BLOOM – EXPAND POSSIBILITIES
$149.00
- Artist – Kim Santini
- 10+ Hours of content
- Lifetime Access/Downloadable Content
- Private FB Group
- Course Price – $149
- All Sales Final
Description
Are You Ready to Loosen Up While Still Creating Work That Feels Intentional?
Join Kim Santini in Bloom - Expand Possibilities, a course that explores the powerful combination of fox imagery and floral elements through expressive, intuitive painting. Students will create two paintings—one focused on facial expression with a shallow depth of field, and another featuring more of the fox’s body amidst lyrical, sky-like passages. Using Kim’s signature process of creation, destruction, and rebuilding, artists will learn to move fluidly between realism and abstraction.
The course emphasizes intuitive decision-making, gestural mark-making, and discovering personal style. Lessons include tutorials on painting eyes, mixing nuanced color, and designing with value in mind. Students will also explore digital drawing tools to solve design challenges and develop stronger compositions. Kim shares her two foundational practices—building takeaways and developing heightened awareness—which help deepen creativity and elevate artistic growth.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
By the end of this course students will have an understanding of the following concepts:
- Understand value in different reference types
- Simplify designs by studying subject forms
- Merge and disrupt forms creatively
- Paint expressive, emotionally alive features
- Create balanced, engaging visual designs
- Trust the intuitive, exploratory process
- Use digital tools to boost imagination
- Let story emerge beyond the reference
- Develop style through reflective next steps
COURSE OPENS JUNE 11th
Lifetime Access - Download All Content
Cost - $149
EARLY BIRD THRU 6/11
DESCRIPTION OF LESSONS
This course invites you into Kim Santini’s intuitive painting process—a playful, layered approach that blends personal instinct with bold design. We begin by exploring what it means to paint intuitively, using “What if” questions and personal “Must haves” to guide creative decisions from the start.
In the early lessons, you’ll get to know the visual language of foxes and florals through drawing and observation, studying shapes, colors, and patterns. This helps loosen your hand and begin connecting the subjects in expressive, energetic ways.
The first major piece, Portrait in Bloom, centers on building an emotionally rich portrait that fuses fox and floral elements. You’ll explore gestural painting, with a special focus on eyes and features that feel alive. As the piece evolves, you’ll refine your focal point, push contrast and composition, and play with abstraction while still maintaining balance and clarity.
Once the portrait is complete, you’ll step back and assess your work—learning how to simplify forms, recognize overworking, and trust your own perspective to know when a painting is finished.
The second major work, Sky Fox, starts with a luminous sky as your underpainting. You’ll invite in fox and floral shapes in a loose, gestural way, allowing atmosphere and ambiguity to lead. This phase encourages imaginative choices, spatial invention, and the use of digital tools to support design.
In the final lesson, you’ll evaluate your design structure with a more analytical eye, strengthening the relationship between supporting areas and focal points. You’ll explore how value, pattern, and shape relationships bring your painting to life—while letting go of the original reference and allowing your narrative to emerge naturally.
Also included as a bonus…
Two LIVE events with Kim where she will:
TENTATIVE EVENT DATES:
Launch Party - June 11th @ 8pm ET
Live QandA - July 19th @ 2pm ET
***Event replays: All live events will be recorded so that students may replay at a later date.
COURSE OPENS JUNE 11th
Lifetime Access - Download All Content
Cost - $149
EARLY BIRD THRU 6/8
Course Add-On!
Learn About Creating Your Own Personal Paint Palette!!
MEET KIM SANTINI - ARTIST/INSTRUCTOR
Kimberly Kelly Santini is a small town girl from the thumb of Michigan. She spent her childhood wandering the neighboring woods and farmland until suppertime, filling her head and sketchbook with the things she experienced.
She has a BFA in Painting and a BA in Art History from Michigan State University. She completed half of an MFA at California State, Los Angeles before leaving the program for health reasons. She has run her studio business since 2000.
Kimberly established a daily painting practice in 2006 (PaintingADogADay.com). For well over a decade she delivered 3-5 small commissioned portraits weekly while managing a waitlist over a year long. Her art is collected worldwide and has been exhibited to great success. She has worked with the American Kennel Club and was honored as the official artist of the 2015 Kentucky Derby. She continues to paint and teach from her home studio, along with community involvement and volunteerism. She is the parent of three adult children who grew up as integral parts of the studio (and were featured regularly in her PaingingaDogsDay blog sharing painting and life snippets).
Kimberly is a lifelong learner, always actively seeking experiences to guide her in raising the bar. She has studied with many artists over the years, but learned significantly from Vianna Szabo, Alyssa Monks, Anne Siems, Stuart Shils, Lynn Whipple, Stanka Kordic and Zoey Frank. She prefers books over TV or movies, loves long walks with the dogs and has become obsessed with gardening (roses and dahlias in particular).
She runs a membership program where students learn to align their lives and artwork in uniquely satisfying way. Nothing gives her joy like students encountering ah-ha moments as they piece things together for themselves. She cannot wait to experience that with you!
PRIVATE GROUP FOR THIS COURSE
There is a private FB group for this course. Once you are signed up for the course, you can access the FB group where only you and other students signed up for the course will have access. Keep in mind, teachers are only active the first four weeks. After that, some may be involved, while others are not. We are looking forward to seeing your artwork!
***Kim will be unavailable from June 27-July 9, 2025, but will be available to students through the end of August 2025.
MORE OF KIM'S ARTWORK
COURSE SUPPLIES
Below is a list of the supplies that I will be using for the projects in this course. However, you are always encouraged to use what you have on hand.
Substrates
- Two wood composite panels. We will do a 16x20 and an 18x24 painting.
https://www.dickblick.com/products/richeson-hardboard-flat-panels/
Brushes
- Rosemary Brushes - Evergreen line (synthetic bristles)
- I used a #12, #8, #6 and a #2. My #12 was a long flat, the others extra longs.
- https://www.rosemaryandco.com/acrylic-brushes?cat=110
- Smaller liner brush for signing
Paints
- Golden Heavy Body acrylics. The following colors are what I used in this course (and represent my personal palette). You do not need all of these colors to participate in the class:
- Titanium White
- Light Bismuth Yellow
- Naples Yellow Hue
- Cadmium Yellow Dark
- Isoindolinone Yellow
- Raw Sienna
- Transparent Red Iron Oxide
- Light Magenta
- Orange Pyrolle
- Quinacridone Red
- Cad Red Medium (I meant to pack Dark, oops!! but we worked with the Medium)
- Alizarine Crimson
- Cobalt Violet
- Burnt Umber
- Paynes Gray
- N5 Neutral Gray (when this is gone I'm shifting to N6)
- N8 Neutral Gray
- Anthra Blue
- Cobalt Blue Hue
- Smalt Blue
- Manganese Blue
- Light Ultramarine Blue
- Light Pthalo Blue
- Hookers Green
- Cobalt Green
- Green Gold
***Here is a link to the Golden Heavy Body paints on Blicks site (I have added a 2oz tube of each color above to the Blick shopping list)- https://www.dickblick.com/products/golden-heavy-body-artist-acrylics/?Item=00620-1013
Other
- Deli paper
- Masterson Sta-Wet Premier palette system
- mister/water spritzer
- blue shop towels
- Unscented baby wipes
- Golden Acrylic Isolation Medium
- condiment squeeze bottle
- Water Soluble Tools
- Derwent Inktense Blocks
- Derwent Inktense Watersoluble Pencils
- Staedtler Tinted Watercolor Pencil Set
- Derwent Graphitint Pencils
- Soft Vine Charcoal
- Derwent Inktense Graphite Stick Soft
- Stabilo All pencils, graphite, blue and orange
- Stabilo Woodies
- Generals Chunky graphite stick, 6B
- Bic Permanent Markers
- Brayers
- Tablet, Stylus, Applications
- Live plants, floral stems, assorted organic material
- Notebook
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON ACCESSING CLASSES AND SELLING WORK CREATED IN THIS COURSE:
**Upon purchasing your course, you will be asked to create an account and go through the purchase process (even if the cost is $0 for a free course). If you have already created an account, after purchase your course will IMMEDIATELY be available under “LOGIN” at the top right-hand of karabullockart.com.
**If your course does not show up, please email us at karabullockart@gmail.com
**Due to the nature of the immediate availability of the course, all purchases are nonrefundable.
**Please talk to the artist of the course about his/her policy on selling artwork created in this course prior to selling any works created during course. Some artists will allow it, while others do not. Thank you for your support.
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