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Stephanie demonstrates how to paint sunflowers in natural light. She explains how to work with a living, moving "still life", how to properly think of sunflower flowers and how to capture their orientation.
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Stephanie demonstrates how to paint sunflowers in natural light. She explains how to work with a living, moving "still life", how to properly think of sunflower flowers and how to capture their orientation.
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Mary Rose O'Connell welcomes you to her studio and new page on Epiphany Fine Art.
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In this plein air demonstration, Jonathan will discuss the use of color and brushwork to enhance emotion in a painting. "East Gloucester Morning" was created late September during the American Impressionist Society 25th National in Rockport, MA.
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Full of tips on drawing boats accurately, underpainting for clear shimmering water and creating reflections and that floating effect for your boats.
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Full of tips on drawing boats accurately, underpainting for clear shimmering water and creating reflections and that floating effect for your boats.
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Join Steve for this ‘Paint Along’ class, where he will construct a painting from start to finish during each class, while you paint along with him. Steve will take you through the process step-by-step. He will demonstrate how he moves through the ...
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In this LIVE demo I will (attempt to) paint a complete 16x16 painting using just one box of 36 neutral toned pastels on top of a monochromatic sepia colored underpainting. I wish to show you how critical neutrals, including grayed-down colors, are to ...
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Join Steve for this 'Paint Along' class, where he will construct a painting from start to finish during each class, while you paint along with him. Steve will take you through the process step-by-step. He will demonstrate how he moves through the ...
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Stephanie demonstrates how to paint sunflowers in natural light. She explains how to work with a living, moving "still life", how to properly think of sunflower flowers and how to capture their orientation.
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Stephanie demonstrates how to paint sunflowers in natural light. She explains how to work with a living, moving "still life", how to properly think of sunflower flowers and how to capture their orientation.
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Painting fog is fun! Using black paper as a base helps set the atmosphere for this demo on how to use neutrals to push and pull color and value through a foggy Maine coastline.
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Painting fog is fun! Using black paper as a base helps set the atmosphere for this demo on how to use neutrals to push and pull color and value through a foggy Maine coastline.
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Join Steve for this 'Paint Along' class, where he will construct a painting from start to finish during each class, while you paint along with him. Steve will take you through the process step-by-step. He will demonstrate how he moves through the ...
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To paint trees convincingly we need lots of great strategies. In this live demo Jeanne covers several different approaches to enlivening your trees, giving them movement, air, space, and shape without over describing every leaf.
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Join Steve for this 'Paint Along' class, where he will construct a painting from start to finish during each class, while you paint along with him. Steve will take you through the process step-by-step. He will demonstrate how he moves through the ...
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In this demonstration for the painting "The Right Tide," I covered several key techniques and processes. This was recorded with a live audience at Addison Art Gallery in Orleans, MA. I begin with a discussion on selecting the color palette to reflect ...
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Learn to create the effects of clear flowing river water, reflecting the sky and revealing the river bottom.
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Learn to create the effects of clear flowing river water, reflecting the sky and revealing the river bottom.
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A discussion of how neutrals work in pastel and why they are integral to a successful painting. This impacts your choices of which pastels you should consider purchasing for your palette.
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Raise your hand if you’ve ever gotten lost in painting clouds! Let me show you how to work with big shapes to develop a pleasing composition in a cloudy sky.
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Part of the magic of loose watercolor painting is that energy and emotion are created organically. Nothing on the page is static. The way to achieve that energy and emotion is to plan out all the painting details in advance of putting any paint on ...
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The first step is to break down your reference image into easily understood shapes and values, giving you the opportunity to learn the “language” of your potential painting.
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Learning how to edit is a lifetime skill. The more practice you do, the stronger your compositions get. So how do you choose the best composition from a photo reference?
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Learn the secrets to creating the illusion of light passing through water at the crest of a wave in this step by step demo which focuses on color choices and understanding of wave movement.
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Learn the secrets to creating the illusion of light passing through water at the crest of a wave in this step by step demo which focuses on color choices and understanding of wave movement.
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Join us as the award winning artist Gavin Glakas takes us through painting a portrait from a live model. Gavin will demonstrate his setup, block in, and how he takes a portrait from concept to completion. Gavin Glakas is an award winning member of ...
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The coastal landscape naturally showcases the sky. This video shows how sky perspective works and how best to use it to your expressive advantage.
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The coastal landscape naturally showcases the sky. This video shows how sky perspective works and how best to use it to your expressive advantage.
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This is an exercise I created to ‘warm up’ before starting to paint. It is a fun and creative way to explore shapes that emerge when I paint freely and without intention. There is no end to the number of times you can do this exercise. I often use it ...
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Representational artist are magicians. We take a two-dimensional surface and with our toolbox of techniques we convince viewers our painting is three dimensional. One of the powerful tools we have to achieve this is aerial perspective. In this ...
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Using a colorful underpainting, in this two part introductory video set, let me show you how using warm colors can make greens really sing.
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Using a colorful underpainting, in this two part introductory video set, let me show you how using warm colors can make greens really sing.
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Starting with a winter tree profile, I demonstrate the evolution of spring, summer and then fall foliage on the same painting.
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Join Master Oil Painter Stephanie Birdsall as she paints a lovely still life of plums with flower arrangement
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Kathy will focus on creating a strong block in, with emphasis on avoiding details at this stage of the painting. Too much of a focus on detail too early on can inhibit your ability to create a strong composition. Using vibrant summer flowers to paint ...
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Skill development is essential to improving as an artist. Often we focus on creating a painting but it is also important to practice skills, so we are always learning and improving. This practice will enhance our paintings. In this series I’ll be ...
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Dunes and their grasses pose special challenges, both in composition and palette choices. Jeanne will share her approaches to creating compelling dune paintings, convincing grasses and sand you want to step in.
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This is Part Two of my series Practice for Improvement. Skill development is essential to improving as an artist. Often we focus on creating a painting but it is also important to practice skills, so we are always learning and improving. This ...
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Discover Jeanne’s different strategies for underpainting trees and water in this
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This demo shows how to create a rich textured treelike full of implied detail and early summer greens.
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The basic construction of a tree is discussed from the trunk to the envelope of smaller branches
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This is the first in a series of videos about ways to create unity in a painting. In this video I discuss two concepts that, while on the surface are quite opposite, work together to create unity: Harmony and Contrast. Harmony is the effect that is ...
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This video is part three of the Pond Reflections workshop and shows the beginning of an approach to seeing colors and perspective in water, working from the lake bottom up to the surface reflections
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This video is part four of the Pond Reflections workshop and shows the completion of an approach to seeing colors and perspective in water, working from the lake bottom up to the surface reflections
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Everyone wants to know how to do skyholes. In this video I show you how to paint different types of skyholes, and also discuss why they appear the way they do.
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In this video, Jonathan will be painting plein air in Watch Hill, RI. He will discuss the challenges and opportunities that painting outdoors can offer. "Dunes in June" is an organic painting with sand, vegetation and sky. Jonathan will discuss ...
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"Living Waters" is one of Jessica's most intricate landscape paintings. Drawing her inspiration from a rushing river in Glacier National Park, Jessica shows you how to capture cascading and still water, underwater objects, sky, forests and the people ...
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"Living Waters" is one of Jessica's most intricate landscape paintings. Drawing her inspiration from a rushing river in Glacier National Park, Jessica shows you how to capture cascading and still water, underwater objects, sky, forests and the people ...
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Join Steve for day four of this 'Paint Along' class, where he will construct a painting from start to finish during each class, while you paint along with him. Steve will take you through the process step-by-step. He will demonstrate how he moves ...
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We can’t hope to compete with the vibrant intensity of nature’s pigments with the limited palettes at our disposal—but there are many ways to amp up the power, punch, and glow of your palette even if you don’t have a huge arsenal of pastels. Join ...
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The next step in this series, how to paint the canopy of a tree's leaves. Leaves group in volumes and rules of how light falls across a volume apply. Includes practical exercises in painting volumes.
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Join Steve for day 3 of his ‘Paint Along’ class, where he will construct a painting from start to finish during each class, while you paint along with him. Steve will take you through the process step-by-step. He will demonstrate how he moves through ...
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A Painting Recovery Project. In this video I will try to revive an older painting that I had abandoned a while back. I will discuss and show my process for looking at a painting that was never quite complete with a fresh outlook and new ideas.
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Learn how to work with translucency and edge management to create wispy, ethereal clouds with light and movement, not heavy and dense like mashed potatoes..
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This blooming orchard scene makes a single tree the star of the show with a supporting surrounding landscape.
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A review of everything you need to take your studio into the field
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Join Jeanne as she arrives on site, plans, and creates a plein air field study.
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Join Steve for day 2 of his 'Paint Along' class, where he will construct a painting from start to finish during each class, while you paint along with him. Steve will take you through the process step-by-step. He will demonstrate how he moves through ...
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Join Steve for this 'Paint Along' class, where he will construct a painting from start to finish during each class, while you paint along with him. Steve will take you through the process step-by-step. He will demonstrate how he moves through the ...
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In Part Three of Practice for Improvement I discuss how to use choose a complimentary color palette and use it to layer color in a painting for depth to create interest. Additionally, I show you how to accentuate colors by using simultaneous contrast ...
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Welcome to my Epiphany Fine Art page.  Let's take a tour of my studio.
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Check out this fail proof technique to scale up your image (without using math!). A good way to find the best cropping to fit on your paper.
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This blooming orchard scene makes a single tree the star of the show with a supporting surrounding landscape.
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Using flowers as our inspiration this demo shows how creating small works in a series builds confidence and mastery
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Are you driven nuts trying to get good photos of your paintings? Spending lots of money for someone else to do it for you? In this video I go over a simple, inexpensive setup and how-to instructions on how you can photograph your own paintings
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Each season presents plein air artists with unique colors that can stretch their color-mixing skills. For her spring studio demo, Jessica will select a scene of typical early-season colors.
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Learn how to drape shadows down a wall and across a walkway by following the direction of the building surfaces. Painting shadows requires subtlety in the range of values you use, and the way they can change value and hue within the shadow itself.
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Short bonus follow up to the Lilypad 101 videos: How to block in the lily pads on a large complex scene
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Learn to paint realistic lilypads against a deep blue background. Create convincing perspective and depth, placing details in the foreground.
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Learn how to drape shadows down a wall and across a walkway by following the direction of the building surfaces. Painting shadows requires subtlety in the range of values you use, and the way they can change value and hue within the shadow itself.
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This short demonstration shows the proper use of a viewfinder outdoors, and how it will help you find the best composition.
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Liz’s first demonstration with Epiphany has her painting the coastline of New England in the USA where she lives. Liz is known for her skies and water, the subject of her 2013 book “Painting Brilliant Skies and Water in Pastel”. Join us as she ...
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How you can use cropmarks to help get perspective right (even if you don’t know perspective).
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A discussion of the differences in these two popular pastel painting surfaces. Plus, the best places to get paper and pastels.
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This is a striking demonstration of how a color changes on different colored surfaces.
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Working on paper requires a light hand. Watch how to build up layers to get correct values. Also, working on black allows you to work with stronger, brighter pigments. Perfect for a brilliant and dramatic sunset!
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Working on paper requires a light hand. Watch how to build up layers to get correct values. Also, working on black allows you to work with stronger, brighter pigments. Perfect for a brilliant and dramatic sunset!
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Painting the same sunset image, but using an underpainting on white sanded paper instead. Working on white produces a brighter, softer effect.
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Painting the same sunset image, but using an underpainting on white sanded paper instead. Working on white produces a brighter, softer effect.
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Painting the same sunset image, but using an underpainting on white sanded paper instead. Working on white produces a brighter, softer effect.
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The final results of the same image painted on black paper vs. white sanded paper. What do you think? Do you have a favorite?
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What is underpainting? How does it work?
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A discussion on how you choose a good color to start a monochromatic underpainting.
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Learn how getting the right value is more important than choosing the right color. Using four values of one color is a good place to start if you’ve never done an underpainting before.
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Learn how getting the right value is more important than choosing the right color. Using four values of one color is a good place to start if you’ve never done an underpainting before.
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Learn how getting the right value is more important than choosing the right color. Using four values of one color is a good place to start if you’ve never done an underpainting before.
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This demo shows how working with opposite colors on the color wheel can enliven a predominantly green landscape.
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Join Jonathan in a fun and informative video where he shows you how to use texture and shading to make your paintings pop with depth. See how various brush strokes and value changes can give life to a scene, making it look like you could walk right ...
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Using flowers as our inspiration this demo shows how creating small works in a series builds confidence and mastery
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This video takes one flower sketch through the final finishing touches with refined edges and editing.
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This demo shows how working with opposite colors on the color wheel can enliven a predominantly green landscape.
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This demo shows how working with opposite colors on the color wheel can enliven a predominantly green landscape.
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In this demo, underpainting colors are still chosen based on value, but the technique and rationale for choosing color is more random and mixed up.
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In this demo, underpainting colors are still chosen based on value, but the technique and rationale for choosing color is more random and mixed up.
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In this demo, underpainting colors are still chosen based on value, but the technique and rationale for choosing color is more random and mixed up.
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A discussion of how pastels are made, and what makes their colors standout.
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This is important! This is the bedrock principle of how to paint with pastels. How to layer pastels of the same value but different hue to create vibrant paintings. Pastelists colormix to get the colors we want.
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Pulling together all the Good Bones steps in the previous videos, Liz shows how they work together to provide a solid start to any representational painting.
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Learn how to drape shadows down a wall and across a walkway by following the direction of the building surfaces. Painting shadows requires subtlety in the range of values you use, and the way they can change value and hue within the shadow itself.
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Have you ever wondered why the sky is blue? Or why a blue sky is lighter at the horizon? Watch this video for why this important to know as a landscape artist, and how it makes for better paintings.
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Discover how a simple, easy-to-manage palette of seven colors can produce any color you desire. Jessica draws on her many years of plein air painting to give you the best of all worlds: few colors to manage, and a full spectrum of colors to capture ...
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Part 2. Discover how a simple, easy-to-manage palette of seven colors can produce any color you desire. Jessica draws on her many years of plein air painting to give you the best of all worlds: few colors to manage, and a full spectrum of colors to ...
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Join Steve for day four of this ‘Paint Along’ Tuscany class, where he will construct a painting from start to finish during each class, while you paint along with him. Steve will take you through the process step-by-step. He will demonstrate how he ...
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Join Steve for day three of this ‘Paint Along’ Tuscany class, where he will construct a painting from start to finish during each class, while you paint along with him. Steve will take you through the process step-by-step. He will demonstrate how he ...
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Kathy will focus on creating a strong block in, with emphasis on avoiding details at this stage of the painting. Too much of a focus on detail too early on can inhibit your ability to create a strong composition. Using fresh spring flowers to paint ...
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Join Steve for day two of this ‘Paint Along’ Tuscany class, where he will construct a painting from start to finish during each class, while you paint along with him. Steve will take you through the process step-by-step. He will demonstrate how he ...
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Riverside: Painting Translucent Water. Clean, pure river water reflects the sky and reveals the riverbed as it flows. Learn to create effects of moving and translucent water in this two hour live demo.
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Join Steve for day one of this ‘Paint Along’ Tuscany class, where he will construct a painting from start to finish during each class, while you paint along with him. Steve will take you through the process step-by-step. He will demonstrate how he ...
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In this fourth video in the Practice for Improvement series, we will be using a sketchbook to capture a quick value sketch of a scene. In this case, I’m using a reference photo but this technique can also be used Plein Air. The focus of the practice ...
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In the fifth video in the series called Practice For Improvement, I show you how to employ a very effective technique for capturing scenes quickly and efficiently. By focusing on blocking out major shapes and their relationships, you can create a ...
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Choose a palette for those black-and-white snowy landscapes, and inject feeling and depth in to your winter trees.
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Choose a palette for those black-and-white snowy landscapes, and inject feeling and depth in to your winter trees
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When snow covers all, the bare bones of landscape appear: contour and line of tree and hill. This video demo shows how to use this seasonal shift to advantage in your paintings.
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Join us for Gavin Glakas' second demo with Epiphany Fine Art as he takes us through painting the portrait of Asma. Gavin will demonstrate his palette, his setup, block in, and how he takes a portrait from concept to completion.
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Overtime" presents a portrait of a working boat, captured with the rich textures and nuanced interplay of light that are hallmarks of Jonathan McPhillips' coastal oil paintings. This piece showcases his mastery of maritime subjects, emphasizing the ...
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Every portrait tells a story about its subject. But sometimes the story is so rich and vital that the artist becomes editor, deciding not just how to capture their subject's character, but how to present their story. Join Jessica as she talks about ...
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In Part 2, Jessica continues blocking in Sean's portrait using a limited palette.
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Part 3 covers painting hands and a background scene of a field behind the castle, with a dark history.
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In Part 4, Jessica completes the background and starts making final decisions about furnishings.
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Jessica wraps up Sean's portrait in Part 5, making finishing touches on facial features and hands.
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When snow covers all, the bare bones of landscape appear: contour and line of tree and hill. This video demo shows how to use this seasonal shift to advantage in your paintings.
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Join Steve for this ‘Paint Along’ class, where he will construct a painting from start to finish during each class, while you paint along with him. Steve will take you through the process step-by-step. He will demonstrate how he moves through the ...
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When snow covers all, the bare bones of landscape appear: contour and line of tree and hill. This video demo shows how to use this seasonal shift to advantage in your paintings.
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A brief welcome to my site and where to begin.
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Let's take a tour through my studio
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In this online painting demo, multi award winning artist Ricky Mujica showcases a unique, health-conscious approach to figure painting. Renowned for his realist, painterly style, he adopts a solvent-free method that offers a fresh perspective that ...
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Join Steve for this ‘Paint Along’ class, where he will construct a painting from start to finish during each class, while you paint along with him. Steve will take you through the process step-by-step. He will demonstrate how he moves through the ...
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Join Steve for this ‘Paint Along’ class, where he will construct a painting from start to finish during each class, while you paint along with him. Steve will take you through the process step-by-step. He will demonstrate how he moves through the ...
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Learn to create the chill. Paint the downstream movement of icy water and snowy banks. Composing the winter landscape, choosing a color palette, underpainting strategies, and snow textures, all in a two hour live demo.
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Join Steve for this ‘Paint Along’ class, where he will construct a painting from start to finish during each class, while you paint along with him. Steve will take you through the process step-by-step. He will demonstrate how he moves through the ...
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This video continues our examination of the use of harmony and contrast to create unity in a painting. Harmony is the effect that is created when like elements come together, such as color. While harmony is satisfying it can be rather static. ...
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This short video offers a primer on pastels and paper
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In this short video we explore how to ‘paint’ with a pastel stick
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Eager to paint that virtuoso sky for your landscape?  These cloud studies will get you primed to handle any challenge in the sky, with exercises for practicing the forms, color variations, textures, and patterns that clouds can take.
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Eager to paint that virtuoso sky for your landscape?  These cloud studies will get you primed to handle any challenge in the sky, with exercises for practicing the forms, color variations, textures, and patterns that clouds can take.
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This short demo on applying pastel to paper shows how to create a simple still life starting with a toned, sanded paper
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A Step-by-step guide to mounting your paper
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Learn how to recognize and compose a ‘found’ simple still life. This lesson focuses on finding hard and soft edges to create space and depth in a still life, and choosing a great color palette.
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Learn how to recognize and compose a ‘found’ simple still life. This lesson focuses on finding hard and soft edges to create space and depth in a still life, and choosing a great color palette.
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This is the third in a series of videos where we are exploring ways to combine harmony and contrast. In Part One, we looked at using abstract shapes over harmonious backgrounds. In Part Two, we looked at contrasting value and color. In Part Three we ...
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It’s always important to paint what you love. Jeanne’s recurring still life theme has been and continues to be delicious, appealing, appetizing foods. Pour a glass of wine, tear a good hunk of bread and get ready to enjoy an evening of tasty ...
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There is a direct link between language, ideas, and painting. Sometimes we want to convey a specific idea or feeling in a painting and we need to plan in advance the various elements to achieve our outcome. One easy way to do that is to use words as ...
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This extended demo explores every step in the painting process in depth as Jeanne shares how to create a seascape with low and dramatic early morning light.
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This extended demo explores every step in the painting process in depth as Jeanne shares how to create a seascape with low and dramatic early morning light.
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This extended demo explores every step in the painting process in depth as Jeanne shares how to create a seascape with low and dramatic early morning light.
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This extended demo explores every step in the painting process in depth as Jeanne shares how to create a seascape with low and dramatic early morning light.
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Learn how to build the soft, subtle puffy forms of cumulous clouds through this start to finish demo of beautifully lit clouds at sunset. Judging values, layering, temperature shifts and edge control all covered.
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Learn how to build the soft, subtle puffy forms of cumulous clouds through this start to finish demo of beautifully lit clouds at sunset. Judging values, layering, temperature shifts and edge control all covered.
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In this video, Jonathan starts with a blank white canvas, setting the stage for a lively oil painting of the Sagamore Bridge on Cape Cod. He dives right in, using direct painting to bring out the excitement of the scene with energetic brushwork and ...
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How brush strokes can convey energy and life in seascape and coastal paintings.
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Now that autumn has arrived, let’s paint some trees! This video explores how to paint trees using watercolor techniques such as wet on dry and wet on wet, dry brush strokes, and dappling. You’ll learn how to create different effects with a variety of ...
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In this continuation of Terrific Trees!, I demonstrate how to create different effects when painting trees. In particular I focus on dappling in and staccato strokes with a beautiful autumn palette to create inviting fall foliage.
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Join master artists Kathy Anderson, Julia S. Powell, and Jeanne Rosier Smith for a roundtable discussion on their lives as women artists, how they balance the pulls of life, family, while sustaining their creativity and business success.
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Paint along with Jonathan as he paints the inner threshold of a historic building with a view to the outside.
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Wanderlust also stirs the desire to capture what we discover and paint it. But so often our photos lack the sensory and emotional feeling of being there. A good painting can do that, though. How to take your photos and memories and translate them ...
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Watch as Steve paints a mountain landscape, using hard edges to emphasize subject shapes and soft edges to de-emphasize supporting shapes, The combination of near and far shapes work together to create drama and atmospheric effect. Paint along with ...
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Capturing the beauty of changing trees in reflected water, using photo reference
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In this video we will explore how to create passages in a painting. Passages are patterns of light, dark, or color that lead the eye through a painting and give us a visual journey, which most often leads to the center of interest.
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In the previous video we will explored how to create passages in a painting through a series of sketches. Passages are patterns of light, dark, or color that lead the eye through a painting and give us a visual journey, which most often leads to the ...
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In this Demo, Jessica talks from behind the camera, pointing to several of the diverse greens in her scene, and explaining her method of mixing them on her palette.
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For an artist to create an artistic painting, rather than simply replicating a photograph, they must first identify the shape they want to emphasize and then determine how to make it the focal point. This sketch exercise shows you how to isolate the ...
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For an artist to create an artistic painting, rather than simply replicating a photograph, they must first identify the shape they want to emphasize and then determine how to make it the focal point. This sketch exercise shows you how to isolate the ...
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How do you create that special effect of sparkling light on water? This demo takes you through the special conditions which create this sparkle, how to underpaint and build layers to make light move and shine on the water’s surface.
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How do you create that special effect of sparkling light on water? This demo takes you through the special conditions which create this sparkle, how to underpaint and build layers to make light move and shine on the water’s surface.
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The last segment in this demo shows how to choose highlight colors and create the sparkle to make your painting shine, including the wet
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In this video Jonathan addresses the issues in painting a complicated scene on a small 8x16 canvas. Additionally, he addresses how to convincingly depict a busy and crowded boat yard in a simplified fashion
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In this video Jonathan addresses the issues in painting a complicated scene on a small 8x16 canvas. Additionally, he addresses how to convincingly depict a busy and crowded boat yard in a simplified fashion
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In this video Jonathan addresses the issues in painting a complicated scene on a small 8x16 canvas. Additionally, he addresses how to convincingly depict a busy and crowded boat yard in a simplified fashion
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In this first video of a two-part series, I will explain the very basics of beginning a still life. This is part 1, where I demonstrate toning a canvas, blocking in, and massing in colors and values
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Part 2, of the first lesson in still life foundations will focus of further developing the apple and lime still life. I will show more about mixing colors, establishing light, dimension and will cover use of brushwork. These first two still lifes ...
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Jessica introduces this 7-part series on her still life, "The Day is Done." Most often, you'll see Jessica outdoors, painting plein air studies where changing conditions make quick decisions and rapid brushwork essential. But she also loves settling ...
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Jessica shares her method for still life set up, including lighting, backgrounds, object selection and how to arrange the objects to create visual flow. Once arranged, she creates a thumbnail sketch framing the scene in a way that allows the objects ...
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Jessica paints a "study" of the still life, working quickly in the style of plein air paintings. Critiquing her study, she plans improvements to be applied to the final painting. This video ends with a 3-minute overview of the 20 hours of painting ...
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Although Jessica paints multi-part subjects by moving around the canvas, developing each object a little more with each pass, we edited this video to isolate her work on each object. In Part 4, we show Jessica's work on the vase, the hourglass and ...
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In Part 5, we show how Jessica paints the tea cup, with it's fine porceline design, delicate gold leaf, translucient tea and even a hint of steam. It's a master class on fine detail in still life
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Watch as Jessica paints a classic older book, with engraving, script title and gold guilded pages.
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In this final episode of the Day is Done series, Jessica shows you how to paint and sheer cloth that runs through the arrangement, and the background -- and how she makes changes as she evaluates how the background should best support the subjects of ...
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This is a demonstration of how I use continuous line drawing as source material for a sketch painting. While photographs make good source material, they are often so dominate that it is hard to break away from trying to re-create them. If you have ...
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Coastal marshes carry their own quiet beauty, and capturing the rich texture and varied light where the grasses meet the waterline is the subject of Jeanne’s next live demo. Join her to explore the challenge of creating believable marsh grass and ...
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Day two demo. This workshop is for the painter looking to enhance their skills while depicting the beautiful scenery of the Epiphany Fine Art Campus in springtime splendor. An inspirational and encouraging environment will be fostered through ...
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An existing painting can serve as inspiration for other, similar paintings with an entirely different feel or story. In this video I show how to use an existing painting as a reference and then ask the question, “What can I do differently?” Trying ...
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Discover the why’s and how’s of underpainting and sharpen your skills and strategies by using three different approaches (warm, value only, and local color/warm complement) to one scene.
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Discover the why’s and how’s of underpainting and sharpen your skills and strategies by using three different approaches (warm, value only, and local color/warm complement) to one scene.
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Discover the why’s and how’s of underpainting and sharpen your skills and strategies by using three different approaches (warm, value only, and local color/warm complement) to one scene.
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A prequel to the Archived live Demo: Flowers, this video takes you through the initial steps of that painting, a unique start on toned PastelMat paper.
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Expand your underpainting repertoire and ease with water, exploring three foundation strategies (cool, local color, black paper) for the same scene.
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Expand your underpainting repertoire and ease with water, exploring three foundation strategies (cool, local color, black paper) for the same scene.
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Expand your underpainting repertoire and ease with water, exploring three foundation strategies (cool, local color, black paper) for the same scene.
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Discover the special tips and tricks needed to enhance your seascapes. Learn how to create luminosity, lift out color to create light, enhance a sense of motion through brushwork and build wave form in your underpainting.
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Discover the special tips and tricks needed to enhance your seascapes. Learn how to create luminosity, lift out color to create light, enhance a sense of motion through brushwork and build wave form in your underpainting.
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Our growing group of Epiphany and Newsletter subscribers asked Jessica about converting plein air "studies" into studio paintings, colors of shadows, and more…. In Jessica's demo, she shows how to convey distance between objects in plein air paintings.
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A sketchbook is a great way to capture a scene when you don’t have a camera with you or you just want to sketch instead. Iterative sketching uses sketchbook images as source material in order to harvest ideas and create a painting. This is a process ...
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Day one demo.  This workshop is for the painter looking to enhance their skills while depicting the beautiful scenery of the Epiphany Fine Art Campus in springtime splendor. An inspirational and encouraging environment will be fostered through ...
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During Jessica's Monthly Question and Answer sessions (free), she offers critiques, answers viewers questions and narrates a painting demonstration. Check out these highlights from a recent Q&A and join her next time on Epiphany Fine Art!
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We again welcomed Epiphany and Newsletter subscribers. I critiqued two participants' paintings and answered questions. I did a live commentary as we watchd a recent video, showing how to paint underwater rocks. The full video is being released as a ...
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This is the complete lesson, shown in part in our May 13th Q&A. In it, I paint a lovely scene of a natural waterfall near a historic sandstone quary in Olmsted Falls, Ohio. In my voiceover, you'll learn how I make decisions about composition, ...
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Join me as I finish the waterfall plein air. In part two, I focus on the underwater portion of the scene, painting the bottom, the water itself, the reflections and the object that emerge above the water level.
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As spring blooms with a burst of color, Join Jeanne for an evening of reveling in the luscious colors and textures of flowers. Learn how to compose without cliché, create specific blooms without tightening up, and create vibrant, living color with ...
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Join us for a free one-hour loose watercolor painting with Steve Griggs. With fun and humor, Steve demonstrates his unique style of loose, moving, and evocative watercolor painting. Taking ‘loose’ to a new level, Steve uses bold lines, shapes, and ...
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Too often, artists undervalue still life. In this session, I discuss how the process of selecting, lighting, arranging and painting still life presents artists with rewarding challenges that both develop their skills and yield beautiful works of art!
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In this video, Jonathan showcases his techniques while painting a picturesque scene of a ship builder's homestead in Essex, MA. Jonathan will discuss brushwork and color choices, and the decision making process that brings the scene to life on the ...
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Balancing positive and negatives shapes allows for greater balance, depth, and movement in paintings. In these paint-along videos I demonstrate how to transform a static photographic reference into a lively and interesting painting by integrating ...
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Balancing positive and negatives shapes allows for greater balance, depth, and movement in paintings. In these paint-along videos I demonstrate how to transform a static photographic reference into a lively and interesting painting by integrating ...
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Balancing positive and negatives shapes allows for greater balance, depth, and movement in paintings. In these paint-along videos I demonstrate how to transform a static photographic reference into a lively and interesting painting by integrating ...
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In this video, Jonathan showcases his techniques while painting a picturesque scene of a ship builder’s homestead in Essex, MA. Jonathan will discuss brushwork and color choices, and the decision making process that brings the scene to life on the ...
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No matter where you are on your art journey, those aspects of art NOT related to pigment and paper have surely crept in from time to time. In this 2-hour zoom seminar Jeanne talks framing, marketing and social media, galleries, exhibitions, and ...
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This video is from the first couple hours of a live portrait painting workshop I recently gave.  In it I go over some of the basics of painting a portrait from life, how to work with the model, painting from memory, getting the all important first ...
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We welcomed Newsletter subscribers to this session. It was a great group of old friends and new faces! I critiqued two lovely paintings by group members and then spoke on how, without knowing we're doing it, we can turn art into a source of stress ...
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On a warm, sunny, February afternoon in Northern Ohio (a phrase I've never used before), I went to plein aire at a nearby wildlife habitat. The video opens with my search for a great scene to paint. Finding a view full of your "loves" -- interesting ...
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In Part 2, I finish the painting following the plan I laid out in the thumbnail sketch. Boisterous geese, local row boaters and some camera-toppling wind gusts, make it another great plein air experience.
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In this two part series, Jonathan will demonstrate a rare-for-him subject matter. He will discuss taking on an unfamiliar subject as well as some thoughts on looking for the small vignettes in complicated scenes. Zooming in can help keep the focus ...
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In this two part series, Jonathan will demonstrate a rare-for-him subject matter. He will discuss taking on an unfamiliar subject as well as some thoughts on looking for the small vignettes in complicated scenes. Zooming in can help keep the focus ...
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Learn to paint realistic lilypads against a deep blue background. Create convincing perspective and depth, placing details in the foreground.
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Learn to make sense of what you’re seeing in water reflections, and paint them effectively in this start to finish demo - part 1
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Learn to make sense of what you’re seeing in water reflections, and paint them effectively in this start to finish demo - part 2
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Learn to tackle complex reflections, handle subtle value shifts, and tips for getting your lily pads to sit in the water. A start-to-finish demo.
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Learn to tackle complex reflections, handle subtle value shifts, and tips for getting your lily pads to sit in the water. A start-to-finish demo.
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In this session I critiqued four paintings from the group and we talked about efficiency -- a key to enjoying painting more and getting better results. Then I did a one-hour demo of a scene I loved, from a great trip to Ireland last summer.
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In this video Jonathan will discuss his use of the various parts of the painting as compositions within themselves, which can provide added impact to the whole, and in many instances, make the design process easier. He will discuss the seascape genre ...
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An introduction with Steven Griggs
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Paint along with me as we complete a waterscape from start to finish!
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Paint along with me as we complete a landscape from start to finish!
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Paint along with me as we complete a cityscape from start to finish!
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The first decision every artist makes is what format to use for the painting. There are three fundamental formats: portrait, landscape, elongated, square, as well as two variants: elongated landscape and elongated portrait. How do you decide which ...
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Composition fits into how we use or organize the page. Much like the artist uses different types of prose or poetry to tell a story, the painter uses composition to determine how best to tell their story.
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Fundamental to every painting is the idea of shape. In this video we will look at strategies for understanding simple shapes, breaking them down, and integrating them to create a painting.
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By viewing source material through the lens of shape, you can simplify a scene before painting. Use this video to learn my method for seeing shape and then apply it to your sketches while planning a painting.
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Let’s practice looking for shapes by applying the ‘Method for Seeing Shapes’ to photographs.
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Looking at source material, it is time to practice seeing simple shapes and developing them in your sketchbooks.
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In keeping with the idea that all painting can be broken down into shapes, let’s look at the human form as a shape! In this video I will show you how to paint human figures to proportion and scale. I will also show you techniques for adding movement ...
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Now that we’ve looked at how to paint people, add movement, and personality, it is time to practice putting them in situations such as city streets or landscapes. Adding people to paintings is a great way to draw the viewer into the scene to connect ...
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Let’s start by discussing the materials I recommend for loose watercolor painting, including sketchbooks, paper, brushes, paint, and palettes.
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Loose watercolor painting techniques are a little different from traditional watercolor painting techniques. In this video I demonstrate and explain five loose watercolor painting techniques I call ‘Paint Delivery Systems.’
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In this video I show you how to paint a simple landscape, using the paint delivery systems and watercolor techniques discussed in the previous videos. I invite you to either watch and paint along or watch first and then paint your version. Or both!
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There are a variety of sketching techniques that will help as you develop your sketchbook ideas. This video explores some of those techniques.
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Motif development allows for a richer inventory of ideas in order to develop a painting. In this video I expand on the use of sketchbooks and detail, through an actual case study, how I use my sketchbooks to explore motifs.
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How does a writer add drama and action to their storytelling? One way is by using verbs. Similarly, I use specific watercolor techniques to add action and drama to my paintings. I call these techniques the ‘verbs’ of loose watercolor painting. In ...
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Pour up a cup of coffee or adult beverage, sit back and relax as I demonstrate how to use the sketching techniques, paint delivery systems, and watercolor techniques to create a sketch painting in my sketchbook. This is a real-time sketch painting ...
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Simplifying the process of color mixing can provide a wealth of information and make it easier to apply your knowledge to painting. By breaking down the complex interplay of colors into simpler steps, you can gain a clearer understanding of how ...
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By limiting your palette to just two colors, you can focus on how those colors interact with each other, as well as how they can be manipulated to create a full range of values. Working with a mid-tone value sketch from Simplify Your Palette Part ...
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Color is a powerful tool for the artist. It can create emotion and drama in a painting. In this lesson I talk about the standard palette, warm or cool split compliment palettes, and mixing secondary or tertiary colors to access a full array of color ...
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Using non-traditional watercolor techniques and application tools, you can create interesting and energetic paintings. In this video I explore how palette knives create controlled, sharp edges, and mixing color on the paper, rather than on the ...
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Transitions are important dynamics that give breadth and life to paintings. In this video we look at different types of transitions and how they can be employed to create a visually stimulating experience for the viewer
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In this video I demonstrate how to use the dynamic transitions I discussed in Part One
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Using the methods of reducing a scene into simple shapes and assigning comparative values to those shapes (discussed in previous lessons) we have the foundation for creating a painting from source material. By rearranging values, we can step away ...
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Using the methods of reducing a scene into simple shapes and assigning comparative values to those shapes (discussed in previous lessons) we have the foundation for creating a painting from source material. By rearranging values, we can step away ...
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I open with two short "Special Features." In the first, I discuss scene selection. I had hiked down a beautiful wooded creek with many interesting and beautiful potential subjects. I briefly discuss how I arrived and my decision about what I would ...
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In part two, I add the details and textures that will help me arrive at "what I loved" about this view. You are welcome to paint along with me, or find a scene that you love, and enjoy the process of capturing it on canvas
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Like seafoam in the crest of a wave, fallen snow is beautifully reflective and challenging to paint. Shadows are where the magic happens, revealing form and texture. Jeanne’s snowy landscape demo will also reveal what she’s learned from painting ...
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In this first watercolor demonstration video Jonathan will be discussing his recent return to a medium rooted in the very beginnings of his artistic journey. He will go over some of the basic watercolor techniques, as well as a few of his own ...
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In part two of this watercolor demonstration, Jonathan will continue to discuss the various techniques he is employing with watercolor, while relating his process to his work in oil painting. This carries through to a finished 10" x 8" watercolor on ...
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In Part 1, I introduce you to this beautiful, misty river scene. I talk about how I decided on this particular composition, working through a thumbnail sketch that helps guide me throughout the rest of my painting. I finish Part 1 by showing you how ...
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Part 2 will show you how to mix and block in colors. I also paint in the starkly beautiful winter tree branches.
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In Part 3, I add details to the water and branches and check to be sure I've accomplished my goals for the painting. …and get a visit from a local trout!
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Painting sailboats can be tricky. This demo incudes tips to help you judge values, get your drawing right, and find a stronger composition and inspiring color even when using less-than-inspiring reference photos
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Painting sailboats can be tricky. This demo incudes tips to help you judge values, get your drawing right, and find a stronger composition and inspiring color even when using less-than-inspiring reference photos
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Dealing with a challenging subject? Close observation and simplification of shapes will go far. Jeanne will show how using these tips, anyone can learn to include boats in their work convincingly
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Dealing with a challenging subject? Close observation and simplification of shapes will go far. Jeanne will show how using these tips, anyone can learn to include boats in their work convincingly
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In parts 1 and 2 of "Holiday Transit" Jonathan demonstrates another holiday themed painting. Along with technical advice and instruction, he will describe the story behind the painting, and what he looks for in a subject. He will discuss how a ...
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In parts 1 and 2 of "Holiday Transit" Jonathan demonstrates another holiday themed painting. Along with technical advice and instruction, he will describe the story behind the painting, and what he looks for in a subject. He will discuss how a ...
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In this first part, I demonstrate how to sketch out a composition and use paint to lay in the design on canvas. Working through the changing mist and sky, I share how you can efficiently make your work capture your initial impression faster.
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While finishing the study, I discuss the use of values and colors to achieve distance and atmosphere. I then talk about utilizing the correct amount of detail to capture interest in your focal area by making selective choices and eliminating extra ...
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In part one of this two part series Jonathan will demonstrate a Christmas themed painting and the considerations that go into thematic work. He will also discuss why paintings centered around the holidays have been a tradition for him, and how he ...
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In part two of this two part series Jonathan will continue with his Christmas painting and the considerations that go into thematic work. He will discuss the latter stages of wrapping up a narrative painting, and demonstrates that twinkle of light in ...
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There is a lifetime of subject matter to study when it comes to understanding the horse and working out its descriptive form. But we must begin somewhere! I will be adding more equine videos in the future, but for now, we begin here. In this first ...
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Working on the internal features of the face we break down the form of the eyes, muzzle and the ears.
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This video covered the basics of understanding how a mane and tail function and lay on a horse. I also demonstrate how to draw the hoof, its function and mobility.
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Alluring and elusive, moonlight on water is among the most difficult sights in nature to paint. Paint it live and you’re in the dark, and yet moonlight is next to impossible to capture well photographically. In this demo, Jeanne will share how you ...
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Join me as I demonstrate how to mix the beautiful colors of fall, whilst outdoors using my favorite method! I use my standard limited palette to arrive at a wide array of the gorgeous colors of autumn.
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There are some steps In every plein air painters routine that are a must if you are looking to increase your efficiency in the field; and that is the practice of doing a thumbnail sketch before every painting. By doing a sketch ahead of time, you ...
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In part one if this plein air series, Jonathan talks about choosing a subject and establishing a composition when in the field and on location. Part one carries through establishing dark and light shapes, and the beginning stages of color ...
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In part two of this plein air series, Jonathan moves through the latter stages of a plein air scene. Color, atmosphere, and edges are part of the process layering on top of the established composition and shapes, exemplifying the colors and energy of ...
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The third and final installment of this series takes the outdoors to the indoors where Jonathan explains his analysis process of plein air paintings. He pinpoints the areas of improvement and where good aspects can be enhanced even more. It is a look ...
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Painting portraits may seem a daunting challenge, but I want to show you that it can be managed with the understanding of some essential concepts. In this video I discuss how I go about smiling painting eyes with life and sparkle.
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In this three-part video series, I share the method of working with a palette knife. The use of a palette knife is very different than using a brush, and I hope to demonstrate in this video, the many different ways to hold and manipulate the knife ...
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In Part 2, I continue painting distant fields, the trees behind the lavender and begin laying in the lavender rows.
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In Part 3, I lay in the lavender rows and the grassy aisles between them. I show techniques for using the palette knife to depict the rows' shape and direction. Finally, I zoom in on the details showing how short strokes with a dry knife added texture.
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In this video Jonathan will explain one of many ways to mix luscious green colors in oil paint. Using basic primary colors in Blue and Yellow, however with "warm" and "cool" options, he will show a basic "green" palette that can be applied to many ...
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In this video Jonathan reworks a painting that had a foundation in Plein air, but needed some changes to bring it to a place of stronger impact and interest. Also, he casually discusses some of his experience and offers some helpful suggestions for ...
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Every discipline must begin with the understanding of some basic principles. This video demonstrates the basic principles of drawing that will carry you through all your artistic disciplines, with practice.
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Most of us have some extra waiting time every now and then. What better exercise for the artistic mind than to practice some quick drawings while out and about. In this video I show you how to capture a quick tree from life.
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This first lesson in a three-part series is the preliminary stages of a portrait demonstrating Sight-size drawing technique. A portrait was chosen because I want to demonstrate that the process of drawing is not complicated, but rather a series of ...
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In the second video of this three-part series, we will work further on the portrait that was begun in the first lesson. I will develop the portrait working out the contours of the face and begin laying in the values.