"There’s no
way
your
paintings can’t
improve
after
this course"
"I’ve been painting on my own for a while and thought I was doing okay. Now that I’m taking this course I see so many things I can learn from that will make my work so much better. This is the stuff you can’t get in art school anymore, sadly. There’s no way your paintings can’t improve after this course. That’s how strongly I feel about it." ... Bob Akers., Crystal Lake, IL, United States
"...really superb"
"I find your courses really superb in two ways: first they are very complete and comprehensive, and second they go straight to the point, to the essentials. Both my wife and I paint and we both agree that these art instruction courses are one of the best sources of education for people who want to learn to paint in a direct or alla prima style" Bernado Martin, Alicante, Spain.
Erika is
following
her dream
"This course is truly well run, professionally handled -- and I can only echo the great comments of other students: I am glad, I enrolled in this course!! I got so much out of it already -- lots of explanations, areas to study up on, other artists to learn from. AND I am not at the end of the course, yet. I am getting more and more confident and bold enough to follow my dream -- to become a proficient and sensitive artist.
Erika, USA, 2009
"...already noticed
improvement
in
my work"
"In my opinion, your material is the best I have found. It builds the basics, from the ground up, recognizing that there are no short cuts.....Your course puts all the right info into one package, and even more important, it gives me an organized, building block way to get these things into my head, and I have already noticed an improvement in my work," George, USA
About the Author
Barry John Raybould, MA. is an award-winning plein air artist who works primarily in oils. He seeks to convey the mood and atmosphere of natural landscapes and people using a contemporary fusion of impressionistic and expressionistic elements. A key characteristic of Raybould's work is his integration of color, design and brushwork to convey a strong sense of mood and feeling in his work.
Originally from England, Raybould lived in the United States for many years and painted in California where he was one of the Central Coast artists known as the 'Informalists'. He now spends a lot of time in his studios in Tuscany and China and travels the world to paint.
His main influences include the British painter JMW Turner, Corot, Monet, Sorolla, as well as the early California Impressionists and colorists such as Franz Bischoff, Edgar Payne, William Ritschel, Joseph Kleitsch, and Guy Rose, the Society of Six, and the Canadian landscapists known as the Group of Seven.
Raybould is an artist member of the prestigious California Art Club, one of the oldest professional art organizations in the country founded by Franz Bischoff and William Wendt. He is also a member of the Carmel Art Association, the second oldest art association in the United States, an associate member of the Laguna Plein Air Painters Association, the Oil Painters of America, and the American Impressionist Society.
His work has been exhibited in the Monterey Museum of Art and in the California Art Club's Gold Medal Exhibition in the Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA), and is held in many private collections worldwide.
His work has won many awards in juried shows and in museum shows.
Raybould is the author of an extensive course for painters, called the Virtual Art Academy®, and has studied with several of today's great contemporary masters including Cedric Egeli, David Leffel, Jove Wang, Ovanes Berberian, and Daniel Sprick. He writes a regular column on painting for International Artist Magazine and also writes a regular painting critique column for the Plein Air Magazine.
