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152. HEY WHAT’S UP?
This week we are painting a simple single figure in a great pose from Tenerife. It’s called “Hey, what’s up?” A great pose from our main subject gives a really happy feel to this painting and allows us to use all of our techniques, preserve those whites, a light first wash and wet onto wet and wet onto dry to create a soft background. Enjoy…
Read More151. DAFFS
This week we are painting something sentimental to my wife Pauline. This is just simply called ‘Daffs’ but the beautiful dove piece next to the daffodils was given to pauline on her 18th birthday. I’ve set this still life in a nice bright window upstairs to catch all of the glorious sunshine streaming across both elements, we’ve got soft flowers with some nice white porcelain and an intricate vase too, so its a tricky painting to get right but its a lovely still life to really get your teeth into. Enjoy…
Read More150. ROCK SINGER
As the second part of our double tutorial weekend we are really pleased to introduce “Rock Singer” This is a really different image to my usual choices and creates some fun challenges along the way. We use several washes here building layer on layer and this is a difficult piece to master, but try and try again and you’ll be really surprised with your results. Enjoy our 150th Tutorial.
Read More149. COUPLE WALKING
This week its our double tutorial to catch up on the one we couldn’t launch whilst Phil was in Hospital. This is a nice single wash to create the wonderful ‘couple walking’ and we use all six colours in our first wet on dry wash and then use some lifting techniques once its dried to create a little additional highlight in several areas. Its a nice and short tutorial, at under an hour, so enjoy…
Read More148. WASH DAY – PREVIEW
This week we are painting something that looks simple but gives us the perfect opportunity to really practice creating whites using our 6 usual colours. Our background colours are really important here as they create our soft focus background and make the pillow cases feel bright and sunny. We also use plenty of subtle colour in our white pillow cases to create shape and form. It’s a great painting to really hone your white techniques and it’s only 50 minutes so you can try a few times and see your improvement each time. Enjoy…
Read More147 WALKING IN THE RAIN
This week I’ve followed on from our very basic reflections but using just our three colours creating a more intermediate look at reflections of people. We have four great walking poses, to work at, all in differing positions, with added umbrella’s which creates yet another element, We’ve got it all going on here, pavement lines, strong reflections, details, umbrella shapes and we must not forgot those all important highlights. Don’t fill in all the space, you need those whites. Enjoy…
Read More146. SEAGULLS ON THE SHORE
This weeks tutorial is another in my animal series, this time were painting “Seagulls on the shore”. This is a great way to really practice using bright colours and light in our background and foreground to enhance a fairly simple main subject matter. This painting really uses wet reflections well and shows how simple brushstrokes can enhance your paintings final outcome, you can try this one a few times and really enjoy improving each time. Enjoy
Read More145. COFFEE TIME
This week we’re painting a still life. It’s one of my favourite times of the day especially if the coffee is made in a lovely cafetière, and that’s what we have here, a bright white espresso cup for those lovely bright tones and our worn down silver cafetière for some loose reflections. Using simple shapes in the whole painting keeps detail to a minimum and you can focus on really staying loose. Enjoy…
Read More143. WOMAN IN A HEAD SCARF
After our advanced tutorial last time we’re doing a simple, single figure. This is what I start with on my in-person workshops. We have one focal point being the woman, and we can let our background run a little so we’re genuinely not too focused on background details. We do just one wash, and this is perfect for beginners and intermediate students alike. I really hope you enjoy this as it’s a great way to have some fun with your background and try to make your single figure the star of the painting. Enjoy…
Read More142. SUNSHINE MUSIC – PREVIEW
Let’s get back to painting some figures, and this week we’ve got one of my favourite topics. Buskers make great subjects for “studies of light and shadow” because they are usually in the direct sunlight and so focused on their music there is an intensity and focus about what they’re doing, and that’s what we have to capture. This guy also has a great hat that masks the face but gives us great highlights and so we are going to do one wash only using the bright whites of the paper for our highlights, no first wash, no little adjustments, just one pass creates the entire painting. This is quite advanced so if you’re starting out, either slow the video down to half speed or watch 20 mins then go back and paint that section, take a break and repeat. Take your time here and really preserve those highlights. Enjoy…
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