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Step-by-Step: How to Paint Like Van Gogh

By Dena Peterson

Type
Article
Level
Intermediate
Price
Free
Published
2025
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About this lesson

Dena Peterson lays out a four-stage method for painting in Van Gogh's style: toning the canvas, grid-transferring a composition, underdrawing in thinned burnt sienna and ultramarine, then applying thick, deliberate strokes with stiff filberts to build broken color and impasto texture without overworking.