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Even if you've never held a brush
Paint Anyone As A Dreamy One-Color Oil Portrait
No drawing, painting skills, or solvents necessary for this 6 hour 5 minute beginner course.
Imagine if you could:
Paint the people you love as glowing, dreamy oil portraits
Sit down after a long day, feel the brush glide through the soft paint, and lose yourself in a quiet evening with nowhere to be
Feel the perfectionism drain out of you. The style is loose and dreamy on purpose, and any stroke you don't like wipes away with a rag
Slide it into a frame, give it to the person in it, and watch them look up at you and go quiet for a second before they can say a word
You might be thinking this is impossible
Painting a real person? In oils? That's the medium of Rembrandt and Van Gogh. People study it for decades.
And it's one thing to paint a bowl of fruit. It's another to paint your mom, or a friend. What if it doesn't look like them?
Maybe you've tried painting before. It turned muddy, nothing looked the way you saw it in your head, and you put it all away.
Here's why everyone can do this
You only need:
A small tub of white
Any one color you love (gold, blue, red, green, violet, sienna)
So how does it look this good with only one color?
It looks so good because of value. Light and shadow. That's what gives it depth and aliveness.
And because you're only painting with one color, it's new and intriguing. You don't have to worry about matching different colors. As long as you get the lights and the shadows right, it's going to look amazing.
You can do this even if you've never drawn or painted a face before
Because you only need a loose outline.
This isn't a hyperrealistic portrait where every little detail has to be perfect.
My style of portrait lets you get away with small mistakes. One color forgives little errors, smoothing them out so the whole thing still looks amazing.
So how do we draw the outline?
It's easy. I'll teach you a few simple techniques that let you draw any person, any age, any face structure, in 20 minutes.
Freehand
Grid method
Or just trace the face with graphite transfer paper, guaranteed to work!
The course portrait at four stages: drawing, underpainting, blocking in, finished. You paint every one of them along with me.
Anyone can learn how to paint this
Even if you've never held a brush. The course starts with the two small tubes of paint, two brushes, and canvas you need. That's all it takes for a finished portrait, and every stroke is shown on screen
Even if you can't draw a stick figure. The grid method and the graphite paper transfer get anyone's face onto the canvas, no freehand talent needed
Even if you think oils are messy and complicated. You choose how you paint. Water-mixable oils that wash out with soap and water, plain linseed oil, or a solvent if you already own one. I show all of them side by side so you can pick what suits your home
Even if perfectionism usually stops you. This technique is forgiving. Loose strokes and soft edges are what make the portrait look dreamy in the first place
Even if you don't think of yourself as "artistic." A photo you love, two small tubes of paint, two brushes, paper, and a rag. About 30 bucks covers all of it, and you might already have some at home
Hi, I'm Adrienn
I'm an oil painter from Hungary, and one-color portraits are the paintings I keep coming back to. Strip a face down to a single color and five values, and what's left is light, shadow and the person.
In this course I paint a full portrait in front of you, start to finish, in gold ochre and white. Every stage is filmed from above my hands, and I talk you through each decision as I make it, so you can paint along at your own pace.
Painting this way is gentle. The paint stays workable for hours, a stroke you don't like wipes off, and there are only five values to keep track of. That's why beginners relax with it, and that's when the good paintings happen.
For the first time ever
Introducing: The Dreamy One-Color Oil Portrait Course
✨ What's Inside ✨
Module 1
2 lessons · 5 min
Welcome & Materials
Everything on the table before you start, and the honest shopping list. Two tubes, a few brushes, canvas paper. About 30 bucks.
- •The exact tubes to buy: Titanium White plus any single dark color you love. It doesn't need to match mine
- •Which brush does what and the three you actually need, so you don't buy a set of twenty
- •Canvas paper for the studies, one stretched canvas for the portrait, a soft pencil, graphite transfer paper, palette paper and a knife
- •A written supply guide with a budget lane for every item, and what to skip if you already own some of it
Module 2
4 lessons · 13 min
Choosing How You'll Paint
Four ways to work with oil paint, each shown as a small swatch on the same canvas paper. Pick the one that suits your home and your budget.
- •Water-mixable oils: real oil paint that thins and washes out with water. My recommendation for beginners
- •Plain linseed oil and nothing else, the cheapest route, with the one rule that keeps it from cracking
- •A low-odor bio thinner for anyone who wants the classic feel without the fumes, and the traditional solvent method if you already have it at home
- •Every route ends the same way: brushes cleaned with soap and warm water. No solvents necessary
Module 3
2 lessons · 7 min
Your Reference Photo
Think of someone you'd love to paint and pull up their photo. This is where a good portrait is decided, before you lift a brush.
- •What makes a photo paintable: a three-quarter view, light from one side, clear shadow shapes and a full range of lights and darks
- •What to avoid as a beginner: flat light, blown-out highlights, hard cast shadows and extreme poses
- •A free phone app trick that turns any photo into five flat values, so you can see exactly what to paint
Module 4
2 lessons · 10 min
Getting the Face onto the Canvas
No drawing skills needed. Two ways to get an accurate likeness onto the canvas in minutes.
- •Graphite transfer paper: print the photo, trace the lines, done. The same trick classical ateliers used for centuries
- •The grid method: break the photo into squares and copy one square at a time. No talent required, just patience
- •Your lines only need to be rough. They disappear under the paint, and the dreamy style forgives everything
Module 5
9 lessons · 56 min
Drawing the Head Freehand (Optional)
The third road. If you'd like to learn to draw a head from nothing, it's all here. If you traced or gridded, skip it and come back later.
- •Build a head from a sphere in the three-quarter, front and side views, one landmark at a time
- •How a young woman, an older man and a child differ, and what changes in the proportions and the shadows
- •Comparing the values across three real faces, so you learn to see light and shadow instead of features
Module 6
6 lessons · 40 min
Seeing Light & Shadow: The Egg Study
Your first painting, finished in under an hour. An egg holds every lesson the portrait will need, without the pressure of a face.
- •Mix your five values from one color and white, the scale you'll use on every painting after this
- •Block in the shapes, then soften the transitions so the form turns round
- •Background, cast shadow, highlight and reflected light, the four things that make anything look three-dimensional
- •Finish something on day one. Most people frame their egg
Module 7
6 lessons · 33 min
The Portrait: Drawing & Underpainting
Now the real thing. Get the drawing onto the canvas, lock it in, and lay down the glowing wash your portrait will be made of.
- •Transfer the face, then the hair and drapery, and strengthen the lines you'll need later
- •The planes of the neck, and why a quick spray of fixative saves your drawing from the first brushstroke
- •The gold ochre underpainting, a thin wash across the whole canvas that makes it glow like late afternoon light
- •Mix the five values for the portrait and lay them out on the palette before you touch the face
Module 8
13 lessons · 91 min
The Portrait: Blocking In
Darkest to lightest, one value at a time. The portrait appears out of the shadows, and you can see the likeness long before any detail.
- •Start with the darkest value in the hair and behind the figure, then the second darkest, then the background
- •The face as shadow shapes first, then the small dark accents around the eyes, nose and mouth that make it them
- •The middle value, the second lightest in the face and neck, the drapery, the flowing background shapes, then the lightest value
- •Strengthen the darks at the end of the block-in so the lights have something to glow against
Module 9
7 lessons · 58 min
The Portrait: Refining the Face
Soften, compare, adjust. This is where a good block-in turns into a face that looks back at you.
- •Softening the edges with a clean flat brush, and why you wipe it after every area
- •The eyes are the focal point, so that's where the sharpest shapes and strongest contrast go
- •Refining the face in four short passes, checking against the reference each time
- •Adding the highlights with slightly thicker paint: the eyes, the nose, the bright side of the face
Module 10
7 lessons · 54 min
Final Touches: Highlights, Hair & Contrast
A few decisions at the end make the difference between nice and finished. This module is those decisions.
- •Deepening the contrast where the portrait needs it, and leaving the rest alone
- •Hair and background blended into each other with a fan brush, so nothing looks cut out
- •Highlights in the hair and on the body, and a final round of adjustments
- •Lifting out the hair highlights with a paper towel so the warm underpainting glows through the strands
You've seen what's inside. Ten modules, 57 lessons, six hours of painting over my shoulder. Everything you need to turn a photo you love into a glowing, dreamy oil portrait.
The full price for this course is $119.
You're not going to pay that today. And the reason is simple.
This is the first time I've offered this course to the public. I want 50 people to go through it. I want to read your emails, answer your questions, see where you get stuck and where you surprise yourself.
That feedback is worth more to me right now than charging full price. Honestly, I also need to find out if I can handle 50 support inboxes without forgetting to eat 😅
So for this first group, the price is dramatically lower. Once those 50 spots fill, this page comes down and the full price goes live.
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Three bonus resources included with your access:
Bonus 1
$27 valueThe Preserve Your Artwork Guide
Oil paintings outlive their painters when treated right. This guide makes sure yours do.
- •How long oils really take to dry, where to leave the painting meanwhile, and when it's safe to touch, frame, or wrap
- •Varnishing in plain words: when to do it, which bottle to buy, and when you can skip it entirely
- •Framing without glass, hanging away from the wrong light, and the simple habits that keep the colors glowing for decades
Bonus 2
$19 valueThe One Color Mood Guide
Thirty single oil colors laid out as swatches, each with its real tube name and the mood it gives a portrait. Pick your color before you buy a thing.
- •30 real oil colors as swatches you can scan in seconds: Burnt Sienna, Ultramarine Blue, Yellow Ochre, Payne's Grey, Sap Green, and more
- •Each swatch is named in plain words, never codes, next to the mood it creates, from warm and nostalgic to cool and quiet
- •Your next thirty paintings are already planned for you. Same technique, a brand-new mood every time
Bonus 3
$19 valueThe Artist's Guide to Displaying, Gifting & Photographing Your Paintings
Everything you need to frame, gift, and photograph your paintings so they look as good off the easel as on it.
- •Frame styles that make a one-color portrait look gallery-worthy (oils don't need glass, which makes this easy)
- •How to photograph your art with just your phone so the glow survives the camera
- •Gift presentation ideas for birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays. A hand-painted portrait is the kind of gift people keep forever
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$79 valueThe Blue Portrait
A complete second portrait, start to finish: a man, painted in a single deep blue instead of gold. Same method, a completely different mood.
- •A full second portrait walkthrough on a smaller canvas, this time a male face in Indanthrene blue, so you see how the same five values handle a completely different sitter
- •Why a dark blue reaches deeper shadows than gold, and what that does to the mood of a portrait
- •Being painted right now. It lands in your account the day it's finished, at no extra cost
FAQ
Do I need any painting or drawing experience?
None at all. It's built for complete beginners. You get three ways to get the face on the canvas, including a graphite paper trace that needs no drawing whatsoever. If you can hold a brush, you can do this.
What if I can't draw? Will it still look like them?
Yes. You trace or grid the outline first, so the proportions are theirs before you lift a brush, no drawing skill needed. The likeness then comes from a few big shadow shapes the course walks you through, and since the paint stays wet for hours, anything off just wipes back for another try.
What materials do I need?
Two tubes of oil paint (any single dark color plus white, it doesn't need to match mine), a few brushes, a pad of canvas paper, and a rag. About 30 bucks covers everything, and the first module shows exactly what to buy with budget options for every item. A plate from your kitchen works as a palette.
Is this real oil painting? I heard oils are smelly and complicated.
It's real oil paint, and you don't need solvents. Module 2 shows four ways to work, side by side on the same canvas paper: water-mixable oils that wash out with soap and water, plain linseed oil, a low-odor bio thinner, or a traditional solvent if you already own one. For beginners I recommend water-mixable. No turpentine, no fumes, the kitchen table is fine.
I already have acrylics. Can I use those instead?
The tracing and value lessons work with any paint, but for the portrait itself you want oils. The whole method rests on paint that stays wet and movable, that's what makes the soft blending possible, and it's what lets you wipe off any stroke you don't like and try again. Acrylics set in minutes, so they fight you on both. If cleanup is what worries you, water-mixable oils wash out with soap and water just like acrylics do, and two tubes are a small part of that 30 bucks.
How long is the course?
6 hours and 6 minutes of video, cut into 57 short lessons across 10 modules, most of them under 10 minutes. Take it one lesson at a time or binge a whole module. Lifetime access, so there's no rush.
What if I make a mistake while painting?
You wipe it off with a rag and paint it again. Oil paint stays soft and workable for hours, which is exactly why we teach in oils and not acrylics. There is no stroke you can make that a rag can't undo. Most "mistakes" just become soft atmosphere.
Why only one color? Won't it look unfinished?
One color is the whole style, the same way a sepia photo or a charcoal drawing is a finished piece. You pick the color you love, and because everything is that one color, every stroke automatically matches the next, so it glows instead of turning muddy.
I don't have much time. Is that okay?
Totally. You have lifetime access. Watch one module, paint when you feel like it, come back next week. There's no schedule, no deadlines. Go at your own pace.
What's your refund policy?
90-Day Money-Back Guarantee. No questions asked. Email hello@gentlepainting.com and you'll get a full refund within 24 hours. You either love it or you pay nothing.
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You get instant access. A welcome email arrives within minutes with your login, and you can start the first lesson right away.
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