Transcript and Key Insights I painted this a couple days ago, and I’m real happy with it. I want to tell you the whole story of this little painting. I had the basic reference image sitting around for months and months, and there...
Transcript and Key Insights Good morning. I’m doing a painting a day each four by six. I’m building up a good inventory of these little ones. This one’s quite interesting. The reference is beautiful. I’ve had it for ages. It was very low...
Transcript and Key Insights The difference between a painting that feels alive and one that feels flat often comes down to strategic color placement. You have your basic composition, your framework of the landscape, that’s absolutely critical. But you don’t need to constantly...
Transcript and Key Insights This is a riff on a painting by George Inness. I went through dozens and dozens of iterations of the reference to get here. I want to be able to give due to the inspiration for this image that...
Transcript and Key Insights This is a riff on a painting by George Inness called Early Autumn Montclair, which is probably my favorite painting of all time. It’s directly inspired by his painting, but it makes some very big divergences, namely it has...
Transcript and Key Insights While trees always have foliage, at least in spring and summer, many other landscape elements do as well. There’s a lot of overlap with trees here, but there’s a lot of other just random foliage in the landscape. Just...
Transcript and Key Insights We’re doing a fall painting today, a six by eight. The reference came together through my process of working with master images and digital means to arrive at a composition. Fall scenes like this aren’t exactly common here in...
Transcript and Key Insights I painted this six-by-eight on three mil MDF, my favorite surface to work on. It’s totally smooth, very secure, and very inert. I like working on hardboard, but it has a subtle lump depending on the sheet. MDF doesn’t...
Transcript and Key Insights First off, I want to mention that I had to do the underpainting twice because I didn’t focus the camera properly the first time. But the lesson here isn’t about camera work; it’s about our relationship with reference images....
Transcript and Key Insights We’re going to make a painting today. I’ve got my colors pre-mixed, and we’re starting fresh with the drawing because the camera wasn’t focused on the first attempt. The Reference and Setup This reference comes from a folder I...
