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Mastering the Fundamentals
🔖 PART I: ORIENTATION – START HERE!🔖
🌟Welcome! Watch this first...🌟 (5:39)
Please introduce yourself! 👋
Navigating the course site 🧭 (9:02)
Announcements 📢
🔖PART II: THE FUNDAMENTALS🔖
What to expect
Foundational Concepts
The Building Blocks of Art (27:32)
Essential Tools and Techniques for Creating Landscape Depth (19:52)
Painting 101: Our Approach & Technique
4-Stage Framework (18:44)
Painting in Layers (9:55)
How it all fits together (0:39)
[OIL PAINTERS] Rules to Paint By (7:37)
Preparing to Paint
Your Supply Checklist
Your Reference Photos
The History and Usage of the Colors on Our Palette (12:10)
Mixing Cassel Earth & Chromatic Black (11:42)
Bonus: Making Custom Grass and Foliage Brushes (17:17)
[ACRYLICS] Underpainting in acrylics demo (27:46)
[WATER MIXABLE OILS] Underpainting in WMO demo (10:52)
🔖PART III: STUDIO TIME🔖
What to expect
Stage 1: Composing the Scene
What we'll be painting (7:05)
Transferring our reference photo to the canvas (47:44)
Quick reminder
Stage 2: Creating the Underpainting
What's an underpainting? What's an Imprimatura? What's a Bistre?
Beginning the underpainting: Imprimatura Bistre (46:31)
Finishing the underpainting (37:11)
Trust the process
A few quick reminders (1:17)
Stage 3: Blocking-in and Modeling Forms
Begin sky block-in (45:11)
Finish sky block-in (50:23)
Background trees (44:12)
Middle ground (47:59)
Keep moving forward! (0:19)
Barn and shed (55:17)
Foreground tree (50:48)
Foreground grasses (44:35)
You can do it!
Checking in... (0:20)
Stage 4: Detailing and Adjusting
Foreground detail (46:50)
Tree detail (57:25)
Adjustments (50:15)
Final details (51:15)
🔖PART IV: WRAPPING UP🔖
Reviewing what you've learned (11:45)
Your planning checklist: The Artist's Planning and Self-Critique Guide
Next Steps
📢 Your next steps...
✅ Your feedback
🥇Get your completion certificate
🖼️ STUDENT GALLERY
Post your final course painting!
🎨ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
BONUS: Oiling out – the (optional) final step (7:22)
BONUS: Photo reference library
BONUS workshop (58:28)
Music playlists
Beginning the underpainting: Imprimatura Bistre
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