Category: Painting

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Riff on Francis Murphy: 15 Minute Painting Demonstration!

Welcome to another tonal landscape oil painting demonstration. This is your painter in residence, Michael Francis McCarthy. And the painting I’m bringing you today is called “Riff on Francis Murphy, Evening.” I painted this back in September of 2025 and I’ve been sitting...

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Light on the Path: 15 Minute Painting Demonstration

The painting I’m bringing you today, Light on the Path. It’s a 5×7, was painted last week, and I’m really happy to show it to you today. New Website I want to mention my new website: mfrancismccarthy.art. It’s my hub—where things are consolidating....

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Light on the Path: Full Live Painting Session!

Transcription and key Insights I’ve already mixed the underpainting color: burnt umber with a significant amount of Mars black. I’m doing this partly for time savings. I recently painted a sky scene using this Mars black mixture, and it worked well. The key...

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A Landscape Painters Guide to Modulation Easel Talk 35

What Is Modulation? The definition: also known as gradation. It is always desirable in painting to modulate colors from cool to warm, from dark to light or from one hue to the next. Instead of just laying down a flat, unmodulated color, you...

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Dusk’s Ember – 15 Minute Painting Demonstration!

A Fauvist coastal sky scene The painting I’m bringing you today is called Dusk’s Ember. It’s a 7×14 and I painted it day before yesterday. I was anxious to share it with you. Maybe some of you noticed that I didn’t say welcome...

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Dusk’s Ember – Full Live Painting Session!

Live Painting Transcript and Key Insights We did a version of this yesterday on the gray. Perfectly saleable. Smaller. But I’ve changed the scene quite a bit with some help from my assistants. You’ll see some synthetic color mixing here. Grist for the...