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DESIGNING NATURE ONLINE COURSE
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$99 USD
5 years in the making
Over 35 tutorials
Easy to understand visual and verbal explanations
accompanied by finished painting demonstrations
​Over 5 hours running time
All art goes through design.
The information in Designing Nature will be relevant for oil, acrylic and pastel artists as well as watercolorists.
Introduction
  • You're a good designer, let me prove it to you
  • Don't copy, arrange nature
  • Because it was there...
 Containment in the Painting Rectangle
  • Leading the viewer's eye
  • The job of the foreground
It's All About Harmony and Contrast
  • Creating visual tension and excitement
  • What successful painters  know and do
  • The difference between art and reality
Shapes
  • Why I failed geometry
  • Oblique shapes
  • Overlapping shapes
  • Interlocking shapes
Simplifying Nature
  • Creating symbols
  • Start with a silhouette
  • From simple to complex
Counterchange
  • Make your painting easy to read and visually entertaining
"Painting problems are solved the way all problems are solved, with information. "                                                   
​Ed Whitney
Shadows
  • Shadows unify
  • Don't be honest with shadows
  • Color in the shadows
​The Power of Light
  • Control the light and you control the viewer's eye
  • Light can be better than real
  • Front light
  • Back light
  • Top light
  • Dramatic light
  • Artistic light
Build a Theme
  • Analyzing a photograph
  • Subtracting subject matter that complicates
  • Adding subject matter that enhances
Placing a Focal Point
  • Centralized and de-centralized center of attention
  • Building dominance
  • Creating visual movement
The Key
  • Design sketching
  • 60 seconds to a better design
  • Kanuga
Interlocking the Page
  • The best designs consider the entire painting
Scale
  • The multi-purpose tool
  • Developing interest and rest in your painting
  • Loving  it to death
Understanding Value
  • Identifying value problems and solutions
  • Simplifying nature's values
  • Value patterns
  • The relationship of color and value 
  • Why value sketch
  • The many uses of a Notan
​The Abstract in Nature
  • Using abstract design in your painting
  • Counterbalance
  • What Andrew Wyeth and Picasso have in common
Putting it All Together
  • And much, much more...
  • As a bonus there are 10 light-hearted design brain teasers!
"I laugh at myself when I think of the miles I walked, easel in hand, searching for a painting, 
unaware that there were paintings all around me."
                                                                                                         Don