Chris Beaven

3711: Perseverance – Oil Painting Part 24

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The top of the tigers head is done and on the last stream we moved forward quickly on this oil painting by establishing better overall values on the tigers head and getting the muzzle closer to what it needs to be. For this stream I’m going to try and focus on the tiger’s main on either side of the head unless I see something else of higher leverage.

Traditional + Digital Live Stream tiger painting. Watch the full stream!

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3710: Perseverance – Oil Painting Part 23

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Last stream we worked on the background for this tiger oil painting in an effort to establish some relative color and compare the tiger against it. After changing the background to a cooler color we were able to pop the tiger out from the background even further and make our focal point even more enticing for the eye. This stream we will be working on more details for the tigers head and hopefully moving down to the chin.

Traditional + Digital Live Stream tiger painting. Watch the full stream!

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3709: Perseverance – Oil Painting Part 22

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I’ve finished most of the top of the head in this tiger oil painting but I need to get a better understanding of the relative color and value of the tiger and how it relates to the background. For this stream I’m going to move back to the background and bring it up to speed as a better comparison to what I have now. With this information it will help me to make better decisions about how I paint the tiger moving forward.

Traditional + Digital Live Stream tiger painting. Watch the full stream!

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3708: Perseverance – Oil Painting Part 21

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Our tiger oil painting is coming along very slowly now because we are working on the most important part of the painting. The focal point of the tigers head and I want to make sure that the head of the tiger has all the detail and interest to draw the eyes of the viewer before anything else. Once we are past the head the rest of the tiger and background should go faster.

Traditional + Digital Live Stream tiger painting. Watch the full stream!

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3707: Perseverance – Oil Painting Part 20

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The eyes of the tiger are established in this oil painting and now we are broadening out into the rest of the head of the tiger. I’ll be going over drawing, value, color, saturation, color temperature and everything that has to do with making a successful oil painting in these episodes. Including habits and personal development strategies to get you to the easel more often and keep you painting longer. Join us for the fun!

Traditional + Digital Live Stream tiger painting. Watch the full stream!

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3706: Perseverance – Oil Painting Part 19

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We are still working on the head of the tiger in this oil painting live stream. The head of the tiger is the focal point for the entire painting and I want it to be where all the detail is in the painting so it draws the eye. The rest of the painting will move along much faster after the head is done.

Traditional + Digital Live Stream tiger painting. Watch the full stream!

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3705: Where is My Love – Oil Painting Part 15

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This is a secret painting that I started back in December 2022, more than 3 months ago. But I got side tracked with all kinds of other paintings and videos. The original idea was that I paint this entire painting and keep most of it’s progress off of my daily art posts but after reconnecting with the purpose of my website I decided to bring it back. The purpose of my daily posts is to show all artists exactly what it has taken to get a painting from nothing to something amazing. I’ve recorded tons of footage of the making of this painting and I plan on releasing that at some point. Enjoy the progress.

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3703: Perseverance – Oil Painting Part 17

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Traditional + Digital Live Stream tiger painting. Watch the full stream!

We’re done with the first layer on this awesome tiger painting in oil. Now the magic will begin to happen with glazing layers. I’m going to show you have to start glazing an oil painting from beginning to end. Step by step I’ll walk you through how to use the colors underneath and the glazes you will add to enhance your paintings beyond what you thought was possible. With glazes everything is easier and a lot more fun!

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3670: Perseverance – Painting Part 13

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On the Traditional + Digital Live Stream today we worked on the background adding some life into it with color. Then I moved on to the top palm frond and got deep into observing the reference image so we could get it to look as natural as possible.

While doing all this I started a new document comparing our current tiger painting with the composition we created weeks ago. I removed all color from the current tiger painting so I could get a better understanding of where to take the values for the foreground and the background.

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3665: Perseverance – Painting Part 8

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For the Traditional + Digital Live Stream today I began changing the structure of the tigers head. The great thing about living with a piece for a while is that you begin to see issue and problems that you never noticed before and you can refine it and make it better. As long as you are brave enough to tear it apart in the process.

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3623: Traditional to Digital Live and Eye Painting Prep

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Two things today. My Live Stream course has begun. You can watch that here. It’s on going and will build upon itself daily with a ton of great content to help any artists that is interested on how to do digital painting.

You can get all the material downloads for the live stream course here!

Second thing. I started the prep work for a eye painting tutorial that I hope to release soon.

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3622: Live Stream Course False Start

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Today I started a “course” on my YouTube live stream. I want to teach artists about Krita and digital painting. Specifically I want to teach traditional artists the advantage of digital. So I started a live stream all about it. But I ended up getting more organized for it tomorrow. The real start was tomorrow.

You can watch the live stream here.

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3613: Epic Journey V1 Day 11

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I’ve basically started over on this painting. I realized that I was getting way too detailed with the mountain and I had lost sight of the greater composition. I painted over the whole thing with very broad strokes and made sure that I got the full coloration that I wanted. I’m super happy with the change.

You can watch me work on this painting during my live stream.

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3610: Epic Journey V1 Day 8

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The strategy of working the color in this painting similar to how I do oil painting is working. It’s still not to the level I would like but that is going to take time. Also, understanding that this painting could take the same amount of time as an oil painting is helping as well. I’m sure in the future I will speed up but I need to learn first.

You can watch me work on this painting during my life stream.

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3603: Epic Journey V1 Day 1

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I’ve started this painting over. I realized that I made one of the oldest mistakes. I didn’t draw out the entire painting first. Because of this I lacked a deep understanding of the form for this complex subject. And without that understand I can’t light and color it properly.

Because I’m starting over I decided to commit to this painting for the long haul and take it to a finish digitally and eventually on to the canvas for oil.

You can watch me work on this painting during my life stream.

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3601: Environmental Design Study Day 13

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With my live stream today I started working on the sky behind the mountain. I don’t feel like it has the epic distance that I want. The mountain looks too close to the foreground so I’m playing with different configurations in the sky to try and get it to look as if it’s really far away.

Unfortunately I don’t think I was successful, but I did find a really nice brush for clouds.

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3600: Environmental Design Study Day 12

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I had a wonderful time today. I did my very first live stream on YouTube while working on this painting. I’m having a lot of trouble understanding how light would play over the mountain so I did a live stream about the form study.

Even more awesome, is the fact that I’ve hit 3600 days of consecutive art! Only 50 more days left until I hit 10 years straight!!!!!!

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