Latest release - one of three videos in our mini boxed-set - Oil Painting On-the-Spot Sketches - ‘Out and About with Paul’ – in Oban with Paul Taggart – Part 2. Available from #artworkshopwithpaul via #vimeo - https://vimeo/ondemand/outandaboutwithpauloils1/115850079 Follow along as Artist & Author Paul Taggart continues on this detailed and comprehensive start-to-finish tutorial; filmed in real-time and presented here as a step-by-step guide in situ overlooking Oban harbour. Here you will learn much about exploiting brushes and maximising brush-strokes, Colour Mixing, Working out of Doors, Negative Painting, Judicious Blending, Applying Paint as Scuffs and Scumbles, creating Form and Structure, working Wet-on-Wet in oils – to name but a few of the raft of techniques, hints and tips that are revealed in Paul’s running commentary. IN PART 2 – Paul turns his attention to the tidal waters of the sea that flow into the bay of this West coast harbour in Scotland - in this painting produced in the simplest of layering techniques, working wet-into-wet in order to complete the painting in its entirety whilst in Oban. Having completed the sky and distant hills in Part 1, along with the tree-cloaked promontory and architectural features of buildings, pier and boats, Paul Taggart now moves onto the sunlit water, weeds and foreshore. Follow along with Paul as he shows how to bring the ebbing waters of the sea to life, how to create form on the wavelets, through the use of warm colour mixes to pick out the sunlit tops and cool mixes to render their shadowed underbelly. You will learn how to differentiate between weeds drying out on the surface of the water and those sodden masses that float underneath in tangled strands. Sadly, due to overstraining of the camera batteries on this searingly hot day we were not able to complete this painting on the same day – so the first segment of this film draws to a close with the intention of returning two days later to complete it in situ. But between now and then we were to be guests of the Oban Lifeboat Station at their Open Day where Paul would be pitching his easel to complete an on-the-spot watercolour montage and Eileen would be filming sections to offer here as a work-along exercise. PICK UP AGAIN IN THE SECOND SEGMENT and follow along as Paul continues through to the conclusion of this step-by-step oil painting tutorial after an enforced halt to the painting a couple of days earlier. Although the light conditions were quite different, Paul had enough memory of the afternoon sunlight and shadows from the earlier stages. Paul first directs his attention to those aspects with which is unhappy – showing how you can correct aspects, with particular techniques, in this case he uses ‘negative painting’ to great effect. As you will see some of the elements had changed and one in particular proved more attractive to the overall composition – allowing Paul to demonstrate how to alter things that require amending. Then Paul turns his attention to the dark accents, present in the pier, buildings and boats. Follow along as he now works right across the entire composition – working through from the previously laid mid-values to the bright lights and super-highlights. ‘AWASH WITH THE RNLI – PAUL TAGGART’S FUND-RAISING PROJECT’ – OBAN LIFEBOAT STATION Join Paul Taggart as he lands in Oban for his reference gathering trip and to celebrate the 40th Anniversary Open Day of the Oban Lifeboat Station on the West Coast of Scotland. The painting featured in this set of films was presented to the Oban Lifeboat Station to use as they see fit in raising funds. This on-the-spot painting is one element in a wide-ranging Fund-Raising Project in aid of RNLI Scotland – https://rnli.org.uk The open-ended project is centred on a series of Master Oil Paintings by Paul Taggart, to be produced over many years - each painting will be published by Paul Taggart as a Fund-Raising Limited Edition Print. The subject for each of these paintings being chosen for its history and iconic representation of an area closely associated with selected RNLI Lifeboat Stations around the shores of Scotland. Although a relative youngster in terms of having been founded a mere 40 years ago; Oban Lifeboat Station is now the busiest of the Scottish lifeboat stations. Not to mention the fact that is one of the busiest All-Weather Lifeboats in the UK. The crew of the RNLB Mora Edith MacDonald are all volunteers, excepting the Coxswain and cover an astonishing area of some 471 miles of coastline, which includes some of the fiercest and most notorious tidal waters in the UK. FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT OBAN LIFEBOAT STATION - https://obanlifeboat.co.uk
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