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Learn how to make a soft-focus background, an easy drawing cheat, simple techniques for creating complex detail and every single step of the painting. Follow me step by step or use the techniques and resource photos 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.
"Kingfisher" 15 x 15" Acrylic on Canvas by Richard Robinson.
"Kingfisher" 16x8" Oil on Linen Board by Elise Mahaffie
Great work Elise! Interesting to see the difference in effects between Kym West's painting done in acrylic on board, and yours done in oil on linen. You've done an outstanding job here with excellent drawing and subtle colour transitions both large and small - a real gem. I can't suggest any improvements. Beautiful!
"Kotare Sacred Kingfisher" 40x40cm Oil on Canvas by Isabel Heller
Hi Isabel, I like the dramatic addition of the dark plant - very dynamic, and nicely painted, though I do think if it were lightened and blued a smidge then that dark wouldn't compete so much with the foreground elements. I'd also throw in a few other blurry branches to help balance the design. The bird is well drawn and painted. The blue wing is looking a little flat due to not quite enough dark on its left side. Good job!
"Kotare Sacred Kingfisher" 40x40cm Oil on Canvas by Isabel Heller - Altered
"Kingfisher" 30x30cm Acrylic on Board by Kym West - Altered
"Kingfisher" 30x30cm Acrylic on Board by Kym West
Hi Kym, a very striking painting! Love those shafts of light and the green tone that carries through into the branch. The painting was looking a little flat to me so I deepened the shadows around the bottom half of the body, the head, and the underside of the branch which has given the elements a little stronger sense of roundness and realism. The biggest change was darkening the light blue along the bird's back so that it didn't jump out so much. Also a little stronger highlight on the moss. Hope that helps.
"Kingfisher Study" 12x12" Oil on Canvas by Laurel Hinz
Beautiful work, Laurel! Excellent drawing and painting skills, subtle colour perception and you've achieved an overall colour harmony by adding more green into the background. The only tweak I could suggest is to beware of muddy colour in the background which has developed a little through painting a few lights into the darks and then smooshing them together. Moving from one colour group to another in a blurry situation like this can so quickly be spoiled by overworking with a brush that contains a little of every colour there, making grey. My solution to that as you saw in the video is to work gradually into the darks in one colour group and then at the very last, introduce the new colour and try to apply that with minimal fussing.
"Kingfisher" 9x12" Oil on Canvas by Sharon Pelicano
Nice work Sharon. The bird's colours and form have been very carefully rendered - beautifully crisp against the soft background, which perhaps could have done with a little more work to adding more branches etc to make it as convincing as the foreground. The end of your branch could do with some thinning down since it's currently thicker at its end than its beginning. (Oh mine's on the verge of doing that too now that I look!). A few minor points. Overall this is great work!
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