Starting with a colored under painting wash, Sadie shares every step for how she creates a one-day painting of a beautiful arrangement of pink peonies and...

Suitable for absolute beginners, this course teaches how to start oil painting, first with just one brush and one color, then moving on to create a complete oil painting in color, using Direct...

Working from Michelangelo’s Giuliano de’ Medici portrait bust, Sadie shares timeless principles for capturing proportion and light in her clear, descriptive teaching style. These techniques...

Experience the whole process of creating a direct-method oil painting over the course of 3 to 4 days, from drawing and underpainting through to the final color layers. Learn how much time to spend...

In this 3-hour video course Sadie demonstrates her method for creating a layered, indirect oil painting, working in the tradition of the Dutch Masters of still life. Before attempting a more...

Sadie paints a master copy of a head study by Van Dyck, and then paints a portrait of her husband, Nowell, using the...

Sadie designed this series of oil painting exercises as an introduction to Indirect Method painting, in which many thin layers of paint are built up with small soft brushes on smooth wood panel...

Sadie teaches her classical approach to figure drawing in this comprehensive demonstration as she works from the live model on an 8-hour pose with chalk and charcoal on...

Learn how to create a cast drawing to historic levels of excellence. This 8-week course also includes the 8-week Intro to Classical Drawing and the 8-week Bargue Plate Drawing courses, so students...

Shade a draped sheet with chalk and charcoal to a high level of refinement, following classical methods. Sadie’s demonstration shows how she creates a drawing of a white sheet tacked on her...

Watch Sadie Valeri paint a bouquet of white and peach roses with high-definition close-ups of her color mixing and brushstrokes, including detailed voice over explanation of the...

Sadie paints ethereal, subtle layers using Indirect method to create her masterful Dutch-Master-inspired still life paintings of crumpled wax paper, often spending weeks on a single...

The most in-depth Bargue Plate classical drawing course available online. In this 8-week course our instructor demonstrates every step of making a detailed graphite Bargue plate copy, resulting in...