Richard Robinson's Blog (229)

I'm very happy to release this month's new online workshop and demo video at http://www.livepaintinglessons.com/workshop41.php

This has taken quite some study and I found it exciting to follow Monet's footsteps through Venice (virtually), discovering the history there and to be…

Resource Photo: Pataua South, Northland, New Zealand

I've painted this scene several times before, all with slight variations on a theme. This one is a commission for a specific size so needed to be compressed into the shorter format. Each time I…

12 of my favorite paintings from this year - ready for you to enjoy all through 2015...…

Enjoyed doing this painting today. Dappled light is always tricky - more so across striped,…

"Hidden Valley Trek" 14x14" Oil on Canvas by Richard Robinson (plein air)

Had a nice paint out today with John Crump and his grandson Sam. The weather was not the best - mostly grey and cold but by inventing a little light in the…

Painted this Mural on the climbing wall at Ruakaka Primary School earlier this year. The concept is adapted from Van Gogh's Starry Night. "Reach for the Stars Kids" is the inscription. My biggest painting yet. Painted in a day with large speed brushes. Good…

"Last Light, Ruakaka Beach" 11x25" Oil on Canvas by Richard Robinson

Wow what a stunning Spring evening we had yesterday. Couldn't resist going out for a paint. It was overcast when I started which meant the shadows were warmer…

Summer at the Cove

Oil on Canvas 

16 x 16"

I spent the day with the "Colour in Your Life" TV crew filming me painting this. (See the video…

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Normally I don't fiddle with my plein air work in the studio afterwards, but in this case I'd done such an awful job of the cow that I decided to remedy it in the studio that same night while the paint was still wet. That's the second image you can see there - much better cow, no? The next day (yesterday) I showed the painting to my painting buddy John Crump and he…

Hi guys, been down here in Glenorchy for 3 weeks now, trying to paint around the inclement weather. When it's good it's amazing, when it's bad it's really bad, but at least it brings with it the hope of more snow which makes everything that much more paintable. Got a sore neck at the moment. I think it's from twisting around all the time to see the views here. There's quite literally a painting around every corner.

When you move to a new area…

"Coffee at the Cove" 18x24" Oil on Canvas by Richard Robinson

The block-in completed.

The…

Had a great day today painting with a friend out at Waipu Cove, showing her (and learning myself) the technique of adding broken colour to a painting after the initial block-in stage. I took a before and after photo to help with the teaching…

Had a day to spend in town today so took my paints with me, set up early and painted this beautiful old concrete boat in the Whangarei Town Basin. Apparently it was used in the movie 'mutiny on the bounty' years ago. I loved the shape and the…

Some of our efforts with the first Mastering Sunsets project have just been published in Australian Artist…

Ever had an email like this?:

"Hi there,my name is Larry im an art collector from Connecticut,was

browsing through the internet and my eyes caught this particular work

on the subject,will like to have it for my new apartment probably this

month.please let me know if the piece is available and if yes let me

have the detailed price and more information about it.kindly reply me

with your…

"Evening Gold" 13x15" Oil on Canvas by Richard Robinson

Photo by John Warren at http://paintmyphoto.ning.com/photo/whitby-lass…