Early Morning in the Valley - Landscape painting

This painting is a 45.5x40.5 cm (18x16 inch) oil on canvas.

The inspiration, as always, the surrounding landscape.
In this painting I tried to capture the morning mist slowly evaporating as the sun rises in this beautiful valley surrounded by the mountains.

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Art sites and tutorials

Here are a few valuable art instruction resources and sites with painting and drawing lessons, video demonstrations and beautiful artworks.
 I hope you'll enjoy visiting them.

• Art Instruction For Beginners - Art Instruction Blog
  Free art instruction and other great resources on a variety of different mediums including oil painting, acrylic painting, watercolor, drawing, pastels and more! 


• Watercolor Painting Free lessons and tutorials
  Watercolor painting step by step lessons and watercolor painting technique tutorials by Gregory Conley


• Free art lessons with Julie Duell
  Painting and drawing tutorials, free children's ebook.


• The Paint Basket Opening Info - Paintbasket.co.za
  Step by step painting demonstrations, videos, workshop and seminars .


• Richard Robinson Gallery
  Oil Painting Lessons for download and DVD from world class impressionist painter Richard Robinson.


• Bansemer Studio and Gallery of fine art
  Roger Bansemer paintings and painting demonstrations, DVDs.


• Lorraine (Gosbee) Vatcher
  Acrylic painting gallery of artist Lorraine Vatcher


• Artist and musician Larry Seiler
  Paintings, demos, videos, workshop


• Video tutorials on painting.
  Great number of video tutorials, selected from Youtube, painting and drawing demonstration, on my website.

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Still life with vegetables - pastel painting

The old soda bottle and the vegetables make up a still life composition this time.
This is a 35 x 45 cm (23.8 x 17.7 inch) pastel on paper.
Comments are welcome.

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Geraniums - oil painting

Red geranium flowers in a pot, these lovely common flowers, that we can see in almost every window are a great subject for painting.

30cm x 40cm (12 x 16 inch) - oil painting on canvas.

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How to paint flowers - video tutorials

Every year, in springtime I make lots of photos of flowers, for my paintings. As I had too many of them, I gathered them in flower videos and so, surfing on YouTube, I reviewed Marjorie Harris's flower painting videos.
Marjorie Harris is a very talented artist and teacher whom I admire very much. I love her video tutorial where she shares her freehanding method of painting flowers.
She makes painting roses look so easy but it is only simple for talented artists like her.
Here is one of these very instructive tutorials. I hope you will enjoy it the way I do.

You may want to have a look at Marjorie Harris's website too.
And now, my favorite, from artist Maneco Araujo:

Another amazing one from Singapore Artist Ng Woon Lam:

See also my rose drawing lesson: how to draw a rose in five steps.

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