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LANDSCAPE GENRE
- Making A Mark - Genres and the results of "What's your favourite subject matter?" (comments on landscape in the hierarchy of genres)
- Making A Mark - The Most Wanted Paintings on the Web comments on a 1995 survey which identifies outdoor scenery as being a very popular type of art with the public
Why paint landscapes
Concepts and landscapes
"First impression, then expression" - the emotional response to a landscape subject
TECHNICAL - COMPOSITION
Basic composition and design
- (Resource site) Composition and Design - Resources for Artists - includes a section of the elements and principles of composition and design
- Composition - Principles of Design
- Composition - The Elements of Design
- Greg Albert - The Simple Secret to Better Painting
Landscape and scale
- Michael Chesley Johnson - Sense of Scale
Different approaches to composition
- Japanese (Edo period): The concepts and characteristics of ukiyo-e; Principles of design and composition and ukiyo-e and The elements of ukiyo-e
Placement of the horizon line
Zones - foreground /middle ground/ background
How to simplify the landscape
Massing and shapes in the landscape
Landscape and value patterns
Aerial perspective
Perspective in the landscape
Landscapes through the window
Staffage - the figure in the landscape
TECHNICAL - COLOUR
Landscape colour palettes
How colours vary according to different locations and latitudes
How colours vary according to different seasons
The colour of atmospheric effects
HOW TO......
How to draw a tree - Find a collection of tree drawings and explanations how they have been done. Get inspired by famous and less famous, but very impressive contemporary and historic examplesof tree drawings and have a look at online drawing tutorials. Get some inspiration here to find your own way how to do a tree drawing.
a pen and ink study drawn from life
part of a landscape sketchbook project
Martin Stankewitz
part of a landscape sketchbook project
Martin Stankewitz
How to draw/paint a tree
"How to Draw a tree" is a gold nugget of art education
Katherine Tyrrell
- How to draw a pine tree
- How to draw deciduous trees (mostly apple trees:)
- How to draw coniferous trees (some spruce trees)
- Forest diary - keeping a nature sketchbook
- The Art of the Landscape - TIP: Foliage and Sky Holes
- How to draw and paint trees - which summarises a variety of tips by Stapleton Kearns and Martin Stankewitz for drawing and painting trees
how to draw/paint clouds
- How to paint clouds by Jo-Ann Sanborn (Jo-Ann Sanborn Daily)
how to draw/paint buildings
how to draw/paint figures in the landscape
how to paint the landscape in the sky
how to develop a landscape series
landscapes and mark-making
landscape and line
landscape and dots
use photos to create landscape art (and what NOT to do)
how to abstract a landscape
PLEIN AIR SPECIFIC
Painting Media for plein air
Choosing a location
- Making A Mark - How good is your visual recognition memory? ponders some questions ie How good is your visual capacity and your visual memory? How good is your brain at perceiving information and recording visual memories? How much do you rely on visual memory records when developing a sketch, drawing or painting of a place, object or event?
- pros and cons of the familiar
- Making A Mark - 10 tips for dealing with light and shade
- Making A Mark - The Magic Hour
Artists Sketching in the White Mountains 1868 by Winslow Homer
Plein Air Kits
- Making A Mark - In praise of my sketching chairs
- Martin Stankeswitz - Sketching gear - a guide for beginners
- the best plein air easel is...
- What is plein-air painting?
- Jon Hall - Making A Mark - The Limner's Contract
- Suncage - Jon Hall's teaching pack of 12 quick lessons on painting plein air
- Ed Terpening: Observations on Plein Air Painting
- Life Plein Air: 10 Observations on Plein Air Painting - an Intro
- Life Plein Air: Observation 2: work in Abstractions
- Painting snow - in snow - practical tips by Lori McNee
MEDIA
painting landscapes using oils
painting landscapes using acrylics
painting landscapes using mixed media
painting landscapes using pastels
drawing landscapes using coloured pencils
- sketching plein air using coloured pencils
- sketching toolkits and materials - advice and information
drawing landscapes using pen and ink
painting landscapes using mixed media
creating prints of landscapes
shooting the landscape
COPYING THE MASTERS
A study of Turner's snowstorm seascapecoloured pencil on Arches HP, 8" x 10"
copyright Katherine Tyrrell
- Making A Mark - Tonight Matthew I'm going to be JMW Turner.....
TIPS
- Making a Mark - Charles Sovek: Lessons from the Easel
- how to eliminate details
- Copyright: Making A Mark - You cannot copyright nature
Arthur Dow (notan) - both the posts below will be replaced when I've written a specific post about how Dow's ideas about notan apply to the landscape - however the posts outline the general principles
John Carlsson
INTERVIEWS WITH ARTISTS
- Julian Merrow Smith - The 1,000th Postcard from Provence
- Sarah Wimperis - Sarah Wimperis: Painting the life, light and colours of Brittany