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Learn how to see the large colour movements within the darks, paint boldly with big shapes and avoid fussing over details. Follow me step by step or use the resource photo below 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.
"Shark Fin Cove" 13 x 13" Oil on Canvas by Richard Robinson.
When confronted with a complex scene like this it's easy to be overwhelmed and carried away by the detail in the cliff faces. In the video I show you how to overcome this by squinting and painting the big colour movements from darks to reflected light to lights. Practice that process a few times and it makes painting everything much easier. Another important lesson in the video is to maintain the strength of the glowing light areas by not defacing them with any strong darks. That goes for the cliffs, the beach and the sea foam.
'Shark Fin Cove' 30x40cm Acrylic on Canvas by Shoman Mohamed - Altered
'Shark Fin Cove' 16x16" Oil on Canvas by Leigh Elks
Beautiful work Leigh. Just one thing - beware of making patterned brushwork. A few of your highlights in the cliff and bushes are very regular - dab dab dab dab, rather than dab, stroke, daub, dab, if you get my meaning. Beware! BEWARE the dab dab! Anyway, very good painting.
'Shark Fin Cove' 16x16" Oil on Canvas by Ken McAlice
Good work Ken. Great movement. Suggest you have a closer look at the drawing next time - perhaps grid it out or use some other transfer method. Also squint down and see how your shadow colours in the cliff are poking out a bit like they're actually lights instead of darks? So the cliff in shadow needs to be darker. Also the sea and sky can get darker as it recedes which makes a great backdrop for the brightly lit island.
'Shark Fin Cove' 12x14" Oil on Paper by Eibhlin Ni Dhrisceoil
Lovely soft colour scheme Eibhlin! Love it. Great brushwork and shape variety and the sea foam and waves are beautifully crafted. The only small thing I'd change is to add a little more blue to the green foliage as it curves away from us towards the sky. Those greens are jumping out a little and this would help to tone them down a touch, bringing them in line with your soft colour scheme and would help to turn the form. Great work!
'Shark Fin Cove' 13x13" Oil on Canvas by Robert H. Smith
Good work Robert. Great to see you using a variety of paint thickness and really plastering it on in the highlights. Good drawing, but do be careful to keep a straight horizon - no one likes a tsunami. If that big bump is a distant land then just avoid running it into the top of the island like that because when we don't overlap objects clearly it tends to flatten that part of the image.
'Shark Fin Cove' 12x12" Acrylic on Canvas by Sharon Repple
Beautiful colour Sharon! Very rich. Interesting that you gave the scene more room around the edges which gives a more spacious feeling. Your cast shadows on the sand could do with a touch more red in them to connect them better to the colour of the sand in the light. Beautiful subtle colour shifts you've achieved in the central rock. Nice one!
'Shark Fin Cove' 30x40cm Acrylic on Canvas by Shoman Mohamed
Nice happy colour scheme. Speaks of joy. I think your photo is actually a bit light so I fiddled with it. I also darkened the water around the base of the rocks and tried to darken the shadows in the rocks. These aren't dark enough in your painting so it makes it hard to see what's in the shadow and what's in the light, which flattens the painting. Be clear from the beginning sketch about where your shadows and lights are going to be.
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