The Complete Painter: Lessons from the Masters

Get the true art school painting experience with help from a brilliant instructor, as you learn how to create your own tools and to copy great masterworks as artists have been doing for hundreds of years.

• By This Professor
• 01: The Grand Tradition of Painting
• 02: Health and Safety in the Studio
• 03: Basic Painting Materials
• 04: Studio Setup and Brush Care
• 05: First Exercises: Line and Mark
• 06: First Exercises: Value, Edges, and Texture
• 07: Creating Basic Forms: Lines, Shapes, and Solids
• 08: Value: Making a Value Scale
• 09: Value: A Simple Still Life
• 10: Value: Mood, Palette, and Light
• 11: Value: Block and Sphere in Grisaille
• 12: The Figure and a Portrait in Brunaille
• 13: Working with the Earth Tone Palette
• 14: Ensuring Accurate Proportions
• 15: Composition: Shape, Ground, and Format
• 16: Composition: Leonardo and the Armature
• 17: Composition: Balance, Focus, and Space
• 18: Degas, Hammershøi, and Other Projects
• 19: Materials: Oil Paint Brands and Quality
• 20: Materials: Oil Paint Characteristics
• 21: Color: Theory and Exercises
• 22: Color: Painting with Limited Palettes
• 23: Materials: All about Medium
• 24: Materials: All about Brushes
• 25: Materials: Flexible Supports
• 26: Materials: Rigid Supports
• 27: Materials: Carpentry for the Studio
• 28: Project: A Modigliani Portrait
• 29: Project: A Degas Ballerina
• 30: Project: A Corot Landscape
• 31: Project: Derain’s Portrait of Matisse
• 32: Project: A Porter Self-Portrait
• 33: Painting’s Evolution: Indirect Painting
• 34: Nighthawks, The Scream, and Other Projects