Coastal Cypress 5×7 Oil Painting Demonstration скачать в хорошем качестве

Coastal Cypress 5×7 Oil Painting Demonstration

Join me as I paint 'Coastal Cypress,' a 5×7 inch tonal landscape that explores compositional focus, atmospheric harmony, and the power of restraint. This painting recently found its way into a gallery, and I'm excited to share the process behind it. We're working on MDF prepped with house paint, using burnt umber for the underpainting. The real story here is learning from failure—the original reference had three cypress trees, and it didn't work. Scattered focal point, competing elements, no clear statement. A month later, I tried again with just one tree. The difference was transformative. One strong element makes a much more powerful statement than three competing ones. Tonalism is about restraint—how much you hold back, how much you subdue colors, and how much harmony you create. This is the opposite of impressionism's bold color contrasts. We're going for subtlety, paintings where every element feels like it belongs, where nothing jars the atmospheric unity. The sky here is positioned to support the subject—your strongest contrast should be at your focal point. In this case, the darkest dark (the tree) against the lightest light (the sky). That's gold-standard compositional wisdom. I brought blue into the sky even though it wasn't prominent in the reference, because isolated spots of strong color become subjects themselves and pull attention away from your intended focal point. The grass combines greens with tans and browns—dead grasses mixed in with living vegetation. This creates visual richness instead of a monotonous carpet of green. I used Permanent Green Light for the cooler grass tones, which I reserve for ground cover and vegetation. Sometimes the most important artistic decisions are about subtraction, not addition. This painting succeeds as much for what it leaves out as what it includes. The full real-time session is available in the Studio Pass and YouTube Members Area. ✍️ Substack Studio Pass: https://mfrancismccarthy.substack.com... 📺 YouTube Members Area:    / @mfrancis   🎨 Supplies Page: https://www.landscapepainter.co.nz/st... 📚 Buy My Book here: https://www.landscapepainter.co.nz/book ✍️ Substack: https://mfrancismccarthy.substack.com/ 📝 Current Blog: https://www.landscapepainter.co.nz/20... 🎨 My website: https://www.landscapepainter.co.nz/ 📧 Join my Mailing List: https://www.landscapepainter.co.nz/ma... 🛒 My store: https://www.landscapepainter.co.nz/pr... 🎵 My music: https://abyssm.bandcamp.com/ 💝 Support this channel: https://www.landscapepainter.co.nz/do... YouTube Tags #OilPainting #Tonalism #LandscapePainting #ArtDemonstration #CoastalPainting #Composition #ColorMixing #PaintingTechniques #MikeMcCarthyArt #MFrancisMcCarthy #ArtTutorial #StudioInsights #Brushwork #ExpressiveArt #OilPaintingTips #Mike'sGray #CoastalCypress #TonalHarmony #CompositionTips #FocalPoint #LandscapePainter #PaintingProcess #ArtisticProcess #PermanentGreenLight #LearningFromFailure #PaintingDemonstration #NewZealand