Acrylic Like Oils Academy

Acrylic Like Oils Academy is for acrylic painters ready to stop copying tutorials. Paint from your own photos and ideas.

Why you should join: Master blending, colour mixing, light, shadow and reference creation, with a lesson library, monthly skill workshops, live paint-alongs and, on Premium, critiques and a guided roadmap from Feliks. From $29 a month.

The one-liner

An acrylic painting academy for people ready to stop copying tutorials.

What they actually sell

Acrylic Like Oils Academy is run by Feliks Kaparchuk. The front-page promise is "For acrylic painters ready to stop copying tutorials and create art from your own photos & ideas." The public offer sits at $42 a month. The roadmap aims at painting from your own photos within a year, with monthly critique and a vote on YouTube lesson topics. Inside sit 9 courses. The page does not spell out a money-back promise. What stands out is how directly the page names the result a buyer wants.

Who pays and why

Acrylic painters frustrated by fast drying paint and muddy colours. The pain is only being able to copy others. They pay for a guided roadmap, monthly critique, workshops and practice lessons. The emotional pull is being around people chasing the same thing, which matters as much as any single lesson.

Where the members come from

Feliks Kaparchuk links out to YouTube, Instagram and Facebook from the page. That points to members arriving through free content first, then paying once they trust the voice behind it. Feliks Kaparchuk stays the visible face of the brand on the page.

What's holding it back

Feedback from one teacher has limits, so the room cannot grow too fast.

Steal this

Let members vote on future lessons so they feel ownership.

Would this work in another niche?

Yes for any craft with a teacher on YouTube. Weak where there is no free content funnel.