INSTRUCTIONAL DVD CLIP ON OIL PAINTING--LEMONS

The demonstration of the lemon painting is included on the instructional DVD described below. Please visit: http://hgroatii.blogspot.com/, or complete an ebay.com search on Hall Groat II Instructional DVD's to purchase the current DVD outlined below. Prints of this painting can be purchased at:
http://hallgroat.imagekind.com/NewYorkArtCollection

Instructional DVD & Manual, Volume 1 Traditional Realist Oil Painting

American artist, Hall Groat II, in his unique instructional DVD series demonstrates the techniques of the lost art of traditional realist oil painting. In volume #1 he presents five comprehensive demonstrations, offering nearly 2 hours of solid instruction. The demonstrations included are of compositions involving: three lemons, radishes, ballet slippers, railroad conductor's pocket watch, and teacup & saucer.

Through his innovative, step-by-step approach he outlines the process that was used by such 19th century painters as Edgar Degas and Edward Manet. Using an easily understood teaching approach, Hall reveals the secrets behind creating dramatic light and shadow illusions to compelling atmospheric spaces, all the way to rendering convincing three-dimensional illusions of form and space.

The included DVD, along with the accompanying manual, present a concise step-by-step system, offering both the beginning and the professional artist the necessary tools to successfully create traditional realist still life oil paintings. Such topics are covered as establishing background variation and movement, accents and cast shadows, and realizing the primary and secondary planes of the motif. Each of the five demonstrations is divided into phases with clearly stated topic headings that correspond to the steps presented in the instructional guide. A glossary of painting terms is also included! All of the demonstrations are approximately 15-30 minutes in length.

Hall has taught art for over twenty years, and currently is an Associate Professor of Art at a college in New York. ARTNews Magazine critic, Gerard Haggerty, states that Hall Groat II's still life paintings evoke the big picture that we call art history, including painters like Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Edwin Dickinson, and his teacher Lennart Anderson." Collectors of his work have expressed that the work is "Alive, full of grace vitality and beauty, capturing light that is sublime in nature."

Groat is included in important private and public collections worldwide. These include actors, Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones, Clear Channel Communications, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cellular One, Sheraton Hotel Corporation, Binghamton University, Everson Museum of Art, Munson-Williams Proctor Institute of Art, The State University of New York system, Roberson Museum and Science Center and Washington Jefferson College. Prints of this painting can be purchased at:
http://hallgroat.imagekind.com/NewYorkArtCollection

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[54spiritedwill54]

Love the lemons! You make this look so easy.

[mnilandcom]

*one stroke*

[mnilandcom]

the hand movement is a good technique which aids one stoke marks, it keeps the brush mark clean and not fiddly

[lunarjellies]

No. Painting in this way is just like math. Once you learn the steps, its just practice. "Talented" artists are usually just blessed with patience because you really have to look, stare and contemplate your subject matter for a long time before mastering it (years even). I always tell this to my beginners students because its true, not because I want to charm them.

[jabuhrer1]

hahaha

[CT2507]

iriating technique u got there. Why do u do that quick jerk with the hand to the left each time u make precise brush stroke!? Sometimes your hand flies 10 - 15 cm to the left. Totaly exagerated and unnecesary.

Otherwise your lemons look good!

[Chordwayze]

If you did have to be 'born' with it, teachers like this would be wasting their time. Mind you they would still be paid for it! No you don't need to be born to it. To paint for yourself, you need patience and to listen and practice.

[MurdokX1]

great video

[berryconnell]

COOL! And, even though this doesn't have anything to do with painting...you can take a quarter lemon and squeeze it into a diet orange drink to add incredible flavor.

(but, no...I ain't a spammer fer the lemon industry...just an artist )

[mieleD]

You make this look so easy. Don't you have to be born with this talent?!!