Painting into the Light
eBook - PDF

Painting into the Light

How to work atmospheric magic with your oil paints

  1. 83 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Painting into the Light

How to work atmospheric magic with your oil paints

About this book

Reknowned for her techniques for painting light on water, Jenny Aitken delivers perfect guidance to the intermediate artist on how to paint light in plein air and much more.Learn how to successfully paint scenes that that capture magical effects of light from behind the subject. Good contre-jour painting into the light artworks cause the viewer to squint, with light seeming to glow from the canvas. They can look like a kind of magic, with their hazy light and colour singing out. This book demystifies lighting in oils, and provides a practical guide to the process, showing exactly how to create the illusion.Inside, you'll find a wealth of information on simplification, tonal control, capturing accurate colour, working both indoors and outdoors, painting landscapes and still life, creating atmospheric depth, and even mastering the illusion of space. Through detailed step-by-step demonstrations and beautifully illustrated techniques, Jenny Aitken reveals how to infuse every painting with vibrant, lifelike light. A section on troubleshooting tricky paintings will show the reader every painting is salvageable, but with an understanding of light and colour, it s much more likely that they ll find success the first time round.

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Information

Publisher
Search Press
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781800931176
Edition
0
Topic
Art

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Foreword
  4. Introduction
  5. 1 Preparing to capture light
  6. 2 Composition, colour and contrast
  7. 3 Simplification
  8. 4 Painting en plein air
  9. 5 Atmosphere
  10. 6 Impact
  11. 7 Brush language
  12. Project Oystercatcher
  13. Afterword
  14. Back