One of the key ingredients of the Drawing/Painting Program of The Landscape Atelier is the training of visual memory. Many years ago, I embarked on a journey to find a way to use memory in my own work. Over time, I developed some techniques and strategies which helped me retain visual information. As a result, […]
A New Graduate
We are so pleased to announce that Rob Wellings has completed his studies at The Landscape Atelier and graduates from the program this month! Rob completed the independent study portion of his program over the last 5 months. Below are a selection of his paintings and drawings. Here is what he has to say: ” […]
Anatomy of an Indirect Painting
In previous posts, I described the history of indirect painting and also some of the techniques. In this post, I plan to show you how an indirectly painted landscape can mimic the light effects in nature and create both an interesting and varied surface quality and multiple optical effects. Indirect painting using the Venetian tradition […]
Atelier Graduates Gain Representation
We are pleased to announce that two recent Landscape Atelier graduates and another student who will finish his studies in December have found gallery representation! Mallory Agerton is now represented by Whistlepik Gallery in Fredericksburg, TX. Mallory will also exhibit work this fall in the small works show at Hawthorne gallery in New York City. […]
Drawing and Painting Foliage- Value Maps and Squinting
John Constable, one of England’s and the world’s most revered landscape painters, spent his career making drawings and painted studies from which he then worked up his famous “six footers”. Constable’s work was enormously influential in France with the Barbizon school of landscape painters, and eventually the Impressionists. Here is a typical drawing of his […]
The Poet of the Forest
Ivan Shishkin (1832-1898) was a late nineteenth century Russian landscape painter. He is revered in Russia and has steadily become better known in the West. Shishkin received a classical painting education in Moscow and St. Petersburg, and also was the recipient of Imperial scholarships for study abroad. He was a contemporary of Isaac Levitan (my […]