Single or Group Painting Workshops with Richard Robinson

Group Workshops

Online Monthly Group Workshop

Expressive Skies Title

Many landscape paintings miss this key ingredient.

Expressive Skies!

We'll focus on improving on photos for paintings, designing with your heart, understanding front lighting and painting towering clouds and warm light.

This is a small lesson from a larger course that I'm building, which will be called Painting Expressive Skies. I expect that to take me 6 months or more. I'm already three months into it. I thought it'd be nice for you to see this one for free, just to whet your appetite for painting expressive skies, and also just to get some feedback from you. If you have any constructive criticism, I'd love to hear from you.

This demo is in acrylics but it's fine for oils too.

Learn About

- The 3 building blocks of expressive skies
- Designing with your heart
- Preparing an acrylic surface to make it easier to paint
- Painting gradations
- Painting clouds with expressive brushwork and character
- Creating detail with texture

At the end I'll choose 5 student paintings to critique and they will also be included in the International Artist magazine. Enjoy!

Only available to premium members for $20usd/month.

Just want to buy this lesson? Get it here.

Expressive Skies

2nd November 2024, 10am-4pm
Whangarei, New Zealand

Join me for a fun day of painting expressive skies.

Find out what a huge difference a dramatic sky can make to your paintings, and how a sky can be a painting in its own right.

Max 10 students. Be in QUICK. Learn more here.

Paint Lake Ohau, New Zealand

27th - 29th November 2024

With the Dynamic Duo

3 DAYS TUITION (with TWO teachers!) $700
Required skill level: Absolute beginners to advanced painters are all welcome.
Painting Medium: Anything you prefer. Demonstrations will be in oils and acrylics.

Maximum number of students: 10

Come join Richard Robinson and Scott Hamill on this once in a lifetime plein air workshop adventure!

We will be painting at a variety of locations around Lake Ohau in the South Island of New Zealand. This is quite literally a painter's paradise! The instructors will help you to improve your plein air paintings with a focus on simplifying the scene and creating strong design with value structure. Other topics of instruction will include colour mixing strategies, brushwork, edge control and improving your outdoor painting efficiency.

Be in QUICK. Learn more here.

Want me to teach a workshop in your area?

Each year I teach a few workshops in various locations. I've taught in New Zealand, Mexico, The French Alps, Australia, Hawaii, USA, Canada, Italy and Spain.

Simply contact me and we'll see what we can arrange. I'm happy to fly to anywhere in the world to teach (when covid allows) - just let me know where you are and how many people you could organise to join us. It's not as difficult as it sounds - just contact a local painting group if you're not already in one and put the idea to them.

For instance to fly to the United States for a workshop I would need about 10-15 people for a 2 day class paying $150USD each per day. The closer you are to New Zealand (where I live) the cheaper the workshop would be - Australia would cost about $120AUD each per day. Within NZ is about $100NZD each per day.

Contact me to talk about a organising a group workshop.

Private Tuition

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For anyone wanting to develop their painting skills rapidly, a one on one day course with me could be just what the doctor ordered. We'll usually start outdoors where you'll learn about WHY things look like they do and how to translate your perceptions to paint on canvas. We can also paint in my studio.

The tuition will be tailored to your skill level - even if it's your very first painting. It's a fun and engaging day and your brain will be bursting with information by the end of it. My goal is to thoroughly inform and inspire you to greater things.

Individual Cost: $350
With a friend: $450

I can supply all or any materials at very cheap prices.

You will need...
All your painting gear
Outdoor easel
Seat
Sun Umbrella
Insect repellant
Lunch
Drink
Sun Hat
Sun Screen
Long-sleeved shirt
Camera
Roll of toilet paper/rags
Plastic bag for rubbish
Swimsuit if you want to swim

Contact me to arrange a day course or to find out more.