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128min video lesson.
Two months after I made this Painting Waves course I decided to add this bonus chapter, including all the new learning I had done myself, learning from master artists like William Trost Richards, Ruo Li, and Roy Tabora.
"Waipu Cove Paradise" 10x30" Acrylic on Canvas
I've taken this long format painting and reimagined it in a shorter canvas better suited to video, so you can learn all the skills and concepts required to apply to any beach you love. 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.
Waipu Cove
16x20" Acrylic on Canvas
Waipu Cove Paradise
10x30" Acrylic on Canvas
Number 2
Artist: Terry Eldridge
"Waipu Cove" painted in acrylics, by Eric Hillmer, Toronto, ON Canada.
Artist: Eric Hillmer
Sunset beach
Artist: Brian Caesar
Waipu Cove sunset
Artist: Tena Wood
Waves at Waipu Cove 53x56cm
Hi Anne-Dore, good job with the drawing and colour, and some of that brushwork is elegant, particularly in the tree and the foreground thin foam. I'd like to see a more gradual transition from dark cool to warm light in the clouds. Not easy, I know. Also, painting over some of the choppy foam pattern in the face of the swell behind the main wave would help simplify it and smooth it out.
Waipu Cove in oils
Hi Geoffrey, pretty decent drawing and colour work here. Great wave shape. My only tip would be to avoid over-painting as much as you can. You've done a fair bit of overpainting, most prevalent here in the sky. The only way to achieve a fresh painterly look without over-working the paint is to consider each brushstroke before you place it. What do I want to achieve with this stroke? How will I load the paint on the brush to achieve that? Is the paint the right thickness for my purpose? Am I using the best brush for that? How will I move and turn the brush to achieve that? All those questions go into brushwork that actually looks effortless when it's achieved. Of course, it's easier the second, third, fourth time you paint a thing. You build a brushstroke toolkit in your mind for achieving different things over time. That's why I'd like to challenge you to paint this again but with all those brushstrokey thoughts in mind as you go through the painting. Other than that, you've got everything working nicely in this painting.
Sunset breaks, acrylic with oil glazing, canvas, 40 cm x 50 cm
Bold colourful work Elena, as usual. Just two things I'd like to tweak. The gradation of colour from dark to light in the clouds could be smoother. You could create more of a soft blur of sea spray over and around the foam crashing against the rocks in the distance. Currently their sharp edges bring them forward too much. Good job!
Waipu Beach
Great work, Jay. Strong colour and confident brushwork. Good to see. I'd suggest you take a look at this in a mirror or flip it over in the computer and take a note of the things that seem a little off to your eye in the first few seconds of viewing it. Some of the foam angles are off. You've got a great glowing effect in the sky but the cloud shapes themselves could do with some more thought. When you're adding the lights to a tree try to make family groupings of shapes rather than dabbing the same pattern all over. Overall very nice.
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