I love how you keep the "why", I need to tape that one word to my easel. In simplifying, you really reinforce what compelled you to paint a particular scene. Great focus. Thanks!
I had never heard of Maynard Dixon before I saw this snippet. OMG.. I have a new inspiration :). I love his style and colors. Maybe not for me in my own work but I will certainly draw from the inspiration. Thanks for sharing
Thanks! Very educational. In the second Maynard Dixon painting, in addition to the guiding lines there is also contrast and detail in the structure to highlight it as the focus. Interesting!
CLOUDS - Dear Mr. Roberts, since several weeks I am watching your art teaching videos, and I appreciate them very much! In the lesson above you speak about clouds in terms of composition. Could you perhaps create a second lesson, in which you speak about how to paint clouds concerning their texture? I write to you from a roof-top house in Athens, Greece. Every day there's a huge sky above and all around me! Thank you VERY much for all your precious work here! Kindest regards, Stefan Schwerdtfeger
Thank you for this.... I've just been searching back through your videos for something on clouds to help with a current painting I'm doing out of my imagination of hills/heathland and a stormy sky (I live in UK)
Actually the “blue” stuff is air. The white to grey to dark is water vapor....Seems to me that I read somewhere that even the little wispy clouds can be carrying tons (literally) and tons of water. Which depending on temp can then dump on us water in form of either rain, sleet, hail or snow.
Really helpful. I have been focusing on composition with mountains. I am in western North Carolina - inspired by the mountain ranges and challenged to get the entry point and vertical lines stand out enough. Thanks - cloud movement is an option.
Ian -- rewatching this video and the previous one, it occurs to me that you might talk about the idea of space between objects creating useful tension .... how does that work?
I love how you keep the "why", I need to tape that one word to my easel. In simplifying, you really reinforce what compelled you to paint a particular scene. Great focus. Thanks!
Love Maynard Dixon! Live in the high desert if far west Texas-- the same kind of cloud shows & sunsets every single day! Thanks.
I had never heard of Maynard Dixon before I saw this snippet. OMG.. I have a new inspiration :). I love his style and colors. Maybe not for me in my own work but I will certainly draw from the inspiration. Thanks for sharing
Thank you very much for these insights on composition
Thank you for a very condensed and refined explanation.
Ian, I love these videos!! I've been looking for verticals and horizontals in my compositions now. Please keep them coming!
These composition videos are fantastic. I am really loving the examples.
Thank you thank you thank you. Waiting to watch your watercolour video.
Thanks! Very educational. In the second Maynard Dixon painting, in addition to the guiding lines there is also contrast and detail in the structure to highlight it as the focus. Interesting!
Thank you so much for the information and painting on the clouds, I enjoy painting clouds.🙏🏾
You are welcome!
CLOUDS - Dear Mr. Roberts, since several weeks I am watching your art teaching videos, and I appreciate them very much!
In the lesson above you speak about clouds in terms of composition.
Could you perhaps create a second lesson, in which you speak about how to paint clouds concerning their texture?
I write to you from a roof-top house in Athens, Greece. Every day there's a huge sky above and all around me!
Thank you VERY much for all your precious work here!
Kindest regards, Stefan Schwerdtfeger
It would be helpful to watch you paint clouds with these ideas in mind 😀👍
Ian, I loved this one on clouds. Beautiful examples of Dixon's work and your explanations. Thank you for these videos.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Glad you are enjoying them Monica. All the best, Ian.
Thank you for this.... I've just been searching back through your videos for something on clouds to help with a current painting I'm doing out of my imagination of hills/heathland and a stormy sky (I live in UK)
Clouds are made of air but you have reminded me that for the painter, they are design shapes. Really appreciate these tutorials Ian.
Actually the “blue” stuff is air. The white to grey to dark is water vapor....Seems to me that I read somewhere that even the little wispy clouds can be carrying tons (literally) and tons of water. Which depending on temp can then dump on us water in form of either rain, sleet, hail or snow.
Thank you- so informative.
Really helpful. I have been focusing on composition with mountains. I am in western North Carolina - inspired by the mountain ranges and challenged to get the entry point and vertical lines stand out enough. Thanks - cloud movement is an option.
Thank you Ian.
Thank you Ian this is great
Great information that inspire me to paint
Thank you
from where do you get such good photos for painting is there a website or youv'e photographed them yourself.
Great teaching.
I loved this vid
That is great. Glad you liked it.
Interesting!!
Thank You MUCH.
Really helpful Thankyou.
Thanks for giving my imagination permission to go beyond the “picture plane” and think “outside the box.” 🙃
Paul Henry, Irish artist, was known for his big West Ireland skies. You can find him online. Well worth checking out.
Thanks for the tip
Lightbulb moments!
Props to the conga player
Ian -- rewatching this video and the previous one, it occurs to me that you might talk about the idea of space between objects creating useful tension .... how does that work?
That's a good suggestion. Thanks Helen.
i think the length of this video was spot on Ian
Thanks sir
yay! 100
Ian could you analyze some Mark Maggiori in the future?
He certainly paints clouds!
Irish paintings