The Joy of Painting - For Beginners

Learn how to paint no matter what your skill level

Created byJohn Morris

Last updated 3/2025

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What you'll learn

Learn about cleaners and brush techniques-including what each brush is designed to do, how to hold them correctly, positioning and motion
How to create stunning paintings with little money to start
How to paint a complete painting from start to finish
You'll Learn How To Step by step and learn at your own pace
This course starts at the ground and builds every student up from there, to make sure you have a solid foundation to grow from.
You’ll learn visualization and simplification techniques that I’ve developed to make painting easy for anyone.
You’ll get an in-depth lesson on painting detail and how to easily add incredible detail to a painting without needing extreme patients.
I'll explain techniques to draw a viewers attention to desired focal points in your paintings.

Course content

1 section • 6 lectures • 4h 25m total length

Introduction1:42
Master the basics of perspective sketching in painting through focused practice with a pencil and ruler, building confidence for future artworks.
Perspective18:00
Learn to establish a center point, align lines with a ruler, and build perspective to render distant mountains, trees, and water with banana strokes and shading.
Sky and Mountains19:19
Learn to build a mountain scene by painting a sky, clouds, and water, using crisscross brushstrokes, depth, and center-led perspective.
Mountains & reflections20:17
Master mountain landscapes by laying out ridges with a palette knife, painting snow caps, and building depth and reflections, then refine with brushwork and color for mist and distant scenery.
Snow, trees and depth1:43:04
learn to paint snow and depth by layering distant and close trees, using tapping and a fan brush to build mist, shadows, and perspective.
Waterfalls1:43:04
Learn to paint a mountain waterfall by shaping rocks, creating shadows, and building the waterfall with layered whites and blues, including mist and reflections.

Requirements

No experience is needed as I cover everything you will need to know

Description

Have you ever wanted to paint something beautiful but felt OVERWHELMED?

Then I’m here to help! I teach simple and fun tutorials that anyone with a little imagination can follow and paint.

~Jools~

"When I began I had already done pointillism with another art teacher but John, in such a short space of time took what it would take most art teachers a year to teach and broke it down into simple and easy-to-follow steps. Highly recommend him to anyone looking to learn to build on what they already know!"

The Introduction to a painting course

For over 15 years John has been thrilling fans all over the UK, USA, and Canada, and now you can see him in action like never before. For the first time, join John as he teaches you how to paint.

Taught in a relaxed, step-by-step manner, learn how to paint your very own painting and unleash your creative talent.

In this course you will learn:

Creating perspective and distance
How to paint:
Mountains,
Reflections
Waterfalls
trees and so much more!

"How to create a painting from start to finish is one of the best courses he has ever put together"

But don't just take our word for it here's what some of our students had to say:

"When I began painting, I only came because my husband wanted me to. I preferred embroidery or cross stitch patterns. But in just a few short weeks I'm amazed at what John has taught and what I have been able to create"

~Jean~ 

"Fun and straightforward tutorials that are simply amazing"

~Barbara~

"Because my husband has begun on dialysis I was very limited as to what I could do. Then I discovered John's online course and fell in love with the course and the teaching. Honestly, this is one of the best courses I have ever experienced."

~Krris~

Who this course is for:

Beginning/ intermediate artists