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WetCanvas Live! Paint Stunning Landscapes from Photos:
Lesson 1 & 2 These two lessons are the introduction where you will become conscious of what can go wrong by relying too much on photos. One of the common fallacies is to assume that just because you have a good photo reference, you will end up with a successful painting. While it is true that a good photo will help you paint a winner as long as you know what is valuable in it and what can hamper the final result. These two lessons will provide you with the same insight on how professional artists get around photo dictatorship. You will become the boss over your landscape photos. Make the photo work for you instead of you for the photo.
You'll learn:
• Strategies for what to borrow and what to ignore in photos
• Detect and avoid typical traps contained in photos
• How to lead the eye in and throughout the painting
• What counts the most to the viewer as he "reads" your artwork
Approximately 4 hours
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WetCanvas Live! Paint Stunning Landscapes from Photos:
Lesson 3 & 4 The macro world of landscapes is so complex. How do you bring all that visual information into the confinements of a rectangle which is just a mere square inches? In nature things fade out gradually in the peripheral vision of the viewer's eye instead of ending abruptly at the borders of a painting. So how do we bring the feeling of a real landscape location to the viewer who is only looking at a 2 dimensional area that fits in a box? It takes technique and skill to represent something from the authentic world into an artificial representation. This is where the art of cropping comes in handy. Follow Johannes during the oil painting procedure while comparing the photo to see what he overlooks or exploits from it.
You'll learn:
• The importance of mood that guarantees a successful painting
• What is valuable to conserve in photos and what to trim off
• Avoid unnecessary linear eye movements
• Insight on how the eye sees compared to how the camera sees
Approximately 4 hours This item does not have shipping or handling fees, but does count toward your order total to receive free shipping on other products.
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WetCanvas Live! Paint Stunning Landscapes from Photos:
Lesson 5 & 6 Many art instructors make constant reference to abstract shapes but what do they mean? Once and for all, get a clear understanding of the value of working with the right brain to convert complicated areas into abstract designs. The great majority of artists are too concerned about trying to render things with the intention to make them look real, instead of making subjects in your paintings look pleasingly designed and artistic. These two lessons will define what makes shapes very appealing to the viewer and which shapes are not pleasing. If you feel you lack talent, you won't need it once you understand these two lessons.
You'll learn:
• Visualize a complex landscape scene and break it down into abstract puzzle pieces for easy transfer from photo to artwork
• What constitutes a boring shape
• How to reinterpret nature's complexity into simplicity
• A valuable check list of what will make most paintings work
Approximately 4 hours Digital Download
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WetCanvas Live! Paint Stunning Landscapes from Photos:
Lesson 7 & 8 This part of the series will make artists aware of how the brain wants to work from the intellectual side instead of from the artistic side. The information in landscape painting is quite complex so we need a way to simplify, visualize and interpret this information so we can transfer this onto our painting surface. Thinking in designed interesting shapes is imperative if an artist wants to increase his painting level. Lesson 8 which is a recorded watercolor demo will help you see how all this is put into perspective as the painting materializes.
You'll learn:
• how to design landscape symbols
• to recognize a boring shape from an abstract exciting shape
• how to simplify contours of trees and rocks
• how to paint backwards by negative painting
Approximately 4 hours
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WetCanvas Live! Paint Stunning Landscapes from Photos:
Lesson 9 & 10 Did old masters think in terms of realism or did they connect the part of their mind that allowed them to design artistically? This part of the series includes a study on Sargent, Monet and other old masters.
One of the huge setbacks of working from photos is that they flatten the 3D realism. Lesson 9 will give you techniques on how to create a convincing three dimensional illusion on a 2D surface even when using photos as reference material. Lesson 10 will introduce you to the importance of recognition of values and how to round them up into simple readable masses.
You'll learn:
• how to pay more attention to negative shapes
• 8 great ways to make landscape objects recede into the distance
• to develop a battle plan by assigning value masses
• the importance of thinking in a gray scale
Approximately 4 hours
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WetCanvas Live! Paint Stunning Landscapes from Photos:
Lesson 11 & 12 This is a continuation of lesson 10. This will teach you to make the most out of your pictorial landscape space by budgeting the square inches to emphasize the main theme of the painting. You will see why limiting all your landscape shapes to mostly a mid gray value like the impressionists did, will bring out the light so many artists strive for. By mass planning you will usher your viewer to move visually in a relaxed way making him feel more connected to your scene.
You'll learn:
• how to mix colors easier by thinking in its gray tone
• how to make your landscape planes stronger
• how to make all your dark areas sing with color
• how to ease the eye flow in your paintings
Appoximately 4 hours
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WetCanvas Live! Paint Stunning Landscapes from Photos:
Lesson 13 & 14 This is a continuation of lesson 12 on mass mapping according to
values. Students' homework is reviewed and Johannes offers further
examples of converting photos into thumbnail sketches. Johannes opened a
nuts & bolts question answer session to address student's art related
typical questions. A pastel painting of a scene at the Oregon Coast was
done that shows how the value mapping was followed faithfully.
You'll learn:
. answers to common questions from artists . tips on how to block in with pastels . how to stay true to a value plan
Approximately 4.5 hours
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WetCanvas Live! Paint Stunning Landscapes from Photos:
Lesson 15 & 16 During the first hour of lesson 15 Johannes critiqued his students' work
based on photos he assigned and gave them professional tips. The second hour
of lesson 15 is one of the most important concepts to learn because it deals
with how to create diffused edges, soft edges and hard edges. Johannes
reveals one of the top secrets in this class which is the importance of lost
& found edges. The understanding of edges is imperative if you want your
paintings to go up another notch. Lesson 16 includes demos of trees in
watercolor, acrylics and oils emphasizing on how to handle the mediums to
create these diverse edges mentioned.
You'll learn:
where to place a focal point
. how to strengthen a predominant area in your paintings . where to place buildings in your paintings . how to create the illusion of people and animals moving . how to control wet on wet in watercolor
Approximately 4.5 hours
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WetCanvas Live! Paint Stunning Landscapes from Photos:
Lesson 17 & 18 In lesson 17 Johannes will go over the students' tree submissions. You
will also learn from his comments because he will address common problems
artists face with edge handling. In lesson 17 you will learn everything you
need to know about creating a focal point. Because he felt students still
had some weaknesses in their trees, Johannes decided to do more webcam demos
of trees and evergreens to reinforce what was previously taught.
You'll learn:
. where to place a focal point . how to strengthen a predominate area in your paintings . where to place buildings
Approximately 4.25 hours
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WetCanvas Live! Paint Stunning Landscapes from Photos:
Lesson 19 & 20 In lesson 19 Johannes will critique the students' work they did on lost
and found edges on their trees as well as helping them design them with
better shapes. In the second part you will be given a very handy list of
do's and don'ts for landscape painting. This will help you stay away from
bad habits during your painting process. For lesson 20 Johannes will teach
his secrets for bare winter trees and will do some video demos.
You'll learn:
. to make edges on trees 3D looking. . to avoid common errors done by many landscape artists using a check
list. . how to place winter trees in a group.
Approximately 4.25 hours.
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WetCanvas Live! Paint Stunning Landscapes from Photos:
Lesson 21 & 22 For Lesson 21 during the first segment of the class, Johannes goes
through their submissions of bare trees. The second segment will address the
very complex topic of color which is color harmony. You will learn a very
simple down to earth answer to making your paintings work color wise. You
will learn to think more in reduced hues rather than rely on color formulas.
Lesson 22 is a watercolor demo of some buildings with trees behind. This is
where you will learn the advantage of adding additional colors so your
greens will not be monotonous.
You'll learn:
. insight on controlling greens. . how to echo colors in your paintings. . how to use a limited palette.
Approximately 4.25 hours.
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WetCanvas Live! Paint Stunning Landscapes from Photos:
Lesson 23 & 24 For Lesson 23 during the first segment of the class, Johannes critiques
the painting homework he had assigned. During the second segment he
introduces his insight on plein air painting while he shares what he looks
for and avoids during this process. Later he does a study on some paintings
of renowned top artist, Jim Wilcox, and how his paintings compare to the
reference photos. In Class number 24 he takes it to the field and plays a
recording of a live plein air class he gave while painting a waterfall
outdoors. He shows how he applies the finishing touches to that painting in
his studio.
You'll learn:
. do's & don'ts of plein air painting. . how to paint a waterfall. . a check list to ensure success in your paintings. . how to apply the thumbnail sketch to a real scene.
Approximately 4.25 hours
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WetCanvas Live! Essentials of Painting Mountains.
Complete course.
Join Master landscape
painter Johannes Vloothuis, in another of our popular online courses. This
time he will be sharing what he knows about painting realistic and
breathtaking mountains. Being one of his favorite painting themes, Johannes
has done at least 1000 paintings with mountains and knows the subject very
well and is eager to pass onto you the techniques so you can succeed in
creating beautiful mountain scenes of your own. He will tell you how to
create the majestic feeling of those snow-capped beauties. Watch and listen
as he coveys professional secrets!
Price: $39.99 Digital Download
Aprox. 8 hours 45 min
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WetCanvas Live! WetCanvas Live:
Essentials of Painting Buildings. Complete course. Join Master landscape painter Johannes Vloothuis as he shares his
expertise at painting buildings such as barns, stone bridges, brick homes,
etc. His very simple approach to perspective will take away the complexity
of this subject. You'll learn how to create beautiful portraits of houses,
town street scenes and more. Depicting buildings that tell a story will make
people want to "move into" your paintings. Paintings with buildings tend to
sell the most. The four lessons in this course will give you that insight.
Price: $39.99 Digital Download Aprox. 8 hours 30
min This item does not have shipping or
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WetCanvas Live! WetCanvas Live:
Essentials of Painting Trees. Complete course. Every landscape painting has trees, so knowing how to depict them
with artistic perspective will greatly enhance your paintings. In this 6
lesson, online course with Master painter Johannes Vloothuis, you will learn
to symbolize trees with interesting forms and pleasing shapes, the way they
should look in landscape paintings. Join Johannes to learn all of the top
pro secrets. Everything from techniques on how to depict pine trees, autumn
trees, and bare winter trees, to solving the difficulty of monochromatic
green trees. Follow along as Vloothuis instructs with mediums such as
watercolor, oils, pastels and acrylics.
Price: $49.99Digital Download Aprox. 14 hours 30 min This item does not have shipping or
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WetCanvas Live! WetCanvas Live:
Essentials of Painting Water. Complete course.
Join Johannes Vloothuis, our resident artist, in another exciting and
popular live online session. Many artists want to know how to paint water
convincingly. This 3 week course will give you the answers and make it look
like the water in your paintings moves. Johannes will delve into this
extensive and seemingly complicated topic and make it easy for you to be
able to paint water in all its forms, such as, water reflections in still
and moving water, lakes, rivers and streams, even rocks or logs under water,
to the point that it feels like you can dip your foot in it or take a swim.
(Seascapes and waterfalls to be given in a future course).
Price: $29.99Digital Download Aprox. 7 hours 30 min This item does not have shipping or
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WetCanvas Live! WetCanvas Live:
Essentials of Painting Skies. Complete course. Skies can make or break your
painting. Join Johannes Vloothius as he shares secrets to painting luminous
skies. Skyscapes in themselves make beautiful paintings and are easy to do.
You can create wonderful moods that make paintings sell. Also learn how to
integrate skies in all landscapes. This course contains 3 lessons for
download.
Price: $29.99Digital Download Aprox. 7 hours This item does not have shipping or
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WetCanvas Live! WetCanvas Live:
Essentials of Painting Waterfalls. Complete course. Learn to paint convincing waterfalls
with Johannes Vloothuis! Johannes will share his secrets on how to
effectively paint waterfalls and make it seem like the water is actually
moving. This course contains 3 lessons for download
Price: $29.99Digital Download Aprox. 7 hours 15 min This item does not have shipping or
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Johannes Vloothuis' Landscape Photo Reference Pack Over the years and during
all his travels Johannes has been accumulating his own personal library of
reference landscape photos. From all these photos he has handpicked the best
from some of his favorite painting spots. These will make good reference
photos for painting landscapes. The difference with these photos compared to
others is that they were carefully selected and taken by an expert landscape
artist so they are very supportive in composition. Whereas as other photos
by professional photographers are not taken with the intent of painting from
them. That's why these photos are so special and are now available to you.
By purchasing these reference photos, Johannes grants you the right to use
these photos and waves the copyrights for you to use for paintings.
