I’m on virtual art academy as well. It’s a very through 4 year comprehensive program. I feel like it has really taken my art to a new level. I just won my first plein aire competition

I have recently started an extensive course of study with Virtual Art Academy and from your post I recommend checking with this online academy program. I have spent years studying art techniques with the multiple free postings on the internet without actually doing any art as I was in a state that prevented hands on activity. I studied instead. When I did finally have opportunity to hold a brush and start a painting, the plethora of tidbits gathered over the years actually blocked me. My mind had 10,000 pieces of art info just jumbled together with no frame or ability to place pieces into the whole. VAA ‘s Spiral of Learning and their nine foundational blocks of learning [even represented as puzzle pieces] is the orderly art curriculum I needed. Spaced repetition is one shining and effective aspect of this particular academy as principles are spiraled into every learning block of study. Many students with art degrees hop into the program to shore up what they learned and add to what they missed in their course of study. The diverse student body enhances our assignment critiques. Barry John Raybould’s virtual art museum visits helps to not only study with the Masters but he chooses specific paintings that link to the teachings of each workshop. This course has changed how I visit a museum exploding into amazing enjoyment of why these works are in a museum. Principles that are taught apply to representational all the way to abstraction with either oil, acrylic, watercolor, or pastels. Immersive is my operating word for VAA. Check out the website soon as he is currently running a special for a limited time. My suggestion is to purchase one month access, dig deeply into it to test it for yourself. https://www.virtualartacademy.org/share/T7k6KF4GmkgrMLCd

You might want to check out Steve Hustons course on New Masters Academy, I'm going through it right now and I like it so far. But it depends much on that I like his teaching style I think. Also, he does some studies in there and if I remember correct both with Zorn and Sorolla.

Hey @Jesper Axelsson! Not sure if you’ve already found what you wanted, but I know there’s a course on Oil Painting with Thomas Fluharty at Schoolism - maybe you’d like to check it out. Also on Schoolism, there is Sam Nielson’s Fundamentals of Lighting course, which is super dense and very helpful if you also want to strengthen the “medium-free” (not just oil) knowledge on painting. And also on “medium-free-painting” resources, definitely check out James Gurney’s stuff (he’s certainly one of the most skilled artists that comes to my mind when I think of realistic painting) - his famous book is Color and Light, and there are also many demonstration videos on his YouTube channel. Best of luck! And please feel free to share your progress with us!

Try Mark Carder's DrawMixPaint. He teaches alla-prima advance realism that is still brushy (like John Singer Seargent). You dont even have to enroll, his free art instruction on YouTube is enough to teach one the alla prima method of oil painiting.

Hi @Jesper Personally I've been on Skillshare for years. Not only are there tons of oil painting courses but also other types of art courses and also design and business courses. A few artists of which I have taken the class with the style of your choice are Kristy Gordon and Mark Hill. Kristy - I think she teaches in-person but also on Zoom. I've never taken classes but she has mentorship programs and I am interested in that. Mark Hill - Most of his classes on Skillshare are drawing but there are a few oil painting courses. I really liked some of the things he teaches there. I checked out SIMPLIFY Drawing and Painting on YouTube and visited his Instagram account. I saw one of the artists I follow on Instagram, A.J. Alper, also follows him. A.J. has tons of demos on his YouTube channel as well although I've never taken his courses. Do you happen to follow A.J. Alper?

Hello Jesper :), so first I should tell you that I studied in an physical Atelier were I learned the old masters classical oil painting techniques so I might be a little bias on that. First it is important that you clarify what you mean by oil painting course. Because for me there is an important separation between the *Oil* part and the *Painting* part. The painting part is where you learn your fundamentals and is never dependent of the medium. So even with oil you can lean from a course tackling the form fundamental with digital painting. Oil is the medium and has a number of defined characteristic and techniques. To give you an example in Oil, I render form and depth by first making a one tonal value painting and after it's dry I paint lighter over that and work the form. Watercolor can't do that, so they have to use other ways to render form. But both depend on this fundamental. I said that because from what I've seen, most time, Oil painting courses for beginners are really fundamental painting course where only little medium techniques are taught. To summarize, learn the fundamentals from anywhere you can, all advanced visual artist talk about them whether they are using a pen or paint. To learn the medium of oil, maybe pinpoint resources where they really teach about oil techniques and processes rather than fundamentals. I could give you some advice on that if you want. I hope any of that helped :)

Hi @Jesper Axelsson , maybe you can check into Watts Atelier's courses? I am actually taking his online one for drawing now and feel like I have filled up a lot of gaps for fundamentals. Although I haven't taken his painting courses, based on my experience with drawing, his course is very structured and detailed. It may be worth checking out. Hope that helps!