The Door is a quiet invitation into personalized instruction designed for photographers, digital painters, and mixed-media artists ready to:

• Learn Corel Painter with intention and clarity

• Bridge traditional and digital media with confidence

• Break free from rigid realism and uncover their unique painterly voice

• Work one-on-one with Heather to craft a tailored workflow that honors their story, pace, and artistry

Inside this mentorship, you won’t be overwhelmed. You’ll be seen.

• 60–90 minute private Zoom mentorship with Heather Michelle

• The recorded session of your custom Zoom video
• High resolution files of your demonstrated digital paintings provided you supply the appropriately copyrighted images

• Pre-session intake form to tailor every minute to your goals

• Optional recording for future review

• Custom brushes, palette recommendations, textures, and workflow maps (as needed)

• Follow-up email support for 1 week

• Invitation to Heather's private student Facebook group

This is your time. This is your space. This is your atelier.

The Door is for the remnant. 

For the quiet creators. The intuitive ones. The artists who’ve never fit the mold.

Whether you’re a photographer longing to turn images into painterly heirlooms, or an artist overwhelmed by Painter’s interface but desperate to create something that feels like you—this space was made with you in mind.

You don’t need to know where to start. Just that you’re ready.

• “I don’t even know where to start—Painter is overwhelming.”

• “I got stuck halfway through a client piece and couldn’t finish it in time.”

• “All my paintings look the same—I think I’m using the wrong brushes.”

If that sounds like you, you’re not alone.
And you're not stuck—you just haven’t had the right guide.

Heather Michelle Chinn is an internationally recognized artist, muralist, and Corel Painter Master who has spent over two decades guiding artists with grace, precision, and poetic clarity. Her mentorships are known for their soul-centered calm, technical brilliance, and personalized power.

When time is your most precious commodity, trust the hands of a master painter steeped in traditional technique, digital precision, and a quiet obsession with detail. With decades spent as a ghost painter for professional studios, Heather now offers her expertise one-on-one—to help you carry out your artistic vision with beauty, efficiency, and soul.

“ANYTHING produced by Heather Michelle will help you as an artist—ANYTHING.” 

Helen Yancy

“Heather is passionate about art and people. She communicates clearly and is patient and encouraging of her students.” 

Jeremy Sutton

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1. Atelier-Level Personalization

Unlike mass courses or rigid tutorial libraries, Heather offers handcrafted one-on-one mentorships that adjust to your exact style, pace, and vision—from setup to brushstroke. This is about discovering your voice, not copying someone else’s.

2. Traditional Foundations + Digital Mastery

Heather is classically trained with deep roots in traditional fine art—and seamlessly blends that with over 20 years of digital Painter experience. You’re learning from someone who paints like a master, not just operates the software.

3. Painter for Photographers

Heather understands the photographer’s mind—because she’s taught thousands of them. Her mentorship is especially tailored for photographers wanting to evolve their work into painterly heirlooms, without losing clarity or control.

4. Ghost Painter Experience

For decades, Heather has quietly created high-end artwork behind the scenes for studios and professionals. This rare ghost painter background gives her unique insight into how to deliver beautiful, client-ready high resolution art under pressure, and with precision.

5. Faith-Rooted Mentorship (Without Preaching)

Her atelier is spiritually grounded and soulfully guided. Without ever being preachy, she offers a space for restoration—where creative blocks break, voices emerge, and the process becomes sacred.

6. Clarity Without Ego

Heather teaches with calm, grace, and logic. There’s no noise, no fluff, no performance. Just excellence, clarity, and a deep desire to help you unlock what’s been buried under years of perfectionism, tech overwhelm, or fear.

 

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Sessions are limited. This is a private, curated experience. Please fill out the form below to request your spot. Mentorships are booked on a rolling basis. If no dates are available, you’ll be added to the waitlist.

I teach from a place of precision, but also from presence.

My background is in professional speaking, traditional painting, and years of teaching digital tools to overwhelmed creatives. But I’m also an INFJ, a Highly Sensitive Person, and someone with a prophetic bent—so my work lives in that intersection where technique meets intuition, and where the spiritual often whispers through the brush.

I don’t believe in mass education. I believe in mentorship.
I believe the best teachers listen first. And I believe creative flow isn’t unlocked through pressure, but through trust.

I teach Corel Painter like a mapmaker—not just giving you steps, but walking beside you until the terrain feels like home. You won’t find fluff here, or performance. Just deeply tuned insight, a decade-tested workflow, and a sacred respect for your story and pace.

There’s a reason I’ve ghost painted for studios, spoken on stages, and quietly mentored hundreds behind the scenes—because I believe the real work isn’t loud. It’s faithful. And the artist you’re becoming deserves that kind of care.