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Watch Meet Lori Putnam

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Up Next in 5 Years of Nitty-Gritty™ Lifetime Volume 1

  • Quick Tip: Painting Bare Trees

    Process... everyone asks about process. How do you paint this or that and in what order do you lay down the paint? Here's a little how-to idea for painting completely bare trees. It also works equally for sparse trees, wispy trees... you get the idea.

  • Painting Chaos: Part Two

    Due to the length of this demonstration, portions of the video have been speeded. At the end of Part One, I had just used a brayer to creatively edit parts of the detail which did not suit me. See how it all plays out as you watch the last half of Painting Chaos.

  • Painting Chaos: Part One

    Part one of two, Painting Chaos is a full-length demonstration of how to address some of nature's wildest scenes.
    There are many ways to start a painting. Most of what I teach involves massing in large shapes, usually light and shadow. But there is so much more out there to paint than just that. ...