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Learn how to draw a seagull more accurately, how to sculpt the form with large planes, how to create an elegantly subdued colour scheme using a simple palette, how to use just a few sharp details to bring your seagull to life, and a lot more.
Follow me step by step or use the 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.
"Jonathan Seagull" 15 x 15" Oil on Canvas by Richard Robinson.
"I THINK I'VE FOUND LUNCH!!! :)" 15x15" Oil on Canvas by Silvana M Albano
"Local gull found in the Atlantic Ocean. 'Brown Hooded Gull'. It's a really funny looking gull with a great expression!! It seems to be a cartoon.... but it isn't!!" Looks like you had lots of fun with this one Silvana! Nice off balance design implying movement and action. Good modelling of the bird from light to dark, although you could possibly have made him even rounder by darkening the shadows a little. That's a minor thing. I love how you've made this painting part realism part abstract by exploring all the textural possibilities in the wet sand. Great work!
"Flying Seagull" 24x30cm Oil on Canvas by Elena Sokolova
Elena I love this painting and also the other one you did of the seagull on the post. I've been trying to figure out how you did this because it seems to be a departure from your usual work. There are parts of this that almost look photographic and other parts that are so painterly they speak well of the action and spirit of flight. Frame it!
"Gail Gulls" 10x10" Oil on Canvas by Gail Richardson
Good work Gail. A polar opposite to Tone Larsen's painting, above where you've carefully delineated each segment. Great job capturing the form of the birds including beautiful warm halftones. Same goes for the translucent and reflective water. Not easy but you did it well. If it were my painting the only thing I made change would be to add more glowing light bouncing of the brightly lit chests as I demonstrated in the video. It's just one of those little touches we painters can add to out-do the photograph.
"Seagull Snack Time" 25x30cm Acrylic and Oil on Canvas by Jessica Futerman
Nice work Jessica. The drawing is good, the surrounding colours too. Modelling of the head is good but unfortunately you've gone a bit too light in the shadows so we're not getting that round feeling as in the head. I spent a few minutes darkening the bird's shadow areas in Photoshop to show you what it would look like. Note that I didn't touch the lights - the darker darks also make the lights look brighter. If you remember I talked in the video about thinking of the large egg shaped form of the bird throughout the painting of the details therein so that we don't lose sight of the big shape, the big effect of light on form. Squinting always helps us to see the forest for the trees.
"Seagull Snack Time" 25x30cm Acrylic and Oil on Canvas by Jessica Futerman - Altered
"Jonathan and his girlfriend" 12x16" Acrylic on Canvas by Tone Larsen
Great work, Tone - I love the painterliness of this. The drawing of the birds could be a little better but they have a certain sweet charm about them anyway. A viewer will be entranced by your suggestive brushwork, making them much more a part of the painting as they try to decipher the strokes. Love it!
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