A La Carte Video Demo Downloads
Single video painting tutorials.
All Videos are in HD Format
The Demos below are available on an individual basis. None of these videos appear in any of my other packages of courses.
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Learn how to simplify the shape, the value, and the colors of trees and learn how to use values to enhance your trees and brushwork to achieve the texture of the foliage. A photo reference is included.
Direct painting is more one brush stroke at a time, each brush stroke is a finished brushstroke. That doesn't mean you can't go back and correct things. This helps you make definite decisions about color, value, and it also helps you simplify.
"The Importance of Broken Color"
1 hr 22 min - File Size: 2 G
$99
How you handle detail can kill a painting or enhance it. Broken color lets you to add detail without a value change, allowing you to create the impression of detail without creating a "busy" painting that doesn't work.
"Seeing The Photo As A Painting"
1 hr 23 min - File Size: 1.5 G
$99
Photographs are a place to start, not something to copy. We want to think in terms of how to use the colors on our palette to suggest the light, atmosphere, and the distance that we're seeing.
Phil Starke teaches how to take something complicated, like shrubbery and flowers, and mass it together, looking for the shadow pattern and shapes of the composition to help you work through this type of subject.
Controlling your color is important. Learn how to desaturate your color using a series of gray values.
"Painting With Secondary Colors"
1 hr 26 min - File Size: 2 G
$99
This lesson teaches how to use secondary colors. Using these colors helps you get away from copying the photo so much. It's a good way to simplify your color thinking process.
"Composing with Two References"
1 hr 23 min - File Size: 1.5 G
$99
Often we have photos that , alone, don't work as a composition. This video covers how to overcome the problems of value and color changes you might encounter. Learn how to combine two references to come up with one composition.