Why do my portraits look cartoonish? That was one of the first questions I ever got when I started teaching online, and I remember immediately understanding what they meant. Most beginner portraits do not look cartoonish because of color or realism. They usually look that way because of edges. When every edge in a painting is treated the same, especially when every shape has a hard edge, the portrait starts to feel flat and graphic. This often happens because beginners are afraid to let wet pain
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The whole key to this is the idea that landscape painting is about translating and not copying. That means you have to change things in the scene which means you have to test out those changes. Working small like this helps me save time trying out these tests. I use oils on kraft paper in a journal I got from @adventureofpainting #oilpainting #paintcoach #arteducation #paintingprocess
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Every month inside Paint Coach Studio I share a studio journal for my Advanced Student tier where I document my personal journey as a painter and what I’m currently learning and thinking about in the studio. This month I thought it would be fun and honestly really useful to go through older paintings that I don’t love and talk through why they don’t work. What I’ve noticed over time is that students often get more out of seeing my not so great paintings than the finished ones. It helps to see ho
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Cityscapes can feel overwhelming if you try to paint every building, window, and car as separate things. There’s just too much information, and it’s easy to get lost before the painting even starts. The key is to stop thinking in objects and start thinking in shapes. At the beginning of a painting, focus on massing in the big value shapes first. Large areas of light. Large areas of shadow. When those are working together, the whole scene starts to come together naturally. Once the structure is s
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I spent over fifteen years painting landscapes before I finally cracked the code. For so long I couldn’t figure out why my paintings never looked like what I saw in person. I’d take these beautiful photos, but when I tried to paint them, they always fell flat. That’s when I realized the secret. Landscape painting isn’t about copying what you see. It’s about translating it. Once you understand that, everything changes. In my Landscape Painting 101 course, I teach you the exact process that took m
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