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Painting Foundations: Light and the Landscape

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Overview

Learn key concepts and techniques for tackling light and landscapes in acrylic paintings by completing a large, impressionistic studio painting of a skyline in Venice, Italy.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
1. Materials and Setup
  • Painting with color and light
  • Working with acrylics
  • Which brush to use
  • Choosing your support
  • Additional materials to use
2. Drawing Out and Black and White Study
  • Brushstrokes and broken edges
  • Color ground for our Venetian sunset
  • The importance of verticals
  • Four tones of the landscape
  • Poster study: Value planes
  • Challenge: Grouping tones together
  • Solution: Revealing the tonal studies
3. Mixing Pastel Base Colors
  • Shadow-blocking in
  • Selecting our color range
  • Mixing our base colors
  • Using glazing liquid: Blending colors
  • Blocking in base colors: Sky
  • Blocking in base colors: Water
  • First painting: Using a rigger brush
  • First painting: Using smaller brushes
  • Introducing orange
  • Painting the gondola
  • Painting water
4. Extending Our Color Palette
  • Glazing
  • Adding details
  • Adding texture
  • Finishing touches
Conclusion
  • Goodbye

Taught by

Will Kemp

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