Landscapes: Creating Mood with Abstraction & Color !
What you'll learn
- Contemporary landscapes that are abstracted and simplified.
- Working with large brushes to eliminate small details. Learn to be more loose with your brushes and paints.
- Learn to do a more personal colour palette by using different colour combinations and make colors that are lively and that make a statement!
- Understand value, Landscape compositions and how to start a painting with an underpainting (a base colour).
- See a professional artist work on a large canvas using large brushes and mix her acrylic paints in one session.
Requirements
- Students should be able to mix colours and have some basic acrylic colors. (Especially primary colours: red, blue ,yellow +white and black)
Description
This course is about exploring the landscape using larger brushes to eliminate small details.By doing this, your compostions begin to be looser and more abstract! I will guide you to think shape and less detail. We will learn how to create a new colour palette that you can do over and over and always get new colour combinations. We will also look at making your own blacks. Included will be demos on complementary colours, warm & cool colours and values. The end of this video will be a 30 minutes demonstration video of myself working on a large format. I think this a perfect class for people who are tired of doing detail and need to loosen up! Your landscapes will become more abstract, with a richness and an explosion of colour!
Who this course is for:
- Students who would like to know how to work with larger brushes to create shapes and less detail. Landscapes become more abstract and simplified.
- Students who want to ‘’loosen up’’ and also want to learn about colour mixing to create paintings that ‘’pop’’ !
- Students who are open to new challenges and want to abstract their scenes more!
Instructor
Lucie Michel was born in Montreal, Canada has always been interested in painting, drawing and mixed media.Having taught 26 years as a high school art teacher, she now teaches painting and mixed media to adults at the Fine Arts Museum in Montreal and at her studio in Mont Saint-Hilaire ,Quebec. She has her Master’s in Art Education and is continuously taking workshops in Canada and in the U. S. during her travels. Her work is represented in several galeries in Quebec, Ontario and in the United States. Lucie is also a Golden Art Educator and enjoys teaching watercolor part-time on cruise ships. She is known for her colourful and abstract landscapes in acrylic but also works in Cold Wax &Oil.