The air around us is not totally transparent. When you look at something that far enough, a few hundred feet perhaps, you will see a kind of white haze, especially in a humid environment. If you look at faraway mountains, this becomes very apparent. You can use this in a painting or drawing by reducing contrasts for distant objects. The colors also appears "washed out".On Youtube:For all of you Mac lovers (.mp4): Click To Play And for the Windows followers: Click To Play 

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Perspective 3: Contrast and Aerial

Certain colors are interpreted by the brain in such a way that the items they're painted on appear to be placed further away. Usually, colder colors are associated with distance and warmer colors suggest proximity. This doesn't always work, but it can be used to add to the perspective effect of a painting or drawing.On Youtube:For the Mac afficionados (.mp4): Click to play And for the windows groupies: Click to play 

Perspective 2: Using Color

This is the first in a series about perspective. I tried to keep it as non-technical as possible. We'll see if I succeeded!In Youtube: For the Mac afficionados (.mp4) and itunes Click to play And for the windows Gumbies: Click to play 

Perspective: I hate it too!

A quick demo of a still life drawing.YouTube version:for the mac world out there (.mp4) Click To Play and for the windows crowd (.wmv) Click To Play 

Onions and garlic

This is a simple exercise to learn how to fit a 3D model onto a 2D supportOn YouTube:For the Mac (mp4): Click To Play For the PC, higher definition: Click To Play 

Composition: Different formats

In this video, I explain how to draw a portrait from observation only, without using a "method".I make reference to this book, by Betty Edwards: "Drawing on the right side of the brain"On YouTube:In high definition (mp4): Click To Play 

Portrait Drawing 2: Using visual observation

On YouTube; Portrait 1If you want to draw the face or body, two methods are available: use symbols, or guide books to learn how to draw an idealised human, or use observation to draw from life (or a photograph).In the video, I make reference to this book. It's called "Drawing the Head and Figure" by Jack Hamm.This video introduces the use of symbols.In High Definition (mp4): Click To Play 

Portrait: deciding on what to do - part 1 of 2

The first video lesson, on YouTube.How to fit a 3 dimensional object on a two dimension support.This video podcast addresses the problem encountered when trying to fit a 3-dimensional object (in this case a model of a human body) onto a 2-dimensional support (in this case a drawing on paper). It's all about looking and using simple tricks (visual cues). Click To Play 

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