Are you having trouble making the leap from observational studies to invented subject-matter? “Observation to Imagination” addresses this common challenge by breaking it into 5 repeatable aspects: form, perspective, light, material, and composition.
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Painters are not cameras. But if what you're striving for is realism, what is so different between an illustrator an a camera? This video discusses the painter's ability to manipulate reality for the sake of composition.
When we're young we learn in terms of colored markers and crayons: grass is green, etc. Learning to paint starts with unlearning these color stereotypes. This video looks at color with a critical eye, focusing on painting white objects. White objects are especially challenging for beginners to paint, though the concepts found in this lesson apply equally well to objects of any color.