Landscape Oil Painting: the basics – FREE COURSE

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About Course

Looking to get started with painting landscapes in oils?

This free, 8-lesson course will guide you through the essential building blocks. You’ll learn about value, color, atmospheric perspective, and composition, and how these elements contribute to a successful landscape painting. The course also covers practical techniques like value studies and using a limited palette to achieve harmonious results. You’ll gain a foundation for creating representational landscape paintings.

What the Course Covers (8 Lessons):

  1. Basic Colour Theory: exploring primary and secondary colors.
  2. Value & Composition: learning to create value sketches.
  3. An introduction to underpainting.
  4. Preparing your colors and brushwork.
  5. The initial blocking-in stage.
  6. Developing further layers in your painting.
  7. Understanding the role of edges.
  8. Steps to finishing your artwork.

Begin your exploration of oil landscape painting with this free course. Enroll today.

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Course Content

Welcome

  • Welcome note
  • Art Supplies List

Prepping
Getting your supplies together, planning your composition and making a value sketch.

Painting
Working from a value sketch, we'll start by sketching and blocking in.

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