![]() ![]() As an artist I just want to interpret the photograph rather than try and copy it.Ī straightforward copy of the photograph wasn’t going to work anyway for several reasons. Now I just accept with photos we’re at a disadvantage from the start. The way the light fell on it and a multitude of other subtleties completely failed to be captured in this photo. The tree standing out with it’s skeletal branch structure starkly contrasted against the surrounding foliage is now just kind of standing there unobtrusively. ![]() In the photo below, very little that caught my attention at the time seemed to actually make it into the picture. The colours are never quite as vibrant as we remember them, and the tones never quite as distinct and separate. A two dimensional rectangular representation of the original experience. The lens compresses a 3 dimensional multi sensory experience into a little box. The photograph is a pale imitation of life. We have wide peripheral vision that adds a panoramic perspective. When we physically experience a place we’re using all our senses and our brains are selectively editing all the information that’s coming to us and focusing on and enhancing various aspects of it in real time. The main problem with painting from a photograph is that the camera never quite captures the things what made you want to paint the scene in the first place. Think of this as the default pattern, or starting point when thinking about structuring your paintings in this way. So it makes complete sense to put the lightest values in the background the middle values in the mid ground and the darkest values in the foreground. Things tend to appear lighter the further away they are. So which values should we assign to which elements? You can choose to order your painting in a way that best conveys the “Story” you want to tell. By assigning a tone to each element you can instantly simplify everything. In just about every painting I do, not just landscapes I find that it helps to think in terms of three basic tonal values. Winsor & Newton Art Masking Fluid Buy from Amazonįor a full list of recommended art products please see this post Assigning Tonal Values ![]() Pebeo Palette Knife (Useful for scraping out branches) Buy from Amazon Moleskine Art Watercolor Album Buy from AmazonĪrches Watercolor Paper Block, Cold Press, 9″ x 12″, 140 pound Buy on Amazon Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolor Tube Set. Princeton 1″ Flat Brush (For laying in skies and large areas of colour) Buy from Amazon Princeton Select Script Liner Brush (A “Rigger” style brush perfect for thin branches and blades of grass) Buy from Amazon Ideal for painting foliage) Buy from Amazon Winsor & Newton Series 150 Bamboo Brush (Great inexpensive brush,
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