‘M’ watercolour Quarter Imperial Sheet © adam cope Painting into the dusk. Fading light. Blur & indefinition. When the self feels its way into the soul of the world. The feelings that pass between artist & model.A strictly limited palette. Three colours only. Winsor & Newton. Artists Viridian, Indian Red, Permanent Magenta. The tonality is…
Category: How to Paint & Drawing Techniques
Some on-line tips & advice on painting techniques by the painting tutor Adam Cope
tonality?
Here’s the last painting which had a strong tonal theme of black tree-trunks/white blossom. Here’s the same painting with the colour stripped out in PS via greyscale. Here’s the greyscale is changed by darkening the mid-tone grey in PS. Using Photoshop elements to help painting It’s more stormy with the white blossom more dramatic.…
Ébauche or Lay-ins in Plein-Air ‘Alla Prima’ Oil Painting – Paul Cézanne
Ébauche or Lay-ins in Plein-Air ‘Alla Prima’ Oil Painting Work in Progress (WIP) – lay in stage one Large size Oil on Canvas 81 x 65 cm (approx 32 x 26 inches) © The Artist. Work in Progress (WIP) – lay in stage two Large size Oil on Canvas 81 x 65 cm (approx 32…
watercolour
mixed media in watercolour painting The term ‘mixed media’ should be mentioned here as well. But then where does mixed media ever stop? Motor car engine & pencil on paper? Definitions can be troublesome. Interesting that the paint manufacturers & merchants use another set of defintions to those of art societies etc. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> transparent &…
Le Havre, Port d’Europe – pencil sketch
‘Le Havre, Port d’Europe’ graphite A5 sketchbook double-spread © the artist ‘Le Havre, Port d’Europe’ d etail Sketched this whilst waiting 20 minutes for the boat to cast off. Quite pleased with this detail, as it fits in with my current interests in 1. ‘driving’ a line all the way around a profile or skyline…
Sunset 3 Jan – Plein-Air Paintings of the Sun by Monet, Turner & Levitan
Sunset 3 Jan 2009 Oil on MDF panel 30 x 40cm (approx 12 x 16 inches). © The Artist. Painting of the winter sun hanging a in clear sky Sometimes the sun is a round ball in the sky, shining weakly, pale against a smokey sky. Other times it’s too bright to look at, blindingly…
WIP : Sunset 31 Dec – Photographing Paintings & Retouching Plein-Air small formats.
WORK IN PROGRESS (WIP) Sunset 31 Dec – after session in the field and two retouching sessions in the studio 30 x 40 cm – approx12 x 16 inches oil on panel Sunset 31 Dec – after first session in the field 30 x 40 cm – approx12 x 16 inches oil on panel Photographing…
Sunset : 21 December, longest night – Black in paintings.
‘Sunset : 21 December, longest night’ medium size oil on canvas 8 figure (46 x 38 cm; approx 18 x 14 inches) © adam cope oil painting of sunset on longest night Something amazing happened yesterday. The grey skies that have weighed us under this last month parted & THERE WAS LIGHT. It felt like…
Warm & Cool Colours in Painting
Some colour theorists confute the notion of warm & cool colours, saying it is far too culturally relative to be constant. Red in one culture is perceived as cool whilst in another it is considered warm. Weither or not scientists use the concept of warm / cool is up to them, IMO. As painters, I…
Artists and Ecology #2 – Robert HAINARD – how to ‘blind contour draw’
‘Hibou Effrayé’ Robert Hainard Bronze 32 cm Robert Hainard (Born in Geneva, 1906, lived a long time in the French Jura & died in 1999) is sadly not widely known outside of France & Switzerland. He is rightly considered one of Europe’s greatest ‘artiste-animalier’ (animal artists). His book « Les Mammifères Sauvages d’Europe »(Delachaux &…
