landscape in watercolor
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Landscape in Watercolor
Glenn HirschWatercolor Fundamentals
UC Berkeley Extension
next two assignments:paintings using one or all
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Sky and TreesAerial PerspectiveLinear Perspective
Aqueous Perspective
to see trees you look up
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to see trees you look down
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trees are strong
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leaves have energy
John Singer Sargent
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leaves don’t have to be green
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trees create a story
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tree technique
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trees thrust out of the ground – they have figurative gesture
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trees thrust out of the ground – they have figurative gesture
Leaves cluster in branches
Each branch has a top (sunlit) and bottom (shadowed)
Trees cast a shadow on the ground beneath them
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Sunlight also comes through the branches (lit from behind)
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Sunlight also comes through the branches (lit from behind)
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In watercolor, you can illustrate the leaves with precise drawing carefully colored-in
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In watercolor, you can suggest the leaves with improvised wet-in-wet blobs of color
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atmospheric “aerial”
perspective
This photo illustrates aerial perspective – things far away look duller and lighter compared to the foreground
Claude Lorraine
Joseph Turner
Joseph Turner
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Linear Perspective
Robert Bechtle
Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper
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water (aqueous perspective)
John Singer Sargent
Winslow Homer
Winslow Homer
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next two assignments:paintings using one or all
of these ideas
Sky and TreesAerial PerspectiveLinear Perspective
Aqueous Perspective