6/2/2023 0 Comments Landscape painter's workbook![]() ![]() This realization also enforces another idea - there’s a reason landscape painters do paintings “en plein air”. But in reality the sky should be the lightest brightest value, so you have to adjust the proposed painting and not necessarily match the photo! The sky in the example photo is fairly overcast and looks like a “2” value (on a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being the brightest), whereas the ground at the bottom of the photo looks brightest. The first thing I realized, after looking at his examples and his comments, is that i totally focus on trying to match the photo. Here is my attempt, and then below it is my copy of how he did the 5 values from his photo in the book. ![]() So, I used his photo example first without turning the page to see his proposed value study. He has you to choose a photo, and then put it in grayscale, squint and determine the no more than 5 values (to simplify). Albala has you do a painting in black and white, using 5 values (so the 3 mid-values are grays). In any case, the first chapter is about shape interpretation, and the first exercise is to “simplify and differentiate with limited values”. I figured I had to learn how to draw before I painted. I really don’t know much about painting, although I’ve wanted to do it most all my life. I just got The Landscape Painter’s Workbook: Essential Studies in Shape, Composition, and Color by Mitchell Albala. ![]()
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