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7 Value zones

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

AS I’ve become more adept at the technical aspects of applying paint I have become more and more concerned about composition. It is as if learning to appl...

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6 Painting from a sketch 1 of 2

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

In order to paint with spontaneity you have to do a lot of planning. Trying to inject spontaneity without proper planning is inviting disaster. My approach is t...

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5 The nine value grayscale

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

.. One afternoon I was looking out a window and noticed a small speck of dirt on the glass. I discovered if I closed one eye and positioned the speck over the s...

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04 Loading the brush, working with the 9 value grayscale

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

There are lots of ways to load a brush. This is one way I have found to get lush strokes of broken color.

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03 Loading the brush

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

… ONE of the most critical aspects of thick painting, and the most mystifying, is loading the brush. Using thick strokes of color with just one solid pigm...

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02 Intro to thick paint

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

A short video describing how I work with thick paint.

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01 Thick paint

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

– FOR the last few years for at least once a month I browsed the internet for articles about Thick Paint or Painting with Thick Paint finding no entries t...

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26 The sketch 2 of 3

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9 Painting from a sketch 2 of 2

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25 The sketch 1 of 3

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8: Field effects

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

WHEN I load a brush I want to include as much variation as possible. This includes adding complementary color, variations of value, as well as color schemes suc...

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24 The sketch

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

… PAINTING can be a complicated process with many steps leading to a great painting. One important step for most painters is the preliminary sketch. Some ...

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23 Using a full value underpainting 2 of 2

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

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21 Using a full value underpainting 1 of 2

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20 Using a full value underpainting

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

…. SOME may wonder why I bother to use a full-color, full-value under painting. And the answer is I usually don’t. But when a complex subject presen...

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19 The color of shadow and Monet’s envelope

Posted on February 3, 2021 by Brad Teare

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