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.
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.
VIP'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 brings those tutorials into an ad-free space with references and peer support. Premium adds 32+ exclusive, in-depth lessons, lesson-topic voting and 25% off art supplies. VIP adds the Artistic Independence Roadmap, painting workshops, live painting and Q&A, monthly art critiques with Feliks, and painting challenges.
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.
Enjoy ad-free YouTube tutorials and peer support with Standard, build your skills with Premium's exclusive lessons, or learn to paint your own photos and ideas with Feliks' guidance in VIP.
Practice with peer support
$12/month
Enjoy Feliks' YouTube tutorials without ads and share your progress with a supportive artist community.
- Ad-free YouTube tutorials
- Reference photos, color guides and supply lists
- Community access and peer feedback
Build your skills at your pace
$25/month
Go deeper with exclusive, pre-recorded painting lessons and keep practicing on your own schedule.
- 32+ exclusive, in-depth lessons not available anywhere else
- Ad-free YouTube tutorials
- Reference photos, color guides and supply lists
- Vote on future lesson topics
- Community access and peer feedback
- 25% off art supplies
Paint your own photos + ideas
$49/month
Blend with more confidence and learn to create your own paintings with a clear roadmap and Feliks' guidance.
- The Artistic Independence Roadmap, a guided path from following tutorials to creating your own art
- Monthly art critiques with Feliks to help you understand what to work on next
- Painting workshops on blending, color theory, references and composition
- Monthly 90-minute live painting and Q&A with Feliks, plus painting challenges and prizes
- 2 new & improved M1 blending brushes when you join VIP annually
- Everything in Premium, including 25% off art supplies
Standard and Premium are self-paced plans with peer support. The guided Roadmap, workshops, live calls and Feliks' critiques are included in VIP. 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: ad-free YouTube tutorials and peer support with Standard, exclusive lessons with Premium, or a guided path to painting your own photos and ideas with Feliks in VIP.
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