Oil Painting with the Masters: Essential Techniques from Today's Top Artists
Cindy Salaski
Language: English
Pages: 160
ISBN: 1440329931
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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http://artistsnetwork.com/ebook-promo PHILLIPS MILL STREAM IN WINTER George Gallo Oil on canvas, 48" × 60" (122cm × 152cm) Contents Special Offers Introduction CHAPTER 1 Mood & Atmosphere with Marc R. Hanson About Marc R. Hanson On Mood & Atmosphere Capture Mood & Atmosphere in a Landscape Painting CHAPTER 2 Light & Form with Susan Lyon About Susan Lyon On Light & Form Create Light & Dark Patterns in a Portrait CHAPTER 3 Composition & Design with
Colorists are not so much concerned with painting the objects in front of them as they are with painting the effect of light falling on these objects. COLOR STUDIES Hensche maintained that color block studies are the most effective way of introducing and developing the colorist way of seeing and painting. These studies can be equated with the scales music students are expected to practice and perfect during their lifetime as musicians. For the colorist, color block studies are “color
linen, 23" × 17" 58cm × 43cm) Shapes and Patterns Seeking out the basic shapes and patterns in your subject is the first step in creating good form and structure. CHARLOTTE Jeffrey R. Watts Oil on linen, 12" × 9" (30cm × 23cm) Use Abstraction to Aid the Illusion of Reality Create powerful light effects in a painting by keeping values under control while using abstractions of shapes and colors vibrating off of each other to give the illusion of reality. DEMONSTRATION
the eye to move across a painting. The shape of a road or path or a river or a stream are wonderful compositional devices to pull in the viewer’s eye and get it moving throughout a painting. TEXTURE The texture of oil paint itself can also be used as a fun way to make the viewer’s eye move through a painting. Fluid strokes, rapid strokes and even repetitious strokes add variety and excitement, as well as creating a sense of direction inside of a composition. A CIRCLE PATTERN A good
just along where the form turns. STEP 11: Refine the Light Planes on the Face Spend some time refining the planes of the light pattern of the face by putting cooler shapes over warmer shapes. That brings out dimension. Add some strokes to the beard and hint at the eyebrows with a no. 6 mongoose filbert. Make sure the highlights in the beard and chin are not as light as the ones on the nose or forehead. yellow turban Susan Lyon Oil on Claessens portrait texture #13, 12" × 11" (30cm ×