Course
Beginner
Oil Painting Master Series
Designed for beginners, this comprehensive course covers essential topics such as selecting materials, preparing supports, and mixing complex colors. You'll learn techniques like blending oil paint for smooth transitions, creating underpaintings, glazing using "Old Masters" methods, and direct painting with observed colors.
Class
Intermediate
Landscape Painting with Water Mixable Oils
Dive into the rich world of oil painting. Create a scenic landscape — from sky and mountains to trees, rocks, and water reflections. Using water-mixable oils, you’ll build depth with underpaintings, brushwork effects, and layering techniques without the mess of traditional solvents.
Class
Beginner
Sunrise with Water Mixable Oils
Learn the process of painting a serene sunrise over the ocean using water-mixable oil paints on canvas panel. The course begins with blending a transition from light blue to orange in the sky, followed by the addition of clouds and their refinement. Subsequent lessons focus on detailing the horizon line, water, and beach, culminating in the application of glazes to enhance depth and luminosity.
Class
Beginner
Dog Portrait with Oils
This immersive oil painting series guides you through creating a realistic dog portrait on black canvas. You'll learn to sketch the dog, apply oil paints using a soft, scumbled technique, develop facial features, texture the nose and fur, and complete the piece with glazes.
Video
Intermediate
Snowy Owl with Oils
Paint a Snowy Owl with oils in this lesson that incorporates a complementary color scheme.
Class
Intermediate
Still Life with Oils
Learn to paint a still life of garlic and complementary elements using oil paints on a canvas panel. This class begins with a discussion of materials and strategy, progresses into drawing via a modified grid, then moves to a monochromatic underpainting before applying local color.
Video
Beginner
Timed Oil Sketch White Cow
Create a loose painting of a white cow in just under one hour in this lesson.
Video
Beginner
Field of Red Flowers - Oils
Learn how to paint a landscape with water mixable oils in this lesson.
Class
Beginner
Tomatoes with Oils
This class guides you through the process of painting a realistic still life of tomatoes using water-mixable oil paints (traditional oils can be substituted). The course begins with sketching the basic shapes using loose brushstrokes and progresses to refining the details in the later stages. Each lesson builds upon the previous one, focusing on various aspects such as color mixing, layering, and glazing techniques to achieve depth and realism in the painting.
Video
Beginner
White Rose - Study with Oils
Paint a small study of a white rose on panel with water mixable oil paints.
Video
Beginner
A Small Study - Piece of Candy
Create a small oil painting of a piece of wrapped candy in this lesson.
Video
Beginner
All About Paint Brushes
Everything you need to know about paint brushes. Brush hair types, shapes, marks, and parts are all covered in this video, comprehensive guide, and infographic.
Post
Beginner
Wet into Wet - Mixing Paint on the Canvas
Learn how using the wet into wet painting technique leads to more natural, looser, livelier paintings.
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Beginner
A Special Baroque Painting Technique
Learn a special Baroque painting technique that leads to dramatic scenes and light.
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Beginner
How to Mix Brown
Learn how to mix brown with any paint medium.
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Beginner
How to Clean and Care for Your Brushes
Clean your brushes and they'll repay you with a long life.
Class
Beginner
Color Theory and Mixing
Learn how to mix colors from warm and cool primaries and learn how to use color theory in your paintings.
Post
Beginner
Painting Exercises
Improve your painting skills with these four painting exercises.
Video
Beginner
Using Water-Mixable Oils for the First Time
Getting started with water-mixable oil paints.
Video
Beginner
Oil Painting Master Series - Introduction
An introduction to the video series, "Oil Painting Master Series".
Video
Beginner
Oil Painting Master Series - Materials Part 1
A look at preparing a support for painting. Concepts include stretching a canvas, applying gesso, and preparing panel.
Video
Beginner
Oil Painting Master Series - Materials Part 2
A look at preparing a palette, creating your own oil paint from pigment, and the brushes that are typically used for oil painting.
Video
Beginner
Oil Painting Master Series - Pre-Painting Fundamentals
A look at adding paint to a palette, arranging warm and cool primaries, mixing secondaries, and using medium.
Video
Beginner
Oil Painting Master Series - Blending Oil Paint
A look at isolating values in a painting and using the "stitch method" to blend smooth transitions of tone.
Video
Beginner
Oil Painting Master Series - Indirect Painting
A look at adding glazes to an underpainting.
Video
Beginner
Oil Painting Master Series - Wet into Wet Technique
A look at the painting technique known as "wet into wet".
Video
Beginner
Experiment with Background Colors
Experiment with your paintings to find the best background color.
Post
Beginner
Mixing to Match Colors
How to match colors through color mixing.
Post
Beginner
Painting on Panel
Approach painting as the Old Masters.
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Beginner
How to Varnish a Painting
Learn how to protect your paintings and make them look their best.
Video
Beginner
Oil Painting Master Series - Non-Traditional Painting
A look at non-objective painting and using non-traditional tools and materials to apply oil paint to a support.
Post
Beginner
Oil Painting Supplies
The supplies you need to paint with oils.
App
Beginner
The Interactive Color Wheel
Learn color theory the easy and fun way with The Interactive Color Wheel.
Post
Beginner
8 Essentials of Oil Painting
The basics of oil painting.
Post
Beginner
Learning from the Style of El Greco
What can we learn from the style of painting by El Greco?
Post
Beginner
The Artist: Today vs. The Renaissance
Comparing the life of an artist today vs. that of the Renaissance.
Post
Beginner
Is It OK to Draw and Paint From Photos?
A debated subject. Is it acceptable to work from photos?
Video
Beginner
How to Paint a Portrait with Oils
Learn how to paint a representational portrait on panel with oils. Add glazes to bring warmth to the painting.
Video
Beginner
How to Paint a Realistic Eye
Learn how to paint a realistic eye with water mixable oil paints.
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Beginner
How to Mix Skin Tones
Learn how to mix skin tones using just red, yellow, brown, and white.
Video
Beginner
Oil Painting Master Series - Underpainting
A look at creating an underpainting in which values and subjects are blocked in quickly.
Video
Beginner
Oil Painting Master Series - Painting on a Toned Ground
A look at the advantages to painting on a toned surface.
Video
Beginner
Oil Painting Master Series - Portrait Study Part 1
Part one of a portrait sketch demonstration. In this tutorial, the portrait is drawn using thinned oil paint.
Video
Beginner
Oil Painting Master Series - Portrait Study Part 2
Part two of a portrait sketch demonstration. In this tutorial, the portrait sketch is completed by applying layers of mixed skin tones.
Video
Beginner
Knife Painting with Oils
Learn how to paint with painting knives in this video in which a landscape painting is created.
Video
Beginner
Oil Painting Master Series - Painting Clouds
A look at painting simple clouds in an oil landscape.
Video
Beginner
Oil Painting Master Series - Impressionist Approach
A look at approaching a painting as an "Impressionist" by making bold applications of color and textures in order to capture light within a scene.
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Beginner
Vegetable Still Life Painting with Oils
Paint a still life of vegetables in this step by step painting lesson.
Video
Beginner
Oil Painting Master Series - Direct Painting
A look at adding paint to the surface using premixed hues and values.
Video
Beginner
Oil Painting Master Series - Painting Cloth
A look at finding geometric shapes in cloth and directly painting cloth from observation.
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Beginner
Oil Painting Master Series - Knife Painting
This tutorial looks at applying heavy applications of oil paint with a painting knife in order to create a textured painting surface.