A SPECIALTY COACHING TRACK
Speed painting
built for the stage.
Private coaching for pageant competitors who plan to perform speed painting as their competition talent.
Led by Annika Wooton — a professionally touring speed painter, former Miss Kansas, and the only pageant coach in the country who specializes in this art form.
THE COACH
A working speed painter who lives on the stage.
Annika Wooton is an internationally touring speed painter performing at corporate conferences, arena halftime shows, and brand events across the country and abroad. Her work has lived on stages from Madison Square Garden in front of 18,000 fans, to Malta, to charity galas where the painting anchors the entire live auction.
Her pageant career and her stage career grew up together. Annika placed Top 15 at Miss America 2020 — the first speed painter in the competition's history to make finals — and went on to launch a national wave of pageant speed painters in the years since. The competitors she coaches have reached the stage from Hawaii to Maryland, including a Miss America preliminary talent winner.
What she brings to her clients is a working artist's eye for what reads from row twenty, paired with 14 years of pageant-specific strategy on what wins points in ninety seconds.
THE APPROACH
A blueprint that works.
Years of performing live, paired with years of coaching pageant competitors, have produced a teachable framework for the ninety seconds that decide the talent score.
Image & Concept Selection
The image you paint has to read from the stage and finish in ninety seconds. We select subject matter that supports your story, your platform, and the camera angle the judges will see.
Music & Choreography
The painting is choreographed against the music, and the music is chosen to serve the painting. We map the build of the piece to specific beats, drops, and emotional arcs.
Live Rehearsal & Refinement
You paint live in our sessions, on camera, in real time. We refine staging, brushwork, reveal moments, and the small adjustments that turn a strong painting into a winning performance.
A FEW THOUGHTS
What we look for.
You have an art background. Annika enjoys working with competitors who already have some painting or visual art foundation. Speed painting is a high-pressure medium, and previous experience with brushes, paint, or composition shortens the learning curve significantly. First-time painters are considered on a case-by-case basis.
You are ready to paint live in our sessions. Coaching happens on camera, in real time, with paint on canvas. Our work together active rehearsal time. Your space is set up and ready to paint live each time we meet.
You will practice between sessions. The work that wins state happens in the studio between calls. Clients come to each session with specific questions, video from rehearsal, and visible progress.
You have at least three to four months of lead time. Speed painting cannot be assembled in the final weeks before competition. A serious performance requires concept, staging, choreography, and dozens of practice runs.
THE INVESTMENT
The Speed Painting Intensive.
One pathway, designed for at least four months before the competition. Built to take a competitor from concept to confident performance, with full access to Annika throughout.
- A Crown the Nation Specialty Package -
The Speed Painting Intensive
FOUR-MONTH ENGAGEMENT
One 60-minute planning & strategy call to anchor your concept, image, music, and competition timeline.
Eight 30-minute coaching & rehearsal sessions, used flexibly across the four-month engagement, with live painting on camera and real-time feedback.
Direct text access to Annika for the duration of the engagement. Send rehearsal video, ask questions, troubleshoot in between sessions.
On-call response during competition week for onstage rehearsal feedback when the stakes are highest.