For my studio work I will use only linen ...double primed. For plein air work, I will use linen glued to birch panels OR ..I will use birch panels that have been primed with 2 or 3 coats of oil primer. Stu has a nice technique for preparing gessoed boards that I have tried ..really works good. BTW, there is nothing wrong with cotton ..so long as it is of high quality ..I have just got used to the "feel" of the linen. Fredrix and Utrect have a very good professional quality cotton canvas of various weights...both oil primed and acrylic primed ...the acrylic primer is less expensive.
Thank you for your comments on my painting. No, I have only done acrylic. The oils seem intimidating to me with all of the mixing and specific proportions. The smell of off putting to me, but I've read that they have less offensive product now. Have a good one!
Michael, I just scrolled through your work and I am really enjoying all of them! I could have left comments on all! I have always been intrigued by water color; you certainly do a wonderful job. You have an ability to capture the detail...as in the lovely white rose and also the vastness of a beautiful landscape...bravo!
Good, Richard. Just found out it is plein air. A couple months ago I would have been very excited about that. Temperature dropping and snow is on it's way, so not so excited...getting old! However, we will all find a way.
Great! Richard, looking forward to seeing it. I'm finding this assignment pretty involved and almost daunting, but exciting to!. Just found out what the fourth and last Sunset workshop is...don't think I will be doing well in this one...plein air at dusk in the snow, not wise for this old girl lol! So back to the Grand Canyon I go.
Hi Richard, you have quite a nice educational background for your art. Fortunate you are. With all of that effort and time, you really must hit your stride and keep painting now that you've returned. The colors look good on my monitor. As you know each one is calibrated differently so we must take that into consideration when viewing. I finally figured out how to work with saturation in Photoshop to get closer to my own painting color. (Sunset AllaPrima is LOUD) :) Glad you got some work up. Keep it coming. I'm starting on a 16x20 Grand Canyon landscape right now, from another artist's workshop.
Hey, Capt. Kidd, some romantic stories about that guy! My grandfather was Fred Angelo Wilson, sounds like some French in there somewhere also. Dad's folks were from Wales, Germany and his mom French.
Good for your Ann! I used to be very deeply into crafts but found my way to painting in oils, late in life.
I haven't done genealogy, an aunt did on my dad's side did...found out we had several outlaws, I figured I better leave bad enough alone, lol! My grandfather on my mom's Mississippi side was Scotch-Irish. So if we had a far connection it was probably my ancestor's and yours shooting it out in the war!
Hi Richard. Tried to start a chat with you, did you hear those 2 beeps? lol!
I just realized I've gotten stuck on calling you "Michael". Sorry, Richard, my youngest son is Richard so maybe I'll get it straight. Very glad to hear you are getting active with the brush! Hang in there. You can sign up anytime for the next workshop, it will be Workshop 28. It is an easy process, credit card of paypay=l (my choice.)
Good morning Michael. As an experienced artist it shouldn't require too much time. Video runs 20-23 minutes, if you have the principal(s) he is putting forth then you go for it. He seems to use a 12x12 format most of the time, so it is small. (We can paint with any size, any support.) He paints alla prima so there is no drying time, he also uses a direct sketch rather than an elaborate drawing. You can do a thumbnail, a small color study, you can follow the video using his methods and composition or you are free to use your own with the principals he is teaching. I like to do both. So really, the time is gaged by you and your level of understanding and experience. Being away from painting so long, I am making his and my other directed painting associations, seriously, as an intensive education to bump me up and out as an active, producing artist. Again, depends on what you are wanting out of the workshop. This is all very low key, Michael. No pressure except what you place on yourself. You've mentioned several times that "my wife wants me to take the workshop." That is fabulous, but you've not mentioned whether you have the desire to do it. Is the time right for you even with your time/energy constraints? If it isn't, won't work. Our creativity is a personal thing as you know. I encourage you to take one, maybe even the one after this if sunsets aren't of interest to you. When you DO, just enjoy the process, and the price is right. As we know, the most time consuming part of painting is the prep and the clean-up. It is far less if we paint often. That palette is ready to come out of the freezer, the brushes cleaned the night before, (or sometimes swished good in solvents, bagged and into the freezer as well.) Good luck with your decision and I hope that you can enjoy painting, once again.
Hope you decide to join us. As I said, it will be the last "Sunset" workshop. We never know what the next one will be! It is so tough to find time to paint, but to be working your kind of hours...well you certainly will have to sacrifice precious time for the joy of wielding your brushes. Just keep your health with those long days and hours!
Good morning. Yes, you can take one or bundle three at a time for several dollars less. I chose to take just one initially, to get my feet wet. Then went on to sign up for the package of three. We download his demo video (usually about 20-23 minutes long) so we keep that reference. To upload our photos, most of us are using digital cameras these days so we have them on our hard-drive and upload direct. I finally figured out how to reduce the saturation of my photos in Photoshop Elements so the last couple are more true to the original color. (Most of us use and editing program to crop and for color correction as well as sizing our photos. These are Richard's Photography instructions which he includes with each class:
"
3. Photograph your artwork
Once you've finished your masterpiece it's important to photograph it well - the better it looks the better your chances of winning this month's prize. Here's a short video and discussion about this: http://thecompleteartist.ning.com/video/how-to-photograph-your-art-by. Please try to make your photo look as close in color to your original artwork as possible - enhancing the color on the computer won't make you a better painter.
I use a fairly good camera- Sanyo Xacti hd2000. I take the painting just outside my garage with the painting in the shade facing into the dark garage. It's very important with glossy oil paintings to tilt the painting and angle the camera until there is no sky reflecting off the painting. Zoom in just slightly so the edges are not distorted, make sure the shutterspeed is above 60th/sec. I also adjust the colour slightly in the computer to get it as close to the original as possible.
If you can, please crop the image to include only the artwork (not the frame or easel). You will find that you can actually crop your image on this website once your image is uploaded: just view your image, hold the mouse over the image and then click on 'Photos Stickers & Effects' in the top right corner of your image, then choose 'Crop'. You can also change the contrast and things like that to get it looking a little closer to your original painting.
Image size: If you can, please make the image size somewhere between 2000px - 4000px wide. "
Glad you hear you have the encouragement of your wife! Painting is so all consuming, that is important, for sure.
Yes I have, Michael. You can check in my Photo Albums for the Workshop painting I've done. My first was "Garapatta" about 4 months (http://www.livepaintinglessons.com/workshop24.php ) ago followed with three of the "sunset" workshops (I'm just completing my third for this month's workshop to upload tomorrow.) First of Dec. is the last in this series of Sunsets. He doesn't usually work in series' however. His lessons and style of teaching is what brought me to this site. Prior, I've painted just Studio live Still life, Masters, etc. wanted to get into landscape and soon, Plein Air. If you've not seen some of his demo's via his mailing list or youtube, there are a lot available. If you have any questions, I will try to answer them for you. Hope this helps.
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Thank you Richard for your lovely comment on my Underwater plants.
Have a good day
Love Anja
Thank you so much for your kind comment on my painting, Memories of Fall. I appreciate it very much.
You have a beautiful gallery.
For my studio work I will use only linen ...double primed. For plein air work, I will use linen glued to birch panels OR ..I will use birch panels that have been primed with 2 or 3 coats of oil primer. Stu has a nice technique for preparing gessoed boards that I have tried ..really works good. BTW, there is nothing wrong with cotton ..so long as it is of high quality ..I have just got used to the "feel" of the linen. Fredrix and Utrect have a very good professional quality cotton canvas of various weights...both oil primed and acrylic primed ...the acrylic primer is less expensive.
Michael, thanks for the friend invite....I look forward to seeing all of your new posts!
Thank you for your comments on my painting. No, I have only done acrylic. The oils seem intimidating to me with all of the mixing and specific proportions. The smell of off putting to me, but I've read that they have less offensive product now. Have a good one!
Michael, I just scrolled through your work and I am really enjoying all of them! I could have left comments on all! I have always been intrigued by water color; you certainly do a wonderful job. You have an ability to capture the detail...as in the lovely white rose and also the vastness of a beautiful landscape...bravo!
......and thanks for the friends request very happy to accept.:-}}
Thank you for liking my paintings Richard..:-}}
Good, Richard. Just found out it is plein air. A couple months ago I would have been very excited about that. Temperature dropping and snow is on it's way, so not so excited...getting old! However, we will all find a way.
Great! Richard, looking forward to seeing it. I'm finding this assignment pretty involved and almost daunting, but exciting to!. Just found out what the fourth and last Sunset workshop is...don't think I will be doing well in this one...plein air at dusk in the snow, not wise for this old girl lol! So back to the Grand Canyon I go.
Love your paintings Michael, very inspirational thank you for sharing them with us :-}
Hi Richard, you have quite a nice educational background for your art. Fortunate you are. With all of that effort and time, you really must hit your stride and keep painting now that you've returned. The colors look good on my monitor. As you know each one is calibrated differently so we must take that into consideration when viewing. I finally figured out how to work with saturation in Photoshop to get closer to my own painting color. (Sunset AllaPrima is LOUD) :) Glad you got some work up. Keep it coming. I'm starting on a 16x20 Grand Canyon landscape right now, from another artist's workshop.
Make that Italian? Angelo? Who knows!
Hey, Capt. Kidd, some romantic stories about that guy! My grandfather was Fred Angelo Wilson, sounds like some French in there somewhere also. Dad's folks were from Wales, Germany and his mom French.
Good for your Ann! I used to be very deeply into crafts but found my way to painting in oils, late in life.
I haven't done genealogy, an aunt did on my dad's side did...found out we had several outlaws, I figured I better leave bad enough alone, lol! My grandfather on my mom's Mississippi side was Scotch-Irish. So if we had a far connection it was probably my ancestor's and yours shooting it out in the war!
Hi Richard. Tried to start a chat with you, did you hear those 2 beeps? lol!
I just realized I've gotten stuck on calling you "Michael". Sorry, Richard, my youngest son is Richard so maybe I'll get it straight. Very glad to hear you are getting active with the brush! Hang in there. You can sign up anytime for the next workshop, it will be Workshop 28. It is an easy process, credit card of paypay=l (my choice.)
Good morning Michael. As an experienced artist it shouldn't require too much time. Video runs 20-23 minutes, if you have the principal(s) he is putting forth then you go for it. He seems to use a 12x12 format most of the time, so it is small. (We can paint with any size, any support.) He paints alla prima so there is no drying time, he also uses a direct sketch rather than an elaborate drawing. You can do a thumbnail, a small color study, you can follow the video using his methods and composition or you are free to use your own with the principals he is teaching. I like to do both. So really, the time is gaged by you and your level of understanding and experience. Being away from painting so long, I am making his and my other directed painting associations, seriously, as an intensive education to bump me up and out as an active, producing artist. Again, depends on what you are wanting out of the workshop. This is all very low key, Michael. No pressure except what you place on yourself. You've mentioned several times that "my wife wants me to take the workshop." That is fabulous, but you've not mentioned whether you have the desire to do it. Is the time right for you even with your time/energy constraints? If it isn't, won't work. Our creativity is a personal thing as you know. I encourage you to take one, maybe even the one after this if sunsets aren't of interest to you. When you DO, just enjoy the process, and the price is right. As we know, the most time consuming part of painting is the prep and the clean-up. It is far less if we paint often. That palette is ready to come out of the freezer, the brushes cleaned the night before, (or sometimes swished good in solvents, bagged and into the freezer as well.) Good luck with your decision and I hope that you can enjoy painting, once again.
Hope you decide to join us. As I said, it will be the last "Sunset" workshop. We never know what the next one will be! It is so tough to find time to paint, but to be working your kind of hours...well you certainly will have to sacrifice precious time for the joy of wielding your brushes. Just keep your health with those long days and hours!
Good morning. Yes, you can take one or bundle three at a time for several dollars less. I chose to take just one initially, to get my feet wet. Then went on to sign up for the package of three. We download his demo video (usually about 20-23 minutes long) so we keep that reference. To upload our photos, most of us are using digital cameras these days so we have them on our hard-drive and upload direct. I finally figured out how to reduce the saturation of my photos in Photoshop Elements so the last couple are more true to the original color. (Most of us use and editing program to crop and for color correction as well as sizing our photos. These are Richard's Photography instructions which he includes with each class:
"
3. Photograph your artwork
Once you've finished your masterpiece it's important to photograph it well - the better it looks the better your chances of winning this month's prize. Here's a short video and discussion about this: http://thecompleteartist.ning.com/video/how-to-photograph-your-art-by. Please try to make your photo look as close in color to your original artwork as possible - enhancing the color on the computer won't make you a better painter.
I use a fairly good camera- Sanyo Xacti hd2000. I take the painting just outside my garage with the painting in the shade facing into the dark garage. It's very important with glossy oil paintings to tilt the painting and angle the camera until there is no sky reflecting off the painting. Zoom in just slightly so the edges are not distorted, make sure the shutterspeed is above 60th/sec. I also adjust the colour slightly in the computer to get it as close to the original as possible.
If you can, please crop the image to include only the artwork (not the frame or easel). You will find that you can actually crop your image on this website once your image is uploaded: just view your image, hold the mouse over the image and then click on 'Photos Stickers & Effects' in the top right corner of your image, then choose 'Crop'. You can also change the contrast and things like that to get it looking a little closer to your original painting.
Image size: If you can, please make the image size somewhere between 2000px - 4000px wide. "
Glad you hear you have the encouragement of your wife! Painting is so all consuming, that is important, for sure.
Yes I have, Michael. You can check in my Photo Albums for the Workshop painting I've done. My first was "Garapatta" about 4 months (http://www.livepaintinglessons.com/workshop24.php ) ago followed with three of the "sunset" workshops (I'm just completing my third for this month's workshop to upload tomorrow.) First of Dec. is the last in this series of Sunsets. He doesn't usually work in series' however. His lessons and style of teaching is what brought me to this site. Prior, I've painted just Studio live Still life, Masters, etc. wanted to get into landscape and soon, Plein Air. If you've not seen some of his demo's via his mailing list or youtube, there are a lot available. If you have any questions, I will try to answer them for you. Hope this helps.
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