Choose your reference
Choose, edit and balance a photo so you begin with a stronger composition.
Acrylic Like Oils Academy
Stop copying tutorials. Paint original art from your own photos + ideas.
Learn how to get smooth blends with acrylics, mix your own paints, choose and edit a reference photo, plan your composition, create light and depth, and confidently create paintings that feels like yours.
For beginner and intermediate acrylic painters ready to move beyond step-by-step instructions.
1Smooth, workable acrylic blending
2Color choices you understand
3Light, depth and composition
4Confidence with your own references
Does this sound familiar?
Your painting looks good when someone else makes the decisions.
Then you sit down with your own photo. Suddenly, every choice feels like a guess.
01
The colors turn muddy or harsh, even when you know the photo you want to match.
02
Your blending looks flat or overworked, and the acrylics dry before you can fix it.
03
You cannot translate the light, depth and feeling you see in your reference.
04
You get stuck wondering what to do next, so you search for another tutorial.
The problem is not a lack of talent. You need a system that teaches you how to make the decisions.
The Academy path
One roadmap from choosing a reference to finishing your painting.
The Academy's Artistic Independence Roadmap guides you through an original painting and helps you repeat the process. Start anytime with call replays.
Build the painting
Paint the background while learning blending, color and light.
Make it feel dimensional
Use perspective, layers and values to create convincing depth.
Complete it confidently
Add details, glaze and varnish. Then use the process again.
After Year 1, keep growing through new projects, advanced workshops and continued feedback.
Why join when YouTube is free?
Free lessons help you follow. The Academy helps you decide.
YouTube is a wonderful place to practice a technique. The Academy gives you 32+ exclusive, in-depth lessons, references and peer support so you can build your skills at your own pace, alongside the blending workshop, Artistic Independence Roadmap, live painting and Q&A, monthly art critiques with Feliks, and painting challenges to help you create paintings from your own photos and ideas.
Free lessons
- Follow complete tutorials
- Practice individual techniques
- Choose what to watch next
Inside the Academy
- Learn why the choices work
- Use ad-free lessons and references
- Choose self-guided or guided support
- Paint from your own photos and ideas
Your next step
Choose how you join the Academy.
Build your painting skills, blend with confidence and follow a guided path to painting your own photos and ideas with Feliks.
Pay monthly.
$45/month
Billed at $45 each month.
Build your skills with Feliks' lessons, workshops and live guidance.
- Painting lessons with reference photos, color guides and supply lists
- Blending and painting skills workshops + Artistic Independence Roadmap
- Monthly art critiques + 90-minute live painting and Q&A with Feliks
- Painting challenges, prizes and community support
Save with yearly.
$35/month equivalent
Billed at $420 once per year.
Save $120 per year compared with paying monthly.
Immediate access to all lessons — choose the paintings you want to create, right from the start.
- All the monthly membership benefits
- Immediate access to 32+ exclusive, in-depth painting lessons
- 25% off supplies when you join annually
Struggling with blending? Start with the Academy's blending workshop.
Choose monthly or annual billing when you join. Check the Academy signup page for trial availability and billing terms.
What members are saying
Technique matters. So do feedback and community.
“He taught me how to blend acrylics effortlessly and mix any color using minimal paints.”
Amanda LaBordé, Academy member
“The tutorials are where I learned techniques, but I also have learned a lot from the community as well.”
Julie Weeks, Academy community member
“Feedback is priceless! I love the challenges. I have learned a lot through them.”
Cynthia Mccullaugh, Academy community member
“The workshops and your mentoring are awesome tools for us to find our way through this wonderful world of art.”
Mary Miller, Academy community member
Your next painting can start with your idea
Stop copying tutorials. Start creating your own art.
Build your skills with exclusive lessons and community support, then paint your own photos and ideas with Feliks' roadmap, workshops and feedback.
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