Creative Catalyst Newsletter - July 2, 2007
DRAW WITH CONFIDENCE: From Basic to Brilliant
We are thrilled to introduce a new CCP learning to draw DVD. It covers areas missed by other workshops … how to accurately place and portray three-dimensional elements on a two dimensional surface while on site or in the studio. David N. Kitler is a renowned wildlife artist that makes his living accurately portraying wildlife to a degree of accuracy only other experts can truly appreciate. His commitment to detail includes camping out under a Harpies nest in the jungles of Panama to fully understand his subject. This drawing DVD workshop includes: How to think in terms of shapes, placement, proportion, scale, value, texture, perspective, and toning. It also includes printable information sheets you can take with you while you are out practicing what you have learned.
Pre-Sale Special price is $5 off until supplies arrive in our warehouse.
Learn more about this DVD workshop
EXPAND YOUR HORIZONS
For those of us who have become comfortable painting in a realistic mode it is sometimes a stretch to try something different in our work. We add to our understanding by experimentation. Here are three fun things to try.
1. Divide the painted surface by extending lines off an object all the way to the edge of the painting. (See boats at right) For example if you are painting a barn, extend the line from the roof off the edge of your canvas. Do this on enough images and you will have added additional shapes to your surface and new zones for additional colors.
2. Add an element of abstraction by modifying the lines in your design to reflect your mood about the subject. Joyful lines might curve up; sad lines turn downward, nervous lines may become more jagged and hard. It doesn’t have to be done in many places in a design to have a substantial impact on the mood of the piece.
3. Distort perspective or scale. Break the rules of perspective by flattening objects. It can be oddly disconcerting but a lot of fun. And by making small things large and vice-versa, the content of your painting changes drastically. A small cat on a warm lap is something completely different when that feline becomes the size of a horse.
-Lynn-
“I came to the simple solution, through feeling and thinking, that the aims (and thus the means) of nature and art are essentially, organically, and by universal law different from each other - and equally great and equally strong…. This solution liberated me and opened up new worlds.”
- Wassily Kandinsky
1866-1944
From Artist to Artist
compiled by Clint Brown