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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.

March 31 2026

By Richard Robinson

Let PaintyBot Critique Your Painting

Ever wished you could get instant, expert feedback on your painting at 2am? Meet PaintyBot, your new AI painting assistant. Upload your work and get a thoughtful critique covering composition, colour, values, and brushwork — anytime you need it.

January 11 2026

By Richard Robinson

Painting with more VaRiEtY

If you can remember to find each of these differences and enhance them in every scene you paint, youâ€™ll be making paintings with much more variety. Variety, or in other words, contrast, is what holds peopleâ€™s attention to a painting. In this lesson, we focus on doing just that.

October 28 2025

By Richard Robinson

Student critiques for the Rustic Shed Painting Workshop.

September 4 2025

By Richard Robinson

Sip Laugh Paint Rockstar

The story of how I started a Sip-Laugh-Paint event in my home town and became a rockstar, sort of.

July 29 2025

By Richard Robinson

How to paint beautiful light

The French (and expensive galleries) call this effect â€˜Contre-jourâ€™ lighting, or "against the light," which creates a striking and dramatic effect in landscape painting by positioning the primary light source behind the subject.

July 10 2025

By Richard Robinson

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.

June 3 2025