Adjusting The Color & Composition Of Your Reference For A Better Landscape Painting
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- Опубликовано: 1 май 2024
- Find where you can increase the contrast in color to enhance the impact of your painting. Making your painting look more like a painting than the photograph will bring more drama to your work.
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Excellent video! I appreciate your teaching style very much. It makes so much sense. You are a great painter and teacher. Thank you!
Your videos are my favourites, thank you!
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Thank you for your demos.
I have been looking for more advanced info,and lo and behold, you popped up on RUclips. I am a plein air painter and needed more knowledge. I like how you describe the how and why for a particular technique. I cannot thank you enough!
Good one Phil. Yeah, Hanson Puthuff (Pronounced, I think, "putt", like to putt a golf ball, "off"), next to Edgar Payne is one of my favorite painters from the time period, early 20th century, in California mostly. Always a good sense of color and depth in his work. And, man oh man, what a Brave Guy with is palette!! Much more so than I would every try, but he certainly always "brings it right home" in his gorgeous paintings! : )
You are so right Ron, Thanks
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Thanks Phil, your great lessons always provide answers to questions I have. In this one, one of the things I learned was why you want to keep the number of values limited, because, as you say, it ruins the composition when you don't do that. That finally makes sense to me.
I think what confused me is my significant exposure to Ansel Adams b+w photography where "detail" was always emphasized. My Dad was a b+w photographer a la Adams and often talked about "bringing out detail". It might look good there but it doesn't in paintings, compared to taking it out.
"Detail" certainly has its place in certain genres/methods of painting, but in a landscape where you want a certain "impressionistic feel", like in Phil's work, and many of the painters, like Puthuff, he features as examples, other things are more important to get down on your painting. This is especially true when working outdoors, where you have very little time for much detail to be added!
The problem with the camera is that it doesn't discriminate, it sees all the detail everywhere. As painters we want to be selective with detail and add it only where we want the attention. Ansel Adams did that with his developing, he could bring out the details where he wanted.
Well said Ron, thanks
@@philstarke.artist Thanks Ron and Phil for the thought-provoking responses. I just took a look at some of AA's photos and I see exactly what you are saying Phil with regard to what he did with his developing. It has the effect of producing an overall interesting abstract composition (which makes them great) while preserving the details, but the details are presented in a very limited value range which is reminiscent of the way you teach to have large areas, limited in value, but with a lot of variation in color and temperature.
In another of your lessons Phil (if I remember correctly) you converted a couple of great paintings into black and white and pointed out how they were more subdued or less dramatic which was what you wanted to see. That suprised me because I had thought that I was suposed to see a vibrant, exciting black and white image when I desaturated a photo of my painting. It was a great illustration, and it is clear to me that when I have followed what you are saying, my painting ends up looking better.
Having come from a black and white background confused me with regard to painting.
@@pjjmsn I love B&W, having grown up in the 50's and 60's when everything was Black and White on the little TV's we had then. Especially the old sci fi movies and tv shows, which are still some of my favorites because, lacking eye-catching colors and effects then, they had to rely on good old fashion great acting and scripts, on some of them, like "Twilight Zone" for example. Of course, there was some real crap then too, "Godzilla", "Attack of the Giant Tomatoes" (LOL), in sci fi, just like today's attempts at the genre!!
But yes, B&W will show you the value range, the real "key" to great paintings! ;D