Painting Transparent Water
Many beginner painters see water and assume it’s all blue, or all green, without looking to see what’s really going on.
Many beginner painters see water and assume it’s all blue, or all green, without looking to see what’s really going on.
In the video you’ll learn the ins and outs of stretching canvas on a board using tape, ready for painting in the studio or in the field.
Recorded from an Evening Painters Workshop at Reyburn House, Whangarei, New Zealand.
Recorded from an Evening Painters Workshop at Reyburn House, Whangarei, New Zealand.
I spent the day with the “Colour in Your Life” TV crew filming me painting this.
Here’s an idea you might like to use for a bit of self promotion, or giving your gallery a helping hand in selling your work, or even helping with getting into a gallery to start with.
These days it’s so easy to make your own published media with publish on demand websites popping up all over the web.
This video is just me enjoying doing a little painting with a simple subject. I hadn’t painted for about a week when I did this so I felt the need to just splat some paint on and have a good time.
You may remember a while back I visited Peach Cove and painted a small 10×8″ piece I wasn’t quite happy with.
I thought I’d try designing a painting in 3 values, mostly because the scene seemed to suggest that anyway, so I figured it’d be interesting to see what happened.
This short painting lesson encourages you to start thinking about adding a story to your paintings.
What does an artist learn from 3 weeks in California?