Sarah In the Garden

Sarah Posing 

Along with painting landscape, we painted the figure in my yard in this weeks workshop. Sarah is a great model, so we took advantage of having her in our class and painted her in the garden. I set her up a little higher off the ground so we could see her better. In this lesson we used flat simple              patterns of color to lay in the painting. I didn't want students to get caught up in details of anatomy and drawing, only the essentials of the pose and masses of the figure.
Painting the figure this way is a great way to learn color and  to simplify. When you paint the landscape you tend to deal with the many elements of the landscape and have to select.  When you paint the figure you only have one element to focus on.








We had some very good painters in the workshop this week who wanted to learn more about color and the essentials of landscape.

Glenna Heartwell 

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At the end of the class I gave a finale critique, thinking about what everyone could do to push their development in painting.