Painting Lesson - Mt Manaia Preview

Join me in the studio and learn how to use photographs, knowledge and your artistic licence to create a great painting quickly and easily.

This 60 minute lesson is suitable for Beginners AND Advanced painters.


Here are some of the things you will learn in this lesson:

- The pros and cons of studio painting
- Knowing the limitations of photography
- The importance of tonal preparatory sketches
- Limiting values for strong compositions
- Designing with plains of depth
- using a reduced palette effectively
- finding the real horizon
- how reflections work
- creating vibrancy with warm and cool colours
- versatility of large brushes
- paving the way for highlights
- painting soft mist/clouds
- making an area glow with light
- how light infuses the edges of a foreground object
- subduing a background in preparation for a foreground object
- creating texture with the palette knife
- painting grass easily
- painting reflected light
and HEAPS more - all in 60 minutes.

On top of all that you get 12 pages of lesson notes which include the lesson transcript, high quality resource photos, a photo
of the finished painting, a colour wheel and a cutout value scale tool.

Go to www.newzealandartist.com/lessons.php