Improving Color and Composition in Landscape Painting with the “Azure & Asphalt” Series
“Before” and “after” versions of Salmon Bay show meaningful changes in color and composition.
Browsing: Featured Artists
“Landscape Painter’s Workbook” Preview: Color Strategies with Carol Strock Wasson and David Mensing
Two masters of color are highlighted in the third of a 3-part series previewing artists in “The Landscape Painter Workbook.”
“Landscape Painter’s Workbook” Preview: Movement in Composition with Bill Cone, Cindy Baron, and Mitchell Albala
Three masters of composition are highlighted in the second of a 3-part series previewing artists in “The Landscape Painter Workbook.”
“Landscape Painter’s Workbook” Preview: Shape Interpretation with Hester Berry, Sue Charles, and Carolyn Lord
Three shape masters are highlighted in the first of a 3-part series previewing artists in “The Landscape Painter Workbook.”
The Colors of Night: Color Strategies for Painting Landscape Nocturnes
With works by Albala, Cramer, Doerflinger, Remington, and Whistler, learn how painters modulate color to make their nocturnes sing.
Approaches to Capturing Light in Plein Air and Studio Landscape Painting
Works by six painters demonstrate that “capturing” light requires a delicate balance between value and color.
Mitchell Albala Juries Whidbey Island Plein Air Paint Out: Winners’ Review
Seven gorgeous plein air paintings of every style and media.
Landscape Composition: Building Interest through Intervals and Variation
Discover the power of variation with paintings by four master composers and a demonstration on intervals.
Jerry Fresia: “On Painting The Sun: Monet’s Choice”
Contemporary Impressionist Jerry Fresia talks about the tradeoffs between a value-emphasis or a color-emphasis when painting brilliant light.
Playing Studio Detective with a Film of Monet Painting at Giverny
What can we learn from some rare footage of Monet painting?