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42. WHATS OUT THERE – PREVIEW
We are going to Spain… This week we have a more in depth tutorial that focuses on two women sat on a wall looking out to sea. It’s a great exercise in using wet in wet technique as we need a nice blurred background from which we can build detail into the main focus which is the two women discussing “Whats out there?”
Read More41. DONT DO THAT – PREVIEW
This week we’re having a little fun. This is a composition of my own with a woman, hands on hips, looking on with disdain at a little dog spraying her luggage. It’s a light hearted but great beginner/intermediate tutorial for you all to have some fun with. The reference image doesn’t have a dog in it but I thought adding it made it a better composition, plus you get the chance to choose your own dog, search for one on google, or use the one in the reference drawing. I’d love to see a few different types of dogs in the gallery so go crazy and indulge yourself.
Read More40. THREE MEN WENT TO SEA – PREVIEW
Welcome to Tenerife, This week we’re painting from a photo I took of three men going out on a boat for a days fishing. It’s a scene you see a lot in the small fishing ports and is great fun for all levels of artist. We use the three base colours for our under wash and move to all six for our more detailed work. This is a great painting and I hope you really enjoy it.
Read More39. TETE A TETE – PREVIEW
Bonjour, we’re in France. A typical small cafe, to be specific, with a couple sitting enjoying a drink. This is a great painting for all levels and we’ve had some long tutorials recently so this is nice change of pace running a little shorter at just over an hour. It’s a great use of colours in the shadows and washes then using precision to create the pavement and the shutter effects. I hope you really enjoy it.
Read More38. POOGANS SMOKEHOUSE – PREVIEW
We’re in Charleston, South Carolina, and we’re outside the famous Poogans Smokehouse. This is a challenging and in depth painting that creates a wonderful finished painting worthy of anyones wall. I’ve broken it down in to several sections and we will work through it logically, Don’t worry about counting those bricks in the background, I’ll show you a great way to create the brick effect. It’s a really fun painting that you’ll really enjoy.
Read More37. FRENCH GARDEN – PREVIEW
This week we’re in France. This is a photo of my wife Pauline gardening on a trip to France a couple of years ago. This presents some challenges, it has some fantastic colours throughout, but we have to keep the painting balanced to create realism. It’s a really fun painting to follow along with. We will use three colours initially and then progress to using all six to add details throughout, there’s no blurred backgrounds, which means lots of detail, but I know you’ll really enjoy this one.
Read More36. HAND IN HAND – PREVIEW
This could be anywhere in the world, it’s a painting of a couple holding hands walking down a promenade next to a beautiful blue and green sea. We use lots of colours in our shadows, whilst retaining the highlights using the white of the paper. Our background wash creates a grounding for our subjects feet, through the use of the sunlight casting shadows, and the lovely blurred background is created using wet in wet technique. It’s a really fun painting that you’ll really enjoy.
Read More35. TWO IN TENERIFE – PREVIEW
This painting is a little different. We have two people, two trees, two pigeons, it’s two in Tenerife. An advanced tutorial for those who really want to get stuck into using multiple washes using our base three colours and then using all six colours to create a deeper more detailed tone for our subjects. We break this down into multiple sections to create a methodical approach to the painting. Enjoy.
Read More34. SONNY MACK – PREVIEW
We’re in Memphis. Beale Street, the world famous home of Jazz and we’re painting Sonny Mac mid performance. This painting only uses three colours to create lovely darks and a shallow depth of field for our background. Then we split the painting of Sonny himself up into nice easy sections before coming in with the final detail at the end. This is a really challenging tutorial but the result is an incredible painting you’ll be really proud of.
Read More33. BACK WITH NOTHING – PREVIEW
We’re on holiday in Tenerife watching the boats go by, but this group of fisherman have come back with nothing so that’s exactly what were calling this one, “back with nothing”. This painting uses lots of the tip of our large brush as well as some fun background washes that bring really vibrant movement to the foreground. Plus we have a nice out of focus feel to the sea behind the boat. The hero of the piece is the two fisherman dragging back their empty net. Enjoy.
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