🖌️ Bonus Tutorial Gallery Access
Members get instant access to the Bonus Tutorial Gallery — a growing collection of 60+ exclusive painting lessons you won’t find anywhere else online!
📚 Learn & Grow Your Skills
These in-depth tutorials dive deeper into technique and help you expand your painting skills with advanced, step-by-step lessons.
📄 Access To Digital Downloads
Each Tutorial includes optional traceable templates, full video instruction, and a downloadable PDF guide to make learning self-paced, easy and fun.
✨ New Bonus Tutorial Every Month
Stay inspired! A brand-new exclusive tutorial is released every month, so there’s always something new to create.
📬 Ad-Free Weekly Lessons
Depending on your membership tier, you’ll also unlock access to Tracie’s full gallery of weekly painting lessons — completely ad-free! Members receive these lessons right to their inbox, complete with videos, PDFs, and traceables.
Our "Bonus Tutorial" for the month of November 2025 is "Magical Winter Cardinal". We will be learning how to draw and paint this on a black canvas. There is drawing instructions for this painting as well as optional traceable templates.
This plan is perfect if you want access to JUST the Bonus Tutorials, including this month’s brand-new exclusive lesson!
Each Bonus Tutorial is ad-free and comes with everything you need to paint along confidently — video instruction, a downloadable PDF, and traceable templates (sized to fit common canvas sizes).
With this plan, you’ll get:
⭐️ Unlimited access to the Bonus Tutorial Gallery
⭐️ One new bonus tutorial every month, plus all past releases
⭐️ New tutorial delivered on the first Wednesday of each month
⭐️ Easy-to-follow downloads, videos, and traceables
Note: This membership is for personal use only and not for hosting paid paint parties.
This plan is for you if you want everything in one place — instant access to all tutorial downloads, including Weekly Wednesday tutorials (ad-free!) and Bonus Tutorials. You don't pay for anything extra in this tier! Everything is accessible!
You’ll enjoy a growing library of step-by-step lessons, traceables, and special extras — perfect for painters who never want to miss a new project!
With this plan, you’ll get:
⭐️ Full access to both the Bonus Tutorial Gallery and the Downloads Gallery
⭐️ One new Bonus Tutorial each month — plus all previous releases
⭐️ Weekly Wednesday tutorials delivered right to your inbox — ad-free, downloadable, and available early!
⭐️ Traceables for every tutorial, including resized versions for common canvas sizes
⭐️ NEW! Access to Tracie’s “Catalogs” — beautiful digital lookbooks that organize tutorials by season and link directly to each lesson (a fan favorite!)
Note: This membership is for personal use only and not for hosting paid paint parties.
Please read before joining to make sure this plan is the right fit for your business — thank you! 💛
This tier is designed for small business owners who want to host for-profit paint parties using Tracie’s exclusive designs. It includes everything from the All-Access Membership, plus non-exclusive paint party teaching rights for your business.
With this plan, you’ll get:
⭐️ Paint Party Rights — permission to teach Tracie’s paintings at your own paint parties, whether at homes, bars, community centers, churches, or other venues (paint kits welcome but please no subscription business models)
⭐️ Full access to both the Bonus Tutorial Gallery and the Downloads Gallery
⭐️ One new Bonus Tutorial every month + access to all past tutorials
⭐️ Weekly Wednesday tutorials sent to your inbox early — ad-free, downloadable, and ready to teach!
⭐️ Access to a non-watermarked image gallery so you can use Tracie’s artwork to promote your paint party events
⭐️ NEW! Access to Tracie’s “Catalogs” — beautiful digital lookbooks that organize tutorials by season and link directly to each lesson (a fan favorite!)
Important Notes:
• Paint Party Rights are valid only while your subscription is active.
• If you cancel your membership, you’ll need to remove Tracie’s images from your promotional materials.
• This plan is for small business teaching purposes only and not for reselling or sublicensing artwork.
No worries if you’re not ready to join a subscription — you can still paint with me! With the Build-A-Bundle, you can choose any three $5 tutorial downloads for a one-time payment of just $12 (bonus tutorials not included).
After purchasing the bundle, simply reply to your confirmation email and let me know which three tutorials you’d like added to your account. These are ad-free downloads for you to enjoy anytime! Lifetime access is granted to the three that you pick!
✨ No membership required — just choose, paint, and enjoy!
Tutorials are for personal use. If you teach paint parties and profit from the artwork, you must join the "Small Business Tier".
Yes! You can cancel before the next billing period to avoid recurring payment.
There are a few that are released for individual sale but most of them are only exclusive to members. You are welcome to check that gallery to see if there are any you just want to purchase individually without having to join! Note: Members get access to the bonus tutorials and don't buy them!
If you are in the business of teaching paint parties, you must be an active subscriber in the "Small Business Membership" or pay per use. Being in the $10 or $15 tier does NOT grant paint party rights.
1 new tutorial a month for "Bonus Tutorial Membership" and 4 new tutorials a month for "All Access Membership" and "Small Business Membership". Tutorials are released every Wednesday unless it's a 5 Wednesday month (there is a skip week on those months). Tracie is pretty consistent with the release schedule, however, there are times of illness or family matters where there may be a delay in the tutorial release.
The Weekly Wednesday Tutorials are the free lessons released on my website and YouTube — both with ads. These free versions sometimes don’t include traceables, and when they do, they usually don’t come with resized versions for different canvas sizes.
As a member (in the all-access membership), you’ll get these same tutorials emailed directly to you ad-free — plus you’ll be able to download the video, PDF instructions, and all the traceables (including resizes!) for easy access anytime.
Another special perk of membership is access to my Bonus Tutorials — in-depth, members-only lessons designed to help you grow your skills and try new painting techniques. You won’t find these anywhere on the free site!
Yes! Almost all tutorials (unless it really is not necessary) have traceables! In addition to the tracers, you can request resizes to the canvas size you are working on. I also try my best to show you how to draw instead of using the traceables so (most of the time) they are not required.
MOST of my tutorials don't use the traceable but still have a traceable. I try my best to show you how to draw on your canvas either with pencil or chalk so you don't have to print the traceable out. There are a few in there that DO require the traceable. It just kind of depends on the focus of the lesson. There are also some tutorials that do not need traceables.
No. This is NOT a Facebook based membership. All content is posted online in your login member portal. There is a free Facebook group that you can join to share your art! Tracie does pop in there and look at paintings and answer questions a few times a week but she is not super active with social media.
Yes but I can't guarantee requests because I get so many! However, I do hear feedback from my members on what they would like to see and will often create content related to what is requested.
My name is Tracie Kiernan founder, artist and creator of Step By Step Painting! I created my online painting website in 2017 and have been designing painting tutorials every week since then! I absolutely LOVE sharing my passion for art and teaching thousands of beginner artists all over the world!
I reside in Arizona, am a mom to three boys and four fur babies! I have a background in Elementary Art Education. I graduated Arizona State University with a fine arts degree and taught elementary school before creating my online painting website.
It is an ultimate joy to teach beginners how to paint and I believe everyone is an artist and can learn!
Thanks for joining me on this artistic journey!