You already know how to dot.
This is the brush.
The course that takes your dot art off the little round and onto the wall. Learn brushwork, large format mandalas from 16 to 48 inches, and the color confidence to never stare at a blank board again.
Go at your own pace
The guideline problem, finally solved.
If you've painted a large mandala, your stomach just dropped reading that word. Guidelines are the single most hated part of this craft, and the reason most people never go big. So let's fix them first.
Every single one. Gone.
My method gives you guidelines that go on thin, stay crisp and easy to see, never smudge under your hand or lift when you fix a mistake, and then vanish completely and instantly when the piece is done.
No more painting over your grid in frustration. No more ghost lines under your varnish. Just clean, confident marks you can actually trust.
Walk into any dot art group and you'll see the same cry for help.
The guideline struggle is everywhere. These are the questions asked over and over, by dotters at every level, the exact frustrations this course was built to end.
My guideline pencil won't write on the base coat, the chalk marker won't wipe off, the gel pen is impossible to clean. I just want my grid lines.
Asked in a dot art group · 33 repliesI've tried many, many things and I'm still forced to paint over my guidelines with base coat. Please, what can I use that I can actually remove later?
Asked in a dot art group · 62 repliesI remove my lines with a baby wipe and I can still see a shadow of them. Bright base color, light pencil. What am I doing wrong?
Asked in a dot art group · 18 repliesMy pencil tips break off so easily. What can I use that's better, or what am I doing wrong?
Asked in a dot art groupI tried a brush for swooshes and it was an epic fail, so I went back to the dotting tool. How do people do this?
Asked in a dot art groupWhat pencil should we actually use for guidelines? The one from my kit wears down so fast. Nobody seems to agree.
Asked in a dot art group · 10 repliesReal frustrations, paraphrased from public posts. If any of them sound like something you've typed, keep reading.
You're ready for bigger. Something keeps stopping you.
You've gotten good. Really good. But two things stand between you and the large pieces you actually want to make.
A big board is mostly empty space, and the fear is putting the wrong thing in the wrong place. So you stay on the little rounds where you feel safe, even though you've outgrown them.
Swooshes, petals, flowing strokes. You've watched other artists do it and it looks like a completely different craft from the dotting you know.
You pick what you like, cross your fingers, and hope. Sometimes it sings. Often it doesn't, and you genuinely can't say why.
I take the anxiety out of painting big, and leave you with nothing but the joy of making something new.
Learn to plan a big piece, so the board stops being scary.
The secret to a large mandala isn't more ideas. It's four decisions: your center, your star design, your frame, and your flowers. Make those, and the whole board is almost spoken for.
You'll learn exactly how many designs a board wants, how to build from tight center to bold edge, and the handful of rules that make a piece look considered instead of busy.
Every stroke, from your first swoosh to flowing petals.
We start with your wrist planted and one single brush, and build from there. Basic strokes, then designs, then the flowing brushwork that makes large mandalas breathe, including ombré blending and a soft feathering technique you won't find taught anywhere else.
Practice worksheets included, so you build the motion on paper before you ever touch a board you care about. The first swoosh is always the worst one. We get it out of the way early.
Three full projects, from bare board to the wall.
You'll paint a free flow mandala made up as you go, a pre-sketched piece planned and traced before a drop of paint goes down, and a baby blue floral where you'll learn flowing ombré blending and a signature feathering technique. Three completely different ways to work large, so you find the one that's yours.
Plus a full finishing lesson, so your pieces are sealed, permanent, and ready to hang.
This is what you'll be making.
Real pieces, real brushwork, at a size that turns heads on a wall.
The kind of pieces waiting in you.
Every one of these started as a blank round and a little bit of nerve. By the end of this course, these are yours to make.
A matching tea light holder, painted alongside your mandala.
Your large piece gets a little companion: a 6 inch tea light holder in the same palette. Together they turn a shelf or a windowsill into a set that looks like you planned every bit of it, and they make a gift people genuinely cannot believe was handmade.
But there's another reason I make these small pieces before every big one. It's a habit that quietly changed how I work, and it will change how you work too. I show you exactly what it is, and why, inside the course.
Okay, now you have to know the reason, don't you?
Fine, take my money → The bonus lesson is included. So is the curiosity relief.We'll fix the color thing.
The reason some pieces glow and others feel off is almost never the design. It's the palette. This course teaches you the rule behind it.
Color you can trust, every single time.
You'll learn how to build a palette that works before you commit a single dot: how to mix a smooth gradient, how to tone colors so they belong together, and the proportions that make a big piece feel calm instead of chaotic.
Limited palettes, complementary palettes, monochromatic, and how to swap any of them for colors you love. A full color theory guide is included.
Everything, in order.
Nearly seven hours of calm, clear video, structured so each lesson builds on the last. Watch at your own pace, forever.
Welcome & materials
Exactly what you need and what you can skip. The honest, buy-less materials list, brushes, specialty paints, stones, and stencils.
Brushwork from scratch
Your first strokes, basic designs, flowers, and how to build your own designs so you never run out of ideas.
Palettes that work
Color theory made practical. Mixing gradients, AI-assisted palettes, and the proportions behind every palette that sings.
Design, base coat & sketching
Planning a large piece, base coating, and both traditional and my own faster way to sketch a grid and place guidelines.
Three full mandalas, start to finish
A free flow piece, a pre-sketched piece, and a floral design, painted ring by ring alongside you, plus a matching tea light holder.
Fixing mistakes & the final seal
How to fix anything (nothing is unrecoverable), removing guidelines, varnishing, and adding stones and shine.
Plus a library of designs, color palettes, and downloadable guides that keeps growing over time, at no extra cost to you. Every new palette and design I add, you get free, forever.
That's a lot of course. And it only gets bigger from here.
Start before the price does → Today's price is the lowest it will ever be.
Hi, I'm Lina.
I've been making dot art since 2016, and teaching it for over four years to more than a thousand students in thirty-plus countries. I'm a certified art therapy practitioner, and that's not a footnote. It's the whole way I teach.
This isn't about turning your art into a hustle. It's about a calm, creative ritual that's entirely your own. No schedule, no one watching, no pressure to be perfect. Just you, a brush, and something beautiful coming to life under your hands.
My students tell me the quiet of it is the point. I built this course to give you that at a bigger, bolder scale.
What people say after they start.
These aren't curated testimonials. They're emails, DMs, and comments.
"Your soothing voice made each lesson a meditative experience. The mental health benefits have been profound."
"You have a natural talent for making complex techniques seem simple. It's brought me invaluable mental wellness."
"My art is my therapy, and without Lina I would still be wandering the web wondering how can I do that?"
One course, or the full jump.
Both give you lifetime access and every future update, free.
Launch price, for now. Brushstroke Mandalas is brand new, so it's $167 instead of the regular $237. This course also grows over time, and every new design, palette, and lesson I add raises the price for new students. Enroll now and you lock in the launch price and keep everything added later, free, forever.
- Nearly 7 hours of video lessons
- Brushwork, color, planning & prep
- Three full mandala projects, ring by ring
- Bonus: Tea Light Holder design lesson
- All worksheets & downloadable guides
- Growing design & color library, free forever
- Lifetime access & free updates
- Everything in Brushstroke Mandalas
- Plus the full Advanced Elements (Level 3) course
- Advanced symmetry, layering & structure
- The refined techniques the projects build on
- Lifetime access to both, free updates
- The clearest path to polished, complex work
Start immediately · Watch on any device · Go entirely at your own pace
Good questions.
Do I need to know how to dot already?
Some dot art familiarity helps, since this course is about adding brushwork and large format to skills you already have. If you're brand new, my Level 1 Dot Art Confidence Course is the place to start, and you can always come back to this one.
Do I need to be able to draw or paint?
No. If you can hold a brush, you can do this. We start with your wrist planted and one single stroke, and build slowly from there. The whole course is designed for people who feel like a brush is a foreign object.
What size pieces will I make?
The techniques work anywhere from about 16 to 48 inches, and you choose the size that suits you. The projects walk you through large boards, but everything scales up or down.
How much will materials cost?
Less than you'd think, and I'll always tell you what to skip. You need one good brush, not twenty. My materials lesson is as much about what not to buy as what to get.
How long do I have access?
Forever. Lifetime access, including every future lesson and update I add to the course, at no extra cost.
Is it live, or can I go at my own pace?
Fully self-paced and pre-recorded. No schedule, no live sessions. Watch whenever you want, pause, and rewatch as many times as you like.
The board is only blank until you start.
You already have the hardest part, the patience and the love of the work. This is just the brush, the scale, and the color confidence to match. Come paint something for the wall.
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