I'm a coder who learnt to paint, and what I did was attend a into course over a number of weeks and I found that was a really good way to do it (for me)... it w

I'm a coder who learnt to paint, and what I did was attend a into course over a number of weeks and I found that was a really good way to do it (for me)... it was pretty cheap and it quickly broke my preconceptions. I went in wanting to be quite precise, and that is nearly the opposite of what you need to do. Painting is highly refactorable, mistakes don't doom your painting. A lot of the trick to painting is just to paint a lot and learn what paint does how it interacts with other paint and how you can manipulate it with various instruments ( brushes, etc ) If you are going to teach yourself, I reckon watching Bob Ross on youtube and try and follow along is not a bad way to go.