Oil Painting, Free Art Tutorials

Free Oil Painting Lessons

Bookmark and Share

Choose Medium: Oil Painting | Watercolour | Acrylic | Pastels | Pencil | Charcoal | Pen and Ink | Art Theory

How to Paint in Oils - Free Art Instruction

free art demo   free art lesson
 
 
free art demo, demonstration   free oil painting demonstration

Painting with oils is surely one of the most rewarding challenges if only for the sheer manipulability of the medium and stability of colours. Cleaning paint brushes may prove to be a different matter, but shouldn't put any artist off such a wonderful medium that has surived through many centuries. Below is a modest collection of free oil painting tutorials by some very talented artists.

free art demo GIRL AMONGST BAMBOO (Brittany), oil painting lesson free art lesson
  oil painting alla prima tutorial, demo, lesson
Art Category: Oil Painting, Alla Prima
Free Art Tutorial
Artist: Scott Burdick

Scott Burdick and his wife Susan Lyon (an equally talented painter), reside in rural North Carolina. Scott's alla prima painting style demonstrates how a loose approach creates a high degree of realism and interest. In this painting demo, Scott is kind enough to give us great close up's to show off the brush strokes.

Click to View GIRL AMONGST BAMBOO oil painting lesson
 
oil painting free art demo   free art demonstration, oil painting
free art demo THE GRAND CANYON, NORTH RIM, oil painting tutorial free art lesson
 
free art demo, oil painting, landscape, grand canyon
Art Category: Oil Painting
Free Art Tutorial
Artist: J.H.Thomas

Jim Thomas moved to Arizona in 1978, and has had a close and personal connection to the land and its history since childhood. This fantastic art demonstration is in two parts, and doesn't disappoint in its ability to capture the epic size and scale of the Grand Canyon.

Click to View GRAND CANYON oil painting art tutorial
 
free art demo, demonstration   free oil painting demonstration
free art demo THE TRANQUIL SEA, oil painting demonstration free art lesson
  free art demo, oil painting, philip howe
Art Category: Oil Painting
Free Art Tutorial
Artist: Philip Howe

Philip Howe has been producing commercial illustration for the past thirty years. This oil painting demonstration offers some great insights Philip's approach to painting, with many photographic illustrations along the way. The art demonstration is divided up over two pages.

Click to View THE TRANQUIL SEA oil painting lesson
 
oil painting free art demo   free art demonstration, oil painting
free art demo ELFIN COVE, oil painting instruction free art lesson
 
william whitaker oil painting tutorial, free art demo lesson
Art Category: Oil Painting
Free Art Tutorial
Artist: William Whitaker

William Whitaker is a well respected artist, well known for his tight figurative work. He in Provo, Utah, and taught art for twelves years before devoting himself fully to his own paintings.
This painting demonstration dates back to a piece first created in 1983.

Click to View ELFIN COVE oil painting art tutorial
 
free art demo, demonstration   free oil painting demonstration
free art demo NEW ZEALAND LANDSCAPE, SETTLER'S REST, oil painting lesson free art lesson
  oil painting art tutorial, free art lesson demo
Art Category: Oil Painting
Free Art Tutorial
Artist: Graham Braddock

Graham Braddock was born in perhaps the most beautiful country in the world - New Zealand. His landscape painting demonstration captures the rugged beauty of the unspoiled New Zealand countryside. The art lesson begins on a sheet of prepared hardboard, and builds up through a charcoal underdrawing followed by acrylic washes until its final completion in oil paints.

Click to View NEW ZEALAND LANDSCAPE oil painting lesson
 
oil painting free art demo   free art demonstration, oil painting
free art demo ENGLISH RURAL LANDSCAPE, oil painting demo free art lesson
 
oil painting, english landscape, art tutorial, free art lesson demo
Art Category: Oil Painting
Free Art Tutorial
Artist: Kim Loydall

Kim Loydall lives and works with fellow artist, Julie Hirons, in the heart of England, and both have been producing paintings since the 1970's. Kim works primarily in oil paints in the genre of landscape painting. In this demonstration Kim shows us an English rural road, and his method for building up towards a finely detailed finished painting.

Click to View ENGLISH LANDSCAPE oil painting art tutorial
 
free art demo, demonstration   free oil painting demonstration
free art demo SPRINGTIME GLORY, LANDSCAPE WITH POPPIES, oil painting tutorials free art lesson
  oil painting free tutorial, art lesson demo
Art Category: Oil Painting
Free Art Tutorial
Artist: Jennifer Young

Texas born Jennifer Young now resides in Richmond, Virginia, painting vibrant scenes of the American South and rural Europe. Jennifer's oil painting demonstration starts off on a red toned canvas, and finishes with a luscious field of poppies illuminating the foreground and pulling us into the rest of her painting.

Click to View LANDSCAPE WITH POPPIES oil painting lesson
 
oil painting free art demo   free art demonstration, oil painting
free art demo LAKE LOUISE AND THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, oil painting instruction free art lesson
 
oil painting lesson, free art lesson, demo
Art Category: Oil Painting
Free Art tutorial
Artist: Paul Rupert

Paul Rupert is a Canadian artist and an elected member of the Canadian Society of Artists. Paul studied formally at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, under the late Arthur Lismer, and today his paintings are much sought after.
This painting demonstration is inspired by Paul's travels in the Rocky Mountains.

Click to View ROCKY MOUNTAINS oil painting tutorial
 
free art demo, demonstration   free oil painting demonstration
free art demo MOUNTAIN GORILLA, oil painting demonstration free art lesson
  free art tutorial, wildlife painting, mountain gorilla
Art Category: Oil Painting
Free Art Tutorial
Artist: Jason Morgan

Jason Morgan has shared a love for wildlife ever since he can remember. Alongside his passion for creating highly detailed, wildlife paintings, he also takes active involvement with wildlife conservation and is a member of the AFC (Artists for Conservation Group).

Click to View MOUNTAIN GORILLA wildlife oil painting lesson
 
oil painting free art demo   free art demonstration, oil painting
free art demo TIGER'S EYES, oil painting lessons free art lesson
 
free oil painting tutorial, learn to paint in oils
Art Category: Oil Painting
Free Art Tutorial
Artist: Jason Morgan

Jason Morgan has shared a love for wildlife ever since he can remember. Alongside his passion for creating highly detailed, wildlife paintings, he also takes active involvement with wildlife conservation and is a member of the AFC (Artists for Conservation Group).

Click to View TIGER'S EYES oil painting tutorial
 
free art demo, demonstration   free oil painting demonstration
free art demo ATMOSPHERIC PERSPECTIVE, oil painting instruction free art lesson
  free oil painting tutorials, atmospheric perspective
Art Category: Oil Painting
Free Art Tutorial
Artist: Richard Robinson

Richard Robinson lives and works in Ruakaka, near to Whangarei, New Zealand. Richard takes inspiration from the beautiful New Zealand landscape around him, seeking out the special light unique to NZ's longitude within the planet. This masterclass lesson in pleine aire painting of New Zealand's coastland includes a watchable video.

Click to View ATMOSPHERIC PERSPECTIVE oil painting lesson
 
oil painting free art demo   free art demonstration, oil painting
free art demo THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT, oil painting tutorial free art lesson
  free art tutorial, wildlife painting, mountain gorilla
Art Category: Oil Painting
Free Art Tutorial
Artist: Jeff Haynie

Jeff Haynie has always been passionate about fantasy art. In the 1970's Jeff worked a lot with airbrushing, later opening a studio and producing illustrations for major corporations. Currently Jeff does a lot of artwork for video games. This fantasy oil painting starts with a grisalle, a technique used by the old masters.

Click to View SWORD OF THE SPIRIT oil painting lesson
 
oil painting free art demo   free art demonstration, oil painting
free art demo BREAKING SURF, BRENTON POINT, oil painting lesson free art lesson
 
free oil painting tutorial, learn to paint in oils
Art Category: Oil Painting
Free Art Tutorial
Artist: Doug Purdon

Doug Purdon is a Canadian artist and elected member of the Society of Canadian Artists and Ontario Society of Artists. For the past eleven years he has been the Educational Advisor for Winsor & Newton in Canada, running demonstrations and travelling across the globe. In this demonstration Doug starts with a fast drying alkyd paint, building up the seascape in several layers.

Click to View BREAKING SURF oil painting tutorial
 
free art demo, demonstration   free oil painting demonstration
free art demo SHAW COVE, oil painting demo free art lesson
  free oil painting tutorials, atmospheric perspective
Art Category: Oil Painting
Free Art Tutorial
Artist: Kenn Backhaus

American artist Kenn Backhaus was born in Wisconsin. His fondness for nature became the catalyst for his art. Kenn embarked on a professional carerr in Design and Illustration in the 1970's winning many awards, though his heart always remained with outdoor painting. This plein air painting demonstration was carried out during the Sixth Annual Laguna Plein Air event in Laguna Beach, California.

Click to View SHAW COVE oil painting lesson
 
oil painting free art demo   free art demonstration, oil painting
free art demo PAINTING PEARS, Oil Painting Instruction free art lesson
 
painting pears, oil painting instruction, free oil painting demo
Art Category: Oil Painting
Free Art Instruction
Artist: Brian Simons

Brian is a self-taught artist whose artistic inspiration comes largely from the 'Group of Seven'. He lives with his family on Vancouver Island, and has been represeted by numerous galleries on the island. Brian has a complete course book in acrylic painting and conducts acrylic painting workshops in British Columbia, Alberta and the United States. In this oil painting demonstration, Brian uses a 'mapping' technique to simplify the process of painting.

Click to View PAINTING PEARS oil painting instruction
 
free art demo, demonstration   free oil painting demonstration
free art demo VINTAGE WINTER SNOW SCENE, oil painting instruction free art lesson
  oil painting art instruction, winter scene, horse and carriage, oil painting lessons, free art demo
Art Category: Oil Painting
Free Art Instruction
Artist: Aaron Holland

Aaron Holland is a founding member of the Peninsula Plein Air Painters (PPAP) and has participated in many regional and national shows. Aaron teaches an academic approach to drawing and painting stressing the importance of draughtsmanship, composition, use of colour and calligraphic brushwork. He studied Classical Realism, and in this tutorial uses a Venetian method known as a grisaille (monochromatic underpainting).

Click to View WINTER SNOW SCENE oil painting lesson
 
oil painting free art demo   free art demonstration, oil painting
free art demo HOW TO PAINT A BREAKING OCEAN WAVE, oil painting art instruction free art lesson
 
breaking wave, free oil painting tutorial, learn to paint in oils
Art Category: Oil Painting
Free Art Tutorial
Artist: Byron Pickering

Byron Pickering made his home on the Oregon Coast in 1971, but his love for water came growing up amongst the lakes of Wisconsin. This demonstration focuses on the structure and contours of a breaking ocean wave, along with foam patterns and foam bursts.

Click to View BREAKING OCEAN WAVE oil painting art instruction
 
free art demo, demonstration   free oil painting demonstration
free art demo MELVIN THE BASSET HOUND, oil painting demo free art lesson
  basset hound demo, free oil painting lesson, oil art instruction
Art Category: Oil Painting
Free Art Tutorial
Artist: Dave Dowbyhuz

David Dowbyhuz resides in Montreal, Quebec and is largely a self-taught artist who continues to challenge himself. One of his favourite subjects are Basset Hounds, and his passion shows through in this oil painting demonstration.

Click to View MELVIN THE BASSET HOUND oil painting lesson
 
oil painting free art demo   free art demonstration, oil painting
free art demo GLAZING TECHNIQUES IN OILS, Oil Painting Instruction free art lesson
 
oil painting with glazes, glazing colors with oils
Art Category: Oil Painting
Free Art Instruction
Artist: William F. Martin

William spent 35 years in the lithographic profession as a color seperation specialist. Along with his degree in Science, William has applied a scientific approach to his love for color theory, and his passion for creative realism. Although this demonstration is now a number of years old, it explains in detail an approach to glazing with oils still used by William today.

Click to View GLAZING TECHNIQUES IN OILS, oil painting demonstration
 
free art demo, demonstration   free oil painting demonstration
free art demo PHOTOREALISM, PURPLE IRIS, oil painting tutorial free art lesson
  photorealism and oil painting, photorealistic techniques, oil painting, oil glazes
Art Category: Oil Painting
Free Art Instruction
Artist: William F. Martin

William spent 35 years in the lithographic profession as a color seperation specialist. Along with his degree in Science, William has applied a scientific approach to his love for color theory, and his passion for creative realism. This oil painting lesson features a photorealism approach to painting a purple iris, using a number of glazed layer to build up rich colors and details, built up over a grisaille underpainting.

Click to View PHOTOREALISM, PURPLE IRIS oil painting lesson
 
oil painting free art demo   free art demonstration, oil painting
free art demo LOSING A LIKENESS AND FINDING IT AGAIN, Oil painting portrait demo free art lesson
 
lost and found edges, portrait painting, classical art lesson
Art Category: Oil Painting
Free Art Tutorial
Artist: Karin Wells

Karin has enjoyed a career as an award-winning graphic designer, illustrator and sign painter. Karin works in layers, which often results in losing the likeness. In this oil painting portrait demo, Karin show how to use acetate to transfer the drawing and to regain the likeness as often as you need it throughout the various painting stages.

Click to View LOSING A LIKENESS AND FINDING IT AGAIN oil painting demo
 
free art demo, demonstration   free oil painting demonstration
free art demo PAINTING ANNIE - The "Secret" Pancake Method of Oil Painting free art lesson
  pancake method, classical portrait painting, free portrait art demo
Art Category: Oil Painting
Free Art Tutorial
Artist: Karin Wells

Karin has enjoyed a career as an award-winning graphic designer, illustrator and sign painter. After seeing a poster of Michaelangelo's 'Manchester Madonna' Karin began to see how a flat pancake underpainting could aid composition and create luminous lighting.

Click to View PAINTING ANNIE pancake method of oil painting lesson
 
oil painting free art demo   free art demonstration, oil painting
free art demo CLASSICAL PORTRAIT PAINTING IN OILS, Gwyneth Demo free art lesson
 
classical portrait demo, portrait in oils demonstration
Art Category: Oil Painting
Free Art Instruction
Artist: Karin Wells

Karin has enjoyed a career as an award-winning graphic designer, illustrator and sign painter. "Gwyneth" won the Certificate of Excellence at the Portrait Society of America's International Portrait Competition in Philadelphia, 2008. Karin explains her painting process from the pencil drawing, to acrylic underpainting through to the subsequent layers of oil paint.

Click to View CLASSICAL PORTRAIT PAINTING IN OILS demo

 
free art demo, demonstration   free oil painting demonstration
free art demo PAINTING WATER DRIPS AND DROPS free art lesson
  painting water drops, painting drops and drips, oil painting demo
Art Category: Oil Painting
Free Art Instruction
Artist: Karin Wells

Karin has enjoyed a career as an award-winning graphic designer, illustrator and sign painter. In this oil painting lesson, Karin demonstrates how to paint water drips and drops in four simple steps.

Click to View PAINTING WATER DRIPS and DROPS oil painting instruction
 
oil painting free art demo   free art demonstration, oil painting
free art demo PAINTING THE FEMALE NUDE, oil painting instruction free art lesson
 
painting the female nude, female nude art, painting the nude, oil painting lesson
Art Category: Oil Painting
Free Art Tutorial
Artist: Bryce Cameron Liston

A lifelong resident of Salt Lake City, Utah, Bryce Cameron Liston is a member of the National Sculpture Society, the Oil Painters of America and the International Guild of Realism. In this oil painting demonstration of the female nude, Bryce shows his preliminary process of drawing, followed by a color study before preparing a canvas and recreating the drawing in charcoal before toning the canvas and painting an area at a time.

Click to View PAINTING THE FEMALE NUDE in oils
 
free art demo, demonstration   free oil painting demonstration
free art demo HOW TO PAINT A CAT, oil painting lesson free art lesson
  how to paint a cat, oil painting instruction
Art Category: Oil Painting
Free Art Tutorial
Artist: Richard Ancheta

Richard Ancheta first began to paint at the age of 12 years old and took painting lessons with well known Filipino artist and illustrators. This is an oil painting demonstration showing how to paint a Siamese cat, including sketching, canvas toning and graduating colours from dark to light.

Click to View HOW TO PAINT A CAT oil painting lesson
 
oil painting free art demo   free art demonstration, oil painting
free art demo PAINTING A LANDSCAPE ON RED GROUND free art lesson
 
red ground, oil painting demo, landscape tutorial
Art Category: Oil Painting
Free Art Instruction
Artist: Caroline Jasper

Contemporary Impressionist Caroline Jasper's paintings are "always about the light", says the artist. "It can dramatize the most ordinary places." Red is her trademark. Each of her colorful landscape and water scenes begins on red ground, which serves to invigorate visual interaction against loosely applied color marks.

Click to View PAINTING A LANDSCAPE ON RED GROUND oil demo
 
free art demo, demonstration   free oil painting demonstration
free art demo PAINTING A BIG TREE IN OIL PAINTS, free demonstration free art lesson
  oil painting tree demo, painting trees, philip howe
Art Category: Oil Painting
Free Art Instruction
Artist: Philip Howe

Philip Howe is a talented professional artist living in Seattle. Philip has always found trees a difficult subject to paint, but never-the-less makes a fantastic impression by simplifying the whole process in this oil painting tree demonstration

Click to View PAINTING A BIG TREE IN OILS PAINTS, free art lesson
 
oil painting free art demo   free art demonstration, oil painting
free art demo FEMALE NUDE ON DARK CLOTH, oil painting demo free art lesson
 
painting the nude, female nude in oils demo, free oil painting lesson
Art Category: Oil Painting
Free Art Tutorial
Artist: Philip Howe

Philip Howe is a talented professional artist living in Seattle. This female nude oil painting demonstration was executed in a mere six hours using a direct approach. Philip starts with a light, but accurate pencil drawing which is then fixed, and toned leaving him only to worry about color and value.

Click to View FEMALE NUDE ON DARK CLOTH oil painting demo
 
free art demo, demonstration   free oil painting demonstration
free art demo SIERRA SPLENDOR, oil painting demonstration free art lesson
 
free oil painting demo, sierra mountains, nevada
Art Category: Oil Painting
Free Art Demo
Artist: Mike Callahan

Mike Callahan is a nationally recognised award winning artist and native to the Nevadas. This oil painting demonstration is in three parts and includes a large number of photographs marking the stages of development throughout the creation of the painting.

Click to View SIERRA SPLENDOR oil painting demonstration
 
free art demo, demonstration   free oil painting demonstration
free art demo FANTASY OIL PAINTING DEMONSTRATION free art lesson
 
classical portrait demo, portrait in oils demonstration
Art Category: Oil Painting
Free Art Demo
Artist: Philip Howe

This fantasy oil painting demonstration by Philip Howe sets out to achieve realism without resorting to the use of overly small paint brushes, and adopts glazing techniques to great effect.

Click to View FANTASY OIL PAINTING DEMO in oil paints

 
free art demo, demonstration   free oil painting demonstration
free art demo SKULL OIL PAINTING DEMO free art lesson
  painting water drops, painting drops and drips, oil painting demo
Art Category: Oil Painting
Free Art Lessons
Artist: Brian MacNeil

Brian MacNeil is a realist painting having studied at the Angel Academy of Art in Florence, adopting the techniques of the Renaissance artists. This skull painting oil painting lesson uses the sight-size method to draw the skull which is then transferred to linen. The painting commences with a Raw Umber wash, and is subsequently built up with glazes of color.

Click to View SKULL OIL PAINTING DEMO
 
oil painting free art demo   free art demonstration, oil painting
free art demo PLEIN AIR TO STUDIO - LANDSCAPE DEMO, free oil painting lesson free art lesson
 
plein air painting, study to studio, oil painting landscape lesson
Art Category: Oil Painting
Free Art Tutorial
Artist: Dan Schultz

Dan Schultz draws his inpiration from such artists as John Singer Sargent and Anders Zorn. He became an art instructor at Cottonwood Artist's School in Colorado Springs before taking up residency in Okai, California. In this oil painting demonstration, Dan takes a plein air study to the studio to create a larger version on linen. The tutorial features many step-by-step photographs of the process.

Click to View OIL PAINTING LANDSCAPE DEMO in oils
 
free art demo, demonstration   free oil painting demonstration
free art demo VENICE, oil painting lesson free art lesson
  still life painting demo, oil painting still life, venice still life
Art Category: Oil Painting
Free Art Tutorial
Artist: Philip Howe

Philip Howe is a talented professional artist living in Seattle. This still life oil painting tutorial draws upon a Venetian scene with an antique box used as the focal point.

Click to View VENICE STILL LIFE oil painting lesson
 
oil painting free art demo   free art demonstration, oil painting
free art demo OLD MASTER PAINTING COPY, oil painting instruction free art lesson
 
old master painting copy, paint like the old masters
Art Category: Oil Painting
Free Art Instruction
Artist: Brian MacNeil

Brian MacNeil is a realist painting having studied at the Angel Academy of Art in Florence, adopting the techniques of the Renaissance artists. This old master reproduction copies the work of Cornelis Van Der Geest, starting with a pencil and chalk rendition before transferring the drawing to canvas and commencing work with a raw umber wash.

Click to View PAINT LIKE THE OLD MASTERS oil demo
 
free art demo, demonstration   free oil painting demonstration
free art demo WEST WIND - STEP BY STEP OIL PAINTING TUTORIAL free art lesson
  oil painting tree demo, painting trees, philip howe
Art Category: Oil Painting
Free Art Instruction
Artist: Dan Schultz

This studio painting, on Claessens double oil primed linen canvas, uses vine charcoal to draw directly onto the canvas. Dan works one area to completion, before moving outwards from the figure and focal point, being careful not to let any other element of the painting dominate and distract.

Click to View STEP BY STEP oil painting lesson
 
oil painting free art demo   free art demonstration, oil painting
free art demo ANGEL FANTASY OIL PAINTING INSTRUCTION free art lesson
 
fantasy angel demo, painting angels
Art Category: Oil Painting
Free Art Tutorial
Artist: Philip Howe

This type of painting often takes more time in planning than in the painting itself. Philip utilises a graphic, illustrative approach, and builds up his painting with layers of transparent color. Follow his work in progress and thought processes in this free oil painting lesson.

Click to View ANGEL FANTASY OIL PAINTING lesson
 
free art demo, demonstration   free oil painting demonstration
free art demo THE OLD CONQUISTADOR - Old Master Chiaroscuro Technique for Portraits free art lesson
 
the old conquistador, old master painting, chiaroscuro technique, portrait painting demo
Art Category: Oil Painting
Free Art Demo
Artist: Philip Howe

This wonderful portrait demonstration uses the old master chiaroscuro techniques or extreme light and shade to create added drama. The painting is built up in a series of layers to build up a rich overall tone.

Click to View SIERRA SPLENDOR oil painting demonstration
 
free art demo, demonstration   free oil painting demonstration
free art demo PAINTING WATER AND SKY free oil painting lesson free art lesson
 
painting water and sky, sea and sunrise, free oil painting lesson
Art Category: Oil Painting
Free Art Tutorial
Artist: Jon R. Friedman

Jon Friedman paints landscapes, figure paintings, and commissioned portraits in studios both in New York City and Cape Cod, Massachusetts. This low tide sunrise demonstration is executed as a panoramic and carried out in both acrylic and oil paints, using a spray gun to start the painting with acrylics and later moving to oils to blend and add details.

Click to View PAINTING WATER AND SKY oil painting demo
 
free art demo, demonstration   free oil painting demonstration
Bookmark and Share

 

free drawing sketching painting lessons
Website Created and Designed by RAVE WEB DESIGN