Southern Light

Teacher Painting

"Southern Light - Plein Air" 13x13" Oil on Canvas by Richard Robinson

Teacher Painting

"Southern Light - Studio" 13x13" Oil on Canvas by Richard Robinson

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Student Painting

"Dor's WS 30 no symphony tweaked" Oil on Canvas Paper 13x13" by Dorian Aronson

I love the intense colour in this painting Dorian and you've done very well to push the broken colour idea to its limits without changing the values in each area. Great work! There are a few areas you've smudged over which I'm sure you're aware of that could use some attention and some of the rigging could use a bit of tensioning to get them straighter and headed up to the right place, but other than those obvious points this is a great painting - a feast for the eyes.

Student Painting

"Harbor Scene" Oil on Canvas 60x70cm by Jon Main

Good work Jon. The first thing that strikes me is the design - quite daring to include the snippet of the boat in the front left corner there, reminding me of Sorolla's impromptu compositions which give more the impression of a view of something from everyday life, not something careful posed. Great to see you using the broken colour idea in the sky especially and threading colours throughout the painting. I think the only thing letting this painting down at the moment is the drawing. The red sale coming in from the left bends as it goes up for instance, and the waterline of the black boat on the right is below that of the white boat in front of it and there's a sail tucked in between those two boats which doesn't make sense. Some of the masts and their reflections are at odd angles too. Some of the reflections are brighter than their sources too which spoils the illusion of reflection. Fix those sorts of drawing issues and you're onto a real winner here. Good stuff.

Student Painting

"Online Workshop #30" Acrylic on Board 30x30cm by Marisa Comana Pessina

Good work Marisa, you've got the basics of this working well. The drawing is good, although the dock is at an odd angle and the reflection of the first bumper needs to start where the bumper touches the water. You've started to play with the broken colour idea in the water but it's absent elsewhere. Being acrylics, you can paint right over the top of this without delay so I encourage to do just that - have another think about adding broken colour into all the other areas of the painting and just as you've done so well in the water, keep the value the same as the colour you're working into. Don't be afraid to paint thick and leave those brush strokes showing!

Student Painting

"Morning Light" Oil on Canvas 20x20cm by Steinunn Einarsdottir

Nice work Steinunn, great to see you combining the ideas from a previous workshop into this one as well with the very simplified light filled background. It certainly gives the scene a different mood altogether. You mentioned having some trouble with the canvas soaking up the paint. Just giving the blank canvas a coat of gesso will help a lot with that, or even a coat of white acrylic. Getting a smoother canvas will also help as it takes less paint to fill the weave. I use Fredrix Ultrasmooth at the moment. Your reduced palette has worked really well with this painting and that's adding to the more subdued mood. Great to see that. It's reminiscent of some of Charles Movalli's work which has been some of my inspiration for this particular workshop. The subtle bits of broken colour you've introduced are working well, although I challenge you to push that further in the next workshop. See how much visual vibration you can add into the painting before the whole thing shakes apart. Your big brushwork is great but I would highly recommend switching to a finer brush for the detail work of ropes and poles etc. A smoother canvas will allow finer brushwork to show more clearly.

Student Painting

"Supper Time" Oil by Aurelia Sieberhagen

Great painting Aurelia and a good example of the clever use of broken colour - thank you. You've managed to keep delicate control of your values so that from a distance each colour block has the appearance of a shimmering area whereas up close we can see the individual colours that add together to create this beautiful effect. Great to see you simplifying the overall value scheme too and also turning the forms of the animals by changing colour temperature - beautiful! I don't have anything helpful to add sorry, just wanted to point out the good work to others and give you a pat on the back.