The secret book project
I've been quietly working on this children's book project with a friend for over a year now...
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September 2 2019
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September 2 2019
Nemesh Guided Painting 1, Student Work
Student paintings from Nemesh's Guided Painting 1
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August 6 2019
Light vs Dark Shapes
One of the easiest ways to make a dynamic design is to play dark shapes against light shapes and light shapes against dark shapes. You can see that happening all through this painting.
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August 4 2019
The Right Moment
Knowing a scene well in all weather, season and lighting conditions can allow you to capture it at its dramatic best.
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August 2 2019
Drawing the Eye
In this demo painting in the Rees Valley I focused more on the beautiful colour in the foreground and reduced the importance of the mountains by cropping them out but the longer painting below made use of all the elements in the scene.
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August 1 2019
Colour Moods Critiques
Learn how to give any painting powerful mood and emotion. Hollywood has mastered the art of manipulating our emotions visually by creating colour moods for each scene. It’s called ‘colour grading’ and you can do it too in your paintings.
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July 31 2019
Easily Creating Depth
How to easily paint depth in a mountain scene.
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July 16 2019
Nemesh Guided Painting 1
Nemesh Guided Painting 1 The start of a wonderful journey...
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July 1 2019
2 Colour Simplicity
Your job as a painter is to simplify what you see and give it your own style. Your style grows of it’s own accord, so the question is, how MUCH should you simplify what you’re seeing?
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June 21 2019
Painting Live Motion
Painting waves from life, or anything that moves, is pretty tricky. Waves have the advantage of a repeating movement...
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June 21 2019
Greyscale and Thumbnail Colour Studies
Painting tips from my latest workshop in California.
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May 31 2019
Mastering Waterfalls Student Critiques
Critiques of several student paintings from the Mastering Waterfalls painting workshop.