Here is a free acrylic painting lesson video created by Artist Robert Joyner.

In the beginning of the video, Robert talks about an equation he likes to apply to his painting that I found very interesting. Its a 2:1 equation with 2 parts believable and 1 part imperfect.  In Roberts opinion, which I tend to agree with, its the imperfections that make a painting beautiful.

Robert likes to keep his compositions simple and his brushwork loose and abstract which makes for some very interesting paintings.  In this particular lesson, his composition is two fishing boats that are docked in downtown Newport News.

The biggest lesson I took away from this video is to not take my painting too seriously.  I know that many times I will become intimidated by a particular painting I am working on.  I will worry that it may not come out the way I anticipated and its those worries that  ultimately ruin the finished product.  I think its best to just relax and let go as Robert does in this video. And if it doesn’t come out as good as you had hoped, then put it in the “reject” pile like Robert mentions in the video and paint over it!   What a great concept.

Another great point Robert Makes is when he compares painting to a sculpture.  How he chisels away at the painting one piece at a time and little by little, the painting comes together.

All in all, this is a very interesting video lesson that will hopefully breathe some new life into your own work.  I hope you enjoy.

Acrylic painting tutorial. ‘Keeping it loose’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JuTu8LhS50

A big thanks to Robert Joyner for making this video tutorial available through YouTube.  You can learn more about him and his work by visiting his YouTube page here or his Website Here.

Here is another full episode of the program “Karrie on Canvas” with artist Karrie Evenson. In this episode, Karrie demonstrates how you can use music to inspire your creativity.  Karrie also shows you how to create a painting without any real planning, to let go and  just “Wing It” as she puts it.

Karrie uses musicians as her subject in this demonstration, but you do not have to paint the same subject. Pick any subject you want.  It is the process that she uses to complete this painting that she would like you to try.

Enjoy this acrylic painting demonstration.

Here is what you will need to complete your painting:

• Medium Size Canvas
• Medium to Large Paint Brushes
• Assorted Acrylic Paint
• Paper Towels or Rags
• Water for Cleaning Brushes

Karrie on Canvas: Episode 30 “Jazz it Up!”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8AcxUC8d6Q

A big thanks to the folks over at Jones Television for sharing this video. You can see more of their great programming over at their YouTube Channel Here.

If you would like to learn more about Karrie and view more of her work, please visit her Website by following this link.

The following is an acrylic painting technique that you probably have not seen before. I never did until today. This is a very interesting approach to working with acrylic paint.

In the video below, a representative of Blick Art Materials takes advantage of the strong, flexible, quick drying properties of acrylic paint to create some very interesting works of art.

She first lays out a layer of acrylic paint over some parchment paper. It is allowed to dry for 48hrs.It is then easily peeled from the parchment paper, leaving you with a flexible piece of dried paint from which to work from.

From this point, the possibilities are endless as you will see after watching the video below. Everything from mosaics to jewelry can be created. And with the addition of various mediums, even more interesting things can be done. Pretty cool stuff! Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aTy_aXEuJQ

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Here is another great episode of Karrie on Canvas presented to you by “Jones Television – Channel 22″. Jones Television-Channel 22 is a twenty-four hour, non-profit, commercial-free station cable-cast in Northwest Arkansas. Established by the Harvey and Bernice Jones Trust in 1996, the station broadcasts community and educational information with a reach of more than 150,000 households in Benton and Washington counties. Through generous support from Cox Communications, Inc., Jones Television is uniquely positioned to offer niche programming featuring the people, places and events that make up the rich tapestry of Northwest Arkansas. You can learn more about them by either visiting their YouTube Page or their Website.

Back to the video.  This is an acrylic painting demonstration by artist Karrie Evenson.  If you are a fan of acrylic painting and trying something new and different, then this video is for you.  Karrie has a very unique style of painting that you are sure to find refreshing and enjoyable.

If you only learn one thing from Karrie, it would be to just let go and don’t be afraid to try new things.  One of the biggest problems beginners face is the fear of wasting paint or of producing an ugly painting.  If you are constantly fearful and holding back with your painting, you will never get any better.

Enjoy the video and if you would like to learn more about Karrie and view more of her work, be sure to visit her website as soon as you can:

http://www.karrieevensonart.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wf8ASMmH6Q

About Don

Don Jusko is a very talented and knowledgeable American Artist and founder of the website: RealColorWheel.Com. RealColorWheel.com is by far the most comprehensive website on the topic of color. It is jam packed with free information, lessons and tips on color that Every artist should see. Don is very excited about sharing his painting demonstration below as well as getting the word out about his site.

Here is Don’s recommendation on how to navigate through his website:

“I suggest you start on my end page (reverse to forward pages). All my pages have links backward and forward and I think my last 6 pages are very important. Especially the page that shows the colors the children used and the secondary colors they made.”

Don also stresses the importance of the following:

“Well I think this 3 color watercolor palette of mine that uses the same 3 Transparent colors that I use for printing four color process images on my 50″ giclee plotter and painting what I see on location is VERY important. http://www.realcolorwheel.com/rcwplotter.htm”

Two printing passes, one primary color over one secondary mixed color will print a black hue neutral dark. just like mixing the pigment in clear media.”

Jacaranda Trees – Acrylic Painting Demonstration

15×22, acrylic on panel -
May 20, 2002

This is two hours from the start. Using a 3/4″ sable filbert. I wet the whole support and washed in the sky. While the sky was drying I captured the grass, I went with the big areas blocking in the foliage, big branches background trees and the road. I see the tree as having a foreground, middle ground including the trunk and branches and inside background.
To get ready for tomorrow I cleaned up the posts with two coats of white.

Day 2

What a great day. A dreams come true kind of day. This morning I set up my solar power to run my computer with an inverter. Hee hee, happy camper. By 12:00 I was on location setting up. On and off all day I had to laugh, the sun was shining, the wind was blowing and it was raining. My umbrella was set so low I had a two foot space to see my view.

I’m up in the clouds tonight, 4,600 feet, Chillier … It’s great, country radio on the van’s radio, the computer on the extra battery. Alone at the top of the world. I’m a hermit at heart. Speaking about hearts, I’m staying beside an image in our mountain, The Busman’s Heart, w/c. I made a computer coloring book page from this painting.

The Jacaranda painting coming along well, not quite 100% coverage yet, but no hurry. Every day more blue flowers bloom!

This little 5×8 ink cross hatch drawing with a Pigma 01 is all I have to show for the next day.

It was to cold for me so I dropped down to my favorite spot on the mountain at the 4,000 feet elevation. It was so pretty I stayed here for the day. I need the brake after 6 mos. in the hot Lahaina sun.

I removed the painted in hi-way sign by sanding and repainting the area. I had added it in too early.

Painting Notes

Sit down and point your nose at the direction of the center of your picture. Set up your easel and be sure your support is level. Move your eyes when you look at different areas of the view, not your whole head. It’s best to look with one eye only. Follow one concentric ring across the (support, panel, canvas). This and visually marking the left and right sides of the image should give you your final painting image width.

If your painting for more then one day on location, mark everything about your easels position.
When going after accuracy not speed everything must stay in the same relative position.

Day 3

I changed the pitch of the green middle ground slope and fixed all the fence posts.
I’ve given up on trying to catch the sun so I’m spreading the cool around with a glaze of Cyan..I considered it 100% covered by 3:00.
I still haven’t got the shape of the main tree yet but I will right after this break.

I would say there are 30% more flowers today. Soon the petals will blow on the hi-way, I’ll have to be here at 6:00 in the morning to catch that. The day after tomorrow I hope.

4:48 finished for the day, ten to five, I thought I was out of that rut.. It was a perfect day, and it just happened to be my 61st birthday!

After such a great day I left for the higher levels, the 7,000 foot level of Hosmer’s Grove. Now were in the cold. I think I’ll stay here a day and give the flowers another bloomin’ chance. See the inside of the creator and another small painting.

Day 4

6:30, on the paintings location. There are petals on the road and more flowers on the tree. It’s perfect. Shortly it will warm up. A young kid on a road luge just whizzed by, it looked like he had a school backpack on.
No breaks and going 35-40 mph, kids..

I’ve taken out the left post, my perception was wrong, when I got back to basics and looked at the whole painting and viewed it with one eye and applied paint with one eye, I saw I had missed on the foreshortening.
Here it is with the white outs and the enlarging of the tree, pulling it more into foreground.

It’s 10:57 and the sun has gone for the day. Perfect timing, I got all my correction work done in the paintings with the 4:00 colors by using the same colors that were already down. Now the colors are here and I can go forward. 1:17, Got to take a break, the suns back out again. It really is a beautiful day. I won’t get cloud cover for another couple hours.
It’s 4:00, I think I’m done for the day. I never got the cloudy day. It was good for the flowers though, tomorrow should be the one where I can glaze in all my colors, I have all the shapes right.

The Geneva International Middle School bought my CD of the color course and likes it. I’m so happy. I spent the rest of the daylight hours watching polo practice, this area of Maui is cowboy country. The night was spent at the 5,000 foot level.

This is whiting out corrections, it will take two coats for a clean start.

Day 5

To catch each pattern of the tree correctly, look at the tree and paint it with one eye.
Just relax yourself, you can do it.

Using one eye to view the painting and the image, which are stacked over one another is key, the most important drawing factor.The other is to paint with two eyes open after you have mentally found your marks with one eye only

It’s been a great day, just the right amount of overcast. My strokes are getting smaller so I think I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

There is as much character in a tree as on a face, and much more intricate.

3:00, I’m adding the little branches that make the larger branches look real. A #3 script liner now that I have the patterns in place. I’m looking for the details that make the character of this type of tree. The petals are usually darker green underneath. that’s because they are pods of flowers, each pod sticking out from the green leaves. that always casts a shadow in the sun and even in cloudy weather. the green leaves are very small on a shaft like a feather.

I’ll try to mimic that in a stroke.

The tree is 30% covered now, way up from when I started. The petals are bluer purple in the shade and redder in the sunlight. The leaves go from a purple-green split complementary to a yellow-green opposition to the purple. It’s Great the way nature works that way.

The colors remind me of the first transparent yellow Giotto’s painted with. Arsenic, his green would have been an iron green. He couldn’t use the copper sediment which would have been better and more transparent because lead turned copper black. If he had Egypt’s tin white it would have been easier. We have come a long way since than as far as poison pigments and compatible colors are concerned but today we don’t have a transparent yellow acrylic. It’s that old Church-Ostwald Color Chart where manufactures match their colors to. We really do need an overhaul on how we use color pigments.

Here is the day 5 image.

Finished. Jacaranda Tree at the 2,000 Ft. Level

All content and images in this painting demonstration are copyright of Don Jusko and may not be copied, reprinted, published, reengineered, translated, hosted, or otherwise distributed by any means without explicit permission of Don Jusko.

To learn more about Don and view more of his work, please visit his website by following the link below:

http://www.realcolorwheel.com