Название: Plein Air Techniques for Artists: Principles and Methods for Painting in Natural Light
Автор: Aimee Erickson
Издательство: Rockport Publishers
Год: 2023
Страниц: 176
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true)
Размер: 33.4 MB
Take your plein air artwork to the next level through easy-to-understand workshop-style lessons and skill-building exercises. In Plein Air Techniques for Artists, award-winning artist and respected workshop instructor Aimee Erickson demystifies how to capture a variety of light effects and guides you in strengthening your plein air skills through practice. Plein air painting is a wonderful way to spend your time. It’s an active meditation, a reason to travel, and a way to interact with friends and nature. Plus, it’s not easy. There’s always a challenge if you want to meet it. In painting, color is used to describe light. Plein air painting is primarily about responding to the conditions of the day, about making some kind of visual record of what you see. But the landscape changes with the light, its appearance shifting almost as if it’s trying on different outfits. How to cope? Do we freeze a moment with a photograph and paint that, or do we chase the sun across the landscape? How about neither: If we learn to recognize and understand various lighting scenarios, our knowledge can be the filter we see through. We can identify a phenomenon and paint that. The painting becomes a record of the artist’s understanding.
