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Picture in last one was too dark. Not an original
#OilPainting #Painting #Art #PaintCoach
March 5, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Finished my largest painting so far! 9"x12" oil lamp. Inspired by Paint Coach, not an original
#OilPainting #PaintCoach #Painting #Art
March 5, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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15 minute apples! Done in oil paint in ~3"x3" squares. Super fun exercise and a great palette cleanser when you're feeling stuck. Paint Coach talks about it in this video: m.youtube.com/watch?v=pLiA...
#OilPainting #Art #PaintingExercise #PaintCoach
March 31, 2025 at 8:04 PM
baldingeegle.bsky.social
First cloud I ever painted. 4" x 5.5". Done last month. From Paint Coach's video on clouds. The key is in the short paint strokes to achieve that "formless" cloud look!
#Art #Clouds #Painting #OilPainting #PaintCoach
March 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
baldingeegle.bsky.social
It's been one year now of oil painting. This was my first self-guided painting, from Paint Coach's "A Simple Beginners Guide To Oil Painting"
I've done at least one oil painting per week for the last 52 weeks! Here's to 52 more!
#Art #Painting #OilPainting #PaintCoach #Motivation
March 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
ryanbclark.bsky.social
First Practice Piece.

@paintcoach

Supposed to be aiming at defining values.

Notes. Build confidence in brush strokes. Don't be afraid to mix more paint. I feel like I thinned out the paint too much in places.

Tips/ Pointers Welcome!

#paintcoach #oilpainting #learningart
Practice values piece with a green lime, yellow lemon, and red coffee mug. First step painting. No blending. Just defined value blocks and shadow. My painted version on multimedia canvas paper.
November 18, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Day 5

After spending a day working on #paintcoach videos and reading color/ palette theory, I decided to try my first landscape. I took a picture of the Superstitions behind my house after work, and just tried to get a solid representation with 1, 3/4" flat brush.

#oilpainting #artsky
November 25, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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#oilpainting #paintcoach #stilllife #art #southwestartist #wip #paintdaily #learnpainting

Almost there.

Oil on 18x24 inch canvas
A bouquet of sunflowers in ann old metal dairy container with a mug of coffee, an apple bucket and two granny Smith apples. Oil painting on 18x24 inch canvas
January 29, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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#oilpainting #paintcoach #stilllife #art #artist #paintdaily #wip

Today, I didnt watch much of The Basics of Drawing for Oil Painting video. Instead I actually viewed my subject. Yesterday's session found me copying the Coach's painting, rather than looking at the subject I was painting.
Still life of a bouquet of sunflowers in an old dairy canister. Two green apples lie on a checkered blue kitchen towel next to the canister. A mug of coffee sits to the right next to the overturned apple bucket, which is empty. About another 90 minutes into this piece today, but a lot of perplexing.
January 24, 2026 at 12:59 AM
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Spent some time today doing studies of birch trees. I've never spent time on landscapes, so this is super new to me! Thanks to the channel #PaintCoach on youtube for a great video on this. Go check him out! #trees #art #digitalart
July 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Today's oilpainting

Cider House Rules

9x12 " oil on canvas

Approx 6 hours brushtime

#oilpainting #arizonaartist #paintcoach #stilllife #learnpainting
A painting inspired by the still life portion of Chris Forza's "Paint Coach Method of Oil Painting course. Painting depicts a wooden bucket of apples that has been knocked over on a table allowing three apples to roll out. One is still deep in the bucket. This is the first full practice of The Method. SIMPLIFY. SHAPE. SHARPEN. This is the second of my Paint Coach paintings. If you've been following along the sunflowers 18x24 was also from one of his courses. I'm impressed with my growth in terms of speed after taking my Mesa Center for the Arts class. This painting was much easier for me to keep up with the video class, than the previous. Much less pausing than Sunflowers.
March 10, 2026 at 1:29 AM
wendypellinore.bsky.social
I haven't painted in years but have been really wanting to get back into it. Decided to try oil painting since I'm starting over & want to try something new. Went to YouTube & found the very studly @paintcoach. Watched a lot of his videos. He is just fascinating. He also gives oil painting lessons.
September 15, 2026 at 9:28 PM
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“Back to Basics” September 2024, Digital
I decided to try a 30-brush stroke exercise by PaintCoach and made some stuff I really liked. In the end I got a little carried away and after the initial exercise, decided to dress up a couple of them into proper paintings #DigitalPainting #Art
October 12, 2024 at 8:40 PM
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#oilpainting #learnpainting #stilllife #paintcoach #arizonaartist

The saga of the Lemon Tutorial
Study of a lemon. Part of the online Paint Coach Fundamentals of Oil Painting course. First time "completing" the lemon. I saw several things off about the shape, and going with planes defined as "wedges" instead of "shapes of light" did not work as well as I had hoped. So I went directly on top and started redefining the planes with wrap around brush strokes. My second attempt is MUCH closer to the Paint Coach modeled tutorial painting.
March 20, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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#oilpainting #art #artsky #paint #firstportrait #davidlynch #twinpeaks

DAY 8

I've been teaching myself to oil paint. Today is my 8th day painting. I decided to follow the advice of #paintcoach and practice a portrait in mono. I found an old Twitter post of his from 2010. "Cadmium Red Deep."

WIP
A tweet from David Lynch. Saying "Cadmium Red Deep. " #lynchqa Favorite color maybe? A 5x7 sepia toned portrait of David Lynch, next to my penciled canvas. Started application of the deepest red tones. Cadmium Red Deep muted with Cadmium Lemon and Ultramarine Blue Application of secondary shadows and pure Cadmium Red Deep background.
December 2, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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5 hours in on this piece. (This is the painting assignment for Paint Coach's The Basics of Drawing for Painting online class. He does this painting in 2 and a half hours.) I'm 45 minutes into the process. LOTS OF PAUSING, lol.
After following along with Chris Forza, The Paint Coach on Instagram, I completed the Toning the Canvas, and Drawing segments of the practice painting of his online course, The Basics of Drawing for Painting. The drawing was done on the easel with a small flat brush and depicts a bouquet of sunflowers in an old metal milk jug for a vase, next to an empty apple bucket, a mug of coffee, and two apples on a checkered kitchen towl. Work in Progress painting in darkest values. Pallet for this painting is: Cadmium Red Medium, Alizarian Crimson, Sap Green, Ultramarine Blue, Cadmium Lemon, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna and Titanium White. Filling in right side values of the 18x24 inch canvas with basic values and large shapes. After 5 hrs brushtime into what took paint coach a total of 2 and a half hours, I am about a third of the way through the course practice painting.
January 23, 2026 at 12:04 AM
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Added a little lemon study. Setting up some tutorial paintings for my days off. I'm pretty happy with #PaintCoach as an online option for learning how to paint btw.
A 30-45 (forgot timer) lemon study in oil paint. Foreground is orange, background is gray. Lemon is set at a 3/4 tilt and is depicted with a range of vales created from Cadmium lemon, Cadmium Yellow Hue, Ultramarine Blue, Alzarian Crimson and Titanium White.
March 18, 2026 at 3:09 AM
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Funny #oilpainting story here:

I set up this #shadowbox for #stilllife #painting and, after listening to an episode about drawing/ sketching from life from #paintcoach, I tried to just doodle in the shapes with a brush, vs my normal process of printing it out and using a grid. Not ready for that!
Shadow box set up highlighting an ancient native bowl on a base of turquoise cloth with a deep red backdrop. The photograph of the reference of the subject created in the shadowbox. An ancient native bowl, from around Globe, AZ, and from left, a piece of cholla cactus, a sprig of a yellow wildflower, and a desert willow bean pod. Below: my paintbrushes sketch of the shadowbox subject, showing loosely (and badly sized) forms and shapes. Above: my 5 hrs in oil painting following the grid lines drawn on canvas to draw in the subject first. Moral: I'm awful at just free drawing.
December 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
ryanbclark.bsky.social
Working on a #paintcoach landscape tutorial. I have completed the SIMPLIFY step of Paint Coach's three step Method, but the house is far too tall. Still trying to do some more practice exercises and paintings, before returning to my own originals.

#oilpainting #arizonaartist #fineart #landscape
On the left is a tutorial landscape reference photo from Chris Fortunado's (Paint Coach) Fundamentals of Oilpainting course. On the right is my 9x12 canvas panel oil painting. At this stage I have completed the SIMPLIFY step of Paint Coach's Method.
March 24, 2026 at 3:23 AM
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I struggled w depth perception-(I could never see magic eye images)-in crits people would say my work was on the surface. It was frustrating I finally figured out work arounds. Also struggled w overworking &
detail. Keep going - btw paintcoach on YouTube is a great resource
June 16, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Today I worked on some landscape studies. I have backed off of my own work to take some stock in my classes, my progress, and where I feel like I need some more fundamental practice.

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#oilpainting #paintcoach #landscapepainting #arizonaartist #newartist #fineart #learnpainting
Other than two other small studies, this is my first landscape painting. I am following along with Paint Coach's Method of Oil Painting course. It is a scene from Italy with a small vineyard nestled between a hill and s small but dense forest next to a pond. The reflection of the trees radiates across the water of the shallow pond. Here, I was testing out lightening the leaves on the front plane of the most light toward tree. I think it was a good instinct, but I lost the correct value and overdid it. The front tree, instead if shimmering in the sun looks more like a christmas tree. This second study was just about capturing shapes and values on a small landscape with an oversized brush. The pallet was Ultramarine Blue, Alzarian Crimson, Cadmium Lemon and Titanium White. The study shows a little red house beyond a fence in disrepair next to s pond beneath a shade tree. Mountains rise beyond a growing field behind what could even be a barn nestled at the end if a field.
March 17, 2026 at 3:37 AM
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Did some #oilpainting today. First, the three images show the #paintcoach method which is to paint in three main stages. Simplify. Shape. Sharpen. The final image is my final #oilout step on this completed painting.

GUACAMOLE
5x7 oil on linen panel

DESERT FRAGILITY
9x12 oil on canvas panel
For the Simplify Step, squint your eyes, look for big shapes, and be sure your positioning is correct. Do not worry about details at this phase. Just large shapes of color. The Shape Step is going through each shape and establishing smaller shapes to define form through value relationships. Here you add those darkest dark values. You paint the top planes of the tomato in a lighter value color, building to the highlight. You look for a darkest dark, a mid value, and a lightest light for each main part of the onion. You keep your brushstrokes in the direction of the onion skin. You establish shadow values to add depth to the avocado. Sharpen can go on forever. You decide how far you want to refine each element. Here I added the shadow and highlight values on the seed as well, and blended those edges. I also added very think paint left raised on the canvas to represent the soft flesh of the avocado ripped from splitting it open and stuck to the seed. A final oilout layer 3 parts Galkyd Lite 1 part Gamsol Odorless Mineral Spirits applied thinly with a 1 inch flat brush. This brings all of the values back with a unifying glossy sheen that also adds a protective layer between the oil paint and the varnish protective coat.
April 12, 2026 at 11:25 PM