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CLASS GALLERIES and PHOTOS Landscape: Basic Drawing and Painting: CLASS DOWNLOADS |
NEW! Critique Notes ARTICLES by Mitchell Albala The Art of Simplification - Simplifying nature's complex imagery is perhaps the landscape painter's greatest challenge. Working on Unprimed Paper - It is assumed that without gesso primer to seal the paper from the oil, all is lost. This is a misconception. Optimal Conditions for Site Selection - As appearing in American Artist Magazine, July 2000. The Relationship Between Value and Color - How do artists use value and color to represent natural light? What is the secret to bringing out color's intrinsic hue? Analogous Harmony and the 'Envelope of Light' - This key color principle can be used to unify the light in your paintings. A Rich and Variegated Surface - Paint isn’t just a means to an end; it is the substance of our creation and is imbued with all our emotions and thought processes. How is a variegated surface achieved. The Limited Palette - The benefits of using a limited range of color. Understand the cool and warm varieties of each primary, how to arrange colors on your palette, and why black should not be used as a universal darkening agent. Understanding Clouds and Skies. Clouds appear amorphous, but there are quite structural — if you know how to look at them. Explore their underlying mass with this simple, but challenging drawing exercise. Value Divisions in Landscape Painting - Tips on how to see the broad value divisions in the landscape. Starving artist's guide to photographing artwork with a digital camera - Four basic steps for improving results. What Are Alkyd Colors? - Winsor & Newton's Alkyd colors offer all the versatility of oils, but none of the undesirable qualities of acrylics. MULTI-MEDIA LESSONS Short Quicktime clips: excerpts from class demonstrations Diary of a Landscape: The evolution of a large studio landscape, from initial vision to final painting. |
CLASSES AT GAGE ACADEMY OF ART Landscape
Painting in Skagit Valley: Studio Landscape: Essential Thory and Process - Next class begins Spring 2008 Drawing
into Painting: Advanced Landscape Critique Group LESSONS FROM THE MASTERS Della Albala: American. My mother encouraged my earliest attempts at picture making. Although untrained, she demonstrated an extraordinary sensitivity to technique. Rebecca Allan: American, contemporary. Her small watermedia plein-air sketches offer up the quintissential lessons in simplification and massing. Claude Monet: French, 1840–1926. The only Impressionist who followed the style through it's natural evolution. With a description of the "corrugation" technique. Edouard Vuillard: French, 1868–1940. Intimate pattern-on-pattern interiors recast the ordinary in a modern light. Joaquin Sorolla: Spanish, 1863–1923. A master figure painter demonstrates a coloristic approach to handling light and shade. Russell Chatham: American, 1939–present. His Montana landscapes teach us about composing landscape space. RESOURCES Informative & Inspiring Websites Reading List: Books to inspire and guide. Gage Academy of Art: Seattle's premiere school for fine artists, where "artists are made, not born." |