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 choose and edit a reference, plan your composition, build color, light and depth, and confidently finish a painting 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.
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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.
Premium'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. Standard gives you 32+ exclusive, in-depth lessons, references and peer support so you can build your skills at your own pace. Premium adds 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
Choose your level of support
Choose the support for your next step.
Build your acrylic painting skills at your own pace with Standard, or start with Premium's blending workshop and follow a guided path to painting your own photos and ideas with Feliks.
Build your acrylic painting skills
$29/month
Learn at your own pace with exclusive painting lessons and a supportive artist community.
- 32+ exclusive, in-depth painting lessons not available anywhere else
- Reference photos, color guides and supply lists
- Vote on future lesson topics
- Community access and peer feedback
Blend with confidence. Paint your own ideas.
$47/month
Start with the blending workshop, then build toward your own paintings with Feliks' roadmap, workshops and live guidance.
- Blending workshop plus painting skills workshops on color, references and composition
- The Artistic Independence Roadmap, a guided path from photo to painting
- Monthly art critiques with Feliks to help you understand what to work on next
- Monthly 90-minute live painting and Q&A with Feliks
- Painting challenges and prizes
- 25% off supplies + 2 new & improved M1 blending brushes when you join annually
- Everything in Standard
Struggling with blending? Start with Premium's blending workshop.
Standard includes self-paced lessons and peer support. The guided Roadmap, workshops, live calls and Feliks' critiques are included in Premium. Check the plan page for current annual pricing, 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.
Choose your next step: build your skills with Standard's exclusive lessons and peer support, or blend with more confidence and paint your own photos and ideas with Feliks' guidance in Premium.
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