Christopher Remmers

Teaching has been a long time passion of mine, holding the same level of interest for me as my love for art and creating large narrative paintings. My interest in teaching was born from my experience as a student, where I saw gaps in what was available and struggled for years because I didn’t have access to the various subjects and fundamental pillars that every student of the arts needs.

Over the years, I have found that to master oil painting, we need to focus on the most critical fundamentals and rudimentary skills. It comes down to breaking a complex idea, image, or composition into its basic parts value, shape, gesture, and line and then developing the mechanical skills required to work with paint, mediums, and brushes. This approach helps us grasp a handful of techniques for different textural effects and, most importantly, hone our observational skills.