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.
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. Inside the Academy, choose independent learning with Standard, or add the Roadmap and Feliks's feedback with Premium or VIP.
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
One transformation. Three ways to get there.
Every tier is built around helping you create independently. Choose based on how much live feedback, structure and personal guidance you want.
Learn independently
$25/month
For self-directed painters who want an ad-free lesson library, references and community.
- Ad-free painting lessons
- References and community access
- No Artistic Independence Roadmap
- No feedback from Feliks
Follow the Roadmap
$42/month
For painters ready to plan and complete original art with a clear process and live support.
- Artistic Independence Roadmap
- Monthly workshops
- Live paint-along and Q&A
- Challenges and critique opportunities
Get priority feedback
$97/month
For committed painters who want more frequent, guaranteed feedback from Feliks.
- Everything in Premium
- Two guaranteed critiques each month
- Extra small-group critique call
- Priority feedback
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.
Review the Academy, compare all three membership options and choose the level of structure and feedback that fits the way you learn.
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