Hey – don’t be jealous of the professional camerawork of this video. I *just* got this box in the mail and needed a cameraman – My 4 year old son.
Anyway – opening the package was exciting.
The new format makes super easy to use at your easel. When you get your copy, you don’t have to film it, just put the information and techniques to work for you.
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Hi there.
This article is going to show you the sequence to painting your detail, specifically leaves, and edges in a landscape painting.
Many people ask questions such as…
“Should I paint over another area (overlapping), should I paint around an area I already painted, etc.
Let’s try to cover some of that here.
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Yes, this is what some people are calling my oil painting lessons. Some people say they are worthless…and some of these same people even say I made up the story about my mother’s death as part of a grand scheme.
I’m wondering if I should post my mother’s death certificate on the blog.
Here is the forum and the thread I am referring to.
http://www.artspan.com/community/showthread.php?t=184&page=4
I invite you to go to this forum and respond. Of course, some people may think you are not real and that you are just me using a fake name.
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In case you ordered your product in the last few weeks and have not received it…I am in the process of transferring the production and shipping of my products to an outside company. It will be worth the slight delay as there will be color printing in the manuals. All product fulfillment will be much faster and smoother.
Your product should start shipping around wed. or thurs. of next week.
Hold on…it’s coming. In the meantime, refer back to the download version while the manuals and discs get shipped to you.
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The Personal Instruction Program is the future of my teachings.
If you have always wanted to be able to ask me questions and get a more personalized instruction from me…this is the program for you.
I have a mailing list of well over 5000 people, so I could never answer everyone’s email,
but when you sign up for my personal instruction program, you become a student, a VIP.
You have access to all my latest video clips, newest lessons, and everything I come out with. The introductory cost is ridiculously low…$29.99 per month or about $1 per day.
Since, this program entails a lot of personal time from myself, this price will increase as people join, so to be grandfathered in at a low price, join today.
You can even try it out first in a test run for a buck.
Nothing to wait for…nothing to be shipped to you…just lessons and personal instruction, when you need it most…all right from your computer.
See you with the rest of my students…
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Back in school, I used to see people painting landscapes that they worked on for weeks. The funny thing is, the painting seemed to get worse the longer they worked on it.
They would just muddle through and scrub and wipe, never knowing what they were really doing. They would just spend weeks scrubbing on a store bought canvas…
NOTE: (if you know me, you know how I hate those canvases…you’re making it 100 times harder for yourself by using them)
And at the end, they had a landscape that they were never happy with, with no luminosity, no depth,and that was the result of all that time and effort.
That’s ridiculous and a waste of effort!
What if you could paint a complete landscape in 2-3 hours instead of weeks?
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When I first started to learn to oil paint, my Grandmother would occasionally see some of the paintings I made. And she liked them. She liked them enough that she decided she had to have some of them.
In my family, what Grandma wants, Grandma gets. At least back then.
You see, I was somehow raised that Grandma was always right and you should always listen to her. And when Grandma wanted a couple of my paintings, and I was not that keen on just giving away paintings I had worked hard on, my mother told me…
“She’s your grandmother, let her have them.”
My grandmother lived in a small apartment in Brooklyn NY, right near Coney Island. My Grandparents were not a very social couple. Meaning they didn’t have lots of friends, they never did things like go out to eat with friends, nobody ever really stopped by the house for lunch, dinner, or even to have coffee.
In fact, picture a less social version of George Costanza’s parents from “Seinfeld” and you will have an accurate picture.
These were the stereotypical – growing up near the train tracks – Jewish grandparents, from Brooklyn New York.
Now although my Grandparents lived in a small 2 bedroom housing development, she thought of her 2 bedroom apartment like a museum. She wanted it decorated a certain way and she suddenly had found a new way to accomplish her goal.
Me and my paintings.
In trying to convince me to give her the paintings she would say things like…
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In this post I want to go over a couple of points that people seem confused about when it comes to my oil painting instructional products.
1) A gentleman from Australia told me that he can’t learn from me because he is in Australia and I am in the United States.
This is not right at all. I ship to just about every country that the United States post office will deliver to. I have shipped to well over 20 countries. That is one of the main benefits of the internet – you can learn from me wherever you are. You can communicate with me wherever you are.
I still think people think I am promoting a class I am going to teach in person. That’s not what my products are about at all. They are about learning in your own home, at your own pace, with the instruction you would like to receive from a top oil painting class. The problem is many of you can’t afford a top oil painting class, can’t get to the oil painting class when it meets, or just are not getting the lessons you so desperately want. As far as that last one…I refer to when class is more like an art class for a 3 year old rather than a true place where you learn a principle of oil painting for every class you attend.
2) Many people write to me and tell me what they want to learn from me. They tell me of their overwhelming desire to paint better. They tell me they want me to help them.
The answer – go buy The Insider Guide to the Secrets of Oil Painting.
I’m not sure if you don’t know I have a course for sale, or you are hoping I will teach you through email for free. But, I do have help for you, it’s my course so go get yourself a copy and download it immediately after you order.
3) What is the best way to start to learn how to oil paint?
Learn Your Supplies.
That’s always my advice. Learn what you have to work with. Your support (canvas, wood, paper, etc) to start with. There is a huge difference between the canvas you can buy in a hobby shop, rip off the plastic and start painting and a real good quality canvas.
SIDENOTE: Did you even know that your canvas, wood panel, etc was called the support? There is a very simple, yet huge lesson to learn if you truly understand that term. If you truly understand why they call it a support will improve your oil painting immediately.
What do you think is prepared better? Grandma’s homemade chicken soup that takes a day to make or the stuff in a can from campbells?
Also, you must learn about the paint itself. I suggest making some paint from scratch at least once, just so you can understand what it is that you are using. And before you roll your eyes and say “make paint? that’s so hard.”…No it’s not.
All you need is a jar of pigment, a palette knife and some oil. If you want to mix it more thoroughly you will need a muller and slab. But, many times I just use a palette knife and my palette.
How about your brushes? Do you know the differences in all the brushes you can use? How about mediums? Do you know what will happen if you add cold pressed linseed oil to your already mixed paint? How about if you add sun thickened oil? How about stand oil? How about damar varnish, how about venetian turpentine?
If you answered “no” this is one reason you aren’t painting the way you want to.
If you see an effect in a painting by Renoir, or Rembrandt and you want to duplicate that effect, it will be much easier if you understand your oil painting supplies.
When you have my home study course, start with the manual The Secrets Of Oil Painting Supplies Made-Easy. Read it over and over if you have to and you will have a thorough understanding of your supplies. Enough so that you will know how to use your supplies to help you, not hinder you.
It’s something you won’t find in oil painting classes. Many times you will just be told to bring a list of certain supplies to the class, but never given lessons as to what they are, how to use them or why you use them.
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