Exercise: fog painting on a yellow ground

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Landscape Painting Workshop (Tuesdays)

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Welcome to the landscape painting workshop!

  • Course Overview
  • Dates and link to the live classes
  • Link to the class recordings
  • Reccomended Materials List
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Landscape Painting Workshop community
  • To share your work

Resources and References

  • A History of Landscape Painting
  • Contemporary Landscape Artists

Module 1

  • What you'll learn

Day 1

Delayed 1 day

  • Inspiration: the spring fresco of Akrotiri
  • Exercise: look for inspiration and materials

Day 2

Delayed 2 days

  • Inspiration: Giotto di Bondone
  • Exercise: prepare your surfaces
  • Video: prepare paper with matte medium
  • Video: how to tone your surface
  • Video: preparing a copper surface for painting

Day 3

Delayed 3 days

  • Inspiration: Leonardo Da Vinci
  • Exercise: thumbnail drawing studies

Day 4

Delayed 4 days

  • Inspiration: Albrecht Altdorfer
  • Exercise: wipe-out technique
  • Video: wipe-out technique

Day 5

Delayed 5 days

  • Inspiration: Joachim Patinir
  • Exercise: block-in technique
  • Video: monochromatic block-in

Day 6

Delayed 6 days

  • Inspiration: Peter Bruegel the Elder
  • Exercise: blending technique
  • Video: blending technique

Day 7

Delayed 7 days

  • Inspiration: The Brueghel family
  • Exercise: prepare for your master copy
  • Video: combining techniques
  • Potential images for old master copy

Module 2

  • What you'll learn

Day 8

Delayed 8 days

  • Inspiration: El Greco
  • Exercise: grisaille master copy, sky
  • Video: grisaille sky demo

Day 9

Delayed 9 days

  • Inspiration: Paul Bril
  • Exercise: grisaille middle ground
  • Video: grisaille middle ground

Day 10

Delayed 10 days

  • Inspiration: Peter Paul Rubens
  • Exercise: master copy, foreground
  • Video: grisaille foreground

Day 11

Delayed 11 days

  • Inspiration: Rembrandt Van Rijn
  • Exercise: begin your ebauche
  • Video: ébauche, sky

Day 12

Delayed 12 days

  • Inspiration: Albert Cuyp
  • Exercise: ébauche, middle ground
  • Video: ébauche, middle ground

Day 13

Delayed 13 days

  • Inspiration: Jacob von Ruisdael
  • Exercise: ébauche painting, foreground
  • Video: ebauche, foreground

Day 14

Delayed 14 days

  • Inspiration: Johannes Vermeer
  • Exercise: look for inspiration

Module 3

  • What you'll learn

Day 15

Delayed 15 days

  • Inspiration: Eugene Delacroix
  • Exercise: master copy, full palette
  • Video: master copy layer 2, sky

Day 16

Delayed 16 days

  • Inspiration: John Constable
  • Exercise: middle ground, velatura
  • Video: master copy middle ground, layer 2

Day 17

Delayed 17 days

  • Inspiration: John Linnell
  • Exercise: foreground, layer 2
  • Video: master copy foreground, layer 2

Day 18

Delayed 18 days

  • Inspiration: Thomas Moran
  • Exercise: glazing, detail

Day 19

Delayed 19 days

  • Inspiration: John Ruskin
  • Exercise: ebauche, layer 2 - sky
  • Video: ebauche, layer 2, sky

Day 20

Delayed 20 days

  • Inspiration: Thomas Cole
  • Exercise: ebauche - middle and foreground
  • Video: ebauche, middle and foreground, layer 2

Day 21

Delayed 21 days

  • Inspiration: Fitz Henry Lane
  • Exercise: finish your painting

Module 4

  • What you'll learn:

Day 22

Delayed 22 days

  • Inspiration: Caspar David Friedrich
  • Exercise: nocturne painting, warm ground
  • Video: nocturne, warm ground

Day 23

Delayed 23 days

  • Inspiration: James Whistler
  • Exercise: nocturne, cool ground
  • Video: nocturne, cool ground

Day 24

Delayed 24 days

  • Inspiration: Johan Christian Dahl
  • Exercise: your first nocturne, layer 2
  • Video: nocturne, warm ground, layer 2

Day 25

Delayed 25 days

  • Inspiration: John Atkinson Grimshaw
  • Exercise: cool nocturne, layer 2

Day 26

Delayed 26 days

  • Inspiration: fog and mist
  • Exercise: fog painting on a sepia/warm ground
  • Video: fog painting on warm ground, layer 1

Day 27

Delayed 27 days

  • Inspiration: Claude Monet
  • Exercise: fog painting on a yellow ground
  • Video: fog painting on a yellow ground, layer 1

Day 28

Delayed 28 days

  • Inspiration: Martin Johnson Heade
  • Exercise: fog painting on sepia ground, layer 2, velatura
  • Video: fog painting, sepia ground- layer 2
  • Video: fog painting, sepia ground- layer 2

Day 29

Delayed 29 days

  • Inspiration: Joseph Mallord William Turner
  • Exercise: scumbling on a layer of fog
  • Video: fog painting on a yellow ground, layer 2, scumbling

Day 30

Delayed 30 days

  • Inspiration: Aert van der Neer
  • Exercise: finish your nocturne

Day 31

Delayed 31 days

  • Inspiration: trees and forests
  • Exercise: prepare the drawing for your forest painting
  • Video: forest, ballpoint pen underdrawing

Day 32

Delayed 32 days

  • Inspiration: Ivan Shishkin
  • Exercise: finish your underdrawing and prepare your surface
  • Video: forest painting, ink layer

Day 33

Delayed 33 days

  • Inspiration: William Trost Richards
  • Exercise: work on the underpainting - sky
  • Video: forest painting, sky

Day 34

Delayed 34 days

  • Inspiration: Asher Brown Durand
  • Exercise: begin working opaquely

Day 35

Delayed 35 days

  • Inspiration: George Inness
  • Exercise: finish your forest painting

Day 36

Delayed 36 days

  • Inspiration: winter painting
  • Exercise: notan studies

Day 37

Delayed 37 days

  • Inspiration: Alexei Savrasov
  • Exercise: snow painting on a warm ground

Day 38

Delayed 38 days

  • Inspiration: James Gurney
  • Exercise: snow painting on a bright ground (layer 1)

Day 39

Delayed 39 days

  • Inspiration: Leo Mancini-Hresko
  • Exercise: snow painting on a white ground

Day 40

Delayed 40 days

  • Inspiration: Ivan Aivazovsky
  • Exercise: snow painting on a warm ground, layer 2

Day 41

Delayed 41 days

  • Inspiration: Joshua Clare
  • Exercise: snow painting on a bright ground, layer 2

Day 42

Delayed 42 days

  • Inspiration: sunrise and sunset
  • Exercise: sunrise and sunset

Day 43

Delayed 43 days

  • Inspiration: Jacob Collins
  • Exercise: sunset painting on a warm ground

Day 44

Delayed 44 days

  • Inspiration: William Storck
  • Exercise: begin a tonalist painting

Day 45

Delayed 45 days

  • Inspiration: Renato Mucillo
  • Exercise: sunset painting on a complementary ground

Day 46

Delayed 46 days

  • Inspiration: Erik Koeppel
  • Exercise: painting on a warm ground, layer 2

Day 47

Delayed 47 days

  • Inspiration: Jane Hunt
  • Exercise: tonalist painting, layer 2

Day 48

Delayed 48 days

  • Inspiration: Albert Bierstadt
  • Exercise: complementary sunset painting, layer 2

Day 49

Delayed 49 days

  • Inspiration: paintings by Lynn Boggess
  • Exercise: experiment with texture

Day 50

Delayed 50 days

  • Inspiration: Frederick Edwin Church
  • Exercise: return to the sunrise/sunset paintings with details

Day 51

Delayed 51 days

  • Inspiration: water and reflections
  • Exercise: observe water flowing

Day 52

Delayed 52 days

  • Inspiration: Frederick Waugh
  • Exercise: begin a water painting, white ground

Day 53

Delayed 53 days

  • Inspiration: Isaac Levitan
  • Exercise: glaze your water painting

Day 54

Delayed 54 days

  • Inspiration: Edward Minoff
  • Exercise: alla prima water study, warm ground

Day 55

Delayed 55 days

  • Inspiration: Thomas Sanchez
  • Exercise: your first water painting, details

Day 56

Delayed 56 days

  • Inspiration: plein air painting
  • Exercise: plein air painting, wipe-out

Day 57

Delayed 57 days

  • Inspiration: Camille Corot
  • Plein air painting - alla prima, analogous palette

Day 55

Delayed 54 days

  • Inspiration: Ilya Repin
  • Exercise: plein air painting, complementary palette

Day 58

Delayed 58 days

  • Inspiration: Salvador Dali
  • Exercise: an imaginary landscape

Day 60

Delayed 60 days

  • Inspiration: J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Exercise: celebrate!

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  • Inspiration: Georges Seurat
  • Inspiration: N.C. Wyeth
  • Inspiration: Camille Pisarro
  • Inspiration: Andrew Wyeth
  • Inspiration: Vincent Van Gogh