• $249 or 4 monthly payments of $62.25

Calling all artists!

If you are ready to learn how to paint people in oils in a REAL-TIME way, on your OWN time, let’s go! Finally accept that portrait commission and learn how to paint realistic people in oils

  • If you have turned down commissioned portraits in the past because you didn’t think you were good enough - this is your course!

  • If you feel confident painting a landscape or animal but get totally tripped up when matching a skin tone - HI, this course is for you!

  • If you have a busy life and learn better at your own pace and in your own space, you’re ready for this course!.


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What's in this Course?

In Let’s Get Real, you will get Master’s level instruction (yes, your girl got an MFA in this!) on how to use oils and fabric to paint beautifully realistic portraits!  This is real-time learning - not a sped up video where you’re scrambling to follow along.  This is a backstage pass into my home studio where I teach you:

  •  How to craft engaging compositions for free 

  •  Where to source models (including 20+ copyright-free images), step by step instructions on how to stretch your own fabric to create an entirely new look 

  • Super easy ways to get your images onto your panels - no hours of sketching! 

  • How to set up your oil palette so you get REAL skin tones - not muddiness 

  • How to layer oils and speed up drying time.

  • How to varnish and frame your work when it’s done! 

You’ll leave feeling confident to take on that portrait commission and share your results on social!   

Is This Course Right for Me?

Hey there! Meet me in my home studio in sunny Florida. I'm sharing all the details in videos and written pdfs! Watch this video:

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"I had a blast learning from Ashley. Her online oil painting course walked me through my very first oil painting. I still have some learning to do to prefect skin tones, overall I am thrilled with the outcome." -Tricia

  • $249 or 4 monthly payments of $62.25

What YOU Get:

This is a self-paced online course with these 8 Modules, which includes videos you can watch and follow along with, and a PDF to download and reference later, including:


  • Sourcing Models and Creating Compositions 

  • Stretching and Prepping your Canvas 

  • Projectors and Transfer Methods 

  • Mixing your Palette (the fun stuff!)

  • Blocking in your 1st Layer 

  • Blending, Color Correcting with 2nd Layer 

  • Glazing and Highlights in your Final Pass 

When you join you will get access to my private facebook community to ask questions and share your wins 

Plus a Free 1:1 30 minute consultation call to get feedback or help at any time in the year you purchase. 

Bonuses:

  • My exact contract template to use when you book your next commission! 

  • Easy shopping lists to grab all your supplies in one trip

  • The first ten students ready to paint get my favorite palette and palette knife for FREE to get you mixing your next skin tones! 

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Who Teaches this Course?

Hey there! I'm Ashley Cassens!

I believe that paint is a conduit for touch in a digital world. I'm a painter, sometimes on fabric, but mostly on walls based out of Tampa, FL.

I am a native Floridian who earned my BFA from Florida Southern College in 2006 practicing figure painting methods and an MFA in Drawing and Painting from Florida Atlantic University in 2017, where I received a full Graduate Teaching Assistantship. 

I developed a signature portrait style combining retro-patterned fabric with highly realistic figures.  That work has since been licensed by Home Goods. This method of painting informs her approach to her favorite mural subject, flora and fauna. 

 ​In 2022, she quit teaching full-time to paint murals.  Her murals are inspired by the process of oil painting and the color palette of her home state, Florida. She is regularly booked by both private and commercial clients in and around the Tampa Bay area. She has since painted 70+ murals, including: schools, non-profits, national corporations, and prominent design firms and private residences. 


Eager to serve her community, Ashley has been featured on TV for her artwork with Daytime, News Channel 8, and Fox 13 Tampa Bay.  Her work has been in print in Creative Loafing and HAVEN Magazine. As a multi-passionate creative, she has hand-painted the illustrations in the children's book Down in the Pasture and authored her own journal Painting Possibilities.  She is passionate about debunking the starving artist myth and was featured on the art and business podcasts, Colour Me Happy and The Artist Academy Podcast.

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