Overwhelmed with color choices?
It's possible to create a cohesive palette in just a few steps and allow creativity to lead your process.
Class Collection
🌱 Starter - beginner or refresher
🔹 Build - growing skills, exploration
🎨 All Levels - beginner friendly, advancing fast
💥 Intensive - full immersion, mastery
Ever find yourself with the perfect palette and just the right mix of expression but the eye is wrong the lips off balance? Fix misplaced features, troubleshoot distortions, and bring balance to your portraits—step-by-step guidance from Bold School Mentor Axel Martinez.
🔹 Build
Adjusting Portrait Features
A Quick Study Class
Instructor: Axel Martinez
🔹 Build
Fix Portrait Features Gone Wrong
Ever step back from your canvas and see a face that looks… off? Hours of work can feel wasted when features are misplaced or distorted. In this quick study class, Axel Martinez will show you how to troubleshoot these common portrait challenges so you can paint with confidence, not anxiety.
What You’ll Learn
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Spot and identify distortions quickly
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Make a plan and execute corrections with ease
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Use values and shapes to evaluate your work
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Bring cohesion and balance to your portraits
Step-by-step guidance from Bold School Mentor Axel Martinez gives you the tools to correct mistakes and get back to painting with clarity and confidence.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"This was an important class for me to watch.
The number of different ways demonstrated for us is extremely helpful. It was great to see ways to check my own placement of features. I loved your line,
"I am in control of the portrait, the portrait is not controlling me!"
Together they are confidence builders!
- Laurie Miller
Adjusting Portrait Features
A Quick Study Class
Instructor: Axel Martinez
🔹 Build
Fix Portrait Features Gone Wrong
Ever step back from your canvas and see a face that looks… off? Hours of work can feel wasted when features are misplaced or distorted. In this quick study class, Axel Martinez will show you how to troubleshoot these common portrait challenges so you can paint with confidence, not anxiety.
What You’ll Learn
-
Spot and identify distortions quickly
-
Make a plan and execute corrections with ease
-
Use values and shapes to evaluate your work
-
Bring cohesion and balance to your portraits
Step-by-step guidance from Bold School Mentor Axel Martinez gives you the tools to correct mistakes and get back to painting with clarity and confidence.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"This was an important class for me to watch.
The number of different ways demonstrated for us is extremely helpful. It was great to see ways to check my own placement of features. I loved your line,
"I am in control of the portrait, the portrait is not controlling me!"
Together they are confidence builders!
- Laurie Miller
Bring your color ideas to life with a clear, step-by-step process for building cohesive palettes that use color bias to your advantage. Learn to plan your painting, mix colors effectively, make smart choices, and balance control with creative flow—so every painting works as a whole.
🎨 All Levels
Choosing Bold Palettes
Painting Demonstration with Teaching
By Axel Martinez
🎨 All Levels
You don't have to fake it till you make it. Join Bold School and learn how Axel's process works to create a cohesive color palette every time you paint.
Bring a cohesive color palette together on the canvas with Axel Maritnez.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
- Planning your painting
- Color Mixing
- Color Choices
- An alternative to the Grid
- Tips to stay in control of your process yet allow creativity to flow
- and more
This intermediate class is a real-time step-by-step painting with artist and Bold School Mentor, Axel Martinez.
"Axel, your diction and narrative are very clear and easy to follow and learn from. This is also true of your demos. Learned a lot from your brushwork. '
We are in control' - my new mantra."
- Evelÿne Friedel
Choosing Bold Palettes
Painting Demonstration with Teaching
By Axel Martinez
🎨 All Levels
You don't have to fake it till you make it. Join Bold School and learn how Axel's process works to create a cohesive color palette every time you paint.
Bring a cohesive color palette together on the canvas with Axel Maritnez.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
- Planning your painting
- Color Mixing
- Color Choices
- An alternative to the Grid
- Tips to stay in control of your process yet allow creativity to flow
- and more
This intermediate class is a real-time step-by-step painting with artist and Bold School Mentor, Axel Martinez.
"Axel, your diction and narrative are very clear and easy to follow and learn from. This is also true of your demos. Learned a lot from your brushwork. '
We are in control' - my new mantra."
- Evelÿne Friedel
Your Learning,
Your Way.
You’ve got two ways to dive in:
🎨 Standalone Class
Get instant access to a full pre-recorded painting series. Watch step-by-step, real-time lessons with Charla Maarschalk and follow along at your own pace. Includes discussion boards under each lesson so you can ask questions and get guidance right when you need it.
🌿 Membership
Go all in and unlock our full library of 40+ classes. Enjoy community access, peer mentoring, guidance from Bold School mentors, downloadable workbooks, live events, and all the videos you want—plus ongoing support as you grow your skills.
New to Painting? Start with Bold Color Primer or Bold Color Bootcamp—both included in the Bold Color Bundle.
Student Gallery
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"Wonderful class Axel. Your flow with staying so loose building up the colours and finding the values with abstraction is really inspiring. Love those rollers and the effect they created. Thanks so much!
- Steven Henderson
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
"Wow, what a great informative class! I learned so much, I have trouble laying the brush strokes down and this was helpful. Your work Amazes me! Thank You so much!!
- Pamela Marston
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
AXEL MARTINEZ
After dedicating a lifetime to the Dental Arts and health care Axel Martinez decided to engage in Pottery and Portrait painting. As a ceremicist he enjoys combining functional vessels with sculptural elements to enhance its beauty and express inspiration. As a portrait Artist he uses the language of color to boldly capture the essence of a human face.
Axel has been a mentor with Bold School since 2020 and is a graduate of our premiere class, Bold Color Bootcamp.
Two Ways to Join
Choose the plan that's right for you
★★★★★
"Thank you, Axel! Personally, I am starting to see that I am very motivated at first, when I see the person emerge from the background, but then, as I start refining the facial features and I notice some problems, I get discouraged.
Watching all the Bold School mentors paint, and more specifically you in this class, helps me gather the courage to correct the features, believing indeed that I am in control and that everything will be fine in the end.
Thank you for this very important lesson"
- Caroline Plante
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