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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. Take this lesson to learn how.
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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.
Looking for a spring mood
Artist: Claudia Morgan
Ugh--love the lesson but not my paintings!
Artist: Claudia Morgan
Color Moods Attempt
Artist: Tarannum Khatib
Fairy Evening, Oil on Paper 29,5x40 cm, by Genevieve Reinke
Artist: Genevieve Reinke
Early Morning Reflections
Artist: Barbara Magor
Quiet in the Gray by Nancy Sands
Hi Nancy, great use of a calming blue-green colour scheme to enhance the mood of an already calming scene. Beware making trees the same size and shape, even if they are in the photo. Building tree groups as family groups helps avoid that - a large father, smaller mother and several different sized kids.
Bright Summer Day on the Salmon River by Nancy Sands
Great spotlight effect on the hills and colour gradation through the tree, Nancy. Simplifying the detail on the water in the background and reducing the size of any details there will help create more distance there. In broken water the reflections of the hills wouldn't appear so strongly. I'd either subdue the reflections with more sky reflections or remove the waves.
Reference Sharon Repple
Artist: Sharon Repple
Color Mood Overcast by Sharon Repple
Artist: Sharon Repple
Color Mood Cheerful by Sharon Repple
Hi Sharon, great work on this and your other colour study. Looks like you've got the technique down pat. Interesting now to see how you might use this technique in the future.
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