When you start painting you will make all kinds of mistakes. That is just part of the journey. Making mistakes is not an issue in painting, provided you are able to identify the mistakes and learn from them. The problem when you are a beginner is that you will not be able to see most…
How To Use Increased Color Saturation To Draw Attention To Your Focal Point
An amazing technique for drawing attention to your focal point is to use increased color saturation to contrast against areas of more muted colors. I used this technique in my most recent painting, Queenstown From The Shore: This was a fairly gloomy painting with mostly muted colors. But this presents a perfect opportunity to draw…
Painting Tutorial – Queenstown From The Shore
In this painting tutorial I will walk you through step-by-step how I created my most recent painting, Queenstown From The Shore. I used oils for this painting but the general fundamentals are the same across all the painting mediums. This was a challenging scene to paint as there are so many little elements to capture…
