How to paint a landscape (from a photograph) with a limited palette We already started to learn about the power of a limited palette to create a cohesive color world in the last class. A color world within a painting ties all of the elements in the picture together in a unified sense of space and light, and even…
In the mood to go see some art but not sure where to go? Tired of paying museum admission fees but intimidated by the long list of galleries? Already saw the “big names” but not sure what to see next? Help is here! Well indirectly… I wanted to share with the Berlin Drawing Room community…
Collage can be a great starting point for a painting. This technique was used early on by Modern artists like Picasso and Braque, and advanced by Dada and Surrealist artists. Collage has continued to be a major artistic medium, remaining popular with young contemporary artists and established artists alike. We did a project in the…
Maurice Prendergast (1858-1924) was a masterful painter and colorist. His watercolor paintings have a beautiful shimmering luminosity, achieved through his transparent use of color and loose brushstrokes. His use of color is very much inspired by impressionist painters, like Claude Monet, who attempted to capture very exact moments of light. This atmosphere of light and color…
We discussed Neo Rauch’s work in our Watercolor Workshop, even though these are primarily oil paintings, because he uses color in a unique way. The concept of a color world (refer to previous post) within a painting is simple yet elusive, and in order to better understand this concept, Neo Rauch’s work was offered as the counter-example….
The negative space in a picture is not only a powerful formal element, but can carry symbolic value as well. It is the ever present and often overlooked “background,” the space between things and around things. But how do we define this space? How do we picture it? The 16/17th century Spanish painter JuanSánchez Cotán (1560 – 1627) often set…