You will learn the essential foundations needed to progress. You will see:

The basic gestures: how to use the right materials without overspending, hold your brush correctly and apply paint properly, create smooth blends, paint a solid background, clean your brushes correctly, create your own medium, use Liquin, sign your canvas, and varnish your artwork

Mastering color: you will learn how to mix any color using a limited palette, how to create intense and accurate colors, how to darken or lighten a color, how to create black, how to mix realistic skin tones

Practical exercises: painting a sphere to create volume, painting an object using only two colors to understand the importance of values, painting an apple with a limited number of brushstrokes, painting a broken amphora to develop your artist’s eye, painting an upside-down object to detach yourself from symbolic perception, painting a blurry landscape, painting drapery realistically, painting a ribbon to learn how to paint details, creating a first complete artwork to put everything into practice

This painting course guides you step by step through the creation of several complete portraits, from initial setup to the final touches.

You will paint:

• a portrait using a filter to work on color transitions
• a black-and-white eye
• an eye in color
• a nose
• a mouth
• specific work on skin texture
• the complete portrait of Michelangelo’s David head
• the complete portrait of a white man from the front
• the complete portrait of a white woman in profile 
• the complete portrait of a black boy
• the complete portrait of a black woman from the front
• the eye of an elder woman

This painting course teaches you to paint a variety of landscapes by working on all the elements that compose them. You will paint:

• a cloudy sky
• a leafy, scattered tree
• a cypress tree for compact foliage
• a forest in fog 
• a field with distant woods
• a rough sea
• a calm sea 
• a snowy mountain
• a sunset over a distant sea
• a final landscape combining a mountain, a forest, a lake, and a field of flowers

This animal painting course guides you through the representation of many species, working on variety in shape, volume, and texture. You will paint:

• a specific exercise to work on long fur
• a cat
• a dog
• a horse 
• a lion 
• a tiger 
• a parrot 
• an elephant 
• a hummingbird

This course deepens the art of painting the human body with targeted exercises and complete body paintings. You will paint:

• a body using a filter to study transitions
• a leg
• a back
• a hand
• a chest
• the entire body of a woman seen from the back to apply everything previously learned
• the complete body of a muscular man to work on volume and musculature
• a seated woman to work on the body from another angle
• Michelangelo’s David statue in its entirety to conclude the course and learn how to work on a larger scale and different proportions

In this course, you will learn to paint a wide variety of objects and materials in order to master realism and precision. You will paint:

• a glass to work on transparency
• a hammer to work on the texture of metal
• a rose to work on intense reds and the complex structure of petals
• an apple to work on texture and volume
• a candle to paint delicate textures with precision
• a contemporary bouquet to explore new materials and techniques
• a classic floral composition painting elegant lilies and working on pottery
• a modern composition with burger-and-fries to explore a wide range of colors
• a fruity composition to work on many different fruit textures
• a final composition that brings everything together