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Each course and book guide in the 'Paint with Pete' series adds another painting and style to your repertoire.
This book will guide you through the process of painting a beautiful still life painting. Your painting won't look exactly like the one in this book. That doesn't matter! My method of teaching enables you to express your own taste and feelings about what is beautiful. This is not a prescriptive method, but rather a series of processes which enable your self expression.
Go for it! Have fun!
Peter Inglis
Peter is the Principal of the Inglis Academy in Sydney, Australia, where people come to develop their literacy in art and music.For over four decades Peter Inglis has performed music professionally in Rock, Jazz and Classical music. He performs with orchestras and with string quartets and jazz bands as well as doing solo guitar concerts. Audiences enjoy his work in venues ranging from the Sydney Opera House and the Art Gallery of N.S.W. to open air concerts in the Australian outback.His Art workshops use accelerated learning techniques to enable beginners to paint masterworks by Van Gogh and Monet in their first lesson!
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Still Life in Tone and Colour - Peter Inglis
Still Life in Tone and Colour.
Edition 1.25 (Smashwords edition) © 2014
Author: Peter Inglis. Shop 1/36-48 Albany St. St. Leonards, NSW, Australia
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Table of Contents
About this project - What we will learn in this project
Let’s Begin – your studio | materials | brushes
Lighting your still life | Source images | Portrait versus landscape
Tone creates Form | - Tonal Sketch
Technique - Coordination | Basic brush stroke | Colour mixing technique
Colour - | Palette management | Primary colours | Secondary colours | Complementary colours | Mixing a sky colour | Green | Grey | Colour Summary
Tonal Painting - Tonal painting: example no.2
Colour Painting - Colour painting: example no.2
Flowers | Sketch Paintings | Thumbnails
The Final Result - Examples by Pete - Examples by Students
Definitions | Testimonials | You can paint
About this Project
This book will guide you through the process of painting a beautiful still life painting.
Your painting won't look exactly like this one. That doesn't matter!
My method of teaching enables you to express your own taste and feelings about what is beautiful.
This is not a prescriptive method, but rather a series of processes which enable your self expression. Go for it! Have fun!
Back to the Table of Contents
What we will learn in this project
This painting will teach us:
How to use your artistic licence
Using tone to create form
Creating texture and depth
Rhythm
Colour mixing
Complementary Colours
Don't worry if you don't understand all these terms and concepts. You will pick them up during the lesson. That is why all the instruction at Paint with Pete is repertoire oriented. Having a specific goal (completing a painting) puts all the techniques into context.
After completing this painting you will see art in a whole new way!
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Let's begin!
Your Studio
Create a clean and uncluttered workspace, or as best you can. If all you have to start with is a corner in the kitchen or the garage, then go with that. Don't let a less-than-optimal workspace stop you. Get started!
I recommend you play baroque music in the background to encourage creative and relaxed thinking. Here are a couple