Episode 5: Mark Mehaffey

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This week we talk with Mark Mehaffey. Mehaffey paints across media and subject including watercolor, acrylic and mixed media, landscape and non-objective. We are focusing in on his plein air work in the interview but a lot of what we talk about can work for any subject realistic or non objective.

Mehaffey explains how he gets to the story of his work. He shares practical tips on blending color and controlling the saturation of that same color. And he talks about how and why it’s so important to keep things simple.

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In the episode we talk about:

1:08 What he likes about plein air

2:02 Mehaffey’s process

4:38 The usefulness of repeatable process

5:23 The usefulness of painting from life

6:42 Biggest challenges he sees for his students around painting in acrylic

7:17 Blending acrylics

8:34 Planning and spontaneity

9:57 Value plans

11:17 Why he suggests value studies

12:45 Assigning values

14:14 What he takes from the scene

15:47 Simplification

17:49 Keeping shapes interesting

19:02 Focal points

19:59 Intuition

21:14 Composition

23:14 Keeping the viewer at the focal point

24:53 Types of edges

25:52 Designing the work

28:54 Dominance and unity

30:56 Mother color

32:42 Setting a good color foundation

33:53 Mehaffey’s palette of colors

35:58 Controlling brightness in secondary mixtures

38:07 Acrylics and opacity

39:33 Colored ground

42:44 Finished paintings vs working on skills

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