Jacob Collins: Sculpting The Figure With PencilMany of us get to the middle of our painting and find that our figure is off or the layout is askew. This program is about measuring and checking the proportions of the figure so that doesnt happen. Jacob is drawing a frontal nude, a healthy, young gal. The lesson here is how often and how carefully he measures as he goes to create beautiful, lifelike figures in his paintings. When he is done, as he says, the drawing is ready to be finished or to be

Copying photos versus creating a painting

Michele Byrne

The secrets of classical pastel portraiture shared by a European master Gwenneth Barth

Filmed on location in France during one of Johnnie's annual European workshops

you may wonder how she saw such color and beauty in the simply arrangements in front of her

this video is the answer to that desire

Series addresses many of the basic elements of painting that many beginning painters fail to learn because they may not have access to good instructive art sources

but there is a consistent thread through her paintings that shows the similarity of the process and structure used to create these diverse compositions

Try three primary colors (different from the ones used in this video) on your limited palette and see how the change in palette offers new color ranges without sacrificing the unity of a color scheme

Certain natural laws affect the values of any object

"Roses" shows you how to create a stylized rose design from a simple setup without copying every petal for petal

Morgan is a consummate instructor