Robert Hopkins
Week #3 and I'm having fun!
10/23/22 - 10/29/22 I've been working in the background this week. Canvas grounds, values, technique, brushes, stuff... :) Canvas...
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Robert Hopkins
- Oct 24, 2022
- 1 min
Value, is King and Queen of the realm.
Get your values right and your painting will look great. Here is a bad example. An original photo, Samir's painting, and then my...
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Robert Hopkins
- Oct 21, 2022
- 1 min
Canvas grounds, past, present, and future.
Other than dealing with the issue of used walnut oil rags and combustion... I pulled out some of my older paintings and compared it to...
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Robert Hopkins
- Oct 20, 2022
- 2 min
Week #2 went a little bit better.
Not great, but better than last week. I am following the artwork of Samir Godinjak. He lives in Bosnia and has many paintings on YouTube....
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Robert Hopkins
- Oct 12, 2022
- 1 min
Hills, them is.
Jed Clampett said it right: Hills that is, swimming pools, movie stars... This is week #1 and there are so many to come. I am struggling...
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Robert Hopkins
- Oct 7, 2022
- 1 min
Erin Hanson... One painting a week, for the next thirty years (1560).
Okay... This is the deal. Monet and van Gogh would adore her and her work. What's not to like? Bold, colorful, knowledgable, respected,...
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Robert Hopkins
- Jul 14, 2022
- 1 min
I'm catching up to you, Andrew...
* Update * Looking at my attempt below looks horrid now. Move along, nothing to see here! Andrew Pitt that is. Am I really catching up?...
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Robert Hopkins
- Jul 3, 2022
- 1 min
Happy July 4th!
This weeks painting is... Ho-hum. I decided to repaint this painting and did not include the sailboat. While creating a practice...
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Robert Hopkins
- Jun 26, 2022
- 1 min
Watercolors, Gouache, Peter Sheeler, Karen Margulis...
I took the last two weeks off while I thought things through... I want to paint like Peter and Karen. It's plain and simple as that. I...
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Robert Hopkins
- Jun 17, 2022
- 1 min
Paint watercolors like using pastels?
Karen Margulis is my favorite pastel artist. She does "amazing" landscape work using pastels. She (most of the time) uses a watercolor...
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Robert Hopkins
- Jun 7, 2022
- 1 min
I "Got'sta" get me one of these!
Man, I wish I was in that sailboat! I agree with everything that Tim mentioned about my cathedral painting that he reviewed for me....
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Robert Hopkins
- Jun 6, 2022
- 1 min
Another Master's work of art.
Here is the original I painted from, and mine is below. It is, what it is! The original artwork is by Edward Seago: "Approaching Storm"...
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Robert Hopkins
- Jun 2, 2022
- 1 min
Send me up to the front, Sarge!
Are we in Germany? Italy? I'm not really sure. But, John Singer Sargent is so cool! I just got this book today via Amazon:...
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Robert Hopkins
- Jan 3, 2022
- 1 min
Is it time to step back?
Gouache is cool! And, different. Dark. Goes on different. Handles different than watercolors, but... I am confused by it too. I cut my...
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Robert Hopkins
- Dec 25, 2021
- 1 min
Gouache is the wave of the future for me?
I have a love/hate relationship with the word "arsenal". Because it implies guns I scratch my head when the word is used this way. But...
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Robert Hopkins
- Dec 25, 2021
- 1 min
She actually cried! What a Sweetheart!
I gave this painting to Joanne last night (Christmas Eve, far left) and I guess she liked it! That makes me extremely happy. She gave me...
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Robert Hopkins
- Dec 23, 2021
- 1 min
I have been busy (painting)!
I have finally gotten into a zone of painting again. Which is great, but not without days where I was failing miserably. A few days it...
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Robert Hopkins
- Dec 8, 2021
- 1 min
An ah-ha moment!
Notice how the paint in the mixing area is very close to the paint that has dried on the paper on the left? The “value” of each is the...
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Robert Hopkins
- Dec 8, 2021
- 1 min
John Singer Sargent used a lot of pigment!
Man, he liked saturated colors in his paintings. I did my best on this one below to capture what I think he did or intended the colors to...
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