Download - Landscape And Color Theory
Ms. Urioste Intro to Painting
This technique sometimes involves thick paint that is sometimes applied with a palette knife called the technique.
Claude Monet
Edouard Manet
Camille Pissaro Claude Monet
For a landscape painting, the composition is how the artist has arranged the subject matter on the canvas.
Background
Middle ground
Foreground
“C” Shape “S” Shape Cruciform Mass Grid Triangle Pattern
Artists have discovered that there are some compositions that are more successful than others. The following types have been successful for hundreds of years.
The subject matter touches all four sides of the canvas.
A large mass obstructs the background.
Rembrandt
• A winding path• Diagonal Composition • Changes in size and Overlap•Changes in clarity – atmospheric haze•Radiating Lines to a vanishing point
Overlap of Objects and Changes in Size
Large objects in the foreground smaller ones in the background.
Mono = OneChroma = Color
A painting done white one color (blue) is monochromatic.
A = NoChroma = Color
They are primary because no two colors can be mixed to create them.
A secondary color is a primary + primary = secondary
B + Y = GR + B = VY + R = O
There are six
Primary + Secondary = Tertiary
Red – VioletRed – OrangeYellow – Orange Yellow – Green Blue – Green Blue – Violet
Yellow and Violet Blue and Orange
Red and Green
Why are they compliments?
Because they compliment one another and are opposite on the color wheel.
Yellow, orange, red, and red-orange
• Warm colors appear to Advance toward the viewer.
Blue, violet, green and blue-green • Cool colors appear to Recede away from the Viewer.