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• title: Easy To Follow details: The course is designed to teach you painting in small, gradual, logical steps. Every exercise has multiple video demonstrations so you can see exactly who to do it, and includes free photographic references for you to use.
• title: Inexpensive Materials details: You only need to spend around $20 USD (from any artstore, not from me) on materials to get started, and the entire course will cost you possibly $100 in materials if you buy everything.
• title: Free To Use details: The course is free for everyone to learn painting and the love of making art. Everything is licensed using Creative Commons licenses. footer: Copyright © 2018-present Zed A. Shaw

You Can Learn To Enjoy Painting

This site is intended for everyone to learn to paint for free. I've designed it to be gradual to allow you to take your time. You don't have to do any of this right, you just have to try it. Just keep doing it, enjoy yourself, and you'll learn to paint.

Forum Discussions

Come talk about your the exercises and your art at forum.learnartthehardway.com.

Watch The Videos

Every exercise has the videos, but you can also see all of the videos and more at tv.learnartthehardway.com.

License

Everything is Copyright (C) 2018 by Zed A. Shaw. All rights reserved. You can read the License to find out how you are allowed to use this work.