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Mastery is a Path You Travel, Not a Destination

Mastery is a Path You Travel, Not a Destination

How Edges Make or Break Your Painting

How Edges Make or Break Your Painting

The Quality of our Attention Connects Us to Beauty and to Art

The Quality of our Attention Connects Us to Beauty and to Art

How to Deal with the Visual Overload, and Feel the Exhilaration of Plein Air Painting

How to Deal with the Visual Overload, and Feel the Exhilaration of Plein Air Painting

Building Your Vision on the Scaffolding of Structure

Building Your Vision on the Scaffolding of Structure

Seeing More in Shape, Design and Structure

Seeing More in Shape, Design and Structure

Stripping out the "10,000 Things"

Stripping out the "10,000 Things"

This summer really get some light in your paintings!

This summer really get some light in your paintings!

Some Insights into Artistic Growth

Some Insights into Artistic Growth

Muted Colors Are What Allows a Few Colors to Sing

Muted Colors Are What Allows a Few Colors to Sing

Art, Mystery, the Sacred

Art, Mystery, the Sacred

Exploring your resonance with the world

Exploring your resonance with the world

...Or Think Design, Not Subjects

...Or Think Design, Not Subjects

Thinking in Shapes to Simplify an Image

Thinking in Shapes to Simplify an Image

Yes, my last video. And I'll tell you why....

Yes, my last video. And I'll tell you why....

How to Make a Painting Pop

How to Make a Painting Pop

Think less about subject matter and more about design

Think less about subject matter and more about design

See the Rich Variety of What Mastering Composition Student Are Painting Now

See the Rich Variety of What Mastering Composition Student Are Painting Now

The #1 Skill to Learn for Loose Brushwork and Vibrant Color

The #1 Skill to Learn for Loose Brushwork and Vibrant Color

Mastering Composition - Registration Open Now!

Mastering Composition - Registration Open Now!

An On-Line Course to Build the Foundation to Dramatically Improve Your Painting

An On-Line Course to Build the Foundation to Dramatically Improve Your Painting

Find the Structure, Express the Essence, Ditch the Details

Find the Structure, Express the Essence, Ditch the Details

Exploring Interpretive Color to Transform Your Paintings

Exploring Interpretive Color to Transform Your Paintings

Crafting Dramatic Engagement in Your Paintings

Crafting Dramatic Engagement in Your Paintings

Or How to Get a Painting Right the First Time

Or How to Get a Painting Right the First Time

Before and after images from the August 1, 2023 YouTube video

Before and after images from the August 1, 2023 YouTube video

Dramatically Increase the Illusion of Depth in Your Landscapes

Dramatically Increase the Illusion of Depth in Your Landscapes

A Way to Explore New Artistic Territory

A Way to Explore New Artistic Territory

Pushing Against Your (Artistic) Comfort Zone

Pushing Against Your (Artistic) Comfort Zone

Turning the Raw Material of the World into Art

Turning the Raw Material of the World into Art

Drawing Helps You See the World

Drawing Helps You See the World

Seeing the World with Fresh Eyes

Seeing the World with Fresh Eyes

Painting a Figure in Evening Light

Painting a Figure in Evening Light

See What You Could Be Producing Artistically This Year!

See What You Could Be Producing Artistically This Year!

The Secret to Both Loose Brushwork and Vibrant Color Happens Before You Touch the Canvas

The Secret to Both Loose Brushwork and Vibrant Color Happens Before You Touch the Canvas

5 Principles to Master Anything

5 Principles to Master Anything

The #1 Skill to Dramatically Improve Your Paintings

The #1 Skill to Dramatically Improve Your Paintings

How to Find Artistic Inspiration and Enthusiasm this Year

How to Find Artistic Inspiration and Enthusiasm this Year

A Christmas Gift and Holiday Wishes to You

A Christmas Gift and Holiday Wishes to You

How to Stop Overworking Your Paintings

How to Stop Overworking Your Paintings

How to Have Looser Brushwork

How to Have Looser Brushwork

How to Enhance the Color in Your Painting

How to Enhance the Color in Your Painting

One Fundamental Tip to Improve Your Painting Today

One Fundamental Tip to Improve Your Painting Today

How to See Like a Painter

How to See Like a Painter

Or, what was I thinking?

Or, what was I thinking?

Pushing Color: How to Enhance the Color in Your Paintings

Pushing Color: How to Enhance the Color in Your Paintings

Getting the Most from Your Reference Photos

Getting the Most from Your Reference Photos

Ian Roberts Live Nov 6, 2021

Ian Roberts Live Nov 6, 2021

How to Simplify - Or, what do I do with all those details?

How to Simplify - Or, what do I do with all those details?

"Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees."

"Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees."

How Darks Create Drama and Form

How Darks Create Drama and Form

How to Finish a Painting / How to Not Overwork Your Paintings

How to Finish a Painting / How to Not Overwork Your Paintings

How to Eliminate Pesky Details in Painting

How to Eliminate Pesky Details in Painting

How to Paint White: Painting Snow, Clouds and Highlights.

How to Paint White: Painting Snow, Clouds and Highlights.

4 Ideas for a More Creative 2022

4 Ideas for a More Creative 2022

How to Use Watercolor Next Time You Travel

How to Use Watercolor Next Time You Travel

4 Insights to Paint Alla Prima

4 Insights to Paint Alla Prima

Live Broadcast Dec. 11 — Part 2

Live Broadcast Dec. 11 — Part 2

LIVE Broadcast December 11 — Part 1

LIVE Broadcast December 11 — Part 1

Connecting to Nature with Plein Air Painting

Connecting to Nature with Plein Air Painting

Everything You Want to Know about Plein Air Painting Materials and Supplies

Everything You Want to Know about Plein Air Painting Materials and Supplies

Painting Accurate Values

Painting Accurate Values

Finding the Color in the Shadows.

Finding the Color in the Shadows.

Taking and Editing Your Photos for Painting

Taking and Editing Your Photos for Painting

Ian Roberts Live Nov 6, 2021

Ian Roberts Live Nov 6, 2021

Going Live! on Saturday! If You Have a Question Here's Your Chance to Ask It.

Going Live! on Saturday! If You Have a Question Here's Your Chance to Ask It.

The Two Tools You Need to Paint Sunshine

The Two Tools You Need to Paint Sunshine

Roadmaps, Thumbnails and Final Destinations

Roadmaps, Thumbnails and Final Destinations

5 Fundamental Tips for Drawing the Figure

5 Fundamental Tips for Drawing the Figure

What Happens When You Don't Plan Before Painting

What Happens When You Don't Plan Before Painting

2 Steps to Better Paintings: Think Structure and Shapes

2 Steps to Better Paintings: Think Structure and Shapes

Mastering Edges: You Control Your Painting with Your Edges

Mastering Edges: You Control Your Painting with Your Edges

Join Me for a Studio Tour

Join Me for a Studio Tour

A Tonal Landscape Demonstration

A Tonal Landscape Demonstration

The Rule of Thirds vs the Golden Ratio: Which to Use?

The Rule of Thirds vs the Golden Ratio: Which to Use?

The Challenges of a Large Painting

The Challenges of a Large Painting

Can We Make the Ugly Beautiful?

Can We Make the Ugly Beautiful?

How to Paint Wet into Wet

How to Paint Wet into Wet

How to Take Good Photographs for Painting

How to Take Good Photographs for Painting

How Contrast and Tension Improve Your Painting

How Contrast and Tension Improve Your Painting

Demonstration Video: How to Mix Subtle Greens

Demonstration Video: How to Mix Subtle Greens

How to Paint Green

How to Paint Green

Mastering Perspective: Two Practical Techniques

Mastering Perspective: Two Practical Techniques

Mastering Muted Color

Mastering Muted Color

Paint Shapes, Not Things — Demonstration Video

Paint Shapes, Not Things — Demonstration Video

Paint Shapes, Not Things.

Paint Shapes, Not Things.

How to Catch the Light en Plein Air

How to Catch the Light en Plein Air

How to Make More Dramatic Paintings

How to Make More Dramatic Paintings

How to Find Inspiration in the Everyday

How to Find Inspiration in the Everyday

Grand Canyon Show and Tell

Grand Canyon Show and Tell

Understanding Your Muse

Understanding Your Muse

Successes and Failures

Successes and Failures

Three Practical Steps to Simplification

Three Practical Steps to Simplification

Pushing Deeper into Abstraction

Pushing Deeper into Abstraction

When Is Your Painting Finished?

When Is Your Painting Finished?

Using Drawings as Painting Reference

Using Drawings as Painting Reference

What Is Abstraction?

What Is Abstraction?

Painting Is Seeing in Shapes

Painting Is Seeing in Shapes

How to Paint Details

How to Paint Details

The Secret to Simplification

The Secret to Simplification

Why Composition Matters

Why Composition Matters

Enjoying the Painting Process

Enjoying the Painting Process

How to Set Up a Still Life

How to Set Up a Still Life

Painting Shapes, not Subjects

Painting Shapes, not Subjects

Cut Detail and Push Design in Your Art — Drawing Demonstration

Cut Detail and Push Design in Your Art — Drawing Demonstration

Cut Detail and Push Design in Your Art

Cut Detail and Push Design in Your Art

Pushing Towards Abstraction in Your Paintings

Pushing Towards Abstraction in Your Paintings

Painting with a Plan in Mind

Painting with a Plan in Mind

Sketches vs Thumbnails in Creating Your Paintings

Sketches vs Thumbnails in Creating Your Paintings

3 Techniques to Enrich Your Painting

3 Techniques to Enrich Your Painting

Sculpting Space and Depth in Your Paintings

Sculpting Space and Depth in Your Paintings

Finding Your Style to Create Art

Finding Your Style to Create Art

Developing a Large Studio Painting

Developing a Large Studio Painting

The Art Lover's Christmas Special

The Art Lover's Christmas Special

Using Structure to Push Design

Using Structure to Push Design

Using a Few Simple Shapes in Your Paintings

Using a Few Simple Shapes in Your Paintings

Using a Few Simple Shapes: Painting Demonstration

Using a Few Simple Shapes: Painting Demonstration

How to Do a Painting Commission

How to Do a Painting Commission

Focusing on Brushwork When We Paint

Focusing on Brushwork When We Paint

Finding Your Design

Finding Your Design

How to Paint Sunlight

How to Paint Sunlight

Build a Foundation for Your Paintings

Build a Foundation for Your Paintings

What to Eliminate — Part 2: Painting Demonstration

What to Eliminate — Part 2: Painting Demonstration

What to Eliminate: The Pre-Painting Process

What to Eliminate: The Pre-Painting Process

Crafting a Composition: Demonstration

Crafting a Composition: Demonstration

Crop and Simplify for Drama: Demonstration

Crop and Simplify for Drama: Demonstration

Developing Curiosity of Vision: For Artists and Art Lovers

Developing Curiosity of Vision: For Artists and Art Lovers

Painting a Still Life: A Demonstration

Painting a Still Life: A Demonstration

How to Use Color Temperature: A Demonstration

How to Use Color Temperature: A Demonstration

Painting a Field of Wildflowers

Painting a Field of Wildflowers

Painting a Field of Wild Flowers. A Demonstration

Painting a Field of Wild Flowers. A Demonstration

Painting Early Morning Light: A Demo

Painting Early Morning Light: A Demo

How to Paint Venice.

How to Paint Venice.

Painting Demonstration of Venice

Painting Demonstration of Venice

How to Draw Venice

How to Draw Venice

Demonstration Video for Color Temperature

Demonstration Video for Color Temperature

How to Enhance a Painting Using Color Temperature

How to Enhance a Painting Using Color Temperature

How to Draw a Cityscape

How to Draw a Cityscape

Resurrecting a Great Work of Art: The Rose by Jay DeFeo

Resurrecting a Great Work of Art: The Rose by Jay DeFeo

Going From Photo to Drawing to Painting

Going From Photo to Drawing to Painting

How to Draw Water Reflections

How to Draw Water Reflections

How to Draw Water Reflections: Drawing Demonstration

How to Draw Water Reflections: Drawing Demonstration

What to Plan Before Painting: Demonstration Only

What to Plan Before Painting: Demonstration Only

What to Plan Before Painting

What to Plan Before Painting

How to Compose a Painting

How to Compose a Painting

A Closer Look at the One Month Project to Spark Creativity

A Closer Look at the One Month Project to Spark Creativity

1 Month Project to Spark Creativity

1 Month Project to Spark Creativity

How Edges Make or Break Your Painting

How Edges Make or Break Your Painting

Andrew Wyeth's Abstract Paintings.

Andrew Wyeth's Abstract Paintings.

How to Simplify and Reduce Detail in Representational Art

How to Simplify and Reduce Detail in Representational Art

How to Work in a Series

How to Work in a Series

A Fascinating, Visionary Female Artist

A Fascinating, Visionary Female Artist

How to Use Foreground, Midground and Background to Clarify Depth

How to Use Foreground, Midground and Background to Clarify Depth

The #1 Composition Rule You Cannot Break

The #1 Composition Rule You Cannot Break

The Greatest Painting in the World

The Greatest Painting in the World

How to Balance Vision and Skill

How to Balance Vision and Skill

How to Make Dramatic Paintings from Your Photographs

How to Make Dramatic Paintings from Your Photographs

Where Do You Find Inspiration?

Where Do You Find Inspiration?

How 10 Masters Engage Us with their Paintings

How 10 Masters Engage Us with their Paintings

How to Add Drama with Shadows

How to Add Drama with Shadows

How Shadows Create 3-D Form

How Shadows Create 3-D Form

How to Crop for Greater Drama — a 3 minute demo

How to Crop for Greater Drama — a 3 minute demo

How to Crop for Greater Drama

How to Crop for Greater Drama

Value Masses Drive Your Painting

Value Masses Drive Your Painting

Use Value Masses to Dramatically Improve Your Paintings

Use Value Masses to Dramatically Improve Your Paintings

How to Stop Overworking Your Painting

How to Stop Overworking Your Painting

The Best Way to Use Thumbnails.

The Best Way to Use Thumbnails.

How Your Eye Moves on the Canvas

How Your Eye Moves on the Canvas

Finding Your Artistic Voice

Finding Your Artistic Voice

How Edges Drive Your Painting

How Edges Drive Your Painting

Understanding the Role of Edges - Part 1

Understanding the Role of Edges - Part 1

How to Create Visual Drama

How to Create Visual Drama

Create Visual Structure in Your Painting

Create Visual Structure in Your Painting

How to Simplify Your Paintings

How to Simplify Your Paintings

How to Engage the Horizontal and the Vertical

How to Engage the Horizontal and the Vertical

How to Paint Clouds

How to Paint Clouds

Engage the Vertical

Engage the Vertical

What makes a great composition? For artists, and for art lovers

What makes a great composition? For artists, and for art lovers