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Oil Painting – Introduction to oil painting

Your first steps with oils: materials, colour mixing and simple still lifes.

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Course Description

Your first steps with oils: materials, colour mixing and simple still lifes.

Every lesson is a short video with a demonstration and an exercise to paint along. Work at your own pace and keep lifetime access to all materials.

You'll learn how to:

  • Create a painting from start to finish

  • Shading and how to build light and shadow

  • Mix colours with a limited palette

  • Work with brushes, knives and mediums

Course Content

  1. Part 1 · Lessons 1–5

    Materials, drawing the composition, blocking in and first layers.

  2. Part 2 · Lessons 6–10

    Building colour, details, highlights and finishing the painting.

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