Oil Painting Links

Here are some of the best websites to find oil painting workshops, courses, classes, and tutorials.

• Virtual Art Academy
  These self-study courses cover all the principles of oil painting used by the old masters. The oil painting courses show you how to get started in oil painting, how to create great compositions, how to get vibrant colors in your paintings, and on to more advanced topics such as brushwork techniques and perspective.
• Artshow.com
  An excellent resource for oil painting painting workshops and classes, both in the US and internationally. Listed by date and always up-to-date.
• Scottsdale Artist School
  An internationally respected nonprofit organization devoted to the education of traditional fine art. Located in the American Southwest in sophisticated Scottsdale, Arizona, the school is widely regarded for quality oil painting instruction by well-known artists such as John Burton, Ron Hicks, William Hook, William Scott Jennings, Milt Kobayashi, David Leffel, John Poon, Ray Roberts, Ned Mueller, and Jove Wang. Art classes are run all through the year.
• Laguna Plein Air Painters Association
  The association runs oil painting workshops throughout the year by reknowned artists from across the US, such as Peggi-Kroll Roberts, John Budicin, John Cosby, Debra Huse, Jeanette LeGrue, Camille Przewodek, and Kenn Backhaus.
• California Art Club
  CAAM is dedicated to teaching and exhibiting traditional fine art, specifically historic and contemporary traditional art and California plein air painting. The use Master artists who have been painting and teaching for many years. Among their oil painting workshop leaders are Charles Muench, Stephen Mirich, Gil Dellinger, and Calvin Liang.
• Fechin Art Workshops
  Donner Ranch presents workshops based on the work of Nicholai Fechin of Russia. Informative art instructors provide high quality oil painting classes. Painting (in all media), drawing and sculpture are offered to all levels. Artist teachers inclue Sherrie McGraw, Kim English, Ken Auster, Dan Gerhartz, and Gregg Kreutz.

Here are some resources to help you choose, plan, and paint your landscape painting.

• Six Good Reasons not to Paint a Landscape
  A video presentation by one of the US’s top landscape artists, Wolf Kahn. Produced by PBS channel WGBH,
• How to paint a small landscape painting, by Scott Burkett
  This simple tutorial will talk the novice oil painter through painting a small landscape painting. This tutorial is designed to be done in a single session (alla prima).
• What features to include in a landscape painting, by John Lovett
  How John breaks landscape subjects down into simple elements to aid in his composition.