Hi Everyone,
This post is about my new online course that I've launched this year!
Value & Value Relationships in Landscape™ will help you understand and represent tonal values well so that you can improve the illusion of form and depth in your landscape.
So, I've listed the highlights of what you will learn from each part of this course series.
In case you’re still not sure whether this is for you, have a look at each course’s content listed below!
What you will learn in:
Value & Value Relationships in Landscape - Part One
How values form in Landscape and how to read them properly
How to simplify the unlimited range of values in nature into 4 or 5 core values
How to use the simplification and massing concepts to paint faster and looser without losing coherence
How to start a landscape by painting in blocks
How to use the value divisions concept to relate value masses and create a system you can follow every time you create a painting
How the main sources of light in nature affect the way we see colour and value
How to relate value groups
How to use the plane differentiation concept in your painting to understand when a value change occurs
How to apply the atmospheric perspective principle to improve the illusion of depth and space
How to avoid the "Intensity vs. Lightness" trap
How to create a traditional value scale and how to identify major value groups in your subject
How to paint value shapes to improve your skills to see and represent shades
How to use the Old Masters’ technique, Brunnaille, to develop a solid basis in your work
What you will learn in:
Value & Value Relationships in Landscape - Part Two
How to relate value to colour
How to use my Value-Colour Palette System to mix your colour groups following the value divisions in your subject.
How to use a full-colour palette without losing coherence
How to study the Masters to learn further and faster
How to manipulate atmospheric effects and depth through value, colour and edge
How to use colour temperature to suggest value change for a painterly approach
How to make your colours "sing."
How to 'bend' colour for a creative approach
You'll discover how to apply the core concepts to represent form and depth through value and colour. And you can repeat this method again and again to any landscape painting you create.
You will also have access to my colour diagrams, palette systems,done-for-you templates and other visual aids that have been designed specifically for this course!
What you will learn in:
Dissecting the Work of a Master: Sorolla and his Approach to Tonal Values and Colour
This course is a Limited Edition Bonus where I analyse how one of the history’s most brilliant artists, Joaquin Sorolla, approached tonal values and value relationships.
You'll also learn how he related value to colour and how he used advanced colour techniques to interpret and represent the effects of light with so much beauty and poetry.
That includes lectures explaining his techniques and also a painting demonstration.
Main Points:
Who was Joaquin Sorolla?
What was so special about him and his work?
Analysing his masterworks to expand our horizons
His techniques: what can we learn from him?
His quotes
Demonstration:
His palette
Tonal values and colours
The poetry of painting
How to harmonise your painting using some of Sorolla’s tricks and techniques
How to make use of contrasting colour temperature
How to create a colourful vitality in your painting
Controlling Values
Sorolla’s treatment of halftones
Gesture and brushwork
And more!
Ps: Sorolla’s course has been added as a free bonus for those who enrol in Value and Value Relationships in Landscape by 5th August. After the doors close for enrollment, it will be sold as a separate course.
If you would like to learn more about how to join in, click here to see the Value & Value Relationships in Landscape Programme.
