Oil pastels are definitely a unique and challenging medium! Lena Rivo has an excellent and very thorough oil pastels course. It’s a little spendy, but it’ll keep you going for a long time and covers a lot of ground. She’s also got a free guide here.

Here's my go at the woman in the chair from Lena Rivo's oil pastel course. Really enjoying the course!!

I recently registered for Lena Rivo’s oil pastel class and am currently working my way through the material. What I will say is that it’s an incredibly thorough class and I’m learning a lot. She works in a traditional, realism style, which is great for learning, even though it isn’t the style I normally work in. I’d say, if you really want to do a deep dive, it’s worth it. The class will keep you going for a while! That said, if it’s too spendy for you at the moment, I’m sure you can find free classes on YouTube, they just won’t be presented in such a logical, thorough way.

I’ve also been doing Lena Rivo’s class and really learning a lot! I have some art background so I knew some of the theory already but it’s been so helpful to see it applied specifically to oil pastels. I did a lot of different YouTube tutorials but any serious oil pastel beginner can benefit from her class. It’s a great overview along with giving a lot of different demonstrations to practice.

This is the boat from her oil pastel course. I'm not quite getting the feel she has but I do think I'm progressing. I learned about saturating colours with grey and beige on this one which will be useful in the future I think.

Lena Rivo has an excellent and very thorough oil pastels course. It’s a little spendy, but it’ll keep you going for a long time and covers a lot of ground. She’s also got a free guide here. Blackbean CMS also has some great videos on YouTube, and his style is very different from Lena’s.

For context, I'm working through the Oil Pastel course by Lena Rivo and really enjoy the teaching style and method if anyone is familiar with it.

Thank you! I'm taking Lena Rivo's oil pastel course, but haven't gotten to the actual oil pastels section (still in the drawing section), so I've just been using stuff I learned in her gouache course and it's working pretty well!

I'm taking Lena Rivo's oil pastel course, and it has a drawing section at the beginning where she teaches contour drawing, which can be applied to anything!

So I've just started getting into art and I chose oil pastels to start. I'm really enjoying it and working though the Lena Rivo course and producing what I think is some ok stuff.

I'm currently working through the Lena Rivo oil pastel course which is excellent.

I found her oil pastel course really valuable. She's a good teacher.

... I learnt this from Lena Rivo's online oil pastel course.

BTW, Lena is an excellent teacher.

I am taking a Gouache master class from Lena Rivo online. She is an extremely accomplished Gouache artist.

I have taken several. By far the best one is with Lena Rivo.

I agree. Lena is terrific!

I'm in the process of taking Lena Rivo's course on gouache. It may be more than you were wanting to spend, but it is comprehensive and oh so good.

Lena’s a superhuman no gouache artist can compete with in coloring!

Personally I think this course is well suited to an intermediate painter because she does go quickly with her colour mixing in the studies. However, the course has excellent beginner content (drawing, mixing, color theory), but you may end up having to do the studies slowly and really practicing the early content, which is ok since you have the time!

This course is very impressive with over 20 hours of lessons. Lena explains the whole process from start to finish. I haven't seen a better one. :)

I like the class Lena Rivo offers. It’s called Color Mastery and it was a good investment for me.

Love your work as always Lena! I am chipping my way slowly through your colour mastery essentials course 😍

My first finished painting from Lena Rivo's Color Mastery course! Still getting used to how wiggly paintbrushes are, but I'm really happy with it.

Latest gouache painting from Lena Rivo's Color Mastery course!! This one took a lot longer than any of the others so far. Running my hand over it, the oranges noticeably stand up off the page, just because of how many layers I put on them while trying to get the color right. 😅

Second gouache painting from Lena Rivo's Color Mastery course!

I took Lena Rivo's gouache Color Mastery course, which was massively helpful to my art overall, and now I'm taking her oil pastel course which has a lot of the same information but even more in-depth and specifically for using oil pastels.

Check out Lena Rivo, she’s great. Has free pdf info and tips on her website plus a YouTube channel, and also offers a gouache course.

Pls look into purchasing Lena Rivo's Color Mastery course- I can't tell you how much this has helped me in color theory, line drawing, and painting techniques and I am not even halfway done yet.

Lena Rivo’s Color Mastery course. It is absolutely fantastic, worth every penny!

Lena Rivo! I love your work. I’m one of your students for your online course, awesome stuff!

I like the class Lena Rivo offers. It’s called Color Mastery and it was a good investment for me.

Ive been having fun with the Lena Rivo Art Color Mastery course. Trying to work through it slowly and thoroughly.

I took that course too and it’s wonderful.

Color mastery by Lena Rivo. It has everything you need. Her gouache guide is a great starting point.

I am a Lena Rivo student too. She has free guides. But the color Mastery course is fabulous especially for those looking to make art for sale.

Lena Rivo- her classes are now lifetime access! She walks you through drawing, color mixing, and painting, including blending and layering the paint. When you complete the course, you will have everything you need to move forward.

Painting from Lena Rivo’s comprehensive painting with gouache course. She has free e-books and tutorials on YouTube as well.

This is gouache week for my art goals. This is a lesson from Lena Rivo in her exquisite color Mastery Course.

This exercise took me 3 days and 2 tubes of white. 😉 Gouache on Arches Paper (Exercise from Lena Rivo course)

I loved Lena’s course. I may revisit.

I highly recommend Lena Rivo. Might be my favorite online class ever.

Lena Rivo, amazing artist and her class offers a wealth of useful information. Check her website.

One of the exercises that I´ve made for a gouache course (course is given by Lena Rivo

Lena Rivo has some great videos on Youtube and has courses you can take.

Lena Rivo - check out her posts and she runs online courses for guache!

I just finished Lena Rivo's wonderful gouache painting course. 😍 I had never used gouache before and I found her videos on Youtube when I was searching for help. It was like finding a goldmine and to make things more amazing my husband and I got to meet Lena last year when we were in Portugal for 3 weeks. That was a highlight of our trip without doubt! She is as lovely, gracious and amazing as her paintings we all enjoy!! Thank you Lena Rivo for sharing your incredible talent and knowledge in such a professional and fantastic course!