In the last workshop that I taught, I gave the students some ideas using exercises to help improve their paintings. Here are a few ideas that you can work on at home.
- Use a palette of 4 color such as Swedish painter, Anders Zorn (1860-1920) used. He used a palette of white, yellow ocher, ivory black and vermillion. The black substitutes as a blue in the context of the warm colors. Your painting will automatically be unified in color palette. Or, make a color chart with this palette making as many variations as you can.
- Go through an art magazine. Pick out the focal point and analyze why it works.
- Paint one scene in different formats, square, tall and thin, and a long horizontal. You will start to think out the box in your compositions.
- Using an old painting or blank canvas, use brushwork to create depth in a painting, smooth, horizontal strokes in the distance and more texture in the foreground. Use your brush in all different ways. Use a palette knife or other objects.
How to improve your #paintings with planned exercises.
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These are just a few ideas. I’m sure that you will be able to expand on these.
What exercises can you think of in addition to these?
Talk to you all later.
Becky
Hi Becky, thanks so much for all that you are sharing! I love your style
thanks Lauren.