Critiques for the Waipu Cove Workshop
Join this critique round-up from Painting Waipu Cove. See student works reviewed and learn how to loosen up realism with bold shapes, value structure, texture, and playful paint handling.
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September 21 2026
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August 6 2026
Critiques for the Water Lilies Workshop
Dive into our Water Lilies critique round-up from Richard Robinson’s workshop. See student paintings reviewed and learn to design strong compositions, soft edges, rich gradations, and sparkling impasto highlights.
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June 30 2026
Painting Acrylics Like Oils
Love the look of oils but paint in acrylics? Over the years I've worked out a system to make acrylics behave just like oils — slow blending, soft edges, glowing glazes and all. Here's exactly how I do it.
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May 5 2026
Critiques for the Boat Repairs Workshop
Explore captivating critiques of student paintings from Richard Robinson's "Boat Repairs" workshop. Learn tips on bold brushwork, colour harmony, and adding character to your scenes.
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April 21 2026
Painting Trip in Glenorchy
Richard Robinson, Scott Hamill, Paul Kratter and Bill Cone paint out together in beautiful Glenorchy New Zealand.
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April 12 2026
Painting San Francisco Streets
Well I never thought I’d want to paint a city street but San Francisco changed my mind. The subject of the painting is really the light and atmosphere and the interesting shapes found in a street scene.
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January 11 2026
Painting with more VaRiEtY
If you can remember to find each of these differences and enhance them in every scene you paint, you’ll be making paintings with much more variety. Variety, or in other words, contrast, is what holds people’s attention to a painting. In this lesson, we focus on doing just that.
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October 28 2025
Student critiques for the Rustic Shed Painting Workshop.
Student critiques for the Rustic Shed Painting Workshop.
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July 29 2025
How to paint beautiful light
The French (and expensive galleries) call this effect ‘Contre-jour’ lighting, or "against the light," which creates a striking and dramatic effect in landscape painting by positioning the primary light source behind the subject.
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July 10 2025
How to create depth in a painting
In this painting lesson, using the majestic Milford Sound as our subject we will learn how to create depth in a painting, among other things and will learn from the experiences of other painters as I critique their paintings.
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June 3 2025
Critiques for the River Bend painting workshop
Critiques for the River Bend painting workshop
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April 7 2025
Critiques for Point Lobos Painting Workshop
Critiques for Point Lobos Painting Workshop