Learn and
Master Painting: How To
Choose The Best Painting
Courses
To Learn and Master Painting has never
been as easy or as inexpensive. With video technology it is
now possible to learn from some of the best instructors the
world over. Many of these top notch artists would normally
be too busy, too far away or even too expensive for the
average student. The availability of video painting lessons
has certainly change everything. However, since not every
course is necessarily a good one, here are 9 tips for
choosing the best ones.
1. Choose Video; without a doubt a painting course needs
to be in a video format. But, not just little tiny snippets
of short videos to enhance a book but, full blown, start to
finish video. This is an intensively visual activity that
is best learned while watching an expert go through all of
the paces.
2. Good Production Values; The videos need to be well
though out with lots of clear close up shots so that there
is no confusion about each demonstration.
3. Beginner Through Advanced Lessons; a thorough learn
and master painting course will guide a complete novice
student through setting up a studio, the equipment and
initial supplies. Too many courses leave beginners
scrambling for the most basic information. Also, the dvd
should allow a more advanced painter to skip around to view
only the lessons for which they have the most interest.
4. The Instructor; needs to be a seasoned, highly
educated and accomplished artist in their own right. It is
equally important that they have a gift for teaching
students of all levels. Some gifted artists are just not
able to identify where a beginner student is coming from
and all too often they will become confused, discouraged
and quit unnecessarily.
5. Painting Theory; a complete painting course should
not just teach you to mimic the instructor so that you
learn to create just one specific painting in one specific
style. Instead, the painting course should give you a full
understanding of perspective, making an object look three
dimensional, why colors look the way they do, tonality and
many other fundamental concepts that will set you free to
paint anything in a professional manor.
6. Guided Practice Sessions; Its important to actually
work on exercises as well as full blown paintings from
start to finish right along side the instructor. Sitting on
your hands while watching the instructor could give you a
false sense of understanding. There is nothing like diving
in the pool with a good teacher to learn to swim.
7. Individual Pacing; this is almost automatic with dvd
painting courses because you can automatically pause almost
any where in mid lesson, work at your own pace, then
restart the video where you left off. It is important that
the instructor teaches in a way that gives you plenty of
logical places to pause for practice, (or to go to the
bathroom for that matter).
8. Fun: the instructor must be somewhat playful and
encouraging while teaching or you may become bored and not
look forward to each lesson. This is also important because
fun usually yields a relaxed state of mind that is more
creatively focused.
9. Price; expect to pay about $150 to $250 USD for a
thorough beginner through advanced painting dvd set. Prices
that range from $20 to $50 USD usually teach a limited
range of topics.
Without a doubt, video painting course dvds are the most
thorough, effective and complete single educational tool to
come along since the invention of art. They are often
superior to a random live local teacher in terms of cost,
convenience, consistency and caliber of instructing. It is,
after all, hard to get a live instructor to come to your
house at 2:00 in the morning on a night when sleep is
impossible and you wish to paint, (they are also impossible
to rewind and review).
Having said that, it is still extremely important to get
outside feedback on your work from other artists in your
community. Ideally, use a dvd course to lay a detailed
foundation then add live interaction with other artists and
instructors for feedback as you learn and master
painting.
First Place Rating
of 9.8 out of 10
According to the publisher
of the
Learn And Master Painting course, it is designed to be
the most thorough, logical and easy to understand way to
learn oil, acrylic and water mixable oil painting no matter
your present level of skills or talent. During this course,
the student will create several complete paintings from
start to finish.
Who Will Benefit Most From This Painting
Course?
This dvd lesson set is
geared for rank beginners with no experience or formal
training through accomplished painters that wish to round
out their knowledge base and benefit from the advanced
lessons.
Also, children starting at an age of 8 to 10 years old,
with a little set-up help from an adult, should be able to
learn from the dvd set on their own.
About The Instructor Gayle
Levee (Pronounced Le Vay)
Gayle was born into a family of artists and knew from
the young age of five years old that she wanted to draw.
This award winning artist was formally educated
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