Hi Terence, I apologise for your poor experience on mypaintingclub. I've just now seen this review actually and, just so you know, since you last visited, over the past 2 years I've been rebuilding the site into a more responsive, interactive experience.
Here's a list of what's new in the past 6 months: https://mypaintingclub.com/upgrades
I've also added an Ai helper as well that can deal with any account problems instantly, as well as offering all of this...
Learn & get guidance
Answer painting questions in a natural chat — technique, materials, colour theory and more.
Recommend the right MyPaintingClub lessons using smart, meaning-based search (not just keywords).
Look up specific lessons by name and point you straight to them.
Run quizzes to test and reinforce what you’ve learned.
Feedback on your own work
Upload a photo and get a constructive critique of your painting.
Analyse the colours you’ve used.
Suggest what to study or work on next.
Reimagine your painting with AI
Paint-style transform — see your image rendered in a different painting style.
Alter — make a specific change you describe in words.
Relighting — change the time of day or mood, with realistic warm highlights and cool shadows.
Season change — show the same scene in spring, summer, autumn or winter while keeping the real colours.
Colour adjustments — fine-tune temperature, vibrancy, brightness and contrast.
Show in a frame — preview your art in six frame styles, four mat options, on a gallery wall or in a photorealistic room (your actual painting is never changed).
Painter study tools
Values / Notan — posterise to a few grey steps to study your value structure.
Edge Map — turn the image into a clean line drawing for sketching.
Composition overlays — rule of thirds, golden ratio, diagonals, centre; plus flip and crop.
Squint View — reduce to 4–6 colours to see the big shapes the way squinting does.
Colour Palette — pull the dominant colours with hex codes and mixing notes.
Transfer Grid — overlay an adjustable grid to copy a composition onto canvas, and download the gridded image.
Studio workspace
Studio Mode — a fullscreen, three-panel workspace (tools on the left, your image in the centre, chat on the right) that opens automatically on wide screens, so every tool sits side by side.
Account & membership help
Explain how trials, billing and cancellation work.
Start a free trial (and check whether you’re eligible first).
Pause and resume your membership mid-conversation.
Help you cancel — offering a pause or a discounted offer first if it fits.
Look up your payments and process eligible refunds.
Answer common questions — video playback, gift cards, coupons, updating your payment method, invoices and receipts, account deletion and email preferences.
No other website offers all of this — plus the Lesson Planner that guarantees your paintings will improve.
Again, I apologise for your previous poor experience and hope you might take another look so I can win back your trust.
All the best,
Richard Robinson
