How To Create Stunning Paintings With 5 Simple Focal Point Methods

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How To Create Stunning Paintings With 5 Simple Focal Point Methods

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Monet Cafe' with Artist Susan Jenkins

Күн бұрын

Welcome to this painting lesson on how to achieve effective and powerful focal point strategies. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced artist, learning these simple yet powerful techniques will help you create beautiful and meaningful paintings.
One of the most important aspects of painting is the ability to tell a story through your work. By inviting the viewer into your painting and showing them the things you find beautiful, you can create a connection and make your art even more impactful.
In this lesson, you will learn about five powerful focal point strategies:
1. Value Contrast
2. Convergence (pointing)
3. Isolation
4. Shape Contrast
5. Color Contrast.
Each concept is explained in detail and accompanied by examples to help you better understand how to apply them to your own work.
By utilizing these techniques, you can transform your paintings from ordinary to extraordinary. Not only will your art be visually stunning, but it will also tell a story and evoke emotions in the viewer.
I hope this lesson inspires you to continue pursuing your passion for art and encourages you to experiment with these powerful focal point strategies in your own work. Remember, the possibilities are endless when it comes to creating beautiful art.
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Pastelmat (dark blue): shrsl.com/4aqv1
Unision 30 Half Stick Starter Set: shrsl.com/4aqv7
Sennelier 40 Half Stick Set: shrsl.com/4aqvb
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@XenaArt 9 ай бұрын

👌👏 Ваші роботи дивовижні! ❤❤❤

@monetcafe 9 ай бұрын

Дуже дякую, @XenaArt! Я дуже радий, що вам сподобалось! Щасливого малювання!

@JLPrice-kc2uy 9 ай бұрын

I was beginning to create drama is right..! Now that I know you're ok; I'm happy. 🤗 This is a lesson for artists of all kinds. The ideal of merging points, one can never go wrong. As I spoke before of preparing myself, I'll submerge myself in one word that will describe meaningful interpretation that describes movement, action, an event. This word that I've always used is “confluence” It's a remarkable word that has music to it, while performing something. Coming from riverboat people, I've stood at the point of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where the monongahela river comes down from the north, and the Allegheny River, that flows from the east… both form a confluence; a coming together, forming the Ohio River. The Ohio flows 981 miles long, that runs into the upper, and lower Mississippi, at Cairo, Illinois. I've traveled it, many times. Welcome back Susan ✌️

@monetcafe 9 ай бұрын

Hello my friend.... so sorry I haven't been able to respond much lately. I've been watching my grandson quite a bit (which is wonderful) and dealing with a touch of illness. I'm feeling much better today though. "Confluence".... I like that word! As always, your writing is beautiful. :)

@pennyzahurones797 9 ай бұрын

Thank you I needed that! Bless you Susan!🙏❤️

@monetcafe 9 ай бұрын

You are so welcome! I really do believe these methods work :)

@astridglodek3099 9 ай бұрын

I love your teachings Susan. thank you so much!!!

@monetcafe 9 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! I appreciate the support!

@user-o6ue45hz8nr2ap 9 ай бұрын

That's GREAT. Thank you

@monetcafe 9 ай бұрын

Glad you like it!

@user-o6ue45hz8nr2ap 9 ай бұрын

@@monetcafe Yessss

@carolhestand2561 9 ай бұрын

You are a good teacher- thanks

@monetcafe 9 ай бұрын

You are welcome! Thanks so much for that comment!

@joycewickman1148 9 ай бұрын

What a great lesson! So helpful! Thanks,Susan!

@monetcafe 9 ай бұрын

You are so welcome! Glad it was helpful Joyce!

@rhondaadams4013 9 ай бұрын

Very good teaching, and very helpful. Thank you!

@monetcafe 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much, @rhondaadams4013! I'm so glad you liked it! Happy Painting!

@nicole3641 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for this interesting lesson. I liked your monochrome sketches a lot - you could create stunning monochrome paintings, if you wanted to.

@monetcafe 9 ай бұрын

Awesome @nicole3641, I appreciate that so much!

@jlighthouse9458 9 ай бұрын

Great lessons thx

@monetcafe 9 ай бұрын

My pleasure! Glad you liked it!

@lozzabamforth9762 9 ай бұрын

Susan, I am a digital painter in Procreate, but I am amazed by your pastel tutorials the way you explain everything. I have learnt so much from you as you have inspired me to draw better. Thank you so much for this.

@monetcafe 9 ай бұрын

Thank you! @lozzabamforth9762 Comments like this are part of why I do this. I love inspiring others, especially in their art journey! Thank you for your sweet comment! PTL!!

@geraldinedavid2442 9 ай бұрын

Thank you sooo much for the techniques and clear explanations ❤

@monetcafe 9 ай бұрын

You are so welcome, Geraldine! It's my pleasure.

@rosaliefunk1629 9 ай бұрын

Wonderful! Thank you. ❤️

@monetcafe 9 ай бұрын

You are so welcome! Glad you liked it, Rosalie!

@avialbersbenchamo4797 8 ай бұрын

Wow ❤🌈🙏

@monetcafe 8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much, @avialbersbenchamo4797! I'm so glad you liked it! Happy Painting!

@loredanavacca8587 9 ай бұрын

Meravigliosi! 🤩💕

@monetcafe 9 ай бұрын

So happy you liked it.

@alanthornton3530 9 ай бұрын

Thank you Susan for this really interesting lesson, it's always good to get someone else's perspective on it! I've always created small monochrome sketches mostly in pencil to plan a larger drawing/painting, I think it helps to iron out any glaring issues. Sorry to hear you've not been well lately, take care :)

@monetcafe 9 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful, Alan. And I’m feeling much better. Thanks so much for your message.

@OksanaBrys 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for the video! That looks just stunning! But I've got a question. It's about air perspective. If we follow its rules, than all distant objects should be less saturated than the objects in the foreground. But in your sketches distant objects are very saturated, very eye-catching. It works magically and creates perfect focal points. But the question is: doesn't this break the rules of air perspective? Or do these rules work only for the objects that look alike - say, trees that grow along a road?

@monetcafe 9 ай бұрын

That’s a great observation… And in general, you are absolutely correct. In real life, distant objects, do become less saturated, more neutral, and lighter in value. But there are often times when I want to accentuate something in the background to pull the viewer through the painting. I try to plan this in a way that Leads the viewer compositionally through the piece. I just uploaded a brand new tutorial that shares a little bit of my process with this.

@OksanaBrys 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for the explanation! Looking forward to watching your new videos!❤

@SirPrancelot1 9 ай бұрын

Great tutorial! Thank you.

@monetcafe 9 ай бұрын

You're very welcome!

@WandaMartingaga 9 ай бұрын

So good 😅

@reaceness 9 ай бұрын

Not the point, but you are stunningly beautiful.

@monetcafe 9 ай бұрын

Wow, thank you! you just made an old lady’s day! Bless your heart.

@hov3968 7 ай бұрын

The focal point is like when I see the far wall in a room,the corners of the ceiling and floor are closer together.But I can’t seem to understand how to use neutral colors or the difference in values

@jimnicosia5934 9 ай бұрын

No, but people want traditional art like sea scapes and land scapes snd flowers and bugs. Who really likes Picasso's hanging on their walls.

@monetcafe 9 ай бұрын

Some people do like the "traditional" subject matter, but I find more and more people are learning to love impressinism and work that is a bit more abstract. That's just what I'm finding on my channel.

@nicole3641 9 ай бұрын

I'm not a fan of Picasso as a human, but he was a great artist. He could paint traditionally, but he lost interest in it quickly. He went from painting what he saw to expressing emotions through his paintings and that's beautiful.

@JLPrice-kc2uy 9 ай бұрын

@@nicole3641Hi Nicole... I think you hit the nail on the head. But, let's step backwards, and take the art loving world; including those of my old resources of money; the color combi-nationalist. Lol, I would put up a frame of anything, and use the colors in your decor, contrasting solids, with scratching of the other end of a brush, or pallet knife, and stand back and watch you smile, Regardless of how I feel about my ethics when it comes to art. Susan, mostly unwittingly targets a lot of people in this same way. If we were to stripe-down our difference that separates us, we would see Susan is all about making a person feel-good about themselves, and hopefully find peace in their soul.👍

@cg8397 9 ай бұрын

@@nicole3641Picasso wasn't a great artist, he only gave art critics something novel to discuss and about which to be pretentious. His work reflected his evil degenerate mind more than anything else - Picasso needed to have a millstone placed around his neck before being pushed into the sea. His first mistress in Paris was a married Frenchwoman named Fernande Olivier, whom he started keeping in 1904. She adopted a 13-year-old girl named Raymonde from an orphanage in April 1907 (when both she and Picasso were only 25 years old, so their motivation is also creepy). Upon discovering explicit drawings of Raymonde made by Picasso, Olivier sent the girl back to the orphanage. I must also add that improvements in photography meant that the market for realism had been shrinking since the 1800s. Painters had to resort to all kinds of weird gimmicks to make their artwork commercially viable again (they had bills to pay, after all!). The couple remained together till 1912, when Picasso became more successful and then dumped Olivier for Eva Gouel.

@nicole3641 9 ай бұрын

@@cg8397 Even (or maybe especially) a "disturbed mind" can create art that touches other people's soul. That's what great art is about - it's not about the artist and the things he did in life, it doesn't matter if he was likeable or not. The only thing that matters is what people feel when they look at his painting and it's a fact that he managed to touch many people with his paintings. Look at this definition of art: "the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power (!!)." His paintings have a tremendous emotional power and that's what made him a great artist.