Making a Painting Work: Figurescape in Oil with Ned Mueller
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Making a Painting Work: Figurescape in Oil with Ned Mueller

The painting process is littered with small, personal choices that can make or break your composition. Ned Mueller’s patient, practical approach to oil helps you navigate the tough decisions that make a painting work. In this DVD workshop, you’ll break up boring shapes with subtle value shifts and mix interesting gray tones instead of getting mired in those same gray areas. Ned combines five photos from Bhutan to compose figurescape scene. Sketching from a quarter-size study, he adjusts his composition for the scale and lighting of the final piece. Ned emphasizes variety, constantly shifting color and value to avoid monotony. Close-up views of his palette and detailed captions keep you in tune with his mixes throughout the workshop. Ned steps back regularly to analyze his progress and share wisdom from his decades-long artistic career. Get the little things right on a large canvas in Making a Painting Work: Figurescape in Oil with Ned Mueller.
01m 49s
2. Preliminary Sketches
03m 29s
5. Blocking in Darks
03m 52s
6. Trees and Mountains
02m 17s
7. Warming Shadows
01m 36s
9. Breaking Up Space
06m 51s
11. Trees and Barn
02m 36s
16. Female Figure
03m 06s
17. Rocks and Stones
04m 51s
18. Mountains, Roofs, and Trees
02m 45s
20. Figure and Horse
03m 28s
21. Restoring Darks
02m 42s
22. Horse and Woodpile
04m 39s
23. Fine-Tuning Figures
02m 46s
24. Grasses and Rocks
04m 10s
26. Texture and Detail
02m 56s
27. Finishing Touches
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About The Artist:
Ned Mueller

Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and raised in the Gallatin Valley near Bozeman, Montana, Ned Mueller has been drawing and painting all of his life. He graduated from the prestigious Art Center School of Design in Los Angeles, in Pasadena, Californi where he also taught drawing while still a student. Mueller worked as an illustrator for 25 years including work for Disney Imagineering before devoting himself to fine-art painting full time in 1984.
Ned Mueller's love for life and art is reflected in his superb paintings of a wide range of subjects and done in several media. He continued to enhance his knowledge and skills by taking workshops with master artists Harley Brown, Richard Schmid, Bettina Steinke, Del Gish, and Sergei Bongart....
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