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Thursday, November 3rd, 2022

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Paint Those Trees Now - While They've Still Got Some Leaves Left!

Results of Robert Burridge's "drip trees" technique

Capturing the spirit is what abstract landscape painting is all about. This is a great time of year to paint the landscape - there's still a range of beautiful colors, some trees still have their leaves while others display the tracery of their branches against the late autumn sky.

Robert Burridge in his video shows how he begins his abstract landscapes and "drip tree" paintings.

From his four basic compositions and loose approach to painting, you will quickly learn the thrill of making up your own visual gems. In this video is Robert explaining and painting his approach to making abstract landscapes and trees. Using acrylics, tissue paper and his twenty years of teaching experiences, Robert clearly demonstrates each step on how he creates paintings for his museum exhibitions.

Watch as he prepares the surface, makes composition choices, chooses color combinations and begins painting four landscapes. Additionally, Robert shows his different techniques for creating trees reductive, negative shape painting starting with loose, crazy, colorful messes all the way to original finished paintings. This video will get you started with a more confident and positive attitude for painting the way you have always wanted to paint. These techniques work for him and can easily work for you too.

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PAUL KRATTER: MASTERING TREES

Trees are painter Paul Kratter's super power.

The other side of this coin, of course, is the traditional realist's approach to painting the trees. In Mastering Trees, Paul Kratter gives you a comprehensive lesson on painting trees … and foliage, bark, and creating form and a realistic feel — the fundamental skills that most (if not all) landscape painters need. And, in the process of learning to paint better trees, Paul teaches his entire landscape painting process. This video is full of tips, tools, and the techniques Paul uses that will cross over to things you paint besides trees. Paul is a master at turning more complicated tasks into manageable steps that are simple and that yield predictable results. These skills are universal!

Paul encourages you to paint right along with him in the video. He'll explain every step, and you can pause the video to finish before advancing to the next step. By painting along in real time, you'll be putting your new skills right to work … and in the order Paul presents the information. This way, you won't have to translate what Paul teaches into your own paintings — it's all right here for you! (How easy is that?!)

Joshua LaRock, A Walk in Autumn, oil, 9 x 12.

Once done, you'll have your own beautiful rendition of Eucalyptus Stand, the painting that Paul demonstrates from start to finish for you in this video.

As an added bonus to this already content-rich video, we're including a special segment with Paul showing you how to paint a variety of individual tree types — so helpful, because you have to approach each type differently (no two are alike!).

You'll also enjoy an interview with the artist and a digital gallery of some of his work.

This video is an essential for any landscape painter's resource library!

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CHIEN CHUNG-WEI: SPONTANEOUS WATERCOLOR

Chien Chung-Wei is the first artist in Taiwan to become a Signature Member of the American Watercolor Society and the National Watercolor Society. He has also achieved the prestigious position of Dolphin Fellow with the AWS.

He's the author of the bestselling books "The Intrigue of Form" and "Learning Watercolor from Demonstrations."

Artists and collectors say the watercolor works of Chien appear to embrace the spirit and character of Western watercolor masters over the last two centuries.

His works are delicate and classic, reminiscent of the works of William Henry Hunt and Myles Birket Foster.

You can see the spirits of such great watercolor masters as Thomas Girtin, John Sell Cotman, J.M.W. Turner, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, and Edward Seago in his works.

He has also broken the boundary between watercolors and oil paints. He created a series of works using watercolors and gouache that look like Romantic oil paintings of the 19th century.

His colors are expressive and classic, laid down with masterful brushstrokes that endow every character with a rich fullness. He creates the beauty and intrigue of form even with ordinary subjects — and that's the enchantment of his watercolors.

This 3-HOUR video package shows how painting in watercolor is like building a house. Following along, you'll start from the structural design, moving on to the laying of the ground floor in a large area … all the way to finishing the final details. According to Chien, the entire process is run through a kind of logic he calls "Efficient Connection."

For Chien, every brushstroke has a reason. Understanding those reasons will have a tremendous impact on your artwork. Inside the video, Chien will explain as he demonstrates the techniques and materials he uses.

Get Chung-Wei's Video here >>

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JOSHUA LAROCK: CLASSICAL PORTRAITS

Joshua LaRock is internationally recognized as a preeminent figurative artist. His exquisite paintings are an ode to the past, filtered through a contemporary life. His portraits and narrative pieces are memorable both for their emotive quality and for evoking an eerily present feeling.

In one of Steamline's top videos, LaRock demonstrates multiple problem-solving tools and ideas you can apply in your own artwork. For example, you'll appreciate the importance of his layering techniques, which give you the opportunity to adjust your painting as it progresses. You'll be pleasantly surprised at how much everything changes and begins to "glow" as you add layers.

Josh spent over a decade trying to learn and discover these techniques, and had something like this been available to him when he started, chances are it would have sped up his learning curve and made him reach this stage of painting much sooner.

You don't have to go through all that … simply order Classical Portraits with Joshua LaRock and you'll be learning from one of the best artists today.

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