Darrell Crow shows you how to prepare your materials and lay down the first strokes of your brush to make beautiful and realistic cascades.

Do you like calm and still water or the roaring waves of the sea? In this lesson, continue your study of water by painting a lake and an ocean with oils.

Are you ready to continue your study of painting water with oils? In this lesson, learn how to paint reflective lakes and use the palette knife for edging.

Want to add some rushing rapids to your next oil painting? This lesson shows you how to paint the sediment, cover it with moving water, and define river banks.

Build your oil painting expertise with a chilly winter scene! This lesson from Darrell Crow Studios shows you how to paint a frozen river with snowy banks.

Even if you’re never picked up a paintbrush before, Darrell Crow will teach you how to paint! Learn how to paint beautiful flower petals in this lesson.

Even if you’ve never painted before, learn how to capture paint rosebuds using these easy oil painting techniques! Darrell Crow makes it easier than it looks.

Once you’ve learned the easy technique for painting flower petals, put those petals together to create a poppy flower with a realistic visual depth.

Now that you’ve practiced painting flower petals and basic flowers, try this oil painting exercise: 4-5 poppies in a circle surrounded by foliage and leaves.

Darrell Crow continues to demonstrate how to paint a circle of beautiful flowers surrounded by foliage. In part 2, paint your first yellow flower.