First Still LIfe Class
Will Kemp Art School offers an Advanced Still Life Class
More Copying from the Masters
Why copying from the masters I love is my best strategy Now I’ve decided to jump right into the pool. Here’s why: pretty much every painting technique I need to learn has been done before. And often these are to be found in my favorite paintings, those of David A. Leffel. To make a painting…
Copying from the Masters
Why copying from the masters is your best strategy In my opinion, it’s far, far easier to understand how great paintings work, and then use those painting principles to create your own pieces. One painting a week, even one painting a month you would soon have a collection. I’ve been spending a lot of time…
Early 2018 works
My Setups and Color Studies I looked for free videos online by artists using the techniques I loved. I found that most YouTube painting videos are focused on regular oil paint. And I found that the information was readily translate-able to WSO. I began working on color videos from Will Kemp and Kelli Folsom. Click…
Trial WSO Paintings
Painting with WSO I went on to Will Kemp’s Beginners Still LIfe videos with the WSO sample colors. I wanted to see if I could work with them. The Slver Goblet showed good reflections and the Grapes and Green Tomato looked good too, even though the chiaroscuro got away from me. WSO Silver Goblet WSO…
Water Mixable Oils Discovered
In love with WSO I use to work with regular oil paints. Because of the solvents, the smell, and the mess, and health risks I stopped. It’s been a dozen years since I have painted. One of my good friends suggested that I try water mixable oils instead. My reaction was the normal, ‘But oil…
Drawings
Negative Space I started revisiting learning to see. When I drew the spaces, the blossoms just sort of emerged. This exercise was good for me Realistic Dimensionality After quite a bit of practice I was able to get a pretty good handle on putting a 3-imensional object onto a 2-dimensional drawing paper. It surprised me…
But how do we begin this art journey?
Looking at the posts so far it seems that they are starting once the work has progressed quite a bit. It’s always good to start at the start! What about learning to draw before we worry about copyrights. In the next series of posts I will share some of my journey. The internet is amazingly…
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