Thursday, May 8, 2025

Brush Painting Class #5

Today we worked on trees and landform techniques.  

Trees: 

  • Note the overall shape; trees have posture and gesture attributes.
  • Note the branching structure, and use the main fork to anchor the form.
  • Start at the middle of the tree-- the main fork; work progressively upwards and downwards, mindful of the natural variation of girth from bottom to top.
  • Based on the overall shape, start dotting the leaves from the outside inwards,  to pin down the periphery.
  • Add some branches in between the leaf clusters, to connect to the main tree.
Landform/Rocks:
  • Line the upper/outside edge of forms of various shapes: round, square, skewed, sharp etc.
  • Illusion of depth/3-D space: Each near-form partially blocks the far-form.
  • Vary the forms, in terms of size, separation and alignment (do not line up in a line)
  • Texture lower part of form (shade and shadows) according to the desired 3-D shape of the landform/rock.
Pictured involved today:


SIMPLE LANDSCAPE



 







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