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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.
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Rustic Farm Shed 10x12" Oil on Canvas
Rustic Shed at Ruakaka
Rustic Farm Shed 12x12 Oil on Canvas
Great job, Nancy. Your colours are spot on, and there’s some good expressive brushwork in there, especially in the foreground. The old shed is looking suitably ramshackle and there’s a nice variety of colour and brushwork in the ground plane, which has the potential to be dull if not treated this way. Couple of things that would lift the centre of interest even more would be to add more variety in colour and value to the wooden fencing and the red doors.
Ruakaka barn, 12x10” oil on panel
Nicely done, Mark! Lots of interest in here with punchy colour and big textured areas contrasting the finer details. One word of advice: keep working on making a mark (Mark) and leaving it, rather than overworking it and obscuring it.
Rustic Shed 8 x 10 Oil on Canvas. My personal challenge was to complete this in one hour!
Great idea, Louise, giving yourself an hour to complete this painting. That shows in the expressive brushwork and bold colour. I like the effect you’ve achieved in the foreground by softening the brushwork there - that pushes your eye to the other areas that are more in focus with sharper edges. I’ve got three tips for you: 1. Add some colour variety into the ground plane with grey browns. 2. Avoid using purple for shadows (like inside the barn). Add yellow or orange to purple to grey it down. 3. Sharpen up the top edges of the barn, because it’s your center of interest so should be in sharp focus.
Rustic Farm Shed Oil on oil paper
Beautifully done, Geoffrey! I think I prefer it to my one. Lots of interesting lyrical brushwork is laid down confidently and left to speak. Intensifying the darks in the foreground has added more gravity to that section, and there’s more to look at; more interest. You’ve made beautiful organic shapes in there too, and throughout - clearly defined like interlocking puzzle pieces. Great work!
rustic farm shed acrylic
Artist: tony o sullivan
Farm shed-Acrylic
Artist: phillip Rysdon
Little Red Truck
Artist: tom prescott
Rustic farm, oil, canvas, 46 cm x 38 cm
Great seeing you do this on a larger canvas with such gusto, Elena! Nicely done. All that expressive brushwork has given this quiet scene a visceral sense of movement and life! What makes that even more effective is that you’ve slowed down and carefully defined the key elements, so there’s a beautiful contrast between movement and stillness.
Rustic Farm Shed in Acrylics by Barbara Magor
Artist: Barbara Magor
Tiffany King, Colorado, 9x12 Oil on Canvas
Beautiful work, Tiffany! The colour and values are very strong and you've kept your colour pure throughout. I love the vibrant edge work you've treated your distant trees too - shimmering with energy. I wouldn't change a thing, except to add some chickens for a little more interest.
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