Painting From a Photograph Verses Paining From Your Imagination

In this Podcast, Stefan Baumann talks with his students about painting from your Imagination verses painting from a photograph. When painting from a photograph the artist is limmited by what is on it rarley adding anything to it that would depict the human emagination. We as humans love a story to bring us out of our every day life. Like children the more we put into it, or what I like to call it "PMI" the more we love the story. Painting from your Imagination brings the viewer to a different level of seeing, one that is from the heart and not from the eye.Stefan Baumann Artist of The Grand View PBS Television series discusses the importance of sharing your work with the public. The best way to do that is to be part of an art show, but maybe my work is not good enough! This short talk is to motivate you to just go out and do it!Free Book  If you want to get a Free Book on painting please go to www.StefanBaumann.com there you can also get information on Baumann workshops and YouTube videos, Click Here  Free Book  Baumann Coaching ProgramEven if you are not in town to take classes in person with Stefan, it’s not a problem!  Online coaching is designed to meet the needs of students who live anywhere in the world. To See Information on Baumann Coaching Program     Click Here If you are interested in coaching please give Stefan Baumann a call at 415-606-9074.About Stefan Baumann Inspiring Millions with his PBS show " The Grand View " Americas National Park Through The Eyes of An Artist".  In this unique Television series, Stefan takes his viewers on a journey deep into the magical world of our National Parks to explore these sacred natural wonders. There, Viewers of the TV series, whiteness for themselves Baumann capturing vistas onto canvas En Plein Air viewers around the world to enjoy. Each and every original oil painting is a moment captured by the artist of a remote location discovered by Baumann on his countless journies deep into the American wilderness. Through his keen eye and the steady trained hand of a master painter, Baumann painstakingly recreates the moment that he himself experiences, captured on the canvas first on location, and then finished or recreated back in his studio located his private ranch in Mt Shasta California. Baumann's plein air paintings include amazing effects of light, shadow, color, and the natural beauty that he sees in American wilderness landscapes, wildlife, and the architectural styles of older houses and barns.  Through his work, viewers enjoy the opportunity to see spectacular places in America that are too remote and inaccessible for most to visit themselves.  Baumann’s painting style has been classified by art collectors and galleries as “Romantic Realism with Luminicsm.” Pioneers of this beautiful genre of landscape painting include Frederic Church, Thomas Cole,  and Albert Bierstadt of the Hudson River School.  They were East Coast artists who journeyed to the Western United States to sketch and paint amazing views of the American wilderness, and then they returned to their home studios to paint stunning detailed versions of these vistas on room-sized canvases. Similarly,  Support the showFor more information go to www.StefanBaumann.com https://www.stefanbaumann.com/Free Book For painting, coaching  call me on my phone at 415-606-9074