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Learn how to make a leading gestural foreground and how to paint with big masses and finish with calligraphic details. Follow me step by step or use the resource photos to paint something more your own. Enjoy!
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Richard is a talented full time artist, who loves painting and teaching.
Hi I’m Richard. I’ve been painting my whole life and back in 2001 I traded my graphic design career for the humble life of a full time artist. I love painting, and as it turns out, I love teaching too.
Nowadays I balance my life between parenting, painting, surfing, travelling and teaching. My work is regularly featured in international art magazines, in galleries in New Zealand and America, on TV and in my Mum’s house.
I give outdoor painting workshops in interesting spots around this beautiful planet of ours and love encouraging people to paint. Two of my favourite artists are John Singer Sargent and Joaquín Sorolla.
My painting website: www.nzpainter.com
I’d love to be your new teacher.
Richard is a master artist with an exceptional skill in identifying and communicating key factors to making successful paintings. I have found his video workshops an excellent resource for improving my own work.
"Boat Repairs" 14 x 14" Oil on Canvas by Richard Robinson.
My motivation was to capture the character of the old boat, and so the painting needs little else to spell that out, which suggested to me the 'visual concept' of the small vibrantly coloured shape set in a large grey plane. View it from 20 feet away and that's what you see first. The nice thing about painting time worn subjects like this is that if you're a loose painter like me it allows you plenty of freedom because the looser your brushwork is, the more character the boat assumes.
"Painting the White Dove" 50x65cm Oil on Canvas by Jon Main
Nice colour work Jon! Great to see you pushing the envelope. Good energy in the brushwork although not so much on the ground. Drawing is good and you're the first I've seen who made really straight thin rigging. Nice! I probably wouldn't have put the yellow scaffolding smack dab in the middle there because it catches the eye more than anything else, though the subject is really the boat itself. You could glaze over it with brown to knock it back a bit, especially considering that it is in the shade. Hang on, your shadows are not all headed in the same direction - shock horror! Something to think about next time. A great looking painting nonetheless.
"Dry Dock 2" 12x12" Oil on Canvas by Diane Grand
A very strong sense of warm light in this, Diane, with beautifully subtle colour changes from warm to cool along the length of the hull. Great modelling of the form. Nice! Excellent drawing too for the most part though you need to trim a bit off the back half of the keel as it is currently bending downwards. Check the photo again. Great idea replacing the background with a tropical scene. Top marks!
"Wet Paint" 18x18" Oil on Canvas by Katherine Daack
Nice work Katherine. Your drawing is pretty accurate, colours are good, if a little light in the background boat on the left which leaves the painting a little right-heavy. Brushwork is lively and exciting, big strokes in the foreground leading our eye into the finer details. A little overworked in a few places tending to muddy colour like at the rear of the boat and in the bushes. If you're going to use a brush to blur edges you need to wipe it clean between each soft stroke otherwise you'll get mud every time. Hope that helps. Good work!
"Repairs" 12x12" Oil on Canvas by Manneherrin
Love the energy in this, Mannerherrin - vibrating with life! Despite the frenetic treatment you've managed to keep the drawing pretty solid, which is not easy to do. I would like to see a little more colour variety within the big shapes - mauves, turquoises, pinks. It's already visually rich but dashes of vibrating complements would be the icing on the cake. Check my Broken Colour Basics course here: www.livepaintinglessons.com/workshop31.php
"Boat Repairs" 12x12" Acrylic on Canvas by Tone Larsen
Welcome to the club, Tone and you've made quite an entrance with this painting. Great painterly work! Drawing, colour and brushwork are all good. I can't see anything I'd change AND it looks like you got the most votes from everyone. Nice one!
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