Do you want to draw and paint

with courage and boldness?

I'm Angela Bandurka, award-winning

Acrylic Artist

What if you could create beautiful paintings that you were proud of? 

What if you felt  encouraged, motivated and inspired to paint? 

What if you knew exactly what to paint every time you started painting? 

What if you belonged to a community of artists encouraging each other and helping each other improve their artwork? 

What if you were consistent with your artwork and saw the progress you've been craving? 

If you're anything like me when I was learning, the reality is that our painting experience is often the exact opposite...

We feel discouraged, unmotivated and uninspired to create.

We have no idea what we're going to paint. 

We feel lonely and isolated. 

We're inconsistent at best with our work. 

Learning how to paint can be SO OVERWHELMING! There has to be a better way...right? 

I was born in British Columbia, Canada, and come from a multi-generational family of passionate artists.

Drawing and painting since I was a small child, I completed my first commissioned portrait at 15. After many years as a Graphic Artist and Art Director for companies like Costco, RealNetworks, and Garrigan Lyman, I started painting and teaching full-time in 2008.

My award-winning work has been exhibited in shows throughout North America and featured in numerous publications as well as the cover of The Best of Acrylic Magazine's Fall 2022 Edition.

I am a Master Signature Member of the International Society of Acrylic Painters (ISAP), Elected Artist Member of the American Artists Professional League, a member of the National Oil & Acrylic Painters’ Society (NOAPS), and the National Society of Painters in Casein & Acrylic (NSPCA). I am currently represented by Cole Gallery in Edmonds, WA.

The problem with other art courses. . .

Is there a better way?

What is the Miniature Painting Challenge and why is it helpful?

Teaching yourself how to paint is a difficult task.

There's an ocean of painting videos and courses out there.

Often times these courses:

Lack quality instruction: Some courses may be incomplete, confusing, or lack important information that a student may need. It can be difficult to know what instruction is reliable and what is not.

Lack real connection: Many courses don't provide an avenue for sharing your work or getting feedback from others. This can hinder your learning process and make it difficult to grow to your full potential, as well as identify and correct mistakes.

Full of distractions: There are countless places to learn how to paint online! Many of these websites make it easy to get lost going down a rabbit hole of unrelated content OR overwhelm you with too many options.

Lack structure: Learning to paint online often lacks structure. You learn a little bit from one course and a little bit from another but the concepts never build on each other in a logical way. This can make it difficult to develop comprehensive and consistent painting skills.

These factors can make it incredibly easy to lose motivation to paint. . . 

Over the years, at Acrylic University, we've seen many artists lose motivation to paint and wanted to figure out why. 

What we found is that most artists who lose motivation are not seeing the results in their artwork that they want. 

We dug a level deeper and found that these artists weren't giving themselves the chance to see results because they weren't painting consistently enough to get to where they wanted to be. 

But we get it - even on a good day, sitting down to paint is scary and hard. 

But on a bad day when life is crazy and things get in the way? Forget about it.

We knew there had to be a better way. 

We knew we had to create something that would help remove the roadblocks to just sitting down and painting. Roadblocks like:

• Lack of time
• Uncertainty about what to paint
• Loneliness
• Fear and insecurity
• Discouragement about progress

After lots of experimentation, we ended up creating the Miniature Painting Challenge.

It was a huge success! Artists were seeing huge results in their artwork and were falling in love with painting again. 

But. . .

We are so glad you asked!

The Miniature Painting Challenge is a program that gives you everything you need to create one painting that you're proud of every single week.

We remove all of the roadblocks so that you can just sit down and paint. 

The only thing we challenge you to do is show up for yourself every week and spend 30 minutes improving your skills as an artist. 

Our challenges cover a variety of topics and durations but they all:

• Give you a new doable painting lesson every week: Each week we give you a short painting lesson from the world's top acrylic artists that can be completed in 30 minutes or less. 
• Show you exactly what to paint: Each lesson provides you with a reference photo and instructions so that you know exactly what to paint and how to paint it. 
• ​Surround you in a community: Challenge participants get access to an exclusive members-only community full of artists who are there to encourage you on your journey.
  
• ​Give you courage and boldness: See real progress in your artwork over time and surround yourself with artists who are on the exact same journey as you.
  
• ​Improve your art drastically: Instead of spending hours, days, weeks or even months toiling over one large canvas, we scale it down and have you work on a small 6x6 or 8x8 canvas. We firmly believe that quantity is better than quality when it comes to learning how to paint. The more mistakes you make, the faster you can improve.
  
• ​Give you a sense of accomplishment: You'll finally be able to paint consistently and put in the time it takes to see the results that you want to see in your artwork.
  

What EXACTLY is included in this course?

8 expertly guided lessons with over 8 hours of focused drawing and painting instruction, one easy-to-use supply list, 8 downloadable reference photos, and a private community of encouraging artists from all over the world.