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Values are like Vitamins, Color is Dessert

December 5, 2022

Often I hear teachers, including myself, describe values as the structure, framework or foundation of a painting. And it’s true, they are. But, how excited can we get about that? It sounds more like something we have to do or should do to get to something more exciting or interesting. Sort of like taking your […]

Filed Under: Color, The Landscape Atelier, Value

Speed of the Line and Stoppers

October 25, 2022

“Speed of the line” is a concept that plays an important part in landscape design. Often we see strong diagonals at work in Nature- a mountain, a line of trees, or even a roofline of a building. The more steep and uninterrupted that line is, the “faster” it moves the eye- and often it will […]

Filed Under: Composition, The Landscape Atelier Tagged With: composition, online classes, The Landscape Atelier

Value, Color and Movement

October 15, 2022

One of the most powerful compositional tools we have as landscape painters is our ability to move the eye of the viewer around the picture plane and even create the illusion of movement into the picture plane by creating the illusion of depth. Movement is a visual pathway through the painting that the artist creates […]

Filed Under: Color, Composition, Value

Mixing Fall Foliage Colors

September 19, 2022

When mixing fall foliage colors, it’s important to keep value in mind (as always!), best ways to maintain chroma, and overall color harmony. Take a look at this video for tips on mixing autumn colors that sing! P.S. Our online course Drawing and Painting Trees starts September 30th! Join us!

Filed Under: chroma, Color, Trees

Sky Values- The Key to Big Atmospheric Skies!

August 15, 2022

One of the most important ingredients for painting big atmospheric skies is getting the values right. We know that generally speaking the sky will have the lightest values in the landscape because it is the source of light (think Carlson’s Theory of Angles- if you don’t know about that you should!). The value of a […]

Filed Under: Skies, The Landscape Atelier, Value Tagged With: Munsell, skies, value

Mixing Blues For Skies

August 10, 2022

When mixing colors for skies we concern ourselves with the three attributes of color: value, temperature and chroma. As we know from Carlson’s Theory of Angles, the sky will generally be the lightest value in the landscape–a range of values actually, as the value of the sky grades from lightest at the horizon to darkest […]

Filed Under: Color, Skies, Value

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