Lesson Description

  • Complete Materials List
  • Discussion on how to use photoshop to create interesting compositions and solve problems
  • How to simplify when painting from photographs
  • The importance of iteration
  • Creating rhythm in your paintings
  • Color Mixing and how to create harmony
  • Creating interesting edges
  • How to establish plane changes
  • Modeling forms through temperature changes
  • Painting a study
  • Painting a larger painting
  • Discussion on how to get recognized by galleries
  • What to look for when taking photographs of the landscape
  • Advice on becoming a better painter
  • David shares his journey on becoming an artist

Original Painting by David Dibble

Inspired to Paint Stream David Dibble

Study by David Dibble

Materials

DAVID DIBBLE WORKSHOP

[email protected], 801.668.8648

Easel (plein air setup, something portable. I use the Strada easel system)

Palette (if your easel doesn’t have it built in)

Canvas or panels (about 15 of them). 6”x 8” is preferable, they can be larger and you can subdivide them if you want.

Oil Paint: (any brand)

-Cadmium Red (a warm red)

-Alizarin Crimson (a cool red)

-Cadmium Yellow (a warm yellow)

-Lemon Yellow (a cool yellow)

-Ultramarine Blue (a warm blue)

-Cobalt or Cerulean Blue (a cool blue)

-Brown Madder, Burnt Umber, or Transparent Oxide Red (a warm brown)

-Titanium White (no Permalba white, please)

Brushes (various sizes, 2-12, I use Trekkel and Rosemary Flats and filberts)

Palette Knife

Medium (ie. Liquin, Galkyd, NeoMegilp, etc)  **This is optional

Solvent (ie Gamsol, etc) of your choice, something odorless!

Leak-proof container for solvent 

Paper towels (I use the blue shop towels)

Sketchbook, pencils, and erasers (sketching pencil, 2b-4b)

Sketching brush pens (+/-30% gray, black brush pen) (Pigma, Tombow are popular brands)

Optional texts:

1- Graphic L.A., by Robh Ruppel

ISBN 1624650171

2- Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter, by James Gurney

ISBN 0740797719 

3- Drawing Scenery: Landscapes and Seascapes, by Jack Hamm

ISBN: 0399508066

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Born in 1977, David Dibble was raised on a farm in Davis County, Utah, where he was influenced by the landscape from an early age.  He completed a BFA in Illustration from Brigham Young University and began landscape painting in earnest in graduate school at the Academy of Art University.  Following the Academy he and his wife Liz moved to New York, where he worked as a color artist for Blue Sky Studios (20th Century Fox), creating Concept Design for such films as Rio, Epic, Ice Age 4, Peanuts, and Ferdinand.  David and his family now reside in Orem, Utah, where he teaches Illustration at Brigham Young University and paints often in the surrounding mountains and valleys, focusing largely on agricultural themes.  Click here to visit his website