An idea
Develop the reference you want to paint
Set the subject, lighting and mood so the reference supports the painting you have in mind.
Atelier Masterclass · for traditional painters
YOUR studio, built around YOUR painting, on YOUR easel.
Plan the work, understand colour and pigments, use the paints you actually own, get practical guidance while you paint, and keep the finished work organised — without handing over the artistic decisions.
Less studio friction. More time painting.
Studio Business now includes Artwork Costing to organise painting time, materials and pricing scenarios, plus Opportunities to discover exhibitions, calls and awards by location and medium. Listings and estimates always require your own review.
For oil, acrylic, watercolour and gouache painters — from serious hobbyists to working artists and educators.
One painting, one connected workspace
Reference, pigment information, planning and studio context stay together.
Start where painters actually start
You do not have to begin with a blank project.
Start with whatever you already have — an idea, a reference, a painting in progress or an existing project. Atelier helps you move forward from there, because real paintings do not all begin in the same place.
A reference
Understand it before you begin
Study composition, values, colour relationships and the pigments behind what you see.
A painting underway
Work out what needs attention next
Use WIP analysis and Mentor guidance when another pair of informed eyes would help.
An existing project
Pick up the work without losing context
Keep the reference, plan, notes, materials and progress around the same painting.
Creative Planning
Put something in, get what you need out.
Choose the starting point that matches where the painting actually is. Each route is deliberately short: give Atelier the useful input, review what it prepares, then decide what belongs in your painting.
Create something to paint
1Describe the subject or idea.
2Refine style, light or format only if you want to.
3Create the reference, approve it, then let Atelier prepare the painting guidance.
Plan from an image
1Choose your painting medium.
2Upload the photograph, sketch or reference.
3Open & analyse it to prepare palette, pigment, mixing and planning information.
Analyse a painting
1Optionally tell Atelier the medium and what you want help with.
2Upload a clear photograph of the work in progress.
3Review practical next-step guidance and decide what you want to change at the easel.
Room Visualiser
1Upload the artwork you want to present.
2Add the medium if useful.
3Open Room Visualiser, choose the presentation and generate a downloadable room view.
The difference is the connection
The tools follow the painting, not the other way around.
Painters already use photographs, notes, colour references, mixing records, critiques, spreadsheets and client records. Atelier lets you do it all — and so much more — in one organised place.
01
Reference
Start with an idea, photograph, sketch or an existing painting.
02
Understand
Read the composition, values, colour relationships and practical painting demands.
03
Pigments
Relate what you see to real pigments and, where useful, the paints already in your studio.
04
Plan
Turn the important decisions into a clear sequence you can work from at the easel.
05
Paint
Use the reference, WIP guidance and Mentor without surrendering the artistic decisions.
06
Record
Keep the finished artwork, documentation and selected professional records connected to the artwork.
Painting plan
Turn understanding into something you can actually paint from.
Studio intelligence that is actually practical
Not a theoretical palette. Your palette.
Colour advice becomes far more useful when it can take account of the paints sitting in your own studio.
My Supplies
Atelier can know what is actually on your shelf.
Record paints, materials and stock so recommendations can be grounded in the studio you really work in.
Colour mixing
Move from a target colour to a sensible starting mixture.
Use pigment information and estimated mixing guidance as a practical starting point for physical palette testing — not as a substitute for the painter's eye.
This is one of Atelier's strongest differences: colour, pigments, inventory and the painting plan can inform one another instead of living in separate tools.
Once the painting has started
Useful guidance without giving up artistic judgement.
Photograph a work in progress when you need another view of the problem. Atelier can help you examine value structure, focal hierarchy, edges, colour relationships and the next practical decisions — while your intention remains the reference point.
Ask what to preserve, not only what to change.
Tell Mentor what you are trying to achieve before taking advice.
Use guidance selectively; the painter remains responsible for the result.
WIP analysis
See the painting more clearly.
Atelier Mentor
Ask the question behind the problem.
After the last brushstroke
The work does not disappear from Atelier when the painting is finished.
Keep the finished artwork connected to its project history, artwork record and the practical side of a working studio. Publish selected pieces only when you choose.
Finished artwork
Keep title, medium, dimensions and the record of the work together.
Artwork records
Create artist-issued documentation without pretending it is independent authentication.
Commissions & clients
Link the painting to the client and commercial record when the work was commissioned.
My Page & Public Gallery
Create a public Atelier identity, then choose which artworks, lessons, classes, groups and Journal posts become public.
Discover, learn and connect
Atelier can connect the private studio to a wider artist community.
Members choose what becomes public. Visitors can discover original artwork, artists, tutors, lessons and member Journals & Updates. Registered members can like Journal posts, save favourite artist pages and report public material that needs review.
Discover
Artwork, artists, tutors and creators — together.
Search once, move naturally to the person behind the work, and save favourite artist pages privately to your Atelier account for quick return.
Open DiscoverJournals & Updates
Read what is happening inside other studios.
Browse member studio stories, teaching notes, experiments and creative discoveries. Latest is chronological; Most Liked surfaces the community favourites. Journals are editorial, not a sales feed.
Read JournalsClasses & lessons
Learn inside the same studio workflow.
Browse published lessons and courses. Purchased or assigned material stays tied to the learner's Atelier account rather than to a shareable link.
Browse classesA separate materials and equipment marketplace is planned for later; it will not be presented as active until purchasing and fulfilment are actually enabled.
For tutors, art teachers and schools
A studio teachers can actually teach from.
Use structured lessons, Master Studies, colour exercises and practical painting tools while keeping the teacher at the centre of instruction. Inside the private Studio, teaching now sits beside the rest of the artist's business: one People record can be both student and client, classes feed a linked calendar, and teaching income shares the same financial record as commissions and artwork sales.
Schools & EducatorsIn plain terms
What Atelier Masterclass is — and what it is not.
What is Atelier Masterclass?
Atelier Masterclass is a studio workspace for traditional painters and artists. It supports the work around a physical painting — from references and pigments to planning, work-in-progress guidance and finished artwork records.
Who is Atelier Masterclass for?
It is designed for practising painters, serious hobby artists, art students, tutors and educators working in oils, acrylics, watercolour, gouache and related traditional media.
How does Atelier help painters?
It reduces the research, preparation and studio administration that often sit between an idea and time at the easel, while keeping the artist responsible for the painting and its creative decisions.
Atelier is not an online drawing program and it is not designed to make paintings for you. It is the studio workspace around the physical painting: a place to prepare, understand, organise, document and support the work while the work itself remains yours.
Open Atelier when it helps. Then get back to the easel.
Start free, explore the studio, and decide which parts genuinely earn a place in the way you paint.