PLEIN-AIR PAINTING COURSE
3 full painting demonstrations
Medium: Acrylics
Run time: 6:23 hours
Canvas sizes: 18x24
A unique plein-air painting experience lead by Juan Cristobal
You will be transported to the streets of Cadaques, Spain, and follow his teaching and painting experience, through three full demonstrations process. With acrylics this time, Cristobal will show you how to evolve on a painting from beginning to end.
COURSE PRESENTATION
FIRST DEMONSTRATION TRAILER
SECOND DEMONSTRATION TRAILER
THIRD DEMONSTRATION TRAILER
MATERIAL PRESENTATION
INCLUDED IN THIS COURSE
• 3 full painting demonstrations for a total of 6:23 hours
• 58 minutes Documentary of Cadaques; plein-air painting inspiration
• 35 ready-to-paint inspirational photos from Cadaques best places
• Dali's and Picasso's Residences visits video
• Light House and Mountain Hikes video
• Access to online students Forum
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
INTERACTION WITH THE SUBJECT
• Many notions related to perspective with buildings, streets, roofs, windows, doors, boats and other elements.
• Recognition of elements from the three distances and how to create deepness on your painting.
• Observing and setting the daylight moments with precise design on lights and shadows, added to create volume and three dimensions.
• Manage the three hours window during the stand for your plein-air painting; how to recognize the sun trajectory and how it will affect the subject.
• Judging from the many objects and elements belonging to the subject. These will create a variety and interest on your painting such as waterside, boardwalks, boats, trees, windows, plant pots and gardens, motorcycles, balconies, flags and others.
• Understanding of the various subject characteristics such as roof tiles textures, leafs textures, water movement, sky deepness, light reflections and light variations on values and colors.
TECHNIQUES OF THE MEDIUM
• Acrylics plein-air techniques.
• How to prepare a proper gesso undercoat for a daylight subject.
• Understanding the drying accelerated process of acrylics and how to manage drying speed with slow-dry gels.
• How to work over a first dried painting coat, wich is a superposition of painting layers
• Awareness of drying speed that leads you to manage different values at the same time.
• How to take advantages of wet paint moments to create variations.
• How to manage thin and bold textures.
COMPOSITION
• How to divide the canvas space from the main masses of your subject.
• How to identify your golden points and relates them to your subject.
• How to create a main focal point.
• How to create a triangle and achieve a hierarchy relation between the subject's main points of interest.
• Create a value relation that leads the eyes and creates volume.
• How to engage in colors without exaggerating intensity.
• Identify color temperatures from light areas to shade areas.
• Recognition from your palette color the right temperatures.
• How to manage the painting periphery and how to create a movement getting away from the canvas edges.
• How to avoid symmetries.
• How to create rhythms from contrast and opposites.
• Where and how to develop soft and hard edges.
• How to manage the relation between thin layers and bold textures.