Learn to Oil Paint

5 guided painting sessions that will dispel your fears of painting in oil and make you a more confident painter.

• Preparing your surface
• Basic composition: Rule of Thirds
• Basic color and proportion mapping
• Getting comfortable with a new medium
• Process of using thin layers to develop your design
• Basic Value: Darks Darker and your Lights Lighter
• Painting from the inside out and the outside in
• Signing your work
• Easy Clean up Basic 

Series 2 - Gaining Perspective / Chair Study

• Subject related to space
• Using color to define space
• Playing on perspective to add interest
• Adding details to your design
• A brief insight on Van Gogh’s chairs

Series 3 - Adding Pattern / Chair Study

• Basic composition: Rule of Thirds
• Incorporating more elements into the composition
• Sketching in the composition
• Basic color and proportion mapping
• Developing a pattern

Series 4 - Composition & Mood

• Working larger
• Spatial Relationships: Weight & Direction
• Using color to set the mood
• Building a scene within a scene
• Pattern on pattern
• Using color value to build dimensional design
• Using the wipe out tool to correct mistakes

Series 5 - Artistic Narrative

• Working even larger
• Adding objects to add more meaning
• Developing artwork that tells a story

Supplies used throughout all 5 Series lessons:

• Canvas - Primed with red acrylic paint
• Oil Paintbrushes - size 4 or 6 
• Oil paints
• Gamsol - Odorless Mineral Spirits for thinning Gamblin mediums and for general painting. I use this primarily for cleaning my brushes as I work
• Palette - This can be any non-porous surface like palette pad, glass palette, etc. Use what you have.
• Oil Medium - Any oil medium will work and there are dozens to choose from. I like the Gamblin Alkyd Medium 
• Paper Towels
• Rubber Gloves - Not all oil painters wear gloves so this is not a must have.

The downloadable delivery and forever access to this product makes it non-refundable