RANDALL SEXTON
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"Let Your Brush Sing!
How to Push Paint to The Edge"
What you’ll learn
The challenges of painting complex scenes, cityscapes, or vehicles demystified
How to evaluate a scene with fresh eyes to look for strong abstract design potential
How to be selective with key elements to support mood, atmosphere and storytelling
How to use loose brush handling techniques to energize your work and suggest "more with less"
How to achieve depth in a painting
How to incorporate figures into a scene
How to realize ways to play with value, color, and edge relationships to enhance the scene
Randall Sexton was a California-based painter, widely respected for his bold use of color and expressive, confident brushwork. His oil paintings often captured everyday scenes, elevated through a painterly approach that valued design, rhythm, and clarity over detail.
Randy was a Signature Member of the California Art Club, the Plein Air Painters of America, and the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association, among others. His teaching experience included Pixar University and the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, where he influenced a wide range of students.
He was often described as a “painter’s painter”—someone who understood not just how to paint, but how to see.
In his instructional series, Let Your Brush Sing! How to Push Paint to the Edge, Randy shares his approach to tackling complex subjects like cityscapes with the freshness and immediacy of plein air, working alla prima from start to finish. Throughout, he emphasizes key principles that apply across all subject matter—whether painting from life or from a photograph.
instructional videos
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Master Package
Includes
Painting Up-close
and Personal
110 MINUTES
STREET LEVEL IN
SAN FRANCISCO
120 MINUTES
LEAN IN:
TOWARDS THE SUN
120 MINUTES
The Master Package includes three full-length demonstrations. Randy has chosen three distinctly different subjects to highlight the key elements in each and support the tale of the story for the viewer.
In Painting Up-close and Personal Randy will discuss how painting a subject at close range can be treated much like a still-life or a portrait. The same challenges of editing and simplifying shapes come into play, but with different demands. A Harley Davidson parked in the shadows of a tree, provides the focus for dealing with highly reflective surfaces while in cool light. Randy employs an alternative block in with a “wipe-out” technique to carve out the important shapes of the motorbike, while he edits and merges shapes, and makes changes in the background. You will see in the end how a complicated form becomes painterly with bold brush handling.
In Street Level in San Francisco he will show you how to see the larger pattern of abstract shapes within a busy cityscape to develop a bold composition. Seeing the elements of a scene as the largest possible puzzle pieces is the key to dealing with the overwhelming amount of information presented. Randy shares a practical method for blocking in a painting in an “all-over” fashion in order to paint with more confident brushstrokes, handle value and color mixing, and to ease up on the many drawing challenges of the scene. Plus learn how to control color and edges while creating flow, focus, and depth.
In Lean in: Towards the Sun a train station in the city provides the backdrop for a scene that incorporates architecture, shadow shapes, perspective, and figurative elements. Randy will discuss the beauty of backlighting and the way it can add drama to a painting by providing strong shadow shapes and simplified masses for a bold design. Learn how to use strong contrast and clear shapes to build a foundation that frees up the opportunity for energetic brushwork and suggesting "more with less".
This complete package will provide you with the help and confidence needed to paint masterful urban scenes with originality. These videos will inspire every artist no matter what your skill level.
Premium Package
Includes
STREET LEVEL IN
SAN FRANCISCO
120 MINUTES
LEAN IN:
TOWARDS THE SUN
120 MINUTES
The Premium Package includes two full length demonstration. Randy has chosen two distinctly different subjects to highlight the key elements in each and support the tale of the story for the viewer.
In Street Level in San Francisco he will show you how to see the larger pattern of abstract shapes within a busy cityscape to develop a bold composition. Seeing the elements of a scene as the largest possible puzzle pieces is the key to dealing with the overwhelming amount of information presented. Randy shares a practical method for blocking in a painting in an “all-over” fashion in order to paint with more confident brushstrokes, handle value and color mixing, and to ease up on the many drawing challenges of the scene. Plus learn how to control color and edges while creating flow, focus, and depth.
In Lean in: Towards the Sun a train station in the city provides the backdrop for a scene that incorporates architecture, shadow shapes, perspective, and figurative elements. Randy will discuss the beauty of backlighting and the way it can add drama to a painting by providing strong shadow shapes and simplified masses for a bold design. Learn how to use strong contrast and clear shapes to build a foundation that frees up the opportunity for energetic brushwork and suggesting "more with less".
This complete package will provide you with the help and confidence needed to paint masterful urban scenes with originality. These videos will inspire every artist no matter what your skill level.
Value Package
Includes
LEAN IN:
TOWARDS THE SUN
120 MINUTES
In this full length video a train station in the city provides the backdrop for a scene that incorporates architecture, shadow shapes, perspective, and figurative elements. Randy will discuss the beauty of backlighting and the way it can add drama to a painting by providing strong shadow shapes and simplified masses for a bold design. Learn how to use strong contrast and clear shapes to build a foundation that frees up the opportunity for energetic brushwork and suggesting "more with less".
The tips & techniques covered in this video will apply to any complex city scene whether painting on location or from a travel photograph. This may be the budget-friendly package but this information is invaluable and reaches far beyond its price.