Online Art Courses

FREE Online Short Art Sessions
Regular Tips and Techniques covering the most common errors and challenges. Take a look at the taster videos.

Each week we will be publishing some free regular videos you can follow and watch online, or download to your computer. They will remain in the archive list for you to access whenever you wish to if you would rather watch them on the website.


The Basics: How to Prepare your Creative Space


Oils: First Layer – Starting with Nothing


Oils: Second Layer – Exploring What’s Next

COMING SOON


In-depth Video sessions for more advanced painters.
Here are a few coming up in the next few months… These will be available to buy and download so you can access them whenever you want.

  • Getting Light into your landscapes
  • Composition, Scale and Distance
  • Exploring Colour Mixing
  • Perspective and Illusion – from simple to complex
  • Observation: from the view to your canvas

Future events
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Contact Val Cansick Art Studio
  • Location

    Val is based in the Westcountry, but Val Cansick Studio is now fully online and our face to face teaching facility at Halls Green is closed. Our new online subscription site is on Patreon, and we will be announcing the ‘going-live’ date soon.

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