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This blooming orchard scene makes a single tree the star of the show with a supporting surrounding landscape.
This blooming orchard scene makes a single tree the star of the show with a supporting surrounding landscape.
Botanical beauty and profusion in the garden: so attractive, so joyful! In this live demo, Jeanne shares tips for approaching the chaos, discovering compositions, and creating impressions without being overwhelmed with the detail. Learn how to ...
Using flowers as our inspiration this demo shows how creating small works in a series builds confidence and mastery
Using flowers as our inspiration this demo shows how creating small works in a series builds confidence and mastery
Still water ponds are full of reflection, color and life in summer. Join Jeanne to explore the color and composition challenges of lily pads and marsh grasses and reflections in still water.
A Limelight Hydrangea provides the perfect subject for studying value and temperature shifts in whites under sunlight.
A brief Color Theory 101, this short video considers why we need neutrals, how color complements work, and how to neutralize bright colors
Color Theory 101 continued. How to create glowing color, and control the volume of your brights.
In this demo Jeanne shows how to turn on the power of your brights to make your sunsets realistic, never garish. Harness the power of neutrals to create color magic.
In this demo Jeanne shows how to turn on the power of your brights to make your sunsets realistic, never garish. Harness the power of neutrals to create color magic.
The sky is full of color year round, but especially so in the spring. Join Jeanne for an evening of sky-painting, recognizing gesture, shape and perspective in the sky and using them to create distance and atmosphere.
A simple system for taking your image from thumbnail or reference size to a correctly proportioned full scale drawing.
You need a simple, reliable, streamlined way to photograph your work. Here are two approaches Jeanne uses regularly to document everything she produces
Here’s two ways to make sure the proportion of your reference photo (or thumbnail) match your painting size.
A quick, easy way to clean your pastel trays and see your colors better
With Jeanne’s clear instructions, learn step-by-step how to beautifully frame a pastel painting, from start to finish
This video reviews all the supplies you’ll need to gather to successfully frame a pastel painting yourself.
How do you choose a reference photo? This video helps you hone in on what to look for and how to decide.
Don’t throw away those tiny shards of pastel, crush them up and make new ones! For this activity you need a mortar and pestle, a small spatula, an eye dropper bottle and a piece of plexiglass or wax paper.
This useful video takes you through everything you need to consider when preparing to sign your work: placement, tools, color, size, name choice, design aspects, even mindset.
In this quick and fun exercise, discover keys to making your sunset glow, and observe how strongly your choice of underpainting color can influence the feel of your painting.
A snow-covered landscape doesn’t mean a colorless scene. In this live demo, join Jeanne to discover life and color in a deep woodland snow scene.
A Step-by-step guide to mounting your paper
Hone your artistic perspective in order to take better photos, recognize strong compositions, and strengthen your work.
Develop a system to find what you're looking for more quickly and easily so you can get to painting!
Watch along as Jeanne paints a rocky coastline seascape in in Gloucester, Mass. Watch along as she combines planning and observation to make this challenging subject approachable.
City lights provide the magic and along with a darkening sky make everything evocative. Join Jeanne to learn how to create the glow when the sky goes dark and the lighting gets dramatic.
Your reference photos may be better than you think. Here's how to find the compositional gems hiding in your references. (note: can be edited by Matt.)
Full of tips on drawing boats accurately, underpainting for clear shimmering water and creating reflections and that floating effect for your boats.
Full of tips on drawing boats accurately, underpainting for clear shimmering water and creating reflections and that floating effect for your boats.
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.
Learn to create the effects of clear flowing river water, reflecting the sky and revealing the river bottom.
Learn to create the effects of clear flowing river water, reflecting the sky and revealing the river bottom.
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.
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.
The coastal landscape naturally showcases the sky. This video shows how sky perspective works and how best to use it to your expressive advantage.
The coastal landscape naturally showcases the sky. This video shows how sky perspective works and how best to use it to your expressive advantage.
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.
Discover Jeanne’s different strategies for underpainting trees and water in this
This demo shows how to create a rich textured treelike full of implied detail and early summer greens.
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
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
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 ...
A Limelight Hydrangea provides the perfect subject for studying value and temperature shifts in whites under sunlight.
A review of everything you need to take your studio into the field
Join Jeanne as she arrives on site, plans, and creates a plein air field study.
Strategies for choosing the best ground, then tackling the complex subject of close-up dramatically lit dahlias, from start to finish.
Strategies for choosing the best ground, then tackling the complex subject of close-up dramatically lit dahlias, from start to finish.
Learn to paint realistic lilypads against a deep blue background. Create convincing perspective and depth, placing details in the foreground.
Learn to paint realistic lilypads against a deep blue background. Create convincing perspective and depth, placing details in the foreground.
Finishing a painting with attention to values and edges
This video takes one flower sketch through the final finishing touches with refined edges and editing.
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.
Choose a palette for those black-and-white snowy landscapes, and inject feeling and depth in to your winter trees.
Choose a palette for those black-and-white snowy landscapes, and inject feeling and depth in to your winter trees
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.
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.
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.
A brief welcome to my site and where to begin.
Let's take a tour through my studio
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.
This short video offers a primer on pastels and paper
In this short video we explore how to ‘paint’ with a pastel stick
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.
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.
This short demo on applying pastel to paper shows how to create a simple still life starting with a toned, sanded paper
A step-by-step guide to using fixative on your finished paintings—how to apply it without changing the color, and why it’s useful.
Learn to see design more abstractly—and be able to choose compositions based on how they work as designs rather than for the subject or photo, in this series of exercises.
Learn to see design more abstractly—and be able to choose compositions based on how they work as designs rather than for the subject or photo, in this series of exercises.
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
The last segment in this demo shows how to choose highlight colors and create the sparkle to make your painting shine, including the wet
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
Expand your underpainting repertoire and ease with water, exploring three foundation strategies (cool, local color, black paper) for the same scene.
Expand your underpainting repertoire and ease with water, exploring three foundation strategies (cool, local color, black paper) for the same scene.
Expand your underpainting repertoire and ease with water, exploring three foundation strategies (cool, local color, black paper) for the same scene.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Short bonus follow up to the Lilypad 101 videos: How to block in the lily pads on a large complex scene
Learn to make sense of what you’re seeing in water reflections, and paint them effectively in this start to finish demo - part 1
Learn to make sense of what you’re seeing in water reflections, and paint them effectively in this start to finish demo - part 2
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.
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.
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 ...
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
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
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
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
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 ...
Foliage season is coming soon: be ready for it with this live demo on handling nature’s most glorious show with subtlety and sensitivity. Learn to balance the brilliance of fall color with just the right neutrals, and create depth and a strong ...
In this video we’ll look at some classic tools for designing landscapes, using space (foreground, middle ground & distance) and line to direct the eye to a focal point and around the composition.
In this video we’ll look at some classic tools for designing landscapes, using space (foreground, middle ground & distance) and line to direct the eye to a focal point and around the composition
Early morning light passing through waves infuses translucent seawater with dawn’s distinctive atmosphere. In this live demo, Jeanne takes a special look at how the color pallet of ocean water changes due to lighting conditions, and in particular she ...
In this forest demo, Jeanne uses rich textures and patterns anchored by strong lines to organize a tree composition
In this forest demo, Jeanne uses rich textures and patterns anchored by strong lines to organize a tree composition.
In this demo Jeanne shows how to crop and simplify for maximum impact. Learn how to identify and play to the strengths of your composition
In this demo Jeanne shows how to crop and simplify for maximum impact. Learn how to identify and play to the strengths of your composition
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.
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.
Tackling a complex cloud-filled sky means understanding cloud patterns and perspective and how they translate to two dimensions. This start to finish demo covers how to underpaint for large clouds, judging subtle value shifts, orchestrating a complex ...
Tackling a complex cloud-filled sky means understanding cloud patterns and perspective and how they translate to two dimensions. This start to finish demo covers how to underpaint for large clouds, judging subtle value shifts, orchestrating a complex ...
After sunset, a landscape’s tone and mood changes as light sources become more subtle. This demo is full of tips on creating clouds, light and atmospheric effects in a night scene
After sunset, a landscape’s tone and mood changes as light sources become more subtle. This demo is full of tips on creating clouds, light and atmospheric effects in a night scene
This demo on dark paper shows how to layer deep rich colors for a moonlit sky, and create the effect of reflected lights on water.
This demo on dark paper shows how to layer deep rich colors for a moonlit sky, and create the effect of reflected lights on water.
Adding figures to your landscapes creates liveliness and focus. Use these exercises and tips to incorporate figures more accurately and convincingly into to your landscapes.
Adding figures to your landscapes creates liveliness and focus. Use these exercises and tips to incorporate figures more accurately and convincingly into to your landscapes.
This exercise will help you simplify structures, see light on form, add color, value and then choose detail. Learn to place buildings in your landscape by reducing form to its simplest elements.
This exercise will help you simplify structures, see light on form, add color, value and then choose detail. Learn to place buildings in your landscape by reducing form to its simplest elements.
Learn to place buildings in your paintings without getting bogged down with the details. Jeanne takes you step by step through the process of seeing a complex city scene in simple terms, read the values and shapes and then add details and texture.
Learn to place buildings in your paintings without getting bogged down with the details. Jeanne takes you step by step through the process of seeing a complex city scene in simple terms, read the values and shapes and then add details and texture.
Regardless of what we’re painting, working with photos carries specific challenges: bad cropping, unreliable color, too much information. In this seascape demo, Jeanne Rosier Smith shares how she uses photos without being tied to them. She’ll show ...
In this series, learn tips and tricks for creating more realistic foam. This demo includes advice for handling all sorts of seafoam challenges and will sharpen your seafoam skills.
In this series, learn tips and tricks for creating more realistic foam. This demo includes advice for handling all sorts of seafoam challenges and will sharpen your seafoam skills.
Learn how to capture the movement and power of an ocean wave in pastel. Understand the wave’s moving form, and explore special underpainting and layering strategies to make your seascapes come alive.
As waves come ashore, both the design and technique of your seascape paintings become more complex. In this video Jeanne takes you through composing a shoreline seascape, handling wet and dry sand, foam, and underpainting strategies. Learn how to ...
Coastal landscapes present unique challenges: tricks of light and atmosphere seldom seen inland, subtle curves of sand and grass, light, reflective planes. This video takes you through the particular challenges posed by the coastal landscape. Learn ...
In this series, learn tips and tricks for creating more realistic foam. This demo includes advice for handling all sorts of seafoam challenges and will sharpen your seafoam skills.
In this series, learn tips and tricks for creating more realistic foam. This demo includes advice for handling all sorts of seafoam challenges and will sharpen your seafoam skills.
Seafoam is full of information about edges, motion, direction, texture of the water. This demo shows how to use foam to tell the story of the water’s motion and activity, with more sensitive observation and mark making.
Seafoam is full of information about edges, motion, direction, texture of the water. This demo shows how to use foam to tell the story of the water’s motion and activity, with more sensitive observation and mark making.
Seafoam is full of information about edges, motion, direction, texture of the water. This demo shows how to use foam to tell the story of the water’s motion and activity, with more sensitive observation and markmaking.
Seafoam is full of information about edges, motion, direction, texture of the water. This demo shows how to use foam to tell the story of the water’s motion and activity, with more sensitive observation and markmaking.
A serene winter sky creates a dramatic backdrop for a stand of winter trees. Make your well-designed sky the star of the show
A serene winter sky creates a dramatic backdrop for a stand of winter trees. Make your well-designed sky the star of the show
New growth and lush blossoms, brief and beautiful, create a tantalizing challenge for painters. Join Jeanne for an evening demo on approaches to finding and capturing blossoming trees at their best. We’ll cover tips for scouting great references, ...
Paint a snowy riverbank by understanding light, shadow, and plane shifts in the scene. Learn to judge snow value and temperatures, and create ripples and reflections in a winter river
Paint a snowy riverbank by understanding light, shadow, and plane shifts in the scene. Learn to judge snow value and temperatures, and create ripples and reflections in a winter river
Paint a snowy riverbank by understanding light, shadow, and plane shifts in the scene. Learn to judge snow value and temperatures, and create ripples and reflections in a winter river
What to do with those snowy but nearly colorless photo references? This demo shows how to convey depth and color to create an atmospheric and moody snow scene.
What to do with those snowy but nearly colorless photo references? This demo shows how to convey depth and color to create an atmospheric and moody snow scene.
Learn to create a complex forest scene with a simple design and accurate values. By finding the bigger shapes and implying the detail, Jeanne creates the forest
Learn to create a complex forest scene with a simple design and accurate values. By finding the bigger shapes and implying the detail, Jeanne creates the forest
Snow is crystalline and reflective just like clouds or seafoam, creating wonderful color opportunities. Painting well is learning to see. The rules for painting snow change drastically depending on the weather and the light. In this demo, retune your ...
Floating on the surface, reflecting the sky, suggesting depths below, waterlilies have captivated artists for centuries. Join in while Jeanne shares approaches for composing a lily pond scene, creating the illusion of reflections and suggesting ...
Jeanne outlines the origins of the workshops, plus 5 lies that lead to overworked paintings and 10 tips for loosening up.
An exercise for expanding your marks and freshening your work.
A simple exercise to help you get into the flow of your painting, and stop second-guessing your process
A clear step by step guide to creating better thumbnails, the GPS for your paintings
In this demo Jeanne shows how a clear plan allows for fresh, intuitive, looser painting (part 1)
In this demo Jeanne shows how a clear plan allows for fresh, intuitive, looser painting (part 2)
How much do you need to simplify? In this demo, learn to vary the degree of development, with the focal area being most defined.
How much do you need to simplify? In this demo, learn to vary the degree of development, with the focal area being most defined.
Floating on the surface, reflecting the sky, suggesting depths below, waterlilies have captivated artists for centuries. Join in while Jeanne shares approaches for composing a lily pond scene, creating the illusion of reflections and suggesting ...
Get in the zone with these stress buster exercises to loosen up your style as you create small gems with boldness, confidence and a sense of fun
Get in the zone with these stress buster exercises to loosen up your style as you create small gems with boldness, confidence and a sense of fun
Learn to paint rippling water in this start-to-finish demo by recognizing the complex visual patterns and how to simplify them
Learn to paint rippling water in this start-to-finish demo by recognizing the complex visual patterns and how to simplify them
Are you a studio painter who feels guilty about not going out plein air more often? This demo is for you. I’ll share my plein air practices with you, and tell you exactly how I use them to help inform and enliven my studio paintings. Don’t get me ...
A cool flowing waterfall comes together quickly on dark paper in this step by step demo
A cool flowing waterfall comes together quickly on dark paper in this step by step demo
Every Painting tells a story. The painter always has to choose: is it about the sky or is it about the land? In this demo we’re looking up, focusing on sky drama. How to compose a sky for dramatic affect, how to build soft, billowy clouds, control ...
This start to finish demo shows how to create the effects of sunlight on a curling wave. Special attention to underpainting strategies, and color and value choices to heighten atmospheric and lighting effects. (Pt1)
This start to finish demo shows how to create the effects of sunlight on a curling wave. Special attention to underpainting strategies, and color and value choices to heighten atmospheric and lighting effects. (Pt2)
This start to finish demo shows how to create the effects of sunlight on a curling wave. Special attention to underpainting strategies, and color and value choices to heighten atmospheric and lighting effects. (Pt3)
How do we work with the reference photos we have to create the best painting possible? In this demo, Jeanne has shared how to work with less than perfect photos to compose beautiful paintings with a strong visual impact. Part 1
How do we work with the reference photos we have to create the best painting possible? In this demo, Jeanne has shared how to work with less than perfect photos to compose beautiful paintings with a strong visual impact. Part 2
This start-to-finish demo video highlights a vibrant bosc pear against a neutral backdrop, with emphasis on value and chroma choices. Bonus tip: how to fill and organize a pastel box according to color and value (Part 1).
This sample clip is from my Color Fundamentals section below. This simple exercise using a black and white photo reference shows how deepening our understanding of value can expand our flexibility with color.
This start-to-finish demo video highlights a vibrant bosc pear against a neutral backdrop, with emphasis on value and chroma choices. Bonus tip: how to fill and organize a pastel box according to color and value.
This segment looks at the vital relationship between color and value, with a challenging color exercise.
This simple exercise using a black and white photo reference shows how deepening our understanding of value can expand our flexibility with color.
This simple exercise using a black and white photo reference shows how deepening our understanding of value can expand our flexibility with color (Part 2).
This short video explores color temperature, and especially how the quality of light effects local color. A brief challenging exercise analyzes light and shadow in terms of temperature.
This short demo shows how to ‘turn on the light’ in a painting, conveying sunlight and shadow through shifting color temperatures.
This segment introduces the challenges with greens, and shows how to underpaint to create rich, complex greens
This exercise shows how to expand your range of greens, using layering techniques to create the right greens from the colors you have on hand.
This Demo shows how to create a rich, realistic summer landscape painting, using underpainting strategies and layering techniques to make your greens more dimensional.
This Demo shows how to create a rich, realistic summer landscape painting, using underpainting strategies and layering techniques to make your greens more dimensional.
How to simplify, then use analogous color and temperature shifts to create glow.
A foundational lesson on breaking down the parts of a composition to understand shape and value and prepare for painting.
In this primary exercise, we begin a pear painting with sketch, block in and underpainting.
We continue and complete our pear painting with the steps of layering, blending, and edge work.
Cultivating a critical eye towards our own work is one of the most valuable and difficult skills we can develop as artists. This video contains an array of things to consider as you look at our own work, as well as offering a number of tools and ...
This sample clip is from my Color Fundamentals section. Here I look at the vital relationship between color and value, with a challenging color exercise.
In this longer video I take you through the complete painting from selecting a scene to paint, through creating special light effects, to completing the painting (part 1)
In this longer video I take you through the complete painting from selecting a scene to paint, through creating special light effects, to completing the painting (part 2)
In this longer video I take you through the complete painting from selecting a scene to paint, through creating special light effects, to completing the painting (part 3)
