9 year old Sarah paints this original fine arts masterpiece in the medium of oil on canvas.

As a student enrolled in the Mission Renaissance fine arts program for children Sarah has learned the necessary fine art skills required in order to produce an artwork of this magnitude at the tender age of 9.

Notice the excellent job Sarah does in the difficult task of painting a semi transparent glass vase.

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A new fine art student may fine oil paint difficult to work with at the beginning.

This is wear drawing instruction comes in as a prerequisite to more difficult mediums such as oil or watercolors.

Why do we teach our fine art students drawing before we proceed with fine art painting instruction?

The reason is that fine art fundamentals, such as tone, shading, light and shadow, and working with color are much easier to get across to fine art student with pencil and charcoal than the more difficult mediums of paint.

Would you like a free drawing lesson? Watch Larry Gluck give a basic lesson on charcoal sketching!

Self Portrait by Mission Renaissance Founder Larry Gluck