Painting Expressive Interiors Course
Paint interior spaces that tell a story
This course gives you the framework I wish I’d had earlier: a simple way to paint the spaces around you that capture a mood and tell a story. Inside you’ll find lessons, step-by-step process frameworks, a technique overview, focused exercises, and a process you can make your own. Use your own images and style; I’ll also show you exactly how I paint.
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PAINTING SPACES IS A MEDITATIVE PRACTICE
An interior painting is never just a room.
It is a practice of appreciation, presence and storytelling. Whether you include figures, animals, or let the room speak for itself, every interior is a world with its own atmosphere, its own emotional weather.
This course is about learning to see spaces as an artist.
- Noticing the ray of light falling across a corner.
- The flowing forms of clothes left on the floor.
- The quiet drama of ordinary objects in a sunlit room.
- Finding beauty in the mundane, through light, mood and your own imagination, and translating that feeling into paint.
This is not about painting rooms that look like mine.
It is about finding your own way of seeing
SOUND FAMILIAR?
You don’t know where to start
You love a scene, but the first marks feel random and the painting never settles.
Your colors go muddy
You mix and mix, and the glow you saw in the room disappears.
You’re intimidated by painting from reference
You’d rather paint intuitively, but you want structure you can trust.
HERE’S THE GOOD NEWS...
I have spent years developing my approach to painting interiors.
In this course I am sharing everything: the way I observe a space before I ever pick up a brush, how I build atmosphere from the first mark, and the framework I return to every single time I paint, no matter the subject.
introducing...
Painting Expressive Interiors
A six-week, self-paced oil painting course. Focused exercises and lessons to develop your eye and your instincts, three complete painting demos from first mark to finished painting, and a structured process that belongs to you.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
A process you can carry into your studio for the rest of your life
Over six weeks you will work through focused exercises, watch three complete painting demos, and leave with a structured process that is yours.
Personal paintings that tell a story
How to find inspiration and references from your own life and turn them into paintings with meaning.
A simple oil painting framework
From underpainting to final touches, with demos that show you every step of the process.
Atmosphere and emotional weight
How to use light and shadow, values and color, and composition principles that keep an interior dynamic.
HOW IT WORKS
Everything you need, in one place
Six modules with demos, exercises and fundamentals
Three complete painting demos, from first mark to finished painting
Lifetime access, at your own pace
COURSE BREAKDOWN:
INTRODUCTORY MODULE
Set up your studio and your eye.
WHAT’S INCLUDED:
- Materials and prep work
- A bit about my story and work
- Artists to inspire you, from Bonnard and Vuillard to painters working today
- Finding references in your own life
STEP-BY-STEP FRAMEWORK
A structured approach that simplifies the painting process from start to finish.
WHAT’S INCLUDED:
- Observing a space before you pick up a brush
- Underpainting and building atmosphere from the first mark
- Composition principles for interiors
TECHNIQUES AND DEMOS
Watch the framework come together on a real canvas.
WHAT’S INCLUDED:
- Alla prima (direct painting)
- Three complete painting demos, from first mark to finished painting
- Exercises to make the process your own
LIGHTING, CONTRAST AND FINISHING
Master the principles that give a painting its mood.
WHAT’S INCLUDED:
- Strong lighting and contrast
- Values and color for emotional weight
- Completing a painting, plus resources and recommended reading
PAY IN FULL
One time payment of
$199
✓ 6 modules of lessons, demos and exercises
✓ Step-by-step painting framework
✓ Three complete painting demos
✓ Resources and recommended reading
✓ Lifetime access, self-paced
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“I have always been intimidated by painting from reference and didn’t think I could paint anything really realistic. By focusing on little abstract shapes and imagining Kat’s voice telling me to ‘notice and respond,’ I was slowly able to watch a scene come to life before my eyes. Painting the interiors has become a meditation for me. I’m so grateful for this class. It has been an absolute delight!”
– Kim Tateo, painter and student
SPACES
A room is never just a room
The domestic interior has been one of the most emotionally charged subjects in the history of painting. Bonnard, Hopper, Vuillard, Matisse understood that a room holds secrets, stories, light that shifts by the hour. Contemporary artists like Njideka Akunyili Crosby and David Hockney return again and again to the spaces we inhabit. The subject is endlessly available, your home, a friend’s kitchen, a hotel room, a studio corner, and endlessly rich.
About Kat
EKATERINA POPOVA · CONTEMPORARY OIL PAINTER
Ekaterina Popova is a contemporary oil painter born in Russia and exhibited internationally in Paris, London, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Menorca and beyond. Her work explores home, identity and belonging through interiors and landscape, drawing on post-impressionism, fauvism and magical realism. She holds a BFA from Kutztown University and has attended residencies in France, Iceland and Greece.
Kat is also the founder of Create! Magazine, host of The Create! Podcast with over one million downloads, and co-author of two books on creative entrepreneurship.
“My goal is to pass on frameworks, approaches and tools that help you use your own style and voice to tell your stories through interior painting.”
Painting Expressive Interiors includes everything you need to paint spaces with feeling
Six modules, three full demos, a step-by-step framework, technique lessons and resources, all self-paced with lifetime access.
I'M READY →IS THIS FOR YOU?
This course is perfect for you if...
- You want to learn how to paint everyday moments and interior spaces in your own style, and need a simple framework that makes the process enjoyable.
- You want a structured process you can trust, without losing your own style.
- You paint intuitively or abstractly and want to try working from reference.
- You want to slow down, look closer and develop a point of view.
Learn from a working painter
This is the process behind the interiors that built my career, taught in my own studio with real demos. Use your own images and your own style; the framework is yours to keep.
TEACH ME HOW →A’s to your Q’s
What is the format of the course?
Is this course suitable for beginners?
How long will I have access?
LET’S PAINT TOGETHER
Your next painting starts here
Join today and get instant access to every lesson, exercise and demo.
I'M READY →Ready to start?
PAY IN FULL
One time payment of
$199
✓ 6 modules of lessons, demos and exercises
✓ Step-by-step painting framework
✓ Three complete painting demos
✓ Resources and recommended reading
✓ Lifetime access, self-paced
ENROLL NOW →