Paint & Palette Essentials: A Beginner's Guide to Oil Painting

Description Master beginner oil painting skills as fine artist Jay Senetchko guides you through a colorful still life painting. Begin by setting up a monochromatic palette, and dive into value as you use light and dark to develop dimensional forms. Explore tints, tones, and shades, and learn how to create endless colors with a limited color palette. Then, incorporate an Impressionist palette to enliven your still life with rich, saturated hues. Use glazing to adjust and refine your work, and discover Jay’s easy-to-use tips for adding eye-catching contrast and fixing mistakes. End class with the confidence to paint beautiful, balanced compositions and to bring all your work to life with color!

• Class Preview
• Introduction to Palette & Value
• Tints, Shades & Tones
• Creating a Monochromatic Painting
• Basic Color Theory With Mixing
• Practical Application of Color Theory
• Expanding the Color Palette
• Applying the Saturated Palette
• Glazing Techniques