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Painting Foundations: Creating Palettes for the Landscape

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Overview

Recreate the color palettes of nature and paint more evocative landscapes with this painting class from artist and art instructor Will Kemp.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
1. Materials and Setup
  • Mastering the color palettes of nature
  • Supports and grounds
  • Paints and mediums
  • Brushes and additional materials
2. Winter
  • Setting a winter tone
  • A compressed tonal range
  • A winter color palette
  • The qualities of light and smokey edges
  • A warmer winter color palette
  • Blending colors of atmospheric light
  • A winter color palette with neutrals
  • A winter snow scene: Painting the darks
  • A winter snow scene: Adding blue
3. Spring
  • A spring landscape and lightfall
  • Mixing and balancing green
  • An impressionistic touch
  • A spring landscape: The underpainting
  • A spring landscape: Adding greens
4. Autumn
  • Autumnal reflections and golden light
  • Extending the palette
  • Extending the palette with intense reds
  • Watery washes and glazes
  • Autumn reflections: Lights and darks
  • Autumn reflections: Adding oranges
  • Autumn reflections: Adding glazes
5. Summer
  • Summer sunshine and a wide tonal range
  • A vibrant palette
  • Simplifying shapes
  • A vibrant palette with phthalo green
  • A summer scene: Dark tonal pattern
  • A summer scene: Adding green
  • A summer scene: Finishing touches
Conclusion
  • Goodbye

Taught by

Will Kemp

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