Sign In View Cart Help Search Home Print Course information Email me when offered Return to Course Catalog Course Catalog Oil Painting for Beginners - Meeting Online Learn the fundamentals of painting with oils while gaining a knowledge of the materials and a range of approaches both historical and contemporary. Through assignments based in observation, students will explore basic concepts of painting such as composing with color, value, gesture, shape, and line, as well as different ways of applying paint to canvas, panel, and paper with brush and palette knife. Students will learn how to create and work from a still-life, self-portrait, as well as from each other. See Textbooks and Supplies for supply list. Please note that courses can be found under the sub-category of the following headers: Adult Family Home Arts Computer Enrichment Fitness Food and Wine Home and Garden Language Professional Some Title Alert