Loosen Up With Acrylics: DVD excerpt from Robert Burridge for Artists

www.cheapjoes.com -- Welcome to Artist Palette Productions at Cheap Joe's Art Stuff {This video is an excerpt of Robert Burridge's video from "Loosen Up With Acrylics" available for purchase at Cheap Joe's Art Stuff.} ************* As I promised, let's do 3 pears using 3 colors. Here on my palette I've got plenty of white dollops out, a big glob of yellow, red, and blue. Let's draw that pear and make it really simple. Use circles for the base, and triangles for the top. Fill in for the highlights like so on the left and we'll put some of this white in the background. Notice how I'm letting the orange peek through. Now let's go for the darker sections using the red. Starts out just like the monochromatic doesn't it? A lot of artists do this - I know I do - that way you get your lights and darks established from the very beginning. Again, we'll go to the backside of every pear with the red. See how I'm always redrawing this with my color. I can correct all the time. Let's start adding some yellow - that will really brighten it. Again I'm using the yellow as my mid-tone using short choppy strokes to avoid blending. While I have the yellow on my brush, I'm going to pick up the white and make the table top a bright yellow. I forgot the shadow for the pears so I'm going to leave a negative shape here to remind myself to add a shadow. The painting is almost done. You'll notice that I clean my brushes out on my paintings - too many of us are creating dirty water by taking a <b>...</b>
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