Summary

How do I begin? What to do next? Am I doing it correctly? These are some of the questions I'm sure you ask yourself while oil painting in the past. Perhaps you still ask yourself these questions today. I started out painting like those painters on television. The ones who paint a landscape in about 27 minutes.

The problem was, when I went to the museums, I saw the greatest painters in history. Renoir, Rembrandt, Titian, Raphael, Monet, etc. How did they paint the fantastic pictures they did? Their paintings made mine look, frankly, silly. I could only paint a landscape. And, my landscapes looked like the cheesy kind selling for $17 in a shopping mall, or one of those "starving artist" sales. My paintings didn;t come close to the fantastic paintings I saw in the museums.

How do I paint like those great painters? How do I get the answers to my questions? How can I paint the way I always wanted to?

You can go through the years of frustration at art schools, like I did, for the answers. But, you'll never get them. But, what will happen is you will spend very large sums of money for lessons that do not help you. For your years of trial and error, and wasted money, what will you get? You will get horribly frustrated because nobody is teaching you what you need to know.

I know, I've been there.

This is why I created this webpage. I was sick and tired of that frustration that came with doing something that I love. I paint because I love it, not because I want to be frustrated.

I always knew there was a much better way for others to learn to oil paint. People like yourself who are genuinely interested in learning or improving need to get the help they want and need. And, they can get much better help right at home rather than in some crowded class that might cost $2000.

So, it was time to turn these learning experiences into something positive and a benefit for you.

In my home study course, I'm giving you all my experience about oil painting.

Because, when you don't get the results you want, many times you blame this on your lack of talent, but guess what? If you get the proper, direct, and easy to understand instruction, You Paint Better, Period.

Table of Contents

The Secrets of Oil Painting Techniques Made-Easy

1. Old and New Painting
2. Ways to Begin
   • transferring a drawing
   • pouncing
   • squaring up
   • drawing on the painting surface
   • beginning right away with paint
   • a secret of some portrait painters
   • what if you "can't draw well"
   • the use of photographs
3. Composition
   • the 2 step process
   • painting is not tinting
   • it's time to think differently
   • the masses, the most important thing
   • seeing the world like a painter
   • squinting
   • translating nature into the laws of paint
   • the 5 basic tones we must use
   • outdoor painting
   • thumbnails and sketches
   • making your own "frame" and "framing" your subject before you begin
   • what makes a good composition
   • a general rule about composition
   • an advanced way to get a good composition
4. Lighting Your Subject
   • Using Your Supplies - Technique
   • the 2 step process
   • painting is not tinting
   • it's time to think differently
   • the masses, the most important thing
   • seeing the world like a painter
   • squinting
   • translating nature into the laws of paint
   • the 5 basic tones we must use
   • outdoor painting
5. Procedure
   • procedure for the "old" method
   • oiling out
   • when to stop working
   • ]notes about edges
   • details
   • you must think differently when you paint
   • understanding the idea that small shapes lay on top of the large shapes
   • the problem of seeing things as shapes
   • "newer" method of painting
6. Putting Techniques Into Practice
   • the earliest painters
   • the painters of Venice
   • reconstruction 1
   • reconstruction 2
   • reconstruction 3
7. Glazing
   • what glazing is
   • applying glazes
8. Learn From Museums
   • these paintings can teach you more than any art class
   • unfinished paintings and sketches
   • numerous samples to guide you
   • more samples to guide you
9. Helpful Exercises
   • trying out colors against different backgrounds
   • using different thickness of paint to get different effects
   • mixing color right on canvas
   • blending edges of color
   • stroke exercises
10. Summing It Up
    • there are secrets to oil painting

The Secrets of Oil Painting Supplies Made-Easy

1. What is the job of an art instructor
   • What usually happens in an art class
   • a very informative class
2. The paintbrush
   • there are 2 main types of hairs
   • brushes come in 4 main shapes
   • brush sizes
   • bristle brushes are used for most of the work in a painting
   • softhair brushes are for thinner paint
   • the marks the brushes make
   • what brushes should you use
   • buying brushes
   • cleaning your brushes
   • removing dried paint from brushes
   • blending brushes
   • using blending brushes
   • summing up brushes
3. Your palette
   • making your palette non-absorbent
   • other materials for palettes
   • shapes of palettes
   • what palettes do I use
4. What are all these paint tubes
   • there are 2 grades of paint available
   • how will this affect you
   • what type of paint should you buy
   • the differences between paint from different companies
   • why are paints different prices
5. Palette knives and mahlsticks
6. Mediums
   • what is medium
   • oil
   • painting varnishes
   • solvents
   • other mediums
   • gel mediums
7. Painting surfaces
   • canvas
   • panels
   • paper and cardboard
   • about canvas
   • 3 degrees of smoothness
   • stretching your canvas
   • sizing
   • using sizing
   • priming
   • applying priming to panels
   • smooth surface warnings
   • applying primings to canvas
   • preparing your surface for a certain effect
8. Making your own paint
   • making paint is easier than you think
   • grinding
   • tubing paint
9. A visit to a masters studio
10. Summing it up

The Secrets of Color Mixing Made-Easy

1. Color and painting
2. Color has it's own laws
3. Red, yellow, and blue
4. Purple, green, and orange
5. The world of printing
6. The myths about black
7. Not using black
8. My colors
9. Why I use the colors I do
10. Painting colors in all variations
11. Knowing what color to use before you begin
12. The best colors to purchase
    • reds
    • oranges
    • yellows
    • greens
    • blues
    • violets
    • blacks
    • whites
13. The two ways to use color
14. The three properties of color
15. How to think, step by step
16. You must have patience
17. Summing it up

Who Should Read It

• Anyone who is a complete beginner or intermediate oil painter.
• Anyone who has taken oil painting classes in the past and was not satisfied.
• Students currently taking lessons that are unhappy with them.
• Anyone who would rather learn at home rather than in a classroom.
• Anyone who is confused by the technical procedures of oil painting.
• People that currently paint landscapes/nature and would like to try people, or vice versa.
• Anyone following the painters on public television that wants to move beyond that way of painting.

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