rut of painting the same scenes. Yesterday I was one of the participants of the Arthur Egeli figure painting workshop, here in Provincetown.
Arthur first gave a demonstration and short talk on painting the figure. He set up a young woman on the edge of the pier as if she was fishing.
Arthur helped us with our composition, and perspective. He had a lot of ideas on how to make the figure convincing and give the viewer the idea of the figure in action.
Painting the figure in a landscape is the same principle as the "Mud Head", (the model is a silhouette against the sky), only
a step further. Now the figure takes on the element of the environment and is a participant in the landscape. The composition is utmost importance, rather than a color study.
I started my painting with a warm undertone because I wanted to eliminate the white and use brushes concentrating on the drawing and composition.
It was great fun meeting new people, painting and learning something new, not to mention all of Arthur's corny jokes!
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