Plein Air Painting along the Monterey Peninsula
Instructor: Saim Caglayan
Medium: Oil Painting (Plein Air)
Dates: June 11, 12, 13, 2014
Class times: 9:30-4:30
Tuition: $375.00
Level: Artists and art students; open to all levels of experience.
Limit: 15 students
During this plein air painting workshop Saim Caglayan will concentrate on three main elements in plein air painting:
COMPOSITION — Strong composition contains a sound perspective, balance and harmony. Perspective provides sense of depth and movement. Balance is achieved by proper positioning of the foreground, mid ground, background and the essential elements (Center of interest) within these spaces. A harmonious composition is the result of successful integration of the perspective and balance in which there is visual flow a feast for the eyes. We will make several small, quick pencil, charcoal studies of our subject on a sketch pad before proceeding on canvas and choose the most successful one to be put on our canvas.
VALUE — We will also do a value study of our subject using a single dark color wash to get familiar with the light and dark areas and the mid tones in our painting. Correct value will result in spatial depth and the light source which is essential in painting. Looking at the subject while squinting the eye will eliminate details, simplify the masses, therefore making it easy to see the value scale of the scene before us. This is a very important step prior to sketching our composition.
COLOR — Saim has found that in many years of teaching, color mixing is very challenging especially for the beginner. It takes years to learn how to mix colors quickly and accurately. To simplify this process he will employ only four colors, 1. White, 2. Blue, 3. Yellow, 4. Red, We will mix rest of the colors using only these primary colors and white. This method, known as the limited palette, will give us the color harmony which is difficult to achieve when there are too many colors on our palette.
Using color temperature, warmth and coolness of colors, color intensity, lightness or darkness of colors and the complimentary colors, we will bring about atmosphere, depth and visual excitement into our paintings.
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