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Let's Talk Edges

March 19, 2015

Let’s talk edges! Edges don’t neatly fit into the usual categories of painting instruction- drawing, value, composition, color, technique. They are about all those things and much more! As a result, the topic of edges is often given short shrift , or when it is discussed, it isn’t fully integrated into the “big picture”. First, […]

Filed Under: Art History, Composition, Drawing, Edges, The Landscape Atelier, Value Tagged With: art history, Drawing, Edges, online classes, The Landscape Atelier

Chroma Trumps Value

February 1, 2015

This month in the Values I class we have concerned ourselves with being able to recognize values in the landscape accurately as well as to understand concepts like Carlson’s Theory of Angles and atmospheric perspective. We often perceive value in Nature inaccurately. For example, warm colors are often judged to be lighter than they actually […]

Filed Under: Art History, Color, Value Tagged With: art history, Color, Isaac Levitan, online classes, The Landscape Atelier, value

The Dark Side

December 14, 2014

One of the most challenging effects to paint are depictions of the night. Nocturnes have particularly fascinated artists since the latter part of the 19th century. Painting the night presents special challenges in “keying” the landscape- that is, selecting a range of values which best depicts the light effect desired. Of course, in the case […]

Filed Under: Art History, Value Tagged With: Isaac Levitan, Munsell, online classes, The Landscape Atelier, value

A Composition Lesson from Corot

October 13, 2014

A View of Volterra Corot (click for larger view) As landscape painters, one of our main tasks in composing is to get our viewers into the painting and gracefully out of it. The creation of entrances and exits requires that the viewer move easily and at the appropriate speed through the painting as well. No […]

Filed Under: Art History, Composition Tagged With: art history, composition, Corot, online classes, The Landscape Atelier

Designing a Sky

August 27, 2014

Skies are just like other elements of the landscape- as artists we need to impose our own idea of design on the raw materials Nature provides.  In this post we’ll focus on how weight, balance, asymmetry, movement, and edges can help us design our skies (and anything else for that matter). This painting is by […]

Filed Under: Composition, Skies

Gone Skying

August 27, 2014

  “I have done a good deal of skying, for I am determined to conquer all difficulties, and that among the rest.” John Constable, October 1821   August is for skying at The Landscape Atelier! Our annual Skies class is well underway and this August we have lots of big summer skies to keep us […]

Filed Under: Art History, Skies Tagged With: John Constable, summer skies

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