Learning from a Master Artist

Learning from a Master Artist, a photo by pdw's atelier on Flickr.

Learning from a Master Artist
(2011 painted reworked in 2013) When living in Australia, my wife got some excellent training under the tutoring of a second generation tonal realist artist. This movement, which has a large following in Australia, places utmost importance on tone (light to dark and in-betweens) to bring out the correct punch a painting needs in order to look correct. If you don't have your tones under control, a painting will never look quite right. One key to tonal realism is the closer you get the more abstract things become, but the farther away you are the more realistic the picture is. Example: look at this picture up close (or large) and then view it small. See the difference?