Oil Painting With Confidence — Without Guesswork

Learn what to use, what to do, and why it works—from choosing your materials and setting up your studio to color, perspective, composition, and the final brushstroke.

14 practical lessons + bonus composition class · 12 months of access.

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Understand Every Decision

"I don’t want you to copy every brushstroke. I want you to understand why a decision works, then make your own."

NO Talking-Head Lectures

"Painting is a practical skill. It always frustrated me when a teacher spent most of the lesson talking and barely showed the process."

Return When You Need It

"I still go back to books and notes when a real problem appears at the easel. This course is designed so you can return to the exact lesson whenever you need it."

All the Rules, Secrets and Tricks are collected in one place:

BLOCK 1. Everything you need to know about materials to be a PRO.

  • The Rule #0 on how to actually break all the rules correctly.

  • Oil paints. Pigment codes, opacity, lightfastness, and what manufacturers don’t always make obvious.

  • Brushes. Shapes, sizes, behavior, and why an old worn brush may become your most useful one.

  • Canvases. Fabric, grain, stretcher construction, primer, and how to spot a bad canvas before it costs you a painting. Includes a test of store-bought primer. Spoiler: it failed.

  • Painting mediums. Mix your own “cocktail” and learn the correct order for using it.

  • Palettes. Why most artists choose the wrong size, how to hold one comfortably, and why a white palette is a trap.

  • Palette knives. How to choose the right one without descending into unnecessary artistic decadence.

  • Easels. How the main types differ. Includes in-store testing.

  • Drawing materials before paint. Charcoal, chalk, and other soft materials, from ancient tools to 17th-century techniques and what we use today.

  • Build your practical painting kit. Paint colors, brush shapes and sizes, canvas, palette, easel, and drawing materials, with a clear reason for every item.

BLOCK 2. Preparing to paint is like preparing an astronaut for space travel.

  • Studio and lighting. Organize your workspace, measure light with a lux meter, and discover why a 7000K lamp can mislead your eye.

  • Brush control and body mechanics. Learn how to stand, hold a long-handled brush, and move without painting from the wrist. An active lesson combining hand yoga, fencing, dancing, and a brief visit from Harry Potter.

  • Warm and cool color. A small Song of Ice and Fire conducted with red and blue lamps, followed by how temperature relationships actually work in painting.

  • Palette organization. Three practical layouts that keep your mixtures under control and prevent avoidable mistakes.

BLOCK 3. The Painting Process: From the First Layer to Knowing When to Stop.

  • Starting without over-drawing. Why chasing hyperrealism too early can trap you, and how grisaille, imprimatura, and underpainting give the painting a solid beginning.

  • Even brushstrokes have rules. Learn how to pick up paint from the palette, apply it to the canvas, and use stroke direction to make flat shapes feel solid.

  • The real painting process. Why professional artists develop the whole canvas instead of finishing one tree at a time, and how editing makes YouTube painting look cleaner than it really is. Yes, my videos do it too. The algorithm demands sacrifice.

  • Aerial perspective. Make mountains recede, bring trees forward, and use color temperature to create depth. See how the rules change in winter and night landscapes.

  • Linear perspective. Learn a practical perspective system and a universal construction scheme for building convincing clouds.

  • Finishing a painting. Discover where the final brushstrokes belong, how to avoid overworking the surface, and when the painting has earned its crown.

  • Testing your painting. Simple checks that reveal proportion, color, composition, and balance problems before you declare the work finished.

BONUS LESSON:

The Queen of All Artists — Composition.

Learn what to paint, where to place it, and how to connect every element into one coherent, visually delicious whole.

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Alex Teal — artist, restorer, and YouTuber

I’m a formally trained artist and professional painting restorer based in Barcelona.

Before moving to Barcelona, I founded and ran a private art school in Ukraine, teaching both children and adults.

That experience taught me how to explain complicated ideas clearly, without hiding behind art-school language.

I’ve also restored paintings in historic Barcelona interiors, including the herbalist shop featured in Perfume: The Story of a Murderer.

On YouTube, I share practical painting lessons with more than 7,700 subscribers.

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