Paint with MoreJoy, Textureand Freedom
Figurative cold wax and oils, textured acrylics, and expressive portraits.
5000+ students
Join artists worldwide learning cold wax techniques
Painting with cold wax medium and oils is a beautiful way to create depth, layers, and rich textures. By building up paint and scraping back into the surface, surprising effects start to appear and every painting develops in its own unique way.
Explore Layers, Texture and Creative Freedom
In my classes we explore these layered techniques together. Cold wax and oils are still at the heart of my work, but we also experiment with textured acrylics, mixed media, and different tools to create expressive surfaces and discover new possibilities.
Learn and Paint With Me
If you would love to explore texture, layering, and creative painting techniques, you are in the right place.
Upcoming Membership:The Texture Lab
The Texture Lab is the membership I have been dreaming of: a warm, inspiring place where we paint together, explore new techniques, and keep your art practice moving.
Most of the content explores cold wax and oils, the medium that started it all for me, but we also experiment with acrylics, mixed media, textures, and layered painting techniques.
It's a space to explore, experiment, and enjoy the process of painting together.
5000+ students
Join artists worldwide learning cold wax techniques
I'm Marina,your guide toTextured Painting
I'm so happy you found your way to my little corner of the internet. I'm a Dutch artist living in the South of France with my family and our lovely dog, Tessa.
For many years my work has centered around painting with cold wax and oils, a medium that completely changed the way I paint. I love building layers, scraping paint, and discovering what appears on the surface.
These days I'm also exploring textured painting with acrylics and mixed media, always with the same curiosity for layers, marks, and unexpected discoveries.
Whether you're here for my paintings or my classes, I hope you enjoy exploring.
Paint with more joyand curiosity?
Explore layers, texture, and creative techniques through online classes, free resources, and the Texture Lab membership.
Online Classes
Creative classes in cold wax, oils, acrylics and textured painting.
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Free Resources
Access free tutorials, blog posts, and downloadable guides to kickstart your creative journey.
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Connect with fellow artists in the Texture Lab membership and grow together.
See the membershipTextured Mini Flowers
Small, quick, and endlessly repeatable. You build a textured surface first, then let a little bouquet appear out of it, so there is no pressure to draw a flower.
The class is filmed in acrylics with texture medium, but the process is exactly the same in cold wax and oils. Nothing changes except what is on your brush, so paint along in whichever you already use.
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“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”
— Vincent van Gogh
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Join me for a free class, Painting Abstract Flowers! You'll learn fun, easy techniques to create textured, expressive florals—perfect for loosening up and exploring your creativity. Choose your version below:
ExploreMy Art
My art is based on the beautiful philosophy of Wabi-Sabi. Paintings carefully built up layer by layer, showing imperfections and allowing history to shine through.
Love Notes from my Students
“Best class I've ever taken, and that's a lot of classes. It totally changed the way I approach cold wax work.”
“Colour is the one thing I'd been struggling with. I tried to learn from various artists but they were too complicated. Marina has uncomplicated it for me.”
“Just finished my first cold wax painting ever. I haven't painted since high school, which was many decades ago. I am newly inspired.”
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Welcome to your new classroom!
I’m so happy to welcome you to the new home for all my online classes. Everything you’ve purchased is already here, waiting for you under My Classes. Your classes are yours to keep forever, so nothing has changed, except that everything is now a little easier to find.
Combining Delaminating Alcohol Inks, Cold Wax and OIls
Experimenting with Kamenskaya Delaminating Inks on Cold Wax and Oils I made a new YouTube video about experimenting with Kamenskaya delaminating alcohol inks on a cold wax and oil background, and I have to say: I was very positively surprised by the results!
Textured Acrylic Painting with Heavy Gel Medium
Can you layer Acrylics like Oils? A Heavy Gel Medium test which turned out to be quite fun. Watch the video for the outcome!
Step IntoMy Studio
My studio in the South of France is where the magic happens. Surrounded by olive trees and lavender, I create my layered texture paintings that tell a story.
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Explore my free resources, tutorials, and guides to get started with cold wax painting today.