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Lesson Descriptions

Lesson 1

Setting Up
  • Recommended Materials
  • Arrange Your Palette
  • Painting Terms
  • Importance of Values

Lesson 2

Brushwork and Water-to-Paint Ratio
  • The Right Way to Use Your Brush
  • Too Much or Too Little Water
  • Correcting without Messing Up

Lesson 3

Using Local Color
  • Identify Local Color Values
  • Light and Shade vs. Pure Color
  • Prevent that Faded Look

Lesson 4

Mixing Colors & Tying In Cast Shadows
  • Mix Great Colors
  • Know How Colors Dry
  • Create Natural Shadows

Lesson 5

Mixing Greens
  • So much better when you mix them yourself
  • Graded Washes

Lesson 6

Contour Drawing & Green Still Life
  • Very Different from Sketching
  • Learn with a Restricted Palette
  • Use Your Mixed Greens

Lesson 7

Edges & Emphasis
  • Where Do You Start
  • Create Interest & Contrast
  • Hards & Lost Edges

Lesson 8

Composition & Contour Drawing
  • Arrange Subject Matter
  • Compositional Silhouette
  • Establish Proportions

 

Lesson 9

Large Floral Still Life

Watch the magic unfold as a Masterwork is created, step-by-step with the artist, from start to finish.

Lesson 10

Mixing Triads & Review of Large Still Life
  • Blue Values
  • Center of Interest
  • Complements
  • Symmetry
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