Salon-friendly seasonal nail art, with the skills and creative thinking to make it your own.
A practical online nail art workshop designed to help you create beautiful, wearable autumn designs while developing techniques you can continue using long after autumn is over.
Rather than simply following designs step by step, you’ll explore how and why each design works, how to adapt it for different clients, and how to use the techniques as a starting point for your own ideas.
Five autumn design themes
Work through five salon-friendly autumn themes, each chosen to introduce different techniques, finishes and approaches.
Tortoiseshell
Build depth and dimension through sheer layers to create a rich, glossy tortoiseshell effect.
Pumpkins
Create soft, wearable pumpkins with fine painted details and gold chrome accents, with ideas for adapting the colours, patterns and placement.
Tartan & Tweed
Explore two textile-inspired techniques, from clean, structured tartan lines to a softer, textured tweed effect.
Sunflowers
Build a detailed floral design through layered petals, shading, fine details and autumnal colour.
Autumn Leaves
Explore two different approaches within one theme: rich cat-eye with hand-painted and chrome details, and a softer marbled design using blooming gel, gold leaf and painted leaves.
More than simply recreating the design
The aim of this workshop isn’t to make your nails look exactly like mine.
Throughout the workbook, you’ll be encouraged to experiment with colour, placement, scale, texture and finish, with Make It Your Own suggestions alongside each tutorial.
You’ll also explore the wider autumn theme through colour, shape, texture and contrast, helping you understand how inspiration can be developed into nail art rather than simply copied.
Learn the techniques, understand the process, then use them to develop ideas that feel like your own.
Learn in the way that works for you
Everyone learns practical skills a little differently, so each design is supported in more than one way.
You can watch the full technique being demonstrated, listen to the accompanying voiceover and use optional subtitles, while your workbook gives you clear written instructions and step-by-step photographs to refer back to at your own pace.
Watch and follow along, work from the workbook, or use both together.
What’s included?
5 step-by-step video tutorials with voiceover and optional subtitles
14-page downloadable PDF workbook
Photographed step-by-step instructions
Individual kit lists for each design
Tools and product guidance
Troubleshooting & pro tips
Creative development prompts and activities
Make It Your Own ideas and design variations
Printable Nail Design Planners
Build skills you can use beyond autumn
The workshop doesn’t end when you’ve recreated the designs.
Creative development activities encourage you to look at inspiration differently, identify the colours, shapes, textures and techniques that interest you, and turn those observations into your own nail art.
The techniques can be adapted, combined and revisited for different seasons, clients and styles, giving you a foundation to continue developing your own ideas.
Plan designs for real client appointments
The printable Nail Design Planners help you take that creative process into your own client work.
Use them to plan colour palettes, nail art placement, products and design ideas before an appointment, whether you’re creating a bespoke set for a regular client, planning bridal or occasion nails, working around a particular theme, or simply developing an idea before you start painting.
Different nail shapes are included, and the planners can be printed whenever you need them for future designs and client appointments.
Troubleshooting included
Nail art rarely looks perfect on the first attempt.
The workbook includes practical troubleshooting for common challenges such as shaky or overly thick lines, designs that don’t look smooth, adapting artwork for shorter nails, fitting nail art into appointment times and building confidence with fine detail.
Who is this workshop for?
This workshop is designed for beginner to intermediate nail artists who want to develop their seasonal nail art skills in a structured but creative way.
It may be particularly useful if you:
enjoy nail art but aren’t always sure how to develop your own ideas
find it easier to learn when you can both watch and read a technique
want wearable autumn designs that can realistically be adapted for salon clients
want to become more confident with hand-painted details, layering, texture and composition
would like to move beyond simply copying reference images and start developing your own variations
How does it work?
After purchase, you’ll receive your 14-page digital workshop workbook.
Inside the workbook you’ll find direct links to each of the five online video tutorials, keeping the written learning, step-by-step guidance and video demonstrations organised in one place.
Download your workbook, choose a design and work through the tutorial at your own pace.
Workshop details
Format: Online video workshop + downloadable PDF workbook
Level: Beginner–Intermediate
Video tutorials: 5 step-by-step tutorials with voiceover and optional subtitles
Workbook: 14-page PDF
Access: Video links are contained within your downloadable workbook
Delivery: Digital product
Accreditation: This is a creative professional-development workshop and does not provide an accredited qualification.
Take the techniques and make them yours
By the end of the workshop, you’ll have a collection of autumn nail art to recreate, but more importantly, you’ll have new techniques, ideas and a creative process you can continue to use in your own work.
Go back to your favourite designs, change the colours, combine techniques, adapt them for your clients or use the printable planners to develop something completely new.
Learn the technique. Explore the possibilities. Make it yours.
Keep learning through the seasons
This workshop is part of the growing Paintbrush Nails Learning Library, with seasonal nail art workshops designed to help you continue building your skills, confidence and creative ideas throughout the year.
Salon-friendly seasonal nail art, with the skills and creative thinking to make it your own.
A practical online nail art workshop designed to help you create beautiful, wearable autumn designs while developing techniques you can continue using long after autumn is over.
Rather than simply following designs step by step, you’ll explore how and why each design works, how to adapt it for different clients, and how to use the techniques as a starting point for your own ideas.
Five autumn design themes
Work through five salon-friendly autumn themes, each chosen to introduce different techniques, finishes and approaches.
Tortoiseshell
Build depth and dimension through sheer layers to create a rich, glossy tortoiseshell effect.
Pumpkins
Create soft, wearable pumpkins with fine painted details and gold chrome accents, with ideas for adapting the colours, patterns and placement.
Tartan & Tweed
Explore two textile-inspired techniques, from clean, structured tartan lines to a softer, textured tweed effect.
Sunflowers
Build a detailed floral design through layered petals, shading, fine details and autumnal colour.
Autumn Leaves
Explore two different approaches within one theme: rich cat-eye with hand-painted and chrome details, and a softer marbled design using blooming gel, gold leaf and painted leaves.
More than simply recreating the design
The aim of this workshop isn’t to make your nails look exactly like mine.
Throughout the workbook, you’ll be encouraged to experiment with colour, placement, scale, texture and finish, with Make It Your Own suggestions alongside each tutorial.
You’ll also explore the wider autumn theme through colour, shape, texture and contrast, helping you understand how inspiration can be developed into nail art rather than simply copied.
Learn the techniques, understand the process, then use them to develop ideas that feel like your own.
Learn in the way that works for you
Everyone learns practical skills a little differently, so each design is supported in more than one way.
You can watch the full technique being demonstrated, listen to the accompanying voiceover and use optional subtitles, while your workbook gives you clear written instructions and step-by-step photographs to refer back to at your own pace.
Watch and follow along, work from the workbook, or use both together.
What’s included?
5 step-by-step video tutorials with voiceover and optional subtitles
14-page downloadable PDF workbook
Photographed step-by-step instructions
Individual kit lists for each design
Tools and product guidance
Troubleshooting & pro tips
Creative development prompts and activities
Make It Your Own ideas and design variations
Printable Nail Design Planners
Build skills you can use beyond autumn
The workshop doesn’t end when you’ve recreated the designs.
Creative development activities encourage you to look at inspiration differently, identify the colours, shapes, textures and techniques that interest you, and turn those observations into your own nail art.
The techniques can be adapted, combined and revisited for different seasons, clients and styles, giving you a foundation to continue developing your own ideas.
Plan designs for real client appointments
The printable Nail Design Planners help you take that creative process into your own client work.
Use them to plan colour palettes, nail art placement, products and design ideas before an appointment, whether you’re creating a bespoke set for a regular client, planning bridal or occasion nails, working around a particular theme, or simply developing an idea before you start painting.
Different nail shapes are included, and the planners can be printed whenever you need them for future designs and client appointments.
Troubleshooting included
Nail art rarely looks perfect on the first attempt.
The workbook includes practical troubleshooting for common challenges such as shaky or overly thick lines, designs that don’t look smooth, adapting artwork for shorter nails, fitting nail art into appointment times and building confidence with fine detail.
Who is this workshop for?
This workshop is designed for beginner to intermediate nail artists who want to develop their seasonal nail art skills in a structured but creative way.
It may be particularly useful if you:
enjoy nail art but aren’t always sure how to develop your own ideas
find it easier to learn when you can both watch and read a technique
want wearable autumn designs that can realistically be adapted for salon clients
want to become more confident with hand-painted details, layering, texture and composition
would like to move beyond simply copying reference images and start developing your own variations
How does it work?
After purchase, you’ll receive your 14-page digital workshop workbook.
Inside the workbook you’ll find direct links to each of the five online video tutorials, keeping the written learning, step-by-step guidance and video demonstrations organised in one place.
Download your workbook, choose a design and work through the tutorial at your own pace.
Workshop details
Format: Online video workshop + downloadable PDF workbook
Level: Beginner–Intermediate
Video tutorials: 5 step-by-step tutorials with voiceover and optional subtitles
Workbook: 14-page PDF
Access: Video links are contained within your downloadable workbook
Delivery: Digital product
Accreditation: This is a creative professional-development workshop and does not provide an accredited qualification.
Take the techniques and make them yours
By the end of the workshop, you’ll have a collection of autumn nail art to recreate, but more importantly, you’ll have new techniques, ideas and a creative process you can continue to use in your own work.
Go back to your favourite designs, change the colours, combine techniques, adapt them for your clients or use the printable planners to develop something completely new.
Learn the technique. Explore the possibilities. Make it yours.
Keep learning through the seasons
This workshop is part of the growing Paintbrush Nails Learning Library, with seasonal nail art workshops designed to help you continue building your skills, confidence and creative ideas throughout the year.
