Optimal Conditions for Site Selection The Relationship Between Value and Color Analogous Harmony & the Envelope of Light Value Divisions in Landscape Painintg CLASSES MASTERS |
Inspiring and Educational Websites ARTISTS Jim Lamb - One of the northwest's premier plein air painters, Lamb's works reflect an exploration of the many different colors and densities of natural light. John McCormick - McCormick's paintings are infused with an inner and outer harmony, achieved through a limited palette and a strong underlying abstract design. Kent Lovelace - Kent Lovelace's paintings of trees make us reconsider these most common elements of the landscape. They teach us about identity and the importance of simplifying through massing. Marc Bohne, Landscapes - The virtual gallery for this Seattle-based landscape painter. Powerful compositions, each posessing a unique light and palette. Michael Stasinos - His urban panaoramic landscape paintings offer a different approach to plein air painting. Detail reigns supreme in Stasinos' work, yet as in all great landscape painting, the foundation of color, value, and composition is delicoiusly apparent. Rebecca Allan - Water motifs are the vehicle for Allan's expressive, colorful landscape abstrations. Christopher Hoff - Hoff's urban structures and their many manifestations offer excellent lessons in shapes and massing, an essential practice in dealing with complex information. Jeff Yeomans - California-based landscape painter, working in a colorful and direct style reminiscent of the early California impressionists. Added bonus -- an extremely elegant website design. RESOURCES Gage Academy of Art - Seattle's premiere independent art school offering technical foundations of an artist’s training in the tradition of the Ecole des beaux-arts in Paris and the Art Students League in New York. Gamblin Artists Materials - Their website offers a veritable wealth of practical information about mediums, pigments, navigating the color space, and studio safety. Sign up to receive their free "Gambln Studio Notes." Plein Air Painters of America - A veritable salon of some of America's finest plein air painters, with many sample works from each artist. Artcyclopedia - A virtual on-line encyclopedia of great artists past and present, with links to the galleries and museums their work can be found in. |