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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.
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Artist: Chris Huang
Country Road-Judith Visker acrylics
Artist: Judith Visker
Sunny beach
Artist: Brian Caesar
Solo farm house
Artist: Brian Caesar
My attempt. Headland should be darker but got bogged down with white paint!
Artist: Laura Searle
Sand Dune Beach 8x10 oil on board by Darla Calhoon-Rice
Hi Darla, wow this has got a real blaze of warmth blasting out from the sun. Nice recession back there, if a little bereft of detail. You've added yellow to all your highlights too which has added beautifully to the lighting effect. Hey just one point, see the big S-curve of the edge of the foreground sand dunes? You've over-simplified it, making it very smooth and manicured, which, yes, is more peaceful, but removes variety and interest from the painting. Think about variety when making the shapes in your paintings, both big and small.
Sunset Beach
Great work, Peter - nice colour, brushwork and attention to detail. Really nice work in the foreground sand and grasses. I'd just caution you about repeating shapes in the rocks on the beach - see how they're clumped randomly, which is great, but the individual rocks are mostly the same size and shape and there's a diagonal string of 4 of them leading up and off to the right like good little soldiers with all the same spacing. It's so easy to make this mistake because our brains adore a good pattern, so you need to consciously work against it with every shape and brushstroke in your painting.
‘Sunlit beach at Perranporth’ (painted after 6 month’s break!)
Hi Barbara, thanks for your painting. Looks to me like a great start, and with some more study of the demo painting this could be improved. Don't you hate it when the teacher says 'great start'! :-) The first thing, and the biggest, is the big hill on the right. You weren't quite sure what to do with that, possibly because that's how the hill looked in your photograph, like a big area of flat colour with barely any detail. Well you've achieved that, but now you could add some interest by introducing a big soft radial transition getting gradually lighter and more orange towards the sun. Then you could reshape the base of that hill, turning it up to the left a little, and darkening the beach with a darker grey where the hill would cast a shadow upon the sand. You could also add a few little bumps and bushes to the edge of the hill to give it more interest. Next, you could add a similar soft orange glow in the distant hills on the right, close to the sun. To finish, add a few soft darker shadow clumps in the foreground grasses. Then sign it, put your feet up and enjoy with a good coffee.
Sunset Beach, acrylic
Really nice work here Evelyn. Beautiful lyrical brushwork and good drawing. The only thing I'd bring your attention to is the dark brown outline you've created around the grasses in the left foreground. Outlines tend to flatten depth in a painting, and this painting is all about depth, so it'll pay to fix this. You can remedy it simply by painting the top outline shape a touch lighter. (about 10% lighter. If you look at my painting and the photograph you'll see that that section is actually the hill behind the foreground grasses, and goes down to the beach, so it should be a little lighter than the darks in the foreground. When you do that you'll see that the rocks on the beach would look better a little lighter as well to separate them from the foreground. In the daytime you'll observe that the lights stay relatively the same value as they recede the distance, but the darks get progressively lighter. That's atmospheric perspective in action.
Aug workshop
Hi Mérie, that's a lovely from painting you've made with a convincing glowing light effect from warms to cools. Exciting brushwork and some beautiful shapes in there too. I'm just thinking that the details in the foreground seem a little unfinished - being so close to the bottom of the canvas I'd like to see all the edges in that bottom inch softened and made more suggestive rather than descriptive. Its harshness is interrupting the otherwise soft feel of the painting for me. Beautiful work!
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