Tony Pro: Secrets of Expressive Portraits - Art Instruction DVD

Description

DVD Length: 5 Hours, 25 Minutes
Discover the Secret Language to Create Emotion in Your Paintings
A tool that has been closely held and passed to only a select few artists, generation to generation, will make your paintings come alive.
Dear Artist Friends,
You are about to discover something that very few artists even know exists.
In fact, it’s been closely held and shared with only a few hand-picked students, so it stays alive — and gives them a special edge.
Did you know there is a secret language in painting?
You’re not alone.
This was new to us. In fact, we found it so fascinating that we wanted you to know about it.
All artists should know it, because it will make their paintings better. Much better.
Sound too good to be true? That’s what we thought, too
.
But once we looked into this, we realized there was something to it.
This secret painting language is not some decoder-ring kind of thing.
It’s not a secret society. There is no conspiracy.
But it turns out that among certain artists who do amazing paintings … who seem to be a few notches above other painters … there is a secret language they use to make their paintings
overflow with emotion.
In case you have never heard this:
Great paintings speak to the heart, not the head.
When your paintings radiate emotion,
people respond better to them and often want to own them.
Ever create a painting that everyone responds to? When they say, “I know exactly where that is,” or, “I don’t know why, but this painting speaks to me”?
Sometimes we stumble into it, but our next paintings don’t capture the same thing.
Wouldn’t it be nice to know the formula so you could make it happen every time?
These secrets about the language of painting will work in all mediums…
Oil painting
Acrylic painting
Watercolor painting
Pastel painting
Even drawing with pencils or charcoal
And it can be applied to all subject matter…
Portraits
Figures
Landscapes
Plein air paintings
Still life
Architecture or buildings
Animals
Western art
Even abstract painting
It turns out that the world is brimming with a hidden language that most artists can’t speak.
This mysterious code unlocks the secrets to creating emotion in your painting.
With the right teacher, you can learn to recognize and decode a variety of elements in order to capture the likeness of your subject, including...
Light and shadow
The perfect color tones
Realistic form
The nuances of expression
The critical details
And that special spark that makes viewers look again
But where do you find this code?
Until now, it’s been a tightly held secret that has been passed along by a few painters from generation to generation. It was intended for only a select few.
One caring artist decided to break the chain of exclusivity and make this secret available to all artists everywhere, because he feels it will impact everyone’s work and could change the art world by making everyone’s paintings better.
Almost 20 years ago, one of America’s great illustrators, Glen Orbik (1963-2015), carefully shared this generational technique with a very small and select group of young art students who showed great promise.
He knew this secret could die with him. And, as it turned out, his life ended sooner than it should have, as he died at the young age of 52.
Had he decided to wait until his senior years to pass this secret along, it would have been lost. Yet because he meticulously trained these select young prodigies, this information will live on for yet another generation.
One of these gifted young art students was Tony Pro, himself the son of a well-known artist. Tony grew up in the Los Angeles area and was fortunate to have been selected by Glen to learn these techniques.
He was instructed to pass these techniques along to his own special students so that they will live on for generations.
However, Tony wanted to impact the art world in a big way and decided art could change if more artists knew this system, rather than just a select few. So, after we encouraged him to document these secret techniques on video, Tony went into our studios to record a new video course.
Imagine how the art world could change if every artist knew the secret language of painting.
Tony Pro is known for cutting-edge realism techniques, and was the winner of the American National Award of Excellence
at the 14th Annual Oil Painters of America National Show.
In this new four-hour video course, Tony will introduce you to the important secrets of “reading” subjects, so you can get the most realistic portrayal possible of the subject and emotion.
In
Secrets of Expressive Portraits
, Tony demonstrates his techniques using two different live models, showing you how similar clues can be found in every subject and providing a baseline for creating your own paintings.
Once you’ve learned to recognize the signs, you can apply this knowledge to create realistic works of art with any medium or subject.
What you will discover:
Over four hours of detailed and easy-to-apply instruction, Tony Pro goes in-depth into topics including:
Clues to look for to “read” your subject
Creating the right range of dark to light values
Proper mixing of paint and color and how to avoid common mistakes
Finding secondary features and making them work for you
Which details of the face you need and which to avoid
How to create the vibrant shadows that make subjects real
How to create that powerful sense of emotion
The final touches of a painting that make it come alive
Tony Pro infuses every painting with his own feelings about the subject and shows you how to do the same, giving your work an extra layer of emotion that isn’t taught in standard art courses.
With quiet insight, Tony guides you through two complete painting demonstrations, instructing you step by step on...
How to blend paints and why most artists get it wrong
Which details to capture and why
How to create absolute realism in your piece without making it look photorealistic
This remarkable new understanding of how to view your subject … whether it’s a live model, a photograph, a landscape, still life, or floral, will translate to any subject or medium.
Even artists who have painted for decades can see their paintings transformed after learning this secret language that Tony is passing on.
Imagine how good artists could be if they discovered these important tools at an early stage of their career.
Imagine how your work could change if you could make all your paintings appeal to the emotions of the people viewing them.
Tony will teach you how to create the things in a painting that trigger emotions.
This video course is an easy-to-digest four hours of training featuring two different models, a male and a female, so you can discover the differences in painting each.
Imagine being able to paint portraits of your friends and family and how thrilled they will be that you’ve expressed their true essence and emotion.
About your master instructor:
Tony Pro completed traditional training through California State University, Northridge, but it was under the tutelage of both his father, Julio Pro (1929-2013), a successful Southwest wildlife painter, and his mentor Glen Orbik (1963-2015) that he discovered how to infuse the emotional perspective into the strict academic principles of figure drawing to create pieces that have been lauded and awarded time and time again.
With Awards of Honor from the Portrait Society of America, the Best of Show honor from the Oil Painters of America National Show, and Best Painting in the Portrait Society of America’s International Competition, Pro has proven his emotional approach and uncompromising technique create astounding results.
Discover these techniques for yourself and learn to understand the hidden language of your subjects in this highly valuable and exclusive opportunity to learn with a master in
Secrets of Expressive Portraits
.