Most painters finish by adding. Sergiy Lysyy finishes by choosing what not to touch.
16 minutes from the final stage of a night San Marco, the scene that looks unpaintable until you see how little it takes at the end. You watch the decisions rather than the steps. Signature Member of the National Watercolor Society, teaching online in English only at Artefacto.
Three decisions, watched in real time.
Accents, not another pass over everything.
Light and highlights go into a handful of chosen places, not across the sheet. You see which places he picks, and why those and not the ones beside them.
One effect, four tools.
Masking fluid, white paint, lifting, local scratching. The same highlight, four routes to it. Once you see that, a highlight stops being a technique you either own or don't.
The decision to stop.
"You can ruin the painting if you have too much of it. Just don't ruin it, stop on time." You watch someone with thirty years of work behind him make that call out loud.
Your Instructor Sergiy Lysyy
- Signature Member of the National Watercolor Society, USA
- Member of the Accademia Internazionale dell'Acquerello, Italy
- Ambassador of ROSA Paints
- 1st place, IWS Mexico, 2019. Work exhibited in Italy, the USA, China, and Taiwan
- Work exhibited across Italy, the USA, China, and Taiwan. His painting “Villa Falconieri-Frascati” appeared on the cover of the festival catalog in Frascati, Italy
«I don't get into what it is. I just see a shape and put it down»
Sergiy's teaching is available in English only at Artefacto. No other international school offers it.
Every painter below gets one specific answer from these
sixteen minutes.
You start clean, the scene looks right, then layer after layer it goes dull. Here you see the point where a master stops adding, and the reason he stops there.
You can follow along and still not repeat it alone. Sergiy names the reason behind each mark, not the order of steps, and reasons travel to your own reference.
Your work is finished and correct, and still weaker than the ones you admire. This fragment is the difference, shown on one painting, without theory.
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