YOUTUBE PAINTING LESSONS
At one time, Lorenzo Chavez partnered with Open Studio Online to create a series of instructional painting videos. These are now available for free on YouTube. With a range of lessons including painting desert landscapes to how to paint snow, these focused videos offer unique insight into the mind of a master plein air artist.
Painting High Country Wildflowers - Oil Painting Demo
Lorenzo demonstrates how to successfully use the Impressionist techniques of broken color and bold brushstrokes in this wildflower lesson.
With over 1 ½ hrs of up-close, detailed video, learn with Lorenzo as he designs his composition in his sketchbook, then paints from blank canvas to finished piece. This is an opportunity to observe Lorenzo’s palette as he mixes his color, to watch as he prepares his canvas, and to listen to his informative commentary.
Painting Wildflowers - Composition and Design (Workshop Part 1)
Painting Wildflowers - Toning the Canvas (Workshop Part 2)
Painting Wildflowers - Blocking in the Composition (Workshop Part 3)
Painting Wildflowers - Restating the Darks (Workshop Part 4)
Painting Wildflowers - Background Trees (Workshop Part 5)
Painting Wildflowers - Foreground Grasses (Workshop Part 6)
Painting Wildflowers - Lupins (Workshop Part 7)
Painting Wildflowers - Finishing Touches (Workshop Part 8)
The Desert Landscape - Pastel Demo - Understanding Light and Temperature
Lorenzo demonstrates how to translate the light and temperature of a desert scene. He stresses the importance of planning the composition beforehand and takes you step-by-step through his initial notan sketches.
This is an opportunity to observe the process that Lorenzo follows for all his paintings, whether they are quick field studies or more detailed studio pieces. Listen to his decision-making process and gain an invaluable insight to how Lorenzo creates his beautiful pastel paintings!
Painting a Winter Scene in Pastel
Lorenzo demonstrates how to translate the light and temperature of a desert scene. He stresses the importance of planning the composition beforehand and takes you step-by-step through his initial notan sketches.
This is an opportunity to observe the process that Lorenzo follows for all his paintings, whether they are quick field studies or more detailed studio pieces. Listen to his decision-making process and gain an invaluable insight to how Lorenzo creates his beautiful pastel paintings!
Mixing Color - Understanding Paint Pigments
Lorenzo Chavez teaches us the color mixing skills that will allow us to master our paint pigments and more accurately capture the scene we observe. When we look at a paint color from a tube, we are seeing a combination of certain properties including hue, temperature, value and chroma.
In this lecture, Lorenzo explains how each of these properties influence his choice of pigment for a painting. He explains how to use this knowledge to control the intensity of your color mixtures.
Seeing Color - Understanding Natural Light
Lorenzo Chavez teaches us how to see the subtleties of color in a landscape. He shares his understanding of the 3 crucial light effects in nature, gained through years of study, observation and practice painting plein air.
This knowledge frees the artist from preconceived notions and color formulas, allowing them to more fully capture the mood and light of the day in their paintings.
In his lecture, Lorenzo discusses the theory of reflected light and demonstrates how he applies that theory to his own work, to create paintings that are both true to the scene and filled with rich, Impressionistic color.