The Big GameDreams of Venice
For those who want to learn to paint with oil
This time we'll do something we haven't done before in our Games.
We won't paint Venice the way it looks in a photograph. We'll create our own city made of a face, architecture, canals, gondolas, light, and almost abstract painterly fragments.
"Dreams of Venice" an experiment on the border of realism, surrealism, and contemporary painting.
The face will dissolve into the architecture, palaces become part of the portrait, real forms coexist with free patches and textures. And the familiar space of Venice will turn into a fantasy that never existed.
And we'll experiment not only with the subject.
Oil, acrylic, texture paste, and gold all in one piece.
We won't just paint Venice.
We'll invent it.
By the end of the Game, you will have your own professional-looking painting in oils and acrylics
For those who want to learn to paint with oilThe Big GameDreams of Venice
This time we'll do something we haven't done before in our Games.
We won't paint Venice the way it looks in a photograph. We'll create our own city made of a face, architecture, canals, gondolas, light, and almost abstract painterly fragments.
"Dreams of Venice" an experiment on the border of realism, surrealism, and contemporary painting.
The face will dissolve into the architecture, palaces become part of the portrait, real forms coexist with free patches and textures. And the familiar space of Venice will turn into a fantasy that never existed.
And we'll experiment not only with the subject.
Oil, acrylic, texture paste, and gold all in one piece.
We won't just paint Venice.
We'll invent it.
Plans
Join us and make your own piece
You can choose the payment currency in the header, top right
What the course gives you
The main goal of this Game is not to learn to copy a complex image, but to understand how to create similar works yourself.
We will explore how to combine portraiture, architecture, landscape, and abstract painting in a single composition, change the scale of objects, break conventional perspective, and still keep the painting cohesive.
We will also focus on materials. We will create a base in acrylic, add physical texture with texture paste, incorporate gold into the painting, and bring everything together with oils using transparent layers, thick brushstrokes, and freely painted passages.
We will learn to place precisely painted details alongside almost abstract areas, so the painting remains a vibrant contemporary work of art.
Most importantly the original work will be just a starting point. You will be able to change the architecture, face, color, amount of texture and gold, add your own details, and gradually build your own Venice.
By the end of the Game, you will have both a large finished work and experience you can apply to your own paintings: instead of looking for a ready-made subject you will invent your own.
Course programme
Lesson 1
October 1, 7:00 PM MSK
Lesson 2
October 8, 7:00 PM MSK
Lesson 3
October 15, 7:00 PM MSK
- 10/22/2026
Lesson 4
October 22, 7:00 PM MSK
Course results
Mikhail Mishinsky
Artist, teacher
Feedback
Paint your piece following the lesson and send a photo of it. The teacher will look at what worked and what to fix and reply right here; you will also get an email.
- 1Work
- 2Review
- 3Chat