How to Loosen Up Your Painting
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The number one thing artists want is to loosen up their painting style. After hearing from so many artist friends that they were frustrated with painting "tight" I knew that I had to try and help. After all my daily practice is also to loosen up and paint expressively as a professional artist. This book has one focus and that is to show you how to loosen up your painting style today. I will show you the link between painting fundamentals and the loose style. Plus give you essential tips that you can start using today for that loose and painterly style you love. Ready to begin?
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How to Loosen Up Your Painting - Malcolm Dewey
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How to Loosen Up
Your Painting
An Artists Guide to a Loose Painting Style
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Malcolm Dewey
HOW TO LOOSEN UP YOUR PAINTING
Copyright © 2016 by Malcolm Dewey
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from the author.
ISBN
Published in South Africa by Linspire124 CC t/a Loosen Up Your Painting.com
www.malcolmdeweyfineart.com
Dedication
To Kerrin and the boys
My daily motivation
Table of Contents
LOOSEN UP YOUR PAINTING
Introduction
Why loosen up?
The Mind Challenge
The Language of Painting
What does the language of painting have to do with painting loose?
Learn the Basics
Simplification of Subject
Tips to Simplify?
What are Values
Color
Color Wheel:
Color Temperature
Edges
Brushwork:
Relationships:
Shapes:
Now let us move onto tips for loose painting:
1. Your Brush:
2. Stand and Paint
3. Paint by the Pound
4. Ignore the Details
5. The Simple Color Palette
6. Use Strong Composition
7. Surprise Yourself with Color Choice
8. Use a Painting Knife
9. Permission to Make Mistakes
10. Study the Masters
11 More Haste Less Speed
12 There are No Painting Police
13. Paint and Repeat
14: Share
Conclusion
There is more:
About the Artist
Introduction
There are many forms of creative endeavor. If we try to focus on one type of pursuit, like painting, there are still so many styles and genres that you can spend a lifetime exploring them fully. And still there would be more to learn. This is hardly surprising. Creativity is after all a view into the possibilities within our minds. A window into the universe.
Creativity is a powerful state of being. Perhaps limitless if you consider the forces that run through our universe. What does that have to do with artists like you and I? Well we are part of