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Part 25: 'What are the 3 characteristics of Color?' and 'Contrast of Temperature'

Master the principles of painting that took this artist from raw beginner to prize winning professional in only five years.

'The Two-Value Statement' and 'The Golden Mean'

'Use saturated colors in the focal area' and 'Put more detail in one area'

'Color Pairs' and 'Exaggerating color spots'

Part 46 'Block Studies' and 'Using Impasto Brushwork for Texture'

Part 47 'General to Specific' and 'On the Beach, Carmel'

'Using Texture to Bring Your Subject Alive' and 'How to Varnish a Painting'.

Part 30: 'Golden Section' and 'Narrative'

Part 31: 'Mass Gesture' and 'Variety of Brushwork' by Barry John Raybould

'Use Colour to Create Eye Movement' and 'Venetian Canal'

'Emphasis' & 'Master at Work'

'Communicating Emotion with Brushwork' & 'Complementary Color Harmony'

'Straight Line Approximation' & 'Unequal Space Division'

'Eye Pathways' and 'Atmospheric Perspective'

'Straight Line Approximation' and Key Discoveries in Practice

Flattening Values and Put More Detail in One Area

Low Saturation Field and Chinese Laundry

Secondary Color Harmonies & A Kasakh Farmhouse in Tianshan

Wet Painting Carriers & Italy, Florence, The Arno

Iridescence and Shimmering Water & Day at the Beach

Interlocking Shapes & Still Life

Cropping Your Subject & Pianello Roses

'Block Studies' & 'Impasto Brushstrokes for Texture'

The step-by-step development of Mian Situ's latest materpiece for the Jackson Hole art auction

Self scrutinty can produce paintings that communicate on a much higher level.

Four artists, linked through mentorship, explain the value of sharing techniques and insights

What does it mean to be an artist? We discover two distinct elements.

Jette van der Lende uses her thought provoking mirror paintings to show how the ideal is very different to the reality

Who would have thought that the Chinese would have mastered oil painting and turned it into a kind of "Chinese Painting" in its own right?

Increase your chances of success by learning to establish the correct values and colors in the very first stage as this artist demonstrates how effectively this works.

Ever wondered how top painters get such translucent, clean color?

Figurative artist Craig Pursley discusses his experience working with the same model for six years, in which he produced over 100 paintings

A study in contrasts.

Always striving for accuracy, Heidi Willis bring the natural world to life in her watercolor paintings

The fjords and the northern lights provide ample opportunity to use flowing color for glowing light effects.

From still life to figurative work, Laura Thompson defines the why and how of her paintings

Colt Idol imbues saturated colors and high value contrast into his dynamic Western art

Jacob Dhein uses a wet-into-wet technique to create painterly depictions of a variety of subjects