The Artistic Biker

Art traveling and journaling

Tag: instruction

  • Painting Class: A Beach Scene

    This is a demonstration of how I lay in a quick beach scene background. It has basic perspective, water elements, clouds & sky, and color mixing on the fly. You may download and watch at your leisure here for $2.  

  • Pay Per View A Beach Scene

    This is a demonstration of how I lay in a quick beach scene background. It has basic perspective, water elements, clouds & sky, and color mixing on the fly. Painting Class: Painting a Beach Scene

  • The Classroom 21FEB2012

    This week I discuss the process I go through when planning a painting composition. I touch on the golden mean, then quickly reduced it to the rule of thirds. I talk about cropping out uneccesary stuff and then how to break the rules for emphasis. Click Here to watch the recording of the class. You’ll…

  • The Classroom 14FEB2012

    This week in the classroom we talked about negative spaces.  Negative space the area not occupied by your subject.  You try to only see the shape made by where your subject isn’t.  Dede (@inkiwell) aptly described it as drawing the air around you subject.  This is not to be confused with a silhouette. A silhouette…

  • The Classroom 07FEB2012

    This week in the classroom we talked about foreshortening.  Foreshortening is a perspective tool where you show closer shapes of an object overlapping shapes that are further away.  For instance, in the foot drawing above, the toes are bigger and bolder than the arch of the foot. The arch is bigger and bolder than the…