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SOOKE STUDY #1, 2022. Oil on watercolour paper, 30 SOOKE STUDY #1, 2022. Oil on watercolour paper, 30.5 X 19.7 cm / 12 X 7.75 in
Today is the last day to see PRESENT/IMPERFECT at Today is the last day to see PRESENT/IMPERFECT at @fortune_gallery! Thank you to everyone who has seen the show, purchased a painting, and sent their well wishes. It means a lot to me. The gallery is open today from 12-5.
2 days left to see PRESENT/IMPERFECT at @fortune_g 2 days left to see PRESENT/IMPERFECT at @fortune_gallery ✨
Harbour, on view at @fortune_gallery until Decembe Harbour, on view at @fortune_gallery until December 3. HARBOUR (detail), 2022. Oil on linen, 45.7 X 61 cm / 18 X 24 in
Currently on view at @fortune_gallery in Victoria, Currently on view at @fortune_gallery in Victoria, BC. HERE WE CAN BE FREE (detail), 2022. Oil on linen, 61 X 91.4 cm / 24 X 36 in
Final week of PRESENT/IMPERFECT at @fortune_galler Final week of PRESENT/IMPERFECT at @fortune_gallery! The show has had a wonderful response and I am so appreciative of everyone who has come in to see it. MOTHER (detail), 2018. Oil on linen, 170.2 X 106.7 cm / 67 X 42 in.
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Nicole Sleeth

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When creating an oil painting, colour can be applied in "pieces", like a mosaic, to demonstrate a richer, more realistic effect. This colour mixing exercise is a fantastic learning experience for beginner painters, or anyone who wants to improve their approach to colour. These excerpts from "Painting in Colour for Beginners - Lesson 2: Colour Mixing Exercises" show the process of mixing a colour, and how to focus on different areas of your subject. If you enjoy this, you might like the in-depth 47-minute lesson, which is part of a 4-hour online painting course that takes you from zero colour experience to completing a still life painting in full colour. To register for the entire course, visit: https://nicolesleethatelier.com/register/painting-in-colour-for-beginners/ Timestamps: 00:00 Seeing colour as a mosaic 00:55 Lesson overview 01:08 Palette and colour selection 02:08 Mixing first colour 04:19 Finishing second colour 05:11 Finishing third colour and wrap up ✦ For more painting and drawing lessons, explore the Atelier: https://nicolesleethatelier.com ✦ Nicole Sleeth's paintings: https://nicolesleeth.com ✦ Shop: https://nicolesleeth.com/shop ✦ Follow Me: Instagram: http://instagram.com/nicolesleeth Facebook: http://facebook.com/NicoleSleethFineArt
Helpful Colour Mixing Exercise for Oil Paint - Seeing Colour as a Mosaic
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Learn tips on how to start and complete a charcoal drawing in these excerpts from my 9-part "Charcoal Shading: Understanding Values and Form" course! From beginning with a sketch to determine the three basic values, to blocking in the background and working from dark to light, you'll see the drawing progress and learn techniques for your own practice. To register for the entire course, visit https://nicolesleethatelier.com/register/shading/ In the full course, you'll learn: - How to use charcoal as a medium - How to see, correct, compare, and understand values and form - Tools to help simplify values and build a strong start to your drawing - What are edges? Why are they important? - A three-step checklist to finishing a charcoal drawing and creating the illusion of depth Timestamps: 00:00 three basic values in pencil 00:26 three basic values in charcoal 01:37 adding more values 05:07 starting the second pass 09:14 finishing details 14:30 summary ✦ For more painting and drawing lessons, explore the Atelier: https://nicolesleethatelier.com ✦ Nicole Sleeth's paintings: https://nicolesleeth.com ✦ Shop: https://nicolesleeth.com/shop ✦ Follow Me: Instagram: http://instagram.com/nicolesleeth Facebook: http://facebook.com/NicoleSleethFineArt
Creating a Charcoal Drawing from Start to Finish
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With so many different shapes, bristle materials, and sizes, how do you choose the right oil painting brush for your work? Learn about considerations for choosing brushes that will help support your painting goals regarding texture, detail, and size. Part 1: Brush Options https://youtu.be/8TjbgO2BZT4 Part 2: Brush Shape and Paint Application https://youtu.be/hPVV95YwM2Q Part 3: Practical Application Visit https://nicolesleethatelier.com/choosing-the-right-oil-painting-brush/ to see all three parts immediately, in one video. Timestamps: 00:00 synthetic brushes for small painting 00:45 bristle filbert brush for skin texture 01:23 using a variety of brushes for detail effects 02:57 how to decide which brush to use 03:31 using the biggest brush possible 05:28 consider texture 06:43 summary ✦ For more painting and drawing lessons, explore the Atelier: https://nicolesleethatelier.com ✦ Nicole Sleeth's paintings: https://nicolesleeth.com ✦ Shop: https://nicolesleeth.com/shop ✦ Follow Me: Instagram: http://instagram.com/nicolesleeth Facebook: http://facebook.com/NicoleSleethFineArt
How to Choose the Right Oil Paint Brushes - Practical Application (Part 3)
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With so many different shapes, bristle materials, and sizes, how do you choose the right oil painting brush for your work? Learn about considerations for choosing brushes that will help support your painting goals regarding texture, detail, and size. Part 1: Brush Options https://youtu.be/8TjbgO2BZT4 Part 2: Brush Shape and Paint Application Part 3: Practical Application (coming soon!) Visit https://nicolesleethatelier.com/choosing-the-right-oil-painting-brush/ to see all three parts immediately, in one video. Timestamps: 00:00 intro 00:16 comparing brush sizes 00:42 filbert hog bristle size 8 01:08 how to hold the brush 01:33 looking at filbert brush stroke 01:47 flat hog bristle brush size 10 02:51 old filbert bristle brush 03:59 sable filbert brush 04:55 flat synthetic brush 05:26 round bristle brush 06:00 fan brush - bristle and sable 07:04 flat brush size 12 07:51 bright bristle brush 08:43 user-friendly brushes and summary ✦ For more painting and drawing lessons, explore the Atelier: https://nicolesleethatelier.com ✦ Nicole Sleeth's paintings: https://nicolesleeth.com ✦ Shop: https://nicolesleeth.com/shop ✦ Follow Me:Instagram: http://instagram.com/nicolesleethFacebook: http://facebook.com/NicoleSleethFineArt
Brush Shape and Paint Application - How to Choose the Right Oil Paint Brushes Part 2
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With so many different shapes, bristle materials, and sizes, how do you choose the right oil painting brush for your work? Learn about considerations for choosing brushes that will help support your painting goals regarding texture, detail, and size. Part 1: Brush Options Part 2: Brush Shape and Paint Application (next week!) Part 3: Practical Application (coming soon!) Visit https://nicolesleethatelier.com/choosing-the-right-oil-painting-brush/ to see all three parts immediately, in one video. Timestamps: 00:00 intro 00:18 bristle types 01:17 brush shapes 01:34 brush quality ✦ For more painting and drawing lessons, explore the Atelier: https://nicolesleethatelier.com ✦ Nicole Sleeth's paintings: https://nicolesleeth.com ✦ Shop: https://nicolesleeth.com/shop ✦ Follow Me: Instagram: http://instagram.com/nicolesleeth Facebook: http://facebook.com/NicoleSleethFineArt
How to Choose the Right Oil Paint Brushes - Part 1: Brush Options
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Excerpts from lesson 2 of "Painting Nova", a nearly 8-hour (!!) course that follows the progression of my 65" x 45" oil painting, Nova, from start to finish. In Lesson 2, Painting the Study, you'll learn how and why to paint a study. It's a step that I really enjoy, despite the extra time it takes, because it's so helpful in visualizing the final painting. It also becomes a reference in its own right, which makes it easier to be less reliant on a photo reference (if that's what you're working from). To watch the entire "Painting the Study" lesson, visit https://nicolesleethatelier.com/register/painting-nova-study/ To watch the entire "Painting Nova" course, visit https://nicolesleethatelier.com/register/painting-nova/ Timestamps: 00:00 intro 00:28 Using premixed paint to begin the study 01:26 Underpainting/imprimatura and colour relationships 02:58 Freshness in a study vs expectations 04:30 Working out problems through the study 06:00 Wrapping up/sped up painting ✦ For more painting and drawing lessons, explore the Atelier: https://nicolesleethatelier.com ✦ Nicole Sleeth's paintings: https://nicolesleeth.com ✦ Shop: https://nicolesleeth.com/shop ✦ Follow Me: Instagram: http://instagram.com/nicolesleeth Facebook: http://facebook.com/NicoleSleethFineArt #painting #oilpaint #arttutorial
Painting a Study as Preparation for a Large Painting
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Excerpts from Lesson 4 in my 9-part course Charcoal Shading: Understanding Values and Form Value is the lightness or darkness of a colour. Understanding values and form is the key to making your drawings and paintings look three dimensional. When learning about shading, the first step is to learn how to accurately perceive values. Start with simple greyscale exercises to train your eye to see and compare values. Full lesson available here: https://nicolesleethatelier.com/register/shading4/ Entire course available here: https://nicolesleethatelier.com/register/shading/ ✦ For more painting and drawing lessons, explore the Atelier: https://nicolesleethatelier.com ✦ Nicole Sleeth's paintings: https://nicolesleeth.com ✦ Shop: https://nicolesleeth.com/shop ✦ Follow Me: Instagram: http://instagram.com/nicolesleeth Facebook: http://facebook.com/NicoleSleethFineArt
Values/Tones for Beginners - Exercise for Learning How to See Values Accurately
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Excerpts from lesson 4 of my 7-part course, "Paint as Flesh: Secrets to Painting the Illusion of Skin". Learn how how to create realistic skintones and flesh with oil paint. Using effective, expressive brushwork is a huge part of painting, resulting in believable flesh, clear colour, and interesting mark-making. Work WITH the texture of paint to create beautiful figurative paintings. This course is one of my favourites, because it covers all the elements that go into creating realistic skin tones in oil paint. Learn about form, colour theory, colour temperature, brushwork, colour harmony, and more in the full course. To register for the full course, visit https://nicolesleethatelier.com/register/skin/ Timestamps: 00:00 intro 00:18 Apply "pieces of paint" to avoid muddy colour 00:25 Putting the right colour in the right place 01:30 Trust your mixed colours 02:23 How to choose an underpainting colour 03:21 Brushwork - how to actively use paint texture 04:50 Brush choices ✦ For more painting and drawing lessons, explore the Atelier: https://nicolesleethatelier.com ✦ Nicole Sleeth's paintings: https://nicolesleeth.com ✦ Shop: https://nicolesleeth.com/shop ✦ Follow Me: Instagram: http://instagram.com/nicolesleeth TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@nicolesleeth Facebook: http://facebook.com/NicoleSleethFineArt #painting #oilpaint #arttutorial
Brushwork for Shimmering Skin Tones - Painting Skin with Oil Paint
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Welcome to this pencil portrait drawing demonstration! This video shows excerpts from the full 3+ hour course. In this course, you’ll learn how to start a portrait drawing, correct it, and add detail and shading. To register, visit https://nicolesleethatelier.com/register/drawing-a-portrait/ If you’ve ever come across major drawing errors late in your drawing, or wondered how to correct them or whether you should start again, this course is for you. More than halfway through the portrait, I realized that I hadn’t achieved a likeness, and had to make some major corrections. It’s a fantastic learning experience – learn from my mistakes, and also learn how to correct a drawing when you realize it’s inaccurate. This course discusses simple portraiture anatomy, measuring, working from large to small, how to add shading, and more. Timestamps: 00:00 intro 01:28 Part 1: Setting Up The Drawing 04:07 Part 2: Refining the Shapes 06:58 Part 3: Beginning the Shading 09:55 Part 4: Correcting the Drawing 12:53 Part 5: Building More Detail 14:42 Part 6: More Revisions and Finishing the Portrait ✦ For more painting and drawing lessons, explore the Atelier: https://nicolesleethatelier.com ✦ Nicole Sleeth's paintings: https://nicolesleeth.com ✦ Shop: https://nicolesleeth.com/shop ✦ Follow Me: Instagram: http://instagram.com/nicolesleeth TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@nicolesleeth Facebook: http://facebook.com/NicoleSleethFineArt #painting #oilpaint #arttutorial
Drawing a Portrait in Pencil - Making Corrections for a Better Likeness
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