Jove Wang: Emphasizing Instinct and Feeling Softcover Book

Jove Wang thinks thoroughly about design, mood, color and subject matter before applying paint to canvas. Follow feelings. Keep initial feeling about pose/design in mind throughout painting process.

Step 1a – Using reference photo, preliminary sketch indicating basic shapes, compositional lines and geometric elements

Step 1b – Develop value pattern, select shapes and join darks [for contrast and to imply distance] Be passionate.

Step 2 – Color sketch establishing warm and cool areas. Add color notes.

Its’s obvious that he emphasizes color variation.

Uses palette knife frequently to help de-emphasize areas (such as distant eye or side of the face, [flowers] away from focal point) Also seems to use it to develop a ghost of an image that he can improve.

Pushes subtle warm/cool differences to “sculpt” the face.

Takes great care to ensure that dark pigments (mixed with Liquin) do not include any white, a key to richness and translucency of his style.

Composition first, then color and value contrast as well paint, line and mass. Finally, subject matter and mood.

In areas away from focal point, he “pulls some of this into that”.

In some areas [scarf and flowers] he lays down thick paint [with palette knife], slightly blends [with brush], reworks adding more [remixed] paint, and reworks again, but never totally obliterating what went before.

Palette arranged with darks on one side and lights on the other – but, pulls warm and cool pigments from opposite sides of his palette and mixes them in the middle.

Often holds brush loosely at the very far end.

Often eliminates harsh brushstrokes [as for the eyes] with a quick flick of the brush with one edge precise and one feathered

Often uses thumb to blend [tone down] unwanted [usually incorrect value] brushstrokes into adjacent value.

Before starting spend time setting up and thinking about model (the feeling [melody] you want to retain). Retain that feeling throughout the painting. If you loose your feeling, go to another area to recapture, then return when you recapture feeling.

“Don’t be so calm when you paint, bring your passion into it”, but understand form and structure without treating mechanically.

For his brushstrokes he is “thinking about power and variety”. Also, evidently, using thick paint to portray form by contrasting thick (coming forward) with thin (pushed back). For variety he uses a multitude of brushstrokes (calligraphy, big, small, tiny, forcefully pushed in/delicate, slow/fast, thick/thin, jagged/sharp/broken/soft) but the basic contrast was between scraped (over all of an area/plane such as the front of a face) vs thick (in those areas coming forward, but not in the scraped area)

Pages: 202

Size: 10.25"W x 13.75"H

Contents - 199 Color Oil Paintings including:

101 Figure
8 Still-Life
80 Landscape in full page size

Jove Wang: Painting Expressive Portraits DVD

“Discover the Painting and Drawing Secrets That Will Help You Create Enchanting Portraits That Will Leave Your Viewer Breathless...

If you Want to Learn How to Draw and Paint Portraits,

Then Jove Wang is THE TEACHER You Want to Train With

Why?

Well, for starters, Jove Wang is a master artist in every sense of the term.

He started his apprenticeship at just 7 years old (they do things a little differently in China!), and by the time he was 18, Jove had already put in more hours drawing and painting than most others do in their entire lives!

He then went on to study at the prestigious Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, where he refined his technique under rigorous Russian-style art training methods.

Eventually Jove immigrated to the United States to make his mark in the art world ... and it wasn’t long before his hard work and talent skyrocketed him to national acclaim.

Now Jove Wang’s work is in high demand with collectors and galleries all over the world — from the Pasadena Museum of Art to the Santo Quattro Coronati Basilica in Rome!

Some masters live their lives to create, display, and sell their work, but Jove chooses to give back to the art community by teaching workshops in art schools and studios in the United States and abroad.

Experts Agree That Jove Wang’s Teaching Style Is Tremendously Effective

There’s no fluff or filler when you study with Jove Wang — just highly focused demonstrations coupled with his unique insights into the craft.

If you can attend one of his workshops, then you absolutely should because you’ll come away with techniques that will help you achieve serious growth as an artist. But...

Jove’s workshops aren’t cheap!

In fact, you can expect to pay anywhere from $900 to $2,500 to train with Jove in one of his workshops, and that’s not including the cost of transportation and hotels.

But what if you could learn from Jove Wang without spending thousands of dollars or traveling to one of his workshops in California, Spain, or Italy?

Now you can!

You’ll discover:

Jove’s color palette — what colors he uses, where he places them on the palette, and why the placement is so important
How (and why) you should create a drawing in charcoal and color sketch before you begin painting
How to establish value and rhythm in your composition from the very beginning
How to outline and “sculpt” the contours of the face and then reveal the structure and shadows that bring your subject to life
Jove’s technique for establishing proportion and movement within his paintings
How to paint the details of the face
How to capture the energy and personality of your subject
The secret to using texture in your paintings
How to paint “from the inside out” so you can truly open up your feelings and show them on the canvas
How to make your paintings have a painterly feel, so they look like an artwork rather than a mere rendering

Jove Wang: Essential Drawing Skills DVD

Jove Wang is a master artist in every sense of the term.