Painting the Impressionist Landscape: Lessons in Interpreting Light and Color
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (703 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0823095193 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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is one to have on hand if you love impressionist landscape paintings and love to paint them This book by Lois Griffel, is one to have on hand if you love impressionist landscape paintings and love to paint them. She beatifically describes fundamentals of color and light tones, She has beautiful samples of paintings by herself and some of the masters of impressionism to describe their technique.She goes into depth regarding light in the landscape and how this is critical and fundamental to impressionists (or those of us striving to be). She also has block exercises in the book, where she literally has blocks set up in different lighting to display how light in morning, afternoon, and evening casts light & shadow and reflecti. Up there with the best books I have read on colour theory and methodology ColNel I had read about the Cape Cod school of impressionism and their colour methodology and I found Lois Griffel's book provided me with a clear understanding of the colour theory that supports the approach and clear instruction on how to apply the approach in a landscape painting. This is the greatest strength of the book. A related strength is that it contains a good number of works by other artists who use the colour approach and who paint in different styles and I am now incorporating the colour theory and methodology into my own style of painting. The theory and methodology does not a style dictate, and thank goodness for that. It wa. Imagardener said buy the book then take Griffel's workshop. First I bought the book and after reading it went online to see where I could take a workshop from the author.I got very lucky that one was scheduled about an hour away so I could commute (well I had to wait a year for it). Others in the class flew and drove many miles to spend a week with Lois Griffel learning the basics so that we could all become better painters. I won't go into exact details (take the course/buy the book) but it was a fascinating step-by-step process.One of the great advantages is that she painted along side us, first starting the painting, giving us the beginning, then we spent the morning working in fantastical
In Painting the Impressionist Landscape, Lois Griffel, the current director of The Cape Cod School of Art and an accomplished artist in her own right, explores and illustrates Hawthorne's philosophy and theories about color and light, enabling artists at every level of ability and experience to apply his insights to their own work. The first part of the book, "Fundamentals of Color and Light", elaborates on the circumstances and individuals that contributed to the development of impressionism. The author then outlines the progression of the study of color and light that is covered in detail later in the book, from simple block studies - the most effective way to learn to use pure color to express the effects and quality of light
Her introduction in the early 1970s to Henry Hensche, Charles Hawthorne’s protégé, led to her in-depth study and practice of the impressionist theory of painting. Ms. Lois Griffel’s lifelong interest in art began at the age of five, when she first entertained neighborhood children with her drawings and paintings. She holds workshops in landscape, portrait, and figure painting throughout the northeast.From the Hardcover edition.. A
And no one has done more for the cause of American Impressionism than Charles Hawthorne, the founder of the Cape Cod School of Art. Griffel, the longtime director of the school Hawthorne founded, teaches his philosophy like no other painter can, with inspiring step-by-step painting lessons and illuminating text. Master Impressionism with an art-instruction classic. Impressionism has inspired generations of American artists. Now a new generation of painters can bring impressionism into their work with this convenient and affordable paperback edition.. A true classic of art instruction, Painting the Impressionist Landscape has sold more than 30,000 copies in hardcover in the fifteen years since it was first published. In Painting the Impressionist Landscape, author and artist Lois Griffel e