1. How to minimize the drawing and establish a path correctly from the beginning so you can concentrate on other essential things such as color, edges, and brushwork.
   

2. How to support the design based on values, how to control those values, and how to easily shift values to strengthen your overall painting.
   

3. Whether painting from a photograph or life, every subject you choose to paint comes with its own unique set of challenges. Tom shares how to troubleshoot these problems and how to go about fixing them with his tips and insights so you can finish with success.
   

4. Explanation of his preferred materials, brushes, and his color palette for this particular painting. You will also see how he mixes and places these colors during his full oil demonstration.

After more than 40 years of painting, Tom still finds pure joy in painting the American Cowboy. He has an extensive western art career behind him and shows his work at the Prix de West and with the Cowboy Artists of America. 

For Tom, the success of every painting is dependent on values and we all know how confusing values are, so it is with great pleasure we were given the opportunity to reveal Tom’s process to you in his first-ever art video oil demonstration, “Painting the Western Horseman”. 

Tom will help minimize that wide gap of how to paint a rider on the horse in the landscape. Many people want to learn how to do this but don't know where to start. Between drawing, proportion, gesture, and angles, Tom will teach you everything you need to know with a diverse mix of tips and principles that are easy to understand. This is an experience with a front-row seat to see how he approaches a painting from beginning to end. The more you watch the more you pick up. Tom is a pro and ready to help make painting this subject as easy as possible.

painting the
western horseman
300 MINUTES

How to Troubleshoot
Problems In Your Paintings
36 MINUTES