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Continuing with the previous workshop’s theme of coastal cliffs at sunset, this time we learn to invent our own beautiful sunset lighting effect from a midday reference. Tricky, but can you do it!?
Follow me step by step as I show you the techniques I use to paint this inspiring sunset beach scene. Painting a large glowing light effect, translucent water, atmospherics and simplifying complex structures are all 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.
"A Day on the Water" 15 x 15" Oil on Canvas by Richard Robinson.
Painted en plein air. (Outdoors on site).
"California Cliffs" 13 x 13" Oil on Canvas by Richard Robinson.
"Lucky Bay" 9.5x12" Acrylic on Board by Darby Swisst
Great to see this different approach Darby which looks great. I love how you've utilised the texture of the paint to suit the different subjects and that works particularly well in the cliff face. I feel like you need to put some more work into the foreground cliff and bush. Seems to me that the texture in the foreground cliff should be even thicker, or show some more rock structure to differentiate it from the other cliff. The bush too looks a little formless. Other than that I love this painting. Great work.
"Two Cliffs" 16x20" Oil on Canvas Paper by Pauline Le Merle
Hi Pauline, you just about hit the jackpot here. You're painted the majority of this beautifully and I just feel that it loses it in the ocean and sky. The ocean has too many conflicting lines in it and the orange in the sky seems out of place. I've adjusted those two things in Photoshop - see what you think.
"Two Cliffs" 16x20" Oil on Canvas Paper by Pauline Le Merle - Altered
"Sunlite Beach" 11x14" Oil on Canvas by Sharon Bray
Good work Sharon. You've achieved an interesting variety of colour in both cliff faces while not getting muddy which seems to be one of the hardest parts of this project. I've made a few suggestions in Photoshop for you. So I lightened sky and sea a little in the glowing area to make that effect more dramatic and at the same time I lightened the darks in the base of the cliff a little to tie in with that glowing effect and also to provide more separation between this and the foreground. I also softened the shadows on the beach because you have made them look like cast shadows from the hill rather than a soft cloud shadow which was my intention. The sun is the wrong position to cast shadows like that from the hill. I also broke up the hard staight line of the foreground hill against the beach to provide more shape interest. Small things to think about. Nice job.
"Sunlite Beach" 11x14" Oil on Canvas by Sharon Bray - Altered
"WS44" Oil on Canvas by Silke Sauritz
Hi Silke, you've done a good job with this painting. Nice subtle use of greys in the rocks and you've made a strong glowing effect which is the main goal of this workshop. The lines of the beach and water look a bit odd on the left as they turn upwards together although I do like the idea of bringing the eye back around into the scene by angling up rather than down. Some of the horizontal cracks in the foreground cliff are lining up cracks in the other cliff - good to avoid that sort of thing because it confuses things a little. The spotlight on the beach and water looks great. Good work!
"Central Coast Evening Glow" 12x12" Oil on Canvas by Stuart J. Gourlay
Nice one Stu. Good drawing and value control. Seems to have gotten muddy between the warms and lights in the cliff and the ocean. Keeping a separate brush for warms and cools will help. The peachy glow in the cliff is not yet consistent with the light in the scene behind it, which should be much more orange and light to produce that sme colour in the cliff. Also the transition from pink outwards in the cliff could be smoother and more radial to indicate glowing light. Other than that it's all good.
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