Christmas Prezzy for All Members

[Richard Robinson]

Hi everyone - It's been a while coming but I've just finished the latest MasterClass lesson. It's 60 minutes long and packed full of goodies for you to learn. With this one I'm letting you in on what goes on in my head when I'm doing a painting - WHY I make the decisions I make. Because the lesson is so long I haven't found a way to deliver it as a download yet, so it's only available as a dvd at the moment for $35USD. If you're a member though, I'm giving you a wee discount of $10 on the DVD lesson as a Christmas Prezzy and to say thanks for joining the club.

Members go here for your $25 lesson: http://thecompleteartist.ning.com/page/goodies-for-members

Non-Members go here for your $35 lesson: http://www.newzealandartist.com/lessons.php#manaia


To get the most value out of this lesson I really encourage you to post a photo and comments of your finished painting in the members forum here - you'll see just how valuable that is when you do it.

The finished painting

Here are some of the things I put in the lesson for you:

Design
- The pros and cons of studio painting
- Knowing the limitations of photography
- The importance of tonal prepatory sketches
- Limiting values for strong compositions
- Designing with plains of depth

Colour mixing
- using a reduced palette effectively
- mixing most of your colours first
- mixing colour families
- modifying colours - warm and cool
- 3 ways to check values

Drawing
- finding the real horizon
- how reflections work

Painting
- creating vibrancy with warm and cool colours
- versatility of large brushes
- paint layering - thick over thin, light over dark
- paving the way for highlights
- painting soft mist/clouds
- effective brush technique
- restraining your highlights
- how a mountain can reflect the sky
- warm light, cool shadows
- using the palette knife for major highlights
- making an area glow with light
- how light infuses the edges of a foreground object
- subduing a background in preparation for a foreground object
- rolling the brush to make treetops
- painting realistic reflections
- creating texture with the palette knife
- avoiding muddy colours by using a large brush
- painting grass easily
- painting reflected light

and HEAPS more - all in 60 minutes.

Enjoy!

[Richard Robinson]

Yes here it is: http://www.livepaintinglessons.com/landscape_MM.php

[Mary M]

Is this DVD still available somewhere?