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“If You Can Hold a Paintbrush, You Can Discover How To Oil Paint Any Subject You Want Right From The Comfort of Your Own Home”

Are You Having Problems Beginning Your Oil Paintings?
Not to Mention Problems With Other Step By Step Techniques?

Dear beginner/intermediate oil painter,

Your search to get better at oil painting can get ridiculous at times, can’t it?

How do I begin? What do I do next? Am I doing it correctly? Oh, those questions I’m sure you have asked yourself in the past or are still asking yourself today. I’m Jack Jarden and I started out painting like those painters you see on public television. The people who paint a landscape in 27 minutes or so.

The problem was, when I went to the museums, I saw the greatest painters in history. Renoir, Rembrandt, Titian, Raphael, Monet. How did they paint the fantastic pictures they did? Their paintings made mine look, frankly, silly. I could only paint a landscape. And my landscapes looked like the cheesy kind selling for $17 in a shopping mall, not like their fantastic paintings.

How do I get the answers to my questions? How can I paint the way I always wanted to?

You can go through the years of frustration at art schools, like I did, to search for the answers. But, you’ll never get them.

What will happen though, is you will spend very large sums of money for lessons that do not help you. For your years of trial and error, and wasted money, what will you get? You will become horribly frustrated because nobody is teaching you what you need to know.

I know, I’ve been there.

This is why I created this web page. I knew other people like yourself were sick and tired of that frustration that came with doing something you love. I paint because I love it, not because I want to be frustrated.

I always knew there was a much better way for others to learn to oil paint. People like yourself who are genuinely interested in learning or improving need to get the help you want and need.

And believe it or not, there is much better help available for you to learn right in your home rather than in some crowded class that might cost $2000 and may meet at times that are inconvenient for you.

I decided to turn my years of experiences with the frustration of learning to oil paint into something positive that will benefit beginning and intermediate oil painters like you. When you don’t get the results you want, many times you blame this on your lack of talent, but guess what?…

If You Get The Proper, Direct, instruction which is Easy To Understand…You Paint Better, Period.

The Things Beginning and Intermediate Painters Never Hear

You can keep watching painters on tv who only paint landscapes, or flowers. of course if you were satisfied with that, you probably wouldn’t still be reading.

You can buy many of the books out there. Many books out there are not written by the artist. They have co-writers or editors who know nothing about painting. But they do know about writing. They do know how to turn simple and direct talk into confusing babble that sounds impressive and fills many pages with information that could have been direct and simple. Oil painting instruction doesn’t have to sound “mystical”.

You can enroll in some expensive art school. The one I studied in, in New York City charges almost $6000 for one class for a year. But, there is a big problem there.

The Problem With Oil Painting Classes

Many times the instructors would arrive 15-30 minutes late to class and they would do the usual thing of going around the room and telling students…

“This is too dark”, “This should be longer”, etc…

Being the teachers assistant gave me a wonderful insight. I heard all of the students complaints.

• “I’m not learning.”
• “How do you get this effect?”
• “Why don’t they tell me exactly what I should do first?”
• “What medium should I use?”
• “What brush do you think I should use?

I heard it all. I was confused myself. I made it my job to get the answers to my questions on my own.

The thing they don’t tell you about art lessons: The teacher will come in to class twice a week and spend around 5-10 minutes each class with you. Many will paint right on your painting and will not give you information of much use.

How To Truly Learn The Secrets Of Painting Techniques

Oil painting involves a process that must be understood to be able to paint better. The process itself is not complicated. The problem is you probably have never been shown the real secrets of oil painting techniques. At least not in a step by step way that is easy to understand.

Following the process and using the techniques are easy. It’s just truly useful information that you need to get your hands on and watch how you will paint better than you ever have.

It’s the same secrets used by the greatest painters in history. They simply adjusted the techniques to fit their own personality and you will do the same. And after that, enjoy all the benefits of being a well respected painter.

The compliments, the pride of hanging your paintings on walls for all to see, selling your work, and having people asking for your paintings…well, you get the picture.

From Start To Finish Without Frustration

Just how do you really learn the techniques of oil painting? What would you need to know to be able to paint wonderful pictures from start to finish without frustration? To really discover these secrets, you need someone who has the information to give it to you.

Here is the information you need to really learn all about oil painting techniques.

Thinking Like An Oil Painter

The first and most important thing is that you need to learn the language of oil paint. You see, oil paint has it’s own laws. It is wet, it is done with brushes, it is not what you have been used to for your whole life. In other words, it is not drawing. The materials used to make oil paintings carry some rules with it that you must know.

Accept the fact that you have to think like an oil painter. An oil painter must see the world differently than most people. This is the first thing that you must learn.

One of the biggest problems people have is that they see a subject like a vase of flowers, or a person, and then they want to take those flowers or that person and put them onto a canvas.

You Must Change Your Thinking

You see, you must change your thinking. And it starts with the most basic of concepts. You only have oil paint and you must represent your subject (flowers, a person, a landscape, or whatever it is) in paint. The things you want to paint are real. All you have is paint. Knowing how to think like this is the process of translating what you see into paint.

Discover how to do this, and you are halfway there. When you know this, you can paint anything at all. Not just landscapes or people, but anything at all.

It’s the biggest secret there is.

I will show you how to do this with the information here. It calls for learning how to see the world as a painter.

The Process Step By Step

Next you must learn the process of oil painting. From beginning to end.

Imagine knowing what to do step by step? Never saying to yourself “what do I do now?” Never becoming lost or confused again while painting your paintings. It’s just like anything else you know a procedure to.

I think you would agree that a surgeon knows the procedure to perform an operation. A carpenter knows the procedure for building a cabinet. You need to know a procedure for making a painting of whatever you feel like.

When you begin your painting–Do you draw on the canvas or panel right away? Do you draw on paper first? Do you draw with pencil on the canvas or panel? The answer is you can do all of these things. You should be able to choose the method that best suits you.

Then you will need to know all the steps to painting your pictures to completion. This involves things like…

• underpainting
• glazing
• knowing about composition
• tone values
• and more.

You see, you know exactly what these procedures and techniques are and then you choose which ones will help you to paint the picture you are working on.

You know how to think like an oil painter. You also know how to translate what you see into the language of paint. And you know the techniques to use so you can use your materials and put it all together in a wonderful oil painting.

Will it benefit you to use a monochrome underpainting? If it will, you use one. If it won’t, you don’t use one. How to layer your paint, When and how to glaze. You can only do this when you know all the secrets of oil painting techniques.

Now to get this information, you may think you can enroll in a painting class, and hope the instructor will teach you all of this vital information. I have been through many art teachers myself, and I must say–I learned all of this information on my own from museums and tons of research and trial and error. I was not taught this vital information in a painting class.

Backing Up That This Info is The Real Deal

You can be sure this information I am going to share will work for you. The first time I taught a class at Pace University was a great experience. Let me tell you one important thing about myself, nothing scares me more than speaking in front of a large number of people, like a classroom. But I was talking about art. After I got over my initial nervousness and I saw the students get excited because they were truly learning, I loved it.

Students would ask me to teach them privately. And I swore I would not teach the same way as the teachers that I had. I knew there was a better way to teach, and more than that it was not hard to do.

With the internet I can now teach people all over the world. I could teach them in a way that would not frustrate them and so they would actually learn.

** Artists Magazine website of the month.

The Artists Magazine contacted us, own their own, and wanted to use this website as their website of the month in September 2002 for the Artists Magazine.

** Many Awards.

Besides teaching private art lessons, I have won many prizes and scholarships including

The first recipient of The Newington-Cropsey Foundation Art Grant as well as their traveling Scholarship through The National Academy Of Design. You can verify this for yourself by calling them or writing them.

The Valerie Delacorte Scholarship and The Ernest and Helen Adams Scholarship both from The National Academy Of Design in New York City.

I have won numerous first place prizes in shows for portraiture and landscapes. I have had many exhibits. My last exhibition was in Florence Italy.

I have paintings in private collections of people that live on both sides of the atlantic ocean. I have been commissioned many times to paint all types of subject matter, samples of which can be found here. I do not tell you this to brag, but only to show you that I know my stuff. I also enjoy teaching very much.

And of course, what shows it better than “before and after”

And, you can view samples of my paintings.

Yes, This Will Work For You…

• If you have never taken oil painting lessons or have taken oil painting lessons in the past (perhaps you are “starting over” and wish to do it the right way) and would like to learn to oil paint or improve your current painting you are in the right place.
• If you paint landscapes or nature and would like to try people, or vice versa, it is not as difficult as you think with simple, direct, and easy to understand instruction.
• If you currently paint following the painters on public television and want to move beyond that way of painting.
• If you don’t paint very often, or not as often as you want to be…most of the time from the frustration of not knowing how to begin and other step by step instruction you can easily understand, you have found what you are looking for.
• If you have never had a formal lesson, many people who have had lessons in the past (myself included) can tell you stories of frustration and wasted money (sometimes in the thousands of dollars) on lessons that really didn’t teach anything. They didn’t get the simple and direct instruction you need to be able to paint, what you want, how you want, at your own pace and in your own home.

And if you had some lessons in the past, you know exactly what I am talking about.

Not to mention the thousands of dollars, if not more, that you have wasted on oil painting supplies that you never needed or knew how to properly use.

With this website you can join the thousands of people from over 20 countries throughout the world who have gotten the instruction they desired and needed to reach their full potential as an oil painter.

I’d hate it if you fall into one of the categories above and didn’t achieve your full potential as an oil painter, because you thought it was impossible.

This is why I want you to have all of my experience. Over 15 years worth of experience and personal notes in my home study course The Insider Guide To The Secrets Of Oil Painting.

using this information you’ll finally have the easy to understand information that will have you understanding more immediately. Not months or years from now. With this course, here is what is possible.

• Imagine knowing step by step, how to paint your picture from beginning to end.
• Imagine… Knowing everything you need to do to use the same procedures that the greatest oil painters in history used.
• Imagine knowing everything about your supplies so that they will become your best friends, as you know exactly what supply (mediums, brushes, canvases, etc.) to use to make oil painting easier.
• Having NO CONFUSION because you know you are doing it the right way.
• Imagine learning the next time you pick up your brush because you have direct and easy to understand information that works for whatever you like to paint — still-life, portraits, landscapes or whatever you wish to paint.
• Imagine knowing a step by step procedure to mix any color you want or need. Saying goodbye to muddy color as you know what colors to use before you pick up your brushes.

Which Of These Oil Painting Secrets Could You Use To Learn To Oil Paint…Or Improve Your Current Paintings?

The information you will learn covers so much about learning the secrets of oil painting techniques. Here is just some of the most important ones…

Starting your painting.

• You will never have to again ask, “How do I start a painting?” How to transfer your drawing onto your painting surface and other procedures.
• About proper preparation. Properly preparing your canvas or panel so it will help you to paint better, and help you with your oil painting techniques. This includes one thing you must do or you will never paint with the ease the old masters did.
• When to stop painting and let the paint dry before you continue.
• Learn why painting is harder than drawing and why so many people have such a devil of a time painting well when they can draw well.
• Why medium is so important
• The difference in acrylic primed and oil primed canvases and how to apply gesso to your raw canvas or panel.
• What is the difference between “new ” painting like the impressionists and the “old” painters commonly known as the old masters.
• Lighting your subject. Why 1 source of light? How it makes it easier!

On Thinking differently to improve.

• The steps you should take so you will think differently.
• How many tones you should paint with.
• If you just remember two tips on thinking differently, you have made painting so much easier.
• A 5 stage thinking process to follow.
• Why the big shapes are more important than the details.
• Why painting is similar to building something, like a house.
• How to “see” in the language of paint, learning to think differently.
• Why you must understand what detail really is, it’s not just an eyelash!
• How to paint from a drawing as your model, without the live model.
• What is the maximum amount of time you should paint outdoors and why.
• What is “oiling out” and why is it so important?
• What really is glazing?

Understand Your Oil Painting Supplies and Save Money While Doing it!

You will learn the knowledge of improving your techniques, but…What good is that, if you don’t have great knowledge of your supplies?

Oil Painting is done with many supplies. Some can be very confusing. Many times you will waste money, sometimes $100’s of dollars buying useless supplies. It’s time that you put this money back into YOUR pocket. You’ll get that knowledge as well.

• No more wasting from $50 and up every time you visit your art store.
• Which oil paints are a waste of money. How to walk into an art supply store and not get taken by a salesperson who tries to sell you supplies you do not need. What are the minimum amount of art supplies that you need?
• Why learning your supplies is one of the main keys to improving and why the materials decide how your painting will look.

About your brushes.

• What are the differences between all the paint-brushes in the art stores.
• What brushes you should never buy.
• Answers to questions like, “What is the best brush to use?”.
• When to use bristle brushes and when to use soft hair brushes.
• What is a good starting set of brushes to buy.
• How to properly clean your brushes.
• A great tip on removing old paint from brushes.
• How to use the right brushes to take brush marks out of your painting.

About your palette.

• How to make sure your palette isn’t making things harder for you.
• What is the right palette for you?
• What color palette you should use and why this is of the utmost importance!
• Explanations about how I use my palettes to make things easier for me.

About Oil Paint in tubes.

• How to NOT get confused when looking at all the paint tubes in an art supply store.
• Understanding exactly how oil paint is made.
• What is the difference in student grade and artist grade oil paint.
• Why do paints from different companies, with the same names, look like different colors?
• How to make your own oil paint and put it in an empty tube. A course like this alone costs hundreds of dollars!

About mediums

• How to mix your own medium for the effect you want.
• Example of WHY I use the medium I do!
• What are good pre-mixed mediums that are sold in art supply stores?
• What are the good and bad qualities of the oils, varnishes, etc. that you can buy.
• How to make your own painting varnish.
• What turpentine must be used for, and when can you use an odorless substitute.
• What medium should you use?

About Canvases, panels, etc.

• Why you shouldn’t use the pre-stretched canvas you can buy in the stores.
• And how this is only making it much harder for you.
• How to stretch your own canvas.
• How to make the materials for preparing your canvas or panels.
• Explanations of the painting knives you should have.
• How to steady your hand to paint details.

Become Your Own Best Teacher

Painters have had questions since painting began. Rembrandt, Monet, all of them, had painting problems they had to solve…They did!

Their answers are hanging in the art museums of the world. A museum or gallery will always be your best painting class…If you know what to look for. That is covered here as well.

• What to look for in paintings in the museums. Learn to understand how paintings that you see in the museums looked like when the artist began to paint.
• Unusual places to look at paintings to see how they were created.
• What paintings in museums have an entire painting lesson right in front of you!
• How to see more than the average museum visitor sees.
• What is the problem with the conventional way of teaching art?
• Take a fantasy tour of an old masters studio, What would you have seen and learned? How would his studio have worked?

Here are just some of the testimonials I’ve received

Plus, You’ll Understand All The Secrets Of Color

• A simple 3 step process to follow to be able to mix any color that you see.
• How to easily think about color like an oil painter. When you know how to think properly you can apply this knowledge to any painting you ever create. The main reason you are having problems is because you have never been shown an easy to follow thinking process.
• What exactly are the colors I use and why, exactly, do I use them. It’s not guesswork. It’s not because the colors are pretty. It’s an easy to follow reason that you can immediately apply to your own choice of colors to use.
• How to properly lighten and darken colors. This way, you can paint objects in their light areas and shadow areas. If you don’t know how to do this, muddy color and you will remain great friends!
• The myths about black paint. How to use black or not use black so it will help you achieve the colors you want. And an example of how two of the greatest oil painters could paint side by side–one using black and one not using black and get just the effects they are after.
• Easy to follow examples of how to know what paints to use to mix whatever color you want before you even pick up your brushes and start painting.
• The two ways for the oil painter to use color with easy to follow examples.
• The properties of every color. When you know these properties, you don’t become lost asking yourself “what do I do now?”
• What are the best paints for you to purchase so you can easily mix any color you see. This will end your confusion about buying paint and you won’t get confused with the overwhelming choice of paint tubes in an art supply store.

Why You Won’t Find This Information Anywhere Else

Many art supply stores are interested in selling you their products, even if you don’t need them. Therefore it’s very hard to get them to cover these lessons at their websites…In the long run, it would cost them money.

This information comes from over 15 years of constant and in depth research. I am not affiliated with any school, and thus I don’t have to answer to any supervisors or “board members” who are more interested in their status than in their students actually learning.

This course is different because I have experienced, firsthand, my own frustration and the frustration of others while in art school. The wasted money and time without learning much at all. I experienced the type of teaching that doesn’t work so I know to include only things that will work.

I always knew when I would teach, I would only teach students things that would truly help them paint better. I enjoy teaching classes and watching the students learn and become excited about the information I give them.

4 Bonuses That You Receive Free With Your Home Study Course

You not only receive the complete home study course, but if you decide to get your copy of The insider Guide To The Secrets Of Oil Painting by midnight tonight - New York time, I’m going to give you these four bonuses—free.

** Bonus #1

You receive 55 video tutorials that you can watch and listen to right on your computer screen. These video tutorials are perfect for people who learn more from listening to someone speak to them. These video tutorials are like having me right by your side as we go through the key points in your home study course together.

They cover everything from your supplies, to techniques, to color mixing, to learning from the greatest painters in history.

Combined they are over 2 1/2 hours of information that will have you improving your oil painting.

** Bonus #2

You will also receive a software version of the home study course on CD-ROM. You will receive this in addition to the printed manual.

This software version of your home study course is in Acrobat PDF format and can be read with Adobe Acrobat Reader which comes with your home study course if you do not already have it. Therefore it works on a PC or Mac with just one click of a mouse.

Your software version of the home study course is also illustrated with color photos to explain certain things to you clearly. You can print out sections of your course over and over again. You won’t have to worry about ruining one book with paint.

** Bonus #3

For no additional cost you will receive the writings from my journal as I studied oil painting in the museums of Italy on a traveling scholarship. These excerpts deal with the technical side of oil painting, Through these writings you will be right along side me as I record my observations and point out certain tips that helped me tremendously.

It is not as good as actually going to learn in Italy, but it is the closest thing you can have to being by my side as we explore oil painting and learn together.

** Bonus #4

Another valuable bonus is a long list of fantastic art resources. In this list are some of the best places on the net for you to buy your art supplies and get even more great information about art and painting. These are some of the best places on the internet for you to visit that deal with art.

What Do You Get

Your home study course is all 3 of my individual manuals of over 500 pages of the answers and instruction you are looking for. It is all 3 of my individual manuals in one complete package.

>> Plus the bonuses if you decide to get yours by midnight tonight - New York time.

** Note: This home study course may be a three manual set with 2 cd-roms, but it is more than that. It is my personal notes on instruction compiled from over 15 years of research, and hard work. The value is in the hard to find information it contains. As you read from other customers, many value it more than their college art lessons.

This course is only available through this website.

Well, realize that this art instruction could easily sell for hundreds of dollars. In fact if you just take a look at the prices of other art lessons right on the internet you will see what I mean.

Here are some sample listings of workshops and classes taken right from the internet. You can see the days and hours the classes meet and the high prices of them.

I used to charge over $150 an hour for private lessons. So at bare bones minimum you’re getting hundreds if not thousands of dollars worth of oil painting instruction at your disposal.

But, I’m not going to charge you anywhere near the amount of most classes.

Your home study course was at one time available for well over $250. But, today, it is being offered for only 3 payments of $65.33

Note: This special pricing is a test and I am expecting it will not be offered for long. If you come back, and this special is gone, I cannot give you the sale price.

That’s, on average, 65% less than the cost of just 1 class of the above listed oil painting lessons.

You can choose to get the electronic only version (2 cd-rom set without the printed manuals), and your home study course will cost only 3 payments of $32.33 for a limited time

You can spend years of trial and error and spend thousands of dollars on oil painting lessons. But, wouldn’t it be easier to have the information right in your own home?

And information that is recognized as better and easier to understand than what is taught at most universities?

If you answered yes, and want to Quickly and Easily Discover All The Secrets Of Oil Painting Guaranteed To Have You Painting Better Immediately Or It Costs You Nothing” Stop Wasting $200,$300, $1000 Or More On Frustrating, Inconvenient, And Expensive Oil Painting Lessons Useless Oil Painting Supplies…And Valuable Months Of Your Time here are the ways to order.

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Sincerely,

Jack Jarden

P.S. Just think! If you are a beginner or intermediate oil painter, you’ll get all the instruction you would expect (but not necessarily get) from a top school, right in your own home, at a fraction of the cost. And remember the bonuses if you order by midnight tonight - New York time.

If you are still not convinced that you need this course, just remember…if you are a beginning or intermediate oil painter and are confused about techniques, supplies, and color mixing you are not only wasting valuable time but your hard earned money by throwing it away on canvases that don’t turn out as good paintings, paints, brushes, mediums, etc that you might not need and don’t know how to properly use.

P.P.S. At this point after reading a typical offer, you probably think to yourself “Do I really want to gamble my hard earned $$$?” Friend, that’s exactly why I’ve offer my “You can’t lose guarantee”. If my course doesn’t deliver, I’m the one who eats his shirt — not you.

P.P.P.S. Who Should Not Buy This Course:

If you are looking for instruction such as “use a number 4 brush, mix up cobalt blue and white and paint your sky” this is not the course for you. This course does not give you pictures and tell you the mixtures of paint so you can re-create only that picture.

It gives you real knowledge so you can be able to paint any picture you choose better than you ever have before and is primarily focused towards beginner and intermediate oil painters.

You can spend years of trial and error and spend thousands of dollars on oil painting lessons. But, wouldn’t it be easier to have the information right in your own home