Beginner Oil Painting: Paint anything you want simple & easy

Name: Beginner Oil Painting: Paint anything you want simple & easy
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A solid foundation for beginners that will set you up for faster progress and success.

Last updated 1/2020

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What you'll learn

3 sections • 11 lectures • 3h 10m total length

Welcome0:30
Beginner oil painting guides you to paint anything you want with simple, easy steps, aiming to help you recreate the little image shown and participate in the course Q&A.
Basic Materials To Start Painting31:31
Choose beginner-friendly oil painting materials, use a basic brush set, a split primary palette, simple canvases or panels, and essential mediums to start painting with confidence.
Looking At Your Subject With A Painter's Eye0:50
Translate what you see onto the canvas. Develop a painter's eye by identifying the shapes that construct the object from different angles in your mind.
Squinting to See The Big Picture8:48
Squint to see the big picture, focusing on general shapes and shadows rather than details, then translate what you see into a quick sketch to guide painting.

Value7:39
Learn to analyze value—lightness and darkness—by squinting to see the whole image and using grayscale first. Identify darkest, midtone, and lightest areas to train your eye for color.
The Grayscale29:06
create a grayscale for oil painting by building a value scale from white to black, learning to mix shades of gray and judge values with a value finder.
The Underpainting41:16
Master the underpainting stage by sketching and blocking in values to reveal contrasts and a focus point, using diluted yellow ochre and turpentine to tone the canvas.

The Color Wheel42:05
Build a color wheel with primary, secondary, and tertiary colors; mix tints and shades; explore complementary, split-complementary, analogous, triadic, and monochromatic schemes.
Tints and Shades of Colors8:42
Master tints and shades by gradually adding white to colors, build a color wheel with yellow, orange, purple, and blue, and learn when to use black for deeper shades.
Finishing The Painting by Adding Color18:19
Finish the painting by adding color in layers using a large brush, emphasizing shapes and value differences, while keeping brush strokes visible and avoiding over blending.
Final Thoughts1:26
Start painting any subject by building from shapes and capturing value. Locate the darkest darks, lightest lights, and meat tones, then construct your image and apply color.

Paint any subject using the basic principles and approach I teach in this course (and of course, practice!).

You will learn:

Don't let oils intimidate you. By the end of this course, you will know how to start any piece.

Beginner and hobby oil painters who want a good foundation on the process of making a piece of work