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While planning your landscape, study the work of landscape artists like Hockney, Diebenkorn, Hopper, Hokusai, and Cezanne for stylistic ideas and study their use of light, shape, color, and composition to inform your own planning decisions.
LOOK – Look atthe work of previous landscape artists. What do you like? What don’t you like?
IMAGES – 8-10 Images in your Sketchbook or on a Google Doc - It is easier if you PRINT them out.
2 that you took
Don't just google landscape
Where would you like to go?
Where have you gone?
try instagram, flickr, creative commons - remember to abide by copyright laws
2 from a newspaper or magazine
Avoid Aerial photographs. Try for high or low horizon lines and
1/3 division of space
BE SURE TO IDENTIFY:
STRONG FOREGROUND - Have it overlap mid and some background
MIDDLE GROUND
BACKGROUND
SKETCH - LOOK AT EXAMPLES IN SLIDESHOW ABOVE – Use your images, inspiration, and imagination. Get feedback from your peers during this process. you will be combining images, changing scale of different aspects and playing with composition to create your final landscape image. Ask peers for critique.
COLOR SCHEME EXPLORATION - PAINT – LOOK AT EXAMPLES IN SLIDESHOW ABOVE
Start with SMALL color studies in your sketchbook and create different versions.
burnt umber/white
monochrome - one color and all of it's tints and shades
complimentary - across from eachother on the color wheel (red/green, orange/blue, yellow/purple)
triad 1
triad 2
Free Color Choice
BLOG REFLECTION
The image accompanying this blog should be either a picture of ALL of your paintings together with planning OR a close-up of the best area of painting (a detail).
Make sure to write in PARAGRAPH form using specific visual evidence from your artwork or experience to support your writing.
Paragraph 1
How did you decide upon your landscape?
What changes did you make from the original image?
How well does your painting demonstrate fore, mid, and background?
What did you learn about color schemes while painting your 8 Color Studies? How did you transfer that knowledge to your final painting(s)?
Paragraph 2
Do you prefer your mini-painting(s) or your final painting. Look carefully at the two and explain why.
What were the challenges and successes that you had with your final painting(s)? If you did 2 paintings, compare the two. This should have at least 3-5 sentences in response.
What would you do differently if you were starting a new landscape painting? Explain why.
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