My goal is to enhance your creative process and help you attain your personal goals. I use demonstrations and straightforward painting techniques to guide you.In my traditional painting classes my instruction focuses on skill building enhancement and utilizing objective art principals. I use warm, direct communication and ensure high standards of kind critique.In my therapeutic arts classes, I teach art and visualization exercises complimented by somatics (body based therapy). These classes are intended to develop creative freedom, enhance personal internal development and reduce stress. They are infused with the natural medicine of playful, expressive artistic practice and simple tools that engage the power of the mind and imagination.I have an MFA in Figurative Oil Painting, and am a certified Therapeutic Arts Coach. I am also an official copy artist of the Louvre Museum in Paris as well. In my personal work, I use a combination of masters and mische technique and paint in a surrealist photo realistic style, in the visionary theme. I teach all painting mediums and have been teaching art for over 20 years now and online since 2013. For online classes, I use two camera angles and zoom in over my work to give you highly detailed demonstrations.For more info, including testimonials from students, please visit www.shelleyirish.com.