From the course: Painting Foundations: Acrylic
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Choosing a mood for a landscape
From the course: Painting Foundations: Acrylic
Choosing a mood for a landscape
- So the five paint colors we've been using straight from the tube are often really bright, but the key to having a successful, realistic painting is having that nice balance between muted colors and more brighter pigments. So our next study is this lovely little seascape, but for this painting, instead of taking inspiration from a photograph, we're gonna take inspiration from another painting, and it is a classical technique that many painters used to do to copy old master paintings because you can learn so much about the brush handling and the paint palette that's been used just by studying a different painter. We're gonna be looking at the master of English sky painting, John Constable. It's a beautiful scene of Harwich on the east coast of England. This is around where Constable used to paint, and the rolling clouds provide the perfect learning tool for our next lesson, which is color strings. Mixing color strings is a method of premixing tones of a color picked out of the…
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