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Shaun Roberts Begins and "Destroys" a Rough, Adrian Brouwer-like Self-Portrait at Nerdrum's Studio
This summer, the Texan professor Shaun Roberts came to study in Norway, having recently won the World Wide Kitsch Competition for his portrait “The Messenger” — praised as a masterpiece by his tutor, Odd Nerdrum.
Roberts’ work is mainly inspired by the dutch genre painter Adrian Brouwer, emulating the loose technique used by masters such as Masaccio and Titian
His expressed aim is to tell a story that has universal appeal, or, as Blake Snyder formulates it in Save the Cat: a story that even a caveman can understand, reverting to the most fundamental aspects of life and human psychology.
Jan-Ove Tuv observes as Mr. Roberts begins a new self-portrait using the mirror, to better grasp his approach to the coarse manner of painting.
In this video you will learn about:
• Starting on a green canvas
• Exploiting cool/warm-contrast
• Blocking in shapes with a big brush and a rag
• Exaggerating color in the beginning
• What to do when stuck
• Manipulating forms for compositional reasons
• Getting the form before the story
• "Destroying" it all with palette knife to avoid stiffness
• Tightening the forms in a painterly manner
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Filmed and edited by Bork Nerdrum
Additional film credits to: Arely Morales
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