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Summer Nights

July 11, 2022

Last night as I watched the moonlight play across our garden, I couldn’t help but think of the hot, steamy summer nights of my childhood. The chorus of buzzing insects and the flickering of lightening bugs in the woods took me right back to that time. Perhaps that is why I have always been fascinated […]

Filed Under: Nocturne, The Landscape Atelier

Glazing

July 4, 2022

Glazing is one of several methods of applying oil paint that are called “indirect painting”techniques. The term “indirect” simply means that the painting is built up in layers which are allowed to dry before successive layers are added. Glazing is a technique which consists of applying thin layers of transparent color over either transparent or […]

Filed Under: Indirect Painting

Mixing Low Chroma Greens

June 14, 2022

In the recent post Simplify Mixing Greens we saw how using Chromatic Black as a starting point for mixing greens can result in a wide variety of naturalistic greens. In this short video, I use Williamsburg Neutral Greys as a starting point to mix low chroma greens. You can use the premixed Williamsburg or Gamblin […]

Filed Under: chroma, Color, The Landscape Atelier

Water: Color in Reflections

June 6, 2022

Painting water is an endlessly challenging subject. In addition to understanding the visual science of how we perceive reflections, as artists we also need to think about how to best depict those perceptions in color!  Here are a few helpful color notes to think about when painting reflections: ~the depth of the water (the deeper […]

Filed Under: Color, Painting Technique, The Landscape Atelier, Water Tagged With: Color, online classes, painting water, The Landscape Atelier

Painting Water–Edward Seago

May 30, 2022

Water provides endless possibilities for design in landscape painting. Today I want to show you several paintings by the British landscape painter Edward Seago (1910-1974) as examples of how the reflections themselves can be used to create and establish the composition. The important thing to remember here is that these paintings were designed, not found. […]

Filed Under: Art History, Composition, Water

Scumble!

May 8, 2022

For landscape painters one of the challenges of depicting the outdoors is getting a sense of “air” and atmosphere into our work. A scumble is a useful technique that can add that look of distance and “bigness” we want. Use a scumble to create atmosphere. Here’s a short video to show how that works! P.S. […]

Filed Under: Color, Color Temperature, Indirect Painting, Painting Technique, The Landscape Atelier

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