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Follow me one brushstroke at a time as I take you through the full process of creating this expressive painting of the Rees Valley River in New Zealand. Learn how to design around a central idea and discover the power of a simple palette and a painterly approach.
Good design, colour mixing, passionate brushwork and a variety of powerful ideas and techniques are demonstrated in the video. 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.
The Rees River, New Zealand
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Great work Peter. That's a solid copy. Everything's looking good. I'd just tweak the rocks on the left - make one or two of them bigger and make sure the spaces between them are random. Joining darks together works well to avoid pattern making.
Rees Valley, by Jay Trotter, oil on board, 12x24",
Hi Jay, good painting! Bold brushwork with an interesting variety of texture. Colour's are quite punchy. I'd like to see the black removed from the shadows in the light green tree as it's killing the feeling of light penetrating the leaves. A dark grey green will give you that effect. Interesting how you the darkened hill behind makes the colours pop more in the trees. That's comes at the expense of a little less depth, in terms of how far that hill appears from the viewer, but everything's a trade off. One of my favorite New Zealand artists who painted this area, Douglas Badcock, was a proponent of using strong darks in the background like that to deliver very dramatic, punchy paintings. If you add a few more little bumps to the edges of your mountains they'll look more realistic. Unless you're happy with that level of stylisation of course. Good job.
Placid Stream, Mighty Mountains by Ian States
Gidday Ian, thanks for adding your painting. Really good work here. The drawing is accurate, colours are vibrant, brushwork has interest and variety. You did a great job of layering the receding mountains. Just two colour suggestions for you. The tan sunlit slope on the distant mountains would recede better if it had a little more grey blue in it. Presently it's competing with the trees. Similarly the orange in the water on the left could be greyed down a little. Other than that, perfect!
Mountain River in Oils by Geoffrey Geeson
Great subtle work in here Geoffrey. Really nice. The only small thing I'd like to change is the foreground tree to be a little stronger where it overlaps the second tree so that there's a clearer separation of forms there. Its light shape got a little lost.
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