Transcript and Key Insights Good morning, evening, or afternoon to all my friends. I’m going to paint a kind of forested creek scene today, something quite atmospheric. I actually painted this subject a long time ago, and it was really successful; I thought...
Transcript and Key Insights The painting I’m bringing you today is called Woodland Stream, painted on a 4×6 board. Recently, I decided to focus on producing several 4×6 paintings, which is a standard frame size and excellent for studies or miniatures. Personally, I...
Transcript and Key Insights Welcome to Easel Talk #62. Today, we are diving into a topic that sits at the heart of why we create: feeling and art as a quality of meaning. There are so many feelings we have that words cannot...
Transcript &Key Insights Today I am sharing a painting called “The Hole in the Rock.” It is a 7×14 piece that I completed last week, and I am super happy to share it with you. We have painted this scene before, one of...
Transcript and Key Insights Good morning, evening, or afternoon. It is your painter in residence, Michael Francis McCarthy, and we are going to make a painting today, actually, over the next few days. This is a commission for a good friend of mine,...
Transcript and Key Insights Welcome to Easel Talk number 61. Today, we are tackling a topic I have extensive experience with: overworking your paintings. I have made this mistake many times, pulled myself out of it, and now possess insights, tips, and tricks...
Transcript and Key Insights We are beginning our session on Sunset Serenade, a 5×10 piece. Before diving into the brushwork, I want to establish the foundation of what we are working with. You obviously seen the completed painting in the thumbnail, but right...
Transcript and Key Insights The painting featured in this session is titled Sunset Serenade, a five by ten-inch piece completed just last week. It is essentially a sky painting, a subject I have explored extensively over the past fifteen years through what I...
Transcript and Key Insights Painting rocks can be an exceptionally difficult aspect of landscape painting. This particular challenge seems to be especially thorny for many artists. Just about any painting done by an amateur painter is going to have problems with the rocks....
Transcript and Key Insights I’m doing a cool scene today, so I’m starting with an underpainting color. Black on its own can feel a little ugly, so I’m mixing Prussian blu, which is quite transparent, with black to create a blue-black. Ivory black...
