 2023 Adventure: The Power of White
November 2023 Adventure: Hygge. Cozy Autumn Sketches
August 2023 Adventure: The Basics of Composition
September 2023 Adventure: The Basics of People Sketching
Each adventure is a course consisting of 4 or 5 video lessons, either pre-recorded or live. Adventures are aimed at helping you develop a variety of skills that together form the basis for your unique style and turn you into a happy, independent sketcher.
July 2023 Adventure: Sketching with Markers
- Learn how to blend markers to create smooth transitions.
- Choose color combinations that will work great for tour sketch.
- Learn how to draw shadows with markers.
- Learn how to use fineliners together with markers for expressive urban sketches.
- Create amazing sketches using a limited color palette.
- Learn how to make the most of the marker set that you have.
- Get feedback, ask questions and find the courage to show your work to the world!
Past Adventures
(get immediate access when you sign up, work at your own pace)
Basics of Urban Sketching
One-Point Perspective
Textures
The Power of Color
Travel Sketching
Sketching Beautiful Greenery
Brave Brushes Studio is so much more than a collection of lessons! Watch this video to see what's inside the Brave Brushes Studio website.
GET INSTANT ACCESS TO BRAVE BRUSHES STUDIO
Choose one of the options below, click the button to join, and start drawing!
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Frequently Asked Questions
This membership is for amateur artists with some experience in sketching. If you are an absolute beginner, you may find our lessons a bit complicated (but anything is complicated in the beginning), but you should still be able to do them. If you are a professional artist, this membership is not for you. We’ve got nothing to teach you!
Yes, absolutely! Cancelling is easy, no questions asked. Even if you are joining to take part in one course, you will have access to our entire archive and to the live events where you can ask questions. You can also join our Facebook community.
You can cancel at any time, hassle-free. No hard feelings!
Once you subscribe, you get access to all our content straight away: the entire library of classes, pdfs, monthly adventures, recordings of live events and webinars.
Let’s be very clear here: no, you can’t. You will lose access to the Brave Brushes Studio website and its content when you cancel your membership. You can always come back and join the Studio later.
Yes. Upgrade at any time.
We do not offer a trial period at the moment. If you are not sure, join Brave Brushes Studio for a month and see if it’s right for you. You can easily cancel your membership at any moment.
MORE REVIEWS
"In just a few weeks, I've seen a tremendous change in the way I go about sketching and painting."
I came into Brave Brushes to better learn perspective and shadow work to enhance my drawing skills and begin my journey into urban sketching. Julia gives expert, detailed, critiques of students’ artwork that is extremely valuable to the learning process.
Brave Brushes is organized into detailed lessons, videos, Q & A’s, and live painting sessions that give many opportunities to practice what is presented. Further feedback can be found within the Brave Brushes community where everyone cheers each other’s progress in their art journey, wherever they may be on their learning curve.
I believe the lessons and all things offered within Brave Brushes can easily be used by so many no matter where they may be in their art journey. It is a place for exploration and practice and Julia gives so many opportunities for a student to go through the material at their own pace. There is a variety of learning materials and each builds on techniques learned in previous lessons, building a strong foundation for your art process.
In just a few weeks, I have seen a tremendous change in the way I go about sketching and painting. I am applying new techniques and gaining great results. I am so excited to be part of this wonderful community that Julia and Anna have created. It is the best gift I have given myself!
Explore, practice, and enjoy the process!
Lurline Gatling
USA
"I have been shocked at how much I have learned in a matter of a few short weeks."
Cathy Parker
USA
"Brave Brushes is the place to be!"
Annemarie Slotboom
The Netherlands
"In just a few months my urban sketching skills and my confidence have grown exponentially."
Emma Bolton
Spain
GET INSTANT ACCESS TO BRAVE BRUSHES STUDIO
Choose one of the options below, click the button to join, and start drawing!
PAY MONTHLY
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Recurring monthly payment
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Full access to all content
-
Cancel any time
PAY ANNUALLY
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12 months for the price of 10
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Full Access to all content
-
Cancel any time
