Online Instruction for Beginners in Oil Painting.

















Welcome to Oil Painting Online.
This is our group home for Beginners Oil Painting Online Instruction. This is an online series of classes, one per week. There is no class running at the moment, but if you want to be added to the waiting list for the Spring 2010 class, please send an email to: NelVanL@aol.com. There will be progressive week-to-week lessons with exercises and homework, with group discussion and critiques. Your work can be posted in our Flickr pool. All questions concerning your work can be entered and answered here in the forum. Please pay for the class ($70.00) before we begin. To see examples of my oil paintings, you are invited to visit my daily painting blog at http://nelseverydaypainting.blogspot.com which will give you an idea of the kind of painting I will be teaching.

To pay for class using Paypal, use this link:
http://nelseverydaypainting.blogspot.com/2008/12/beginners-oil-painting-class.html

Overview for Six Weeks:

Week 1: How Do I Use This Stuff: General Introduction & Beginning Work
Week 2: But I Really Want to Make a Painting: Step-by-Step Value Study
Week 3: Still Life in Color: Your Own Simple Still Life
Week 4: Landscape From a Photo: Choosing and Painting
Week 5: What About Animals and Buildings: A More Complex Landscape
Week 6: Can I Do People and Faces: Portraits, Figures, Drapery

General Informational Chapters:
Composition and Color Mixing
Glazing
Edges

Again, welcome!
Your instructor, Nel Jansen