Beginners to Oil Painting
The Guide to Become a Self Taught Artist
My work is poetic, with a strong parallel to nature. I try to illustrate a world with contrasting elements of realism, line art, and beauty. I believe art is an essential part of life and my mission is to form deep connections with life through my artwork and teachings.
Course Details
- Over five hours of real time instruction on how to begin your painting and bring your painting to life
- One complementary one-on-one critique and feedback via 30-min video call for FREE
- Office hours available 5 days a week
- Extensive transcribed notes for every lecture
- Detailed demonstration and explanation on what supplies and settings you need
- How to accurately transfer your drawing onto your canvas
- Color theories and how to apply them to your palette and your painting
- How to use oil mediums and maintain your art supplies
- Demonstration of different brush stroke techniques
- Real time demonstration and explanation of the entire painting
How You Will Benefit From The Course
You will learn a process on how to become a self directed artist. This is a technique that I've cultivated over the years, where students would be able to direct their own paintings from beginning to end. My way of teaching is an approach to paint all organic things in nature. This is a repeatable process where you can self administer and improve independently. Once you learn the process, you can begin to develop your own portfolio and your own sense of style while improving your skills over time.
What This Course Entails
The first 4 modules are the foundations of every painting. Before I dive into the actual painting, I'll be walking you through how to set up your supplies and studio. And what's more important than remembering the exact color combinations when mixing paint, is knowing how to analyze and adjust the color you have on hand. I will be teaching you the basics of color theory so you know how to adjust your palette as you paint, I'll also go over how to handle oil mediums and your paint brushes. The concepts in the fourth module are crucial to every painting, I'll be walking you through the main rules to follow when planning and organizing a painting.
After learning the foundation to every painting; with this knowledge in mind, you will begin to paint. I'll be demonstrating how to mix the first palette, following with a step by step real time demonstration of the entire painting. This is the bulk of the course where you will learn the different brush strokes and the different ways I adjust and color match my paint. I'll also be teaching rendering techniques at the end to bring the painting to completion.
Testimonials
My name is Mandie and I am the instructor for this course. I have been an oil painter for more than 15 years. Over the course of my art career I've found that teaching it and giving back has helped me find meaning in what I do. I teach group classes, online lessons, and private lessons. I've also mentored many students in the past, developed curriculums and online courses to help students find their direction. I love helping my students see things from a different perspective and help them discover new ways to approach problems in life; this mindset directly applies to every painting that I teach and I am very passionate about teaching art.
Oil painting has become more than just a passion for me, it’s more like an obsession. I find that art not only provides a form of meditation for me, but I believe it transcends into every aspect of life. Over the course of my careers as an art teacher and as a CPA, and running a business, I found that art has helped me think outside the box and to see things from different perspectives. It forces me to not be a one dimensional thinker and to learn that there's so many different approaches to problems in life. It’s helped me identify patterns and simplify concepts that might be hard to see. I like to think of it as not just a hobby, but a way of life. It is a form of meditation and a way to understand life. I meditate everyday. For me I can't sit still and not move, I can't meditate in that traditional way. But when I go for long walks or runs, I don't listen to music, I listen to my thoughts. When I'm painting, I'm doing the same thing. That's my rhythm of stillness, and those are my forms of meditation.