See less in terms of subject matter and more in terms of abstract shapes."Like taking a painting workshop in your own home."Ī seven-part video course with workbook, packed with ideas, critiques,ĭemonstrations, animated sequences, insights, and exercises.Įach of the seven parts of the video course will help you "see" more effectively as a painter. It will dramatically improve your painting, whether you paint landscapes, still-lifes or figures.
So he has developed a unique video course that will teach you the basics of strong compositions. He realized after teaching workshops for the past ten years to both beginners and professionals, if there was room for one badly needed teaching tool to help representational painters, composition was it. Ian Roberts has taught painting to hundreds of students in Provence and Tuscany, as well as the U.S. Go to the list of classes at your local art college and see if you can find a course on composition. And until that structural problem is understood it will continue to plague, frustrate and hamper each painting's progress and success.Ĭomposition is the bedrock of every good representational painting.įor something as fundamental as this it's surprising it isn't isolated and taught more often. repainting this part, overworking that and getting lost and frustrated about how to proceed. If you start a painting that lacks structure-well, you know the experience.
Most unsuccessful paintings are ruined before the brush even gets to the canvas. He has been represented by galleries in Toronto, Dallas, Denver and Carmel, is an artist member of the California Art Club & a signature member of the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association.īuild the Foundation for Consistently Better Paintings He studied figure and landscape painting in Florence, Italy.
Ian Roberts is an honors graduate of the Ontario College of Art. You get workshop critiques and 45-minute landscape demonstration and a workbook to simplify exercises designed to help you learn to “see” structure and composition fundamentals. Learn to enhance value and color shapes with arrangement and the play of emphasis between them. Ideas, techniques and examples that will help enormously to extract the most dramatic and powerful compositions from what you have chosen. Ian shows the importance of seeing in terms of abstract shapes, shows the need for an armature and how the eye moves on the picture plane. This video course is packed with over 2 ½ hours of knowledge, encouragement, insight, tips exercises, graphics, animation sequences, critique, and demonstrations.Įverything you need to dramatically improve your painting. Build the foundation for consistently better painting. Ian Roberts Art Instruction: Mastering Composition (2.5 hours) DVD.
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