Master multiple techniques in oil and acrylic painting while discovering your distinctive artistic voice. This comprehensive course guides you through painting landscapes, developing texture in diverse subjects, capturing character and emotion in portraiture, establishing compositional mood, and communicating your artistic vision with confidence. High-quality art materials are provided and included in your course fee.
Prerequisites:
To get the most from this course, you should have foundational knowledge of sketching, shading, composition, and basic facial anatomy.
Core Techniques Taught:
- Impressionist painting methods and philosophy
- Modern painting approaches and contemporary styles
- Classical painting techniques and traditions
- Color theory application and hands-on color mixing practice
- Composition principles for creating balanced paintings
- Color temperature and its emotional impact
Acrylic Painting (Days 1 to 3):
- Day 1: Color theory fundamentals, color mixing for mood expression, painting everyday objects, and demonstrating various acrylic and oil techniques
- Day 2: Comparing impressionism and classical approaches, beginning a master copy of a preferred impressionist work
- Day 3: Techniques for painting natural elements, including grass, clouds, water, and mountain landscapes, and completing your landscape painting
Oil Painting (Days 4 to 8):
- Day 4: Classical still life introduction, compositional sketches, transferring your design to canvas
- Day 5: Continuing your still life composition and creating an underpainting layer
- Day 6: Applying the first color layer, exploring temperature variations, painting reflective surfaces like metal and glass, and rendering textures like silk and printed elements
- Day 7: Adding the second layer of paint for depth and refinement
- Day 8: Final details, varnishing, and completing your still life painting
Portrait or Creative Composition (Days 9 to 14):
- Day 9: Human anatomy overview and compositional thumbnail sketches
- Day 10: Developing your drawing and transferring it to a prepared canvas
- Day 11: Creating the underpainting foundation
- Day 12: Applying the first glaze layer for modeling form
- Day 13: Building with the second glaze layer for dimension
- Day 14: Final glazing layer, adjustments, and completion
