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Autumn Rains Workshop

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Produce a beautiful landscape depicting a rainy Autumn day with birch trees and a distant ridge line caught in shafts of sunlight.

A follow up to the free 5 Day Pastel Challenge, this is an in-depth workshop with 2 hours of video tuition exploring the creation of the Autumn Rains artwork with mini side projects on the theory behind the painting.

This is an online tutorial, accessible immediately after purchase.

Workshop key learning areas:

  1. A consideration of compositional choices in this piece
  2. The science behind Aerial Perspective
  3. Lost and found lines
  4. A scientific consideration of producing believable shadows
  5. A scientific consideration of achieving realism in trees
  6. An introduction to colour coherence 

Average Review Score:
★★★★★
braddonam
Excellent tutorial
By A on
★★★★★

I thoroughly enjoyed this. A great opportunity to discover the process behind Stephen’s work, plus the additional varied helpful information. I like the pace and the way Stephen helps you to feel that you could achieve a good result, step by step. Brilliant.

renatemast
Very good tutorial
By renatemast on
★★★★★

I learned a lot about the science behind the picture. And how to build the picture up and how to create the layers.
For sure will watch again to listen to Stephen Fuller, he has a pleasant voice and his way of educating is very clear.

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Tutorial Content

Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Sketch
Mini Masterclass: Compositional Choices
Part 3: Compositional Choices
Part 4: The Sky
Part 5: Variations of The Sky
Mini Masterclass - Aerial Perspective
Part 6: Aerial Perspective
Part 7: Aerial Perspective in the Autumn Rains piece
Mini Masterclass - Lost and Found Lines
Part 8: Mini Masterclass – Lost and Found Lines
Part 9: Lost and Found Lines Demo
Part 10: Ridgeline and Conifer Trees
Mini Masterclass: Trees
Part 11: Trees
Part 12: Drawing our trees
Mini Masterclass: Light and Shadow
Part 13: Light and Shadow
Part 14: Starting to add Light and Shadow
Part 15: Two new techniques to add leaves
Part 16: Summary
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Colour Chart Guidance

We believe the colours in our web based colour chart are a faithful representation of our pastel range. But with any colours portrayed on the internet, there’s a whole heap of variables which mean that what you see, may not be what we see. That said, there’s some things that can be done to mitigate some of the variance.

Mobile phone and tablet screens tend to be pretty good for colour, so they’re always worth using, when viewing our colour chart.

We hate to say it, but cheaper computer displays, including laptops, can be rather hit and miss, in both colour and contrast, so they might not reveal the depth of the colour, as well as the true tone.

If you’re really keen on getting your computer up to speed on colour representation, you can use a calibration device to reach your display's fullest potential.

With all that said, if you think we’re way off the mark with any of the colours then, by all means let us know, and we’ll give it another shot.