Guided oil painting help
Build your skills with guided lessons, monthly live group critiques, weekly artist hangouts, and a private on-site community led by professional artist Bill Inman.
Prefer monthly billing? Growth is $29/month.
See the problem clearly
Muddy color, a weak value pattern, an awkward edge, or a distracting shape can make a painting feel wrong even when you cannot name the cause. Growth helps you learn to see the problem, understand why it matters, and choose a practical next step.
“I have learned to look at paintings differently now and enjoy critiquing along with you. I challenge myself to see tangents and other shapes that distract the viewer. This opportunity is just awesome. Thank you!!!!”
Growth-exclusive guidance
Growth members may submit a painting for an upcoming monthly group critique. During the live webinar, Bill works through as many submitted paintings as the session allows, focusing on the one or two changes likely to help most and inviting other members to share what they see. If time runs out, some submissions may be moved to a later monthly critique. We aim to give every submitting member a turn, but not necessarily in the month the painting is submitted.
Spend time with other artists, talk about art and life, and ask Bill practical questions about brushes, materials, or whatever you are working through.
Post your work, ask for feedback, and stay connected with other members inside MasterOilPainting.com.
“Bill, the course content is a fantastic core to get started with! Your critiques, to me, are hands down worth every penny of the tuition alone. Bill is too nice a guy to self-promote, but you won't find a course of this caliber out there anywhere for this price!”
Real people, recurring connection
Growth members meet each week for a relaxed get-together with other artists. Talk about your work, exhibitions, and life; ask Bill a practical art question; or simply listen. When a member asks, Bill may also offer a quick critique. The private on-site community keeps the conversation going between live sessions.
“Enrolling in the Membership has been the wisest decision I have made and learning from you and all the other member's work has been a joy. You, Kristie, and your family have really created something great for artists. Thank you.”
A useful learning path
“The training materials are really good. Bill keeps information simple enough for a beginner and interesting enough for more advanced painters. I also appreciate the variety of forums provided for learning, feedback, tips, and questions. I have been a member for only a couple of weeks, but I have already picked up several tips. The Master Oil Painting community and training have rejuvenated my interest in painting.”
Start with the painting in front of you
Use the lessons, demonstrations, and critique examples to understand the problem—not merely copy someone else’s finished painting.
Learn to recognize why mixtures lose clarity and what to study before adding more paint.
Practice seeing the large light-and-dark pattern before details take over.
Notice tangents and competing shapes that pull attention away from the subject.
Study how edge variety changes focus, depth, and atmosphere.
Understand when simplifying, moving, or removing a shape strengthens the design.
Return to demonstrations and critiques when strokes become tight or overworked.
Learn with Bill Inman
Bill is a professional landscape and floral painter and teacher. Inside the membership, he shares how color, value, composition, edges, and brushwork work together at the easel. You can follow a structured course when you want a foundation and use the live group sessions when you need help seeing what to do next.
This is not one-to-one coaching or unlimited personal access. Growth gives you recurring group access to Bill through the scheduled critiques and weekly hangouts, plus the shared learning that comes from other members’ questions and paintings.
These are a few of the landscape and floral paintings behind the eye and experience Bill brings to each lesson and critique.
Growth membership
Courses, demonstrations, reference images, and the self-paced training library.
Everything in Essentials, plus monthly critiques, weekly hangouts, critique replays, and the private on-site community.
Choose annual or monthly billing for the same Growth access.
$179 / year
Less than $15 per month when paid annually.
$29 / month
The same Growth access with monthly billing.
Want only the self-paced training library? Essentials starts at $9/month or $99/year.
Questions
Yes. Visit your account before your next billing date and click the cancel button.
Critique dates and submission instructions are posted inside the membership, and replays are included if you miss the live event. Growth members may submit a painting for an upcoming critique. If more paintings are submitted than the session can hold, some may be moved to a later monthly critique.
Both. Start with the structured lessons if you need fundamentals, or use the critiques, replays, and group sessions to work through more advanced painting decisions.
Growth adds the monthly live group critiques, weekly artist hangouts, critique replays, and the private on-site community. Essentials is the quieter self-paced training option.
Your next painting
Join Growth for guided lessons, recurring group access to Bill, and a community of painters working through the same kinds of decisions.
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