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Build the Foundation for Consistently Better Paintings
This video course is packed with over 2-1/2 hours of knowledge, encouragement, insight, tips, exercises, graphics and animation sequences, critiques, and demonstrations. Every thing you need to dramatically improve your painting.
What you will learn and the benefits you will gain:
  • shows a working method to develop a strong composition before you start to paint
  • gives a structure so your painting approach can be bolder, less tentative
  • shows better design equals better painting
  • gives you a roadmap so you know where you're trying to go and where to stop
  • shows you how your eye moves on your painting so you become attuned to what is actually happening rather than what you hope is happening
  • explain why you must think like an abstract painter to improve your paintings
  • setting up a workable composition before you start, save endless reworking, overworking and frustration
  • your success rate will be  more excited and motivated to paint
  • gives you exercises to practice, even just 20 minutes a day, to improve your composition sense and skill
1. Thinking in Abstract Shapes
Shows the importance of seeing in terms of abstract shapes, not subjects, such as trees and figures, when beginning a painting.
 2. The Need for an Armature
Looks at several examples of how armatures create structures for a painting and then looks at complex armatures by two Old Masters.
 3. How the Eye Moves on the Picture Plane
Studies three masterworks and how each artist consciously controlled how our eye flows around their painting.
4. Framing and Cropping
Ideas, techniques and examples that will help enormously to extract the most dramatic and powerful composition from what you have chosen.
5. Value and Color Shapes
There are the basic building blocks of any painting. Learn to enhance their arrangement and the play of emphasis between them.
 6.  Workshop Critiques
A series of critiques given by Ian Roberts at a workshop in Taos showing student work and suggestions for better composition.
 

7. Demonstration
A 45 minutes landscape demonstration that takes everything we've talked about in the video and puts it into action.

 8. Workbook
A free simple exercises designed to help you learn to "see" structure and composition fundamentals more easily. With this you will build more engaging design consistently in your paintings.
  

IR-150D

DVD     $129.95
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IR-150V

VHS      $129.95

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