Plein air painting with Eric Rhoads – Colour In Your Life
Painting landscapes in oil with Eric Rhoads. In this fine art TV show episode Eric Rhoads is interviewed with Colour In Your Life about painting, drawing, art workshops, art tips and art techniques.
Fine Art TV Series – Colour In Your Life
Season – 16
Episode – 02
Filmed on Location at – Austin, Texas
Eric Rhoads is driven to help people learn to paint. Because painting changed his life he has a goal to teach a million people to paint because painting brings joy into your life, reduces stress, makes you happier, and it taps into your creative side.
Eric’s story is pretty amazing. Other than coloring and painting sloppy pictures in grade school Eric had not painting experience and he had zero talent. He could not even draw a stick figure.
In his late thirties Eric thought it would be fun to learn to paint but he did not really believe he had what it takes. At the time he believed painters doing beautiful pictures had some form of natural gift or natural talent. He later proved that was wrong.
Eric Rhoads went to an art store and bought some paints, tried to copy some pictures and had bad luck, got frustrated and quit. But his observant wife thought maybe some lessons would help so she gave him lessons for his 40th birthday.
That did not work out too well. The teacher wanted Eric to express himself and throw paint on the canvas, which did not excite him. He wanted to learn to paint a flower or a vase or a landscape or a person. He was told “no one does that anymore.” So, he quit.
By luck a year later Eric met a taxi driver who told him about an instructor with an impressive training background. Intimidated, Eric thought about it for a year before showing up, and when he did, he turned around and walked about because of all the great work the students were doing. “They must have natural talent,” he thought, “I can’t do this”. Fortunately the instructor, Jack Jackson, saw him, and encouraged him to stay. He told Eric that he had a system the old masters used that no one used for teaching anymore and that he could turn Eric into a painter fast. So, Eric stayed.
In just a week Eric had produced his first beautiful painting and soon he was painting some impressive paintings of people and landscapes.
You can contact the artist about their art tips or art techniques directly via their website at https://paintbynote.com/
The Colour In Your Life fine art TV series is an art show that takes you into the everyday studios of artists from around the world. While in the studio they share their individual art techniques and art tips with the viewer in a relaxed atmosphere, with a delightfully Australian host and fellow artist, Graeme Stevenson. The artist shares with the viewer their stories of life, painting, drawing, sculpting, art workshops and any art lessons they may provide. The art TV series is currently filmed in Australia, New Zealand and the United States.
Graeme Stevenson, a world renowned artist himself, rides his Harley Davidson to the studios of artists all over the world and allows the viewers a chance to see some of the greatest artists of the world in action.
A wonderfully engaging art show. If you love creativity and the joy of looking at the world through art, then Colour In Your Life is the place to be.
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