We believe anyone can learn to paint or draw. Start here. LIVE weekdays at 12n ET with top artists teaching. Your host, Eric Rhoads, is an artist who struggled to learn to paint, so his goal is to make painting easy for the world.
Eric is the publisher of several top art magazines and newsletters (Fine Art Connoisseur, PleinAir, PleinAir Today, Fine Art Today, American Watercolor, Inside Art, Realism Today, and Pastel Today), plus producer of hundreds of in-depth professionally art instruction videos with the world's leading artists (PaintTube TV) . He also hosts the annual Plein Air Convention, four online virtual art conferences featuring top artists teaching their secrets for 3-4 days (Plein Air Live, Pastel Live, Realism Live, Watercolor Live).
Eric loves to paint with friends so he hosts two annual artist retreats(Publisher's Invitational & Fall Color Week), plus international painting trips and more. He is the host of the Plein Air Podcast and the Art Marketing Podcast.
Hello from Salzburg Austria, i love brad tears style and technik sooooo much 💕💯🎨🎨🎨 i hope it soooo much that comes a new painting video (to buy) from brad teare !!!! Thank YOU very very much for this great Video and teaching brad !!!! Very very best regards, robert
I’d love those value finder glasses but you didn’t put the link in the description. I’m in Australia and freight is an absolute killer! I’m hoping when I find them on your site they’ll be cheap enough to buy to justify the dollar exchange and freight. Also what was the brand of the palette knives?
I’d love those value finder glasses but you didn’t put the link in the description. I’m in Australia and freight is an absolute killer! I’m hoping when I find them on your site they’ll be cheap enough to buy to justify the dollar exchange and freight.
Check your local drug stores/chemists for red lens sunglasses; they work Exactly the same as the so-called "value glasses", plus they will much cheaper!! G'Day!! LOL ;D
Good topic Eric and Brad. For landscape painting in particular, be it plein air or studio, the value scale and how to use it is a must to understand! I have little hand painted scales in both my backpack and on my studio easel. It's very helpful if you get sort of stuck as to which way to go, value-wise. When I began plein air landscape painting, mid-90's, coming from several years before as wildlife painter in the studio, I devoured all the books I could on the subject. One of best being Keven Macpherson's. He had many neat homemade tools in there, and how to make them, like the color isolator, the view finder, both made as cardboard cut outs, and a "value finder" made of red clear plastic. Same functionally as your glasses you sell now Eric. Quite by accident, on a trip to Las Vegas, in the late 90's, I found my "value glasses" from a street vendor selling "Elvis-inspired" stuff including red lens sunglasses, in a chrome frame. Very cool looking and they work well, of course, to see the landscape before you in grey values! But the issue, always, when I wear them, is to try to refrain from breaking into my not-so-great impressions of the great King of Rock and Roll!! "Huh, ha, ha, huh, ha, ha, huh ha ha!!,. Thank you, Thank you very much, ...Momma", ...I mean Eric!! LOL ;D Cheers from southern AZ.
Hello from upstate NY. The value range displayed on screen (NOT the one by Brad Teare) has all the numbers backwards. Number 1 is supposed to be black and number 10 is supposed to be white, that is the convention. With higher value, colors get lighter! Brad Teare’s value range is correct! (Notice that his 1 is darkest and 9 is lightest)
I've seen them done both ways, so it's a little confusing. Some go from light to dark, with the numbers 1-10. And others go from dark to light, with the numbers 1-10. The main thing is that there are gradations of value in whatever you use.
Shy? Me too but it doesn't stop me from posting my work. Generally, people are very nice when commenting on your work or they won't comment at all. My shyness is when speaking to people I admire. I was so nervous about talking to people at the Santa Festival PACE that I missed out on some things. Hopefully I can screw up more courage when I get to the Reno PACE next year.
Hi I’m from Canada and I really enjoy your program, each time I think you’ve invited the top one…here comes another one…THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING.
Great - learning about Eric's online and offline art endeavors; and watching Emily paint again, ever offering a super avenue of learning...by sharing her talents. Thank you.
Eric, thank you so much for your videos in art school live! I look forward to your vids everyday! I’m so grateful for your encouragement and easy style! You make me think I can do his! Ralph was great! Thank him for his work and friendly way! Your other guest artists are so generous with their explanations of painting! Appreciate them all Thanks Eric! Hugs from The Jersey Shore
I’ve been tuning in for several days now and really appreciate all the tips on oil painting for free and hearing from so many artists. Thank you so very much. I’m getting excited about attending a plein air event. I also love PleinAir magazine.
About your book. I want to buy it. One place I saw it priced at $200.00. Another was $30.00. I think you said, on your show, it is $25.00. That is affordable to me. Where may I get it at that price?
This is a fabulous demo and I will be rewatching it and trying to paint along. It would be great if you could repost the links for those who missed the live lesson.
thank you so much for showing this video, I had no idea that voice over translation was available for his course. Always thought it was impossible to attend this course. Come to think of it, THIS IS the only english version ever to be shown on RU-vid.
I agree, a photo (in the book) of a painting shows a BIG IDEA, but unfortunately doesn´t depict actual color, true to the original painting. I often take a book, when visiting an exhibition at the museum, and I write down (around the printed images) with arrows pointing at the parts of print how the color compares to the original paintings. It never does. It is too warm or too cold, too red or too green... and so on. My notes in books and in catalogs help me remember how the original paintings really felt. Anyhow - thanks for an excellent lesson. Greetings from Stockholm, Sweden.
I just wanted to thank all the wonderful artists who have been submitting their art so we can learn so much. Love that cheeky monkey. Thanks Eric for the great tips.
