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For each lesson you may purchase the pdf handout of support material and models and have Bob give you email critiques for that lesson.
See below.
Currently online:
• Introduction to Color
• Painting the waters of Lake Superior
• Painting Hakuin’s the blind men crossing the bridge
Get complete lesson handout and email critique
For $20 one can purchase:
• personal email critiques for this lesson from brush painter Bob Schmitt
• a downloadable pdf handout including support materials and models for this lesson will be emailed to you.
Online Intensive:
Introduction to Color
Participants will:
• learn setting up a basic Chinese color palette
• experiment with building layers of color
• paint a simple landscape using color.
Lesson 1:
online intensive:
Introduction to Color:
• defining the Chinese palette
• determining which colors to use
(38 minute video)
Lesson 2:
online intensive:
Introduction to Color:
• preparing color
• applying color
• preparing Shen Zhou landscape with ink work
(33 minute video)
Lesson 3:
online intensive:
Introduction to Color:
• mixing and layering color
• demonstration: Shen Zhou landscape
(24 minute video)
Lesson 4:
online intensive:
Introduction to Color:
• making corrections to color
• completing Shen Zhou landscape
(36 minute video)
Online Intensive:
Painting the Waters of Lake Superior
Participants will:
• plunge feet first into building a skill set to mimic a variety of moods of this great lake
• learn delicate techniques for creating water
• learn the ability to work xuan paper in varying levels of wetness
• experience the joy of working slowly.
Get complete lesson handout and email critique
For $20 one can purchase:
• personal email critiques for this lesson from brush painter Bob Schmitt
• a downloadable pdf handout including support materials and models for this lesson will be emailed to you.
Lesson 1:
online intensive:
Painting the Waters of Lake Superior:
• Considering the Schmitt Method before beginning a painting
• looking at four different “lake” effects first captured in photography, then translated into a painting using Chinese brush materials and techniques
• demonstration: painting Lake Superior with under currents and a little sparkle
(64 minute video)
Lesson 2:
online intensive:
Painting the Waters of Lake Superior:
• demonstration: painting Lake Superior with a hidden horizon
(40 minute video)
Lesson 3:
online intensive:
Painting the Waters of Lake Superior:
• demonstration: painting Lake Superior with horizon glow
(36 minute video)
Lesson 4:
online intensive:
Painting the Waters of Lake Superior:
• demonstration: painting Lake Superior with shimmering water
(43 minute video)
Online Intensive:
Painting Hakuin’s the blind men crossing the bridge
Participants will:
• explore the simple meditative and artistic complexities in Blind Men Crossing the Bridge by Hakuin
• work traditionally combining demonstration and copying models
• create their own version of this zen masterpiece
• experience the meditative power of working with the brush, ink and paper
Get complete lesson handout and email critique
For $20 one can purchase:
• personal email critiques for this lesson from brush painter Bob Schmitt
• a downloadable pdf handout including support materials and models for this lesson will be emailed to you.
Lesson 1:
online intensive:
Painting the blind men crossing the bridge
• An introduction to this classic painting by seventeeth century zen master Hakuin
• questions for examining each figure to identify the singular differences
• demonstration: painting each of the three figures
(19 minute video)
Lesson 2:
online intensive:
Painting the blind men crossing the bridge
• demonstration: painting the log bridge
(6 minute video)
Lesson 3:
online intensive:
Painting the blind men crossing the bridge
• demonstration: painting the anchoring mountain and the distance mountain
(5 minute video)
Lesson 4:
online intensive:
Painting the blind men crossing the bridge
• demonstration: the complete painting from start to finish
(15 minute video)
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