Expressive Oil Portraits with Milla Weideman

Regular price $ 39.99 USD

🎨 Paint bold, expressive oil portraits with confidence.

Join award-winning artist Milla Weideman and learn to trade rigid, photographic likeness for dynamic, intuitive painterly expression.

🖌️ Complete five portraits from start to finish.

Paint along with Milla in single-sitting, alla prima (wet-on-wet) sessions. At around 90 minutes each, these guided video demos fit smoothly into your everyday schedule.

🎨 Strengthen your core painting fundamentals.

Level up your value structure, split-primary palettes, active neutrals, and dynamic mark-making to transform your artwork.

♾️ Get immediate, lifetime access with purchase.

Go at your own pace. Revisit forever. All lessons come out Monday, Sept. 28, 2026.

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Class Outline

This class comprises ~7.5 hours of HD video instruction, including a materials breakdown and five full-length portrait tutorials with inspiring reference photos.

Introduction: Milla, Materials, and More (~10 mins)

Meet Milla, and get a detailed breakdown of the class materials and color palette. You'll also set goals for each lesson and learn oil-painting safety tips.

Lesson 1: Portrait - Go Broad to Specific (~120 mins)

Learn to paint with directness and confidence using a broad-to-specific approach. Focus on big shapes over small details while improving skin-tone mixing, light and shadow, basic proportions, and overall design.

Lesson 2: Portrait - Embrace Expressive Color (~89 mins)

Unlock dynamic, expressive color while keeping your portraits grounded. In this lesson, you'll explore the core properties of color—hue, value, chroma, and temperature—to see how accurate values give you the freedom to be playful with your palette. Expect to work quickly, spontaneously, and intuitively to capture vibrant energy on the canvas.

Lesson 3: Portrait - Explore Color Relationships (~85 mins)

Take your color mixing further using an expanded, split-primary palette. You'll explore color theory and the color wheel in real time, learning how to control chroma through complementary colors, balance color temperature, and build dynamic relationships across the canvas. Learn to use bold shapes and flat areas of color to create harmony and structure in every portrait.

Lesson 4: Portrait - Capture Character and Expression (~105 mins)

Shift your focus from rigid accuracy to capturing true character and expression. In this lesson, you'll learn how to emphasize key facial features, interpret the planes of the head, and use dynamic shapes, varied edges, and expressive color to bring a portrait to life with personality.

Lesson 5: Portrait - Push Past the Primaries (95 mins)

Expand your color intuition by replacing classic red, yellow, and blue with an experimental primary triad. You'll learn to use deliberate limitations to your advantage—pre-mixing your palette to discover active neutrals, nuanced color harmony, and atmospheric depth. This lesson trains you to see color relatively and make intentional, sensitive color choices.

Meet Your Teacher

Milla Weideman is a figurative painter based in Melbourne, Australia, working primarily in oil paint.

She is drawn to the medium for its richness and versatility, allowing her to move fluidly between control and spontaneity. Her portraits often sit between realism and abstraction, combining thoughtful composition with gesture and play.

Through her work, she aims to create images that feel both personal and visually engaging, exploring color relationships and dynamic shape design.

Lifetime Access - Anytime, Anywhere

With your purchase, you’ll get lifetime access to the class on Sktchy, where you can contact Milla, connect with fellow students from around the world, and get constructive feedback on your class art via desktop and any iOS or Android mobile devices.

FAQs

What tools do I need to participate?

Brushes - Hog (Round) and Synthetic (Flat) - Sizes 4, 6, 8
Gloves
Linseed Oil
Oil Paints (Minimum Palette: Titanium White, Red, Yellow, Blue; Milla's Palette: Alizarin Crimson or Quinacridone Magenta, Cadmium Red, Cadmium Yellow, Lemon Yellow, Phthalo Green, Raw Umber, Titanium White, Transparent Oxide Red or Burnt Sienna, Ultramarine Blue)
Palette and Palette Knife
Painting Surface (e.g., Canvas, Linen, Primed Paper, Primed Wooden Board)
Solvent (e.g., Gamsol)

Is the content all new?

Yes! Milla created these video lessons specifically for this class.

Can I go at my own pace?

Yes! You keep lifetime access to ALL class content, so you can go at your own pace and revisit forever.

What skill level do I need for this class?

This class is suitable for artists of all skill levels, from beginners on up.

Do I get lifetime access to the class?

Yes! Your purchase gets you lifetime access to ALL class content, so you can go at your own pace and revisit forever.

Where do I access the class?

You can access the class on Sktchy, which is free to join.

What is your refund policy?

Get a full refund, with no questions asked, within 24 hours of purchase.