Painting lessons are available here at the Gallery. It is a private lesson with me in which you will get a comprehensive step by step understanding of what it is to make an Oil painting. You will remember all we experience because you will make and finish a painting. You take the painting with you so the memory is all there.

The lesson last three hours and I just ask you give me that amount of time with nothing else to do! Art lessons are 325.00 and all materials are included. You need bring nothing with you.

We talk a little to start about your experience and desires and then you will watch a dvd I made talking about color, composition, brush strokes, palette knives and going through a number of paintings. It is about 12 minutes long and well done. The video demonstrates use of brush and palette knife in painting. Composition and color are reviewed in the video as well. Next, we go over the technical information of using thinner, mediums, laying out a color palette, under painting, and all the things that some people don't know. How to hold a brush and how to stand are very important in Oil painting. Also you learn hot to store and preserve your paint so it is fresh each time you use it.

Next, you select a size of canvas you want to paint, we discover what is you would like to paint and then you make a simple sketch on canvas to start. Then you paint and I watch and comment in order to give you a variety of tools to enable paint to work for you in a very fun easy, and effective way. I encourage you to apply lots of paint! The right color we can mix on the canvas or on the palette. It takes paint to make a painting!