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Here's a few videos I have about various aspects of learning to paint. I'm adding to these constantly, and am currently working on a series of flower painting demonstration videos, so this page will be growing! Subscribe to the mailing list to keep up to date on new videos and demos.

 

How to Paint With Natural Colour – a Munsell Colour Tutorial

Munsell Colour Tutorial for PaintersFor realist artists, getting colour right is the key to creating beautiful, engaging pictures. In this set of videos, I demonstrate three exercises that will help you unlock colour and take control of your palette, and then show you how to apply the principles learned to painting in the real world. There's about two hours of video to download or stream. Pay what you want.

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Secret Treasure: A Munsell Painting Demonstration

Flower painting with MunsellA detailed description of my method of using Munsell to help me get more accurate colour - and to (hopefully) create more beautiful paintings. I demonstrate the method in detail through a flower painting. There's about an hour and a half of video to download. Pay what you want.

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Time’s Unfolding – A Flower Painting Demonstration

How to paint flowersIn over an hour of video demonstration, I take you through my flower painting process in detail.

I also show the painting process from basic shapes through to the fine detail, and cover a little about the thought process that went into the theme for this painting.
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Here's a half-hour video on colour mixing using the Munsell approach of separating hue, value and chroma to mix more effectively: