Have you always wanted to paint wildlife, birds and landscapes but never had good enough Reference Photos to paint from? Getting good photo references for your art can sometimes be difficult either because: You don’t have a good enough camera or all the knowledge to use the one you have You don’t live inContinue reading “3 BEST PHOTO REFERENCE SITES FOR ARTISTS”
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PRIZ-A-MONTH GIFT DRAW.
Every month for the next 12 months we are holding a PRIZ-A-MONTH GIFT DRAW. Anyone can enter to win and there’s not much to do to win. FIRST: YOU NEED TO SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWS LETTER Join My Mailing List For Email Newsletters you can trust. Join My Mailing ListFor Email Newsletters you can trust.Continue reading “PRIZ-A-MONTH GIFT DRAW.”
Let’s Talk White
OK so let’s talk about white. This might overwhelm you at first glance but read on…! The Bob Ross white paint is a Titanium white. Titanium white can be found in every brand of paint. That being said they are not all the same. White is a “cool” opaque colour, and like all paint comesContinue reading “Let’s Talk White”
Rose Heart
Rose Heart is a delightful, easy to do painting and just in time for Valentine’s Day. This is our first class for 2015 and you can see this class here along with our other classes. You can also see the description and registration information for this class here. This painting is done on a black gessoedContinue reading “Rose Heart”
Sea’s Edge
Sea’s Edge was an interested and challenging painting to do. This painting is based on a Joyce Ortner instructional design packet. It is painted using oil paint on the 12 x 16 stretched Gotrick canvas. The following photographs show the various progressive stages that I went through to finally arrive at a finished painting. Continue reading “Sea’s Edge”
A Walk in the Woods: Finished
After and interesting, fun day of painting the students are ready to display their masterpieces. The fee for this class is all in – the only things that the student has to bring is their lunch, their apron (or dress for a mess), their smile and of course their creative enthusiasm. They of course mustContinue reading “A Walk in the Woods: Finished”
A Walk in the Woods: Almost Finished Stage
The students have made great progress on this painting. You can now really see the different creative approaches that each student has applied to their painting, particularly so when you look at their interpretation of the water.
A Walk in the Woods: Mid Stage
So here we have the students busy at work. The painting has advanced considerably
A Walk in the Woods: Early Stage
Even though this is a step-by-step painting with each step fully explained and demonstrated each student has the ability to exercise their creativity and make the painting their own. You will see this happening in the various stages as they each progress and learn the process of colour mixing, along with the correct handling andContinue reading “A Walk in the Woods: Early Stage”
A Walk in the Woods
This painting was selected as our November landscape class for several reasons. First off it is a great fall scene and as such makes a nice wrap-up class for our 2014 painting classes. I picked this painting deliberately to showcase the very first PBS TV program that Bob Ross did. For years his first yearContinue reading “A Walk in the Woods”
Studio Thirty Eight 