Oil Painting Every Day : A Step-by-Step Beginner’s Guide to Painting the World Around You – Develop a Successful Daily Creative Habit
Discover a new approach to oil painting that takes the stuffiness out and puts the fun back in. Learn how to paint vibrant florals, landscapes, seascapes, portraits, and more, and see your skills improve.
Oil Painting Every Day shows you how to translate what you see into captivating paintings. Begin with a solid understanding of oil paint and essential supplies, then try easy exercises that will train your eye to see the world like an artist.
From there, you’ll learn how to capture beautiful details in landscapes and still lifes and create shadows and depth to make your work come alive. Refine those details to paint waves, clouds, and floral scenes, and get all the tips, tricks, and techniques you need for a doable portrait to get you started in figurative work.
Get great ideas for creating engaging compositions while capturing the world around you, and discover how a variety of simple brushstrokes add energy and life to a piece.
- How drawings and underpaintings can give your paintings a boost
- How to care for your tools and materials
- Tips and techniques for working in sketchbooks and on canvas
- The benefits of maintaining a consistent art practice
- How to paint from life and photographs
- Ways to build cohesive compositions that tell a story
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2 Technique Glossary
3 See Like an Artist
4 Introduction to Landscape
5 Elevating Scenes
Refining Details
7 Peek into Portraiture
Reference Images
Acknowledgements
Robin Sealark graduated with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts and an art education certification from Brigham Young University in 2013. She spent her undergraduate years specializing in oil painting and hyper-realistic portraiture, but shifted her focus to landscapes, seascapes, and skies over time. Growing up on Long Island and exploring Utah over the last ten years inspired her to bring dramatic natural light and beauty to her paintings. Robin has established strong followings on Instagram and YouTube, where she frequently posts her work, process videos, tips, tutorials, relatable sketches, and advice for creatives. Through her personal work and teaching, she seeks to emphasize the idyllic beauty found in all subject matter through deepened observation and a discerning artist’s eye. Her shared projects and educational resources aim to create accessible paths to the basic painting and drawing techniques, materials, and tools that make creative exploration and fine art rendering available to anyone. There’s no gatekeeping here! Robin believes that a healthy, creative life is something everyone can access with full breaths, positive community, art appreciation, education, and regular practice.
Instagram: @robinsealark
YouTube: Robin Sealark
Website: robinsealark.com
Insiders’ Guide® to Raleigh, Durham & Chapel Hill : North Carolina’s Triangle
A first edition, Insiders’ Guide to Raleigh, Durham & Chapel Hill is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to what is one of the fastest growing regions in the United States. Written by a local (and true insider), this guide offers a personal and practical perspective of the Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill area.
Amber Nimocks is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she fell in love first with shrimp and grits at Crook’s Corner and then with journalism at The Daily Tar Heel. She holds a degree in religious studies. Her 15-year career in newspapers included stints at her hometown paper, The Fayetteville Observer, The Wilmington Star-News, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and The News & Observer of Raleigh, where she was food editor until 2008. She writes a wine column, “Let It Pour,” for The News & Observer and serves as associate editor of Edible Piedmont magazine. She is also a contributing producer for “The State of Things” a public radio talk show on WUNC-FM. Her work has appeared in “Our State” magazine, The Washington Post and other major newspapers. Her favorite place outside of North Carolina, is the Dingle Peninsula of Ireland. She lives with her husband Josh, her son Sam and her two dogs, Ava and Senora Wences, in downtown Raleigh.
