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In my last post , I had talked about an incredible source for lessons in Painting. Charles Sovek has very generously made his book, The Basics , available on the web, for free, from the very beginning. You can have a look at each lesson and if you find them useful maybe pick up a copy from his site . There are many more resources there for you to discover and I had covered a few of them in an earlier post . Line Contour and Gesture Overlapping Sight Size Drawing Drawing a Complex Object Drawing with Shadows Tonal Drawing Tone Painting a Value Scale Painting Blocks in Tone Line to Tone Square to Round Painting a Solid Form Patterning a Composition with Tone Painting a Solid Form Patterning a Composition with Tone Popping Your Lights Basic Lighting Conditions Dissipating Light Different Kinds of Light Crest Light Hollows, Accents and Highlights Color Color Values Painting Blocks in Color Reflective Color Color Temperature Color Intensity Underpainting Averaging Lights and Shadows Ke...

Charles Sovek Artist and Author | Painting in Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor and Gouache I find Charles Sovek's paintings fascinating and inspiring. He has mastered the art of catching light and color directly from life in his paintings. His website has a lot of useful information including lessons, articles that he has written for art magazines, his galleries of paintings etc. Under Lessons from the Easel the Artist has provided free access to his book The Basics - which is based on his learning experiences from the 50's, he also has sections which are currently available only on the web where he takes you through steps on how to catch light in your paintings and lastly in learning how to "see" masterpieces, how to understand them. (click on the topics below to see the website) The Basics - Massing-in, warms and cools, edges and patterns were but a few concepts of the litany of procedures... Painting Anything Under the Sun - catching light is what makes a painter's wo...