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Reviews of the Best Teach Yourself Painting Guides

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Our top 10 list below summarizes what we consider to be the best Teach Yourself Painting Guides around, while our buying guide gives you useful advice on what to look for, and what to avoid, when making your choice.

The menu on the right links to our detailed editor's review for each teach yourself painting guide. Alongside each editor's review you'll also find user reviews (as well as screenshots and videos if they're available) to help you make the right choice.


Editor's Top 10 Buying Guide
 
Learn and Master Painting image
The Learn and Master Series is top of the range.  Other courses offered by Learn and Master are guitar, piano, drums, ballrooms dance, and further guitar study.  Learn and Master Painting is a thorough and comprehensive course incorporating a wide variety of materials and quality instruction.  The advantage with learning at home is that you are able to work...

>> Read the Full Review of LearnAndMaster.com/Painting

A Real Art Lesson image
A Real Art Lesson is an internet selling success in this category.  The e-book by artist Delmus Phelps contains tips and secrets on how to paint realistic oil paintings.  Using simple step-by-step instructions, the course takes you through the techniques needed to create dazzling images.  Oil paints can be difficult to get right, but their advantage is their use...

>> Read the Full Review of Easy-Oil-Painting-Techniques.org

The Virtual Art Academy image
Requiring four years of self-study, this painting and drawing course created for the serious amateur by Barry John Raybould, MA, is one of the more comprehensive products in this category.  The cost is divided into neat quarterly payments of $19.95 making this good value for money.  The total cost over four years would be $319.20.  Compare this with the...

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The Oil Painting Course You've Always Wanted (Kathleen Staiger) image

The Oil Painting Course You've Always Wanted comes highly recommended and praised by its readers.  Kathleen Staiger is an artist and teacher who graduated from Hofstra University in New York with a bachelor's degree in art education and a master's degree in arts and humanities. (To find out more about the author, Kathleen Staiger and to see examples of...

>> Read the Full Review of The Oil Painting Course You've Always Wanted (Kathleen Staiger)

The Thriving Artist image
This product is unique in this category.  It is a downloadable course full of advice on how to market yourself as an artist and make a profit.  Deciding to turn your hobby into a living can be problematic and purists may feel like they are "selling out" by deciding to sell their creations.  This e-book written by Steve Popkin...

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The Carder Method image
The Carder Method for Painting in Oil is a complete course in realistic oil painting. Mark Carder invented a device called the Color Checker that allows you to duplicate the colors you see in your still life into mixed paint on a palate.  The Color Checker is shaped like a pair of tweezers with one end flat and the...

>> Read the Full Review of TheCarderMethod.com

David Bellamy's Complete Guide to Watercolour Painting image

Sometimes when starting out on a new creative project it can be hard to find the inspiration to get you started.  David Bellamy's Guide to Watercolour Painting covers a whole variety of subjects to paint and might give you ideas for more.  Ranging through still life, figures, landscape, flowers and buildings, you are sure to find something that takes...

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The Famous Artists School image
The Famous Artist's School supplies books, e-books and multimedia courses to choose from.  Each product provides a slightly different learning experience, depending on what you are looking for.  The Famous Artists School is comparable to Learn and Master Painting and the Virtual Art Academy in that they offer a comprehensive multimedia package including assignments.  The Famous Artists School is...

>> Read the Full Review of Famous-Artists-School.com

Watercolour for the Absolute Beginner image

Alwyn Crawshaw is known for his TV series on painting and is the founder of The Society of Amateur Artists in the UK.  He and his wife June have produced a number of highly popular books and instructional DVDs to help people to get started in watercolors, sketching, oil painting and general painting techniques.  The couple live in the...

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Oil Painting for Dummies (Anita Giddings and Sherry Clifton) image

How did we ever live without the Dummies Guides?  Like the internet and mobile phones, Dummies Guides have become part of the information age.  Whether you want to know how to plug in your Blackberry or want to make blackberry jam, you'll be sure there's a book all about it.  (Actually we checked but Blackberry Jam making for Dummies...

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