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In Volume #25: PAINTING THE ADIRONDACKS Hall introduces various landscape painting concepts and techniques that are essential to painting a classic scene with water, rocks and trees. He focuses on establishing the underlying structure and composition, along with developing a sense of form, space and light filtering through the trees. One is able to see firsthand how he uses both bristle and sable brushes to realize a variety of textured surfaces, in addition to contrasting warm and cool tonalities to suggest movement. Within the two-hour landscape painting video are stunning close-up shots of Hall's classical oil painting techniques and views of his studio as he discusses his paintings at different stages. Also, included are images of other landscape pieces he has created.
LANDSCAPE PAINTING VIDEO -EXAMPLES
Through his unique, step-by-step approach, Hall outlines the processes that were used by such 19th century painters as Paul Cezanne, Edouard Manet and George Inness. Using a clear and concise teaching approach, he reveals the secrets behind creating dazzling paintings filled with dramatic light and shadow, covering such topics as establishing the foundation forms and composition, developing the background, painting the subtle reflective lights and striking highlights and details.
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Hall has taught art for over twenty years, and currently is a Professor of Art at a college in New York. ARTNews Magazine critic, Gerard Haggerty, states that Hall Groat II's still life paintings evoke the big picture that we call art history, including painters like Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Edwin Dickinson, and his teacher Lennart Anderson." Collectors of his work have expressed that the work is "Alive, full of grace vitality and beauty, capturing light that is sublime in nature."
LANDSCAPE PAINTING VIDEO-THE IRISH LANDSCAPE
"Learn the fundamentals of painting before setting out to consciously make paintings about grand ideas!"
Learning how to oil paint in a classical style requires one to practice observing the world in a completely new way. You have to become a child once again. Instead of looking at apples as just round forms strewn on a tabletop, one must learn how to see them in terms of both color and value within the space that they rest. This empty space that surrounds the apples, believe it or not, has a unique color and value, too, and must be observed as carefully as the fruit itself. Learning how to paint well and the process of becoming an artist are completely different. Good paintings are about mastery of craft; whereas a fine artist has to achieve a balance between mastery of craft and the idea behind the painting: its content! Don't bother trying to be an artist in the beginning; first learn the fundamentals of painting before setting out to consciously make paintings about grand ideas. The simplest subjects often make the most profound statements. It is better to make a small painting about a big idea, rather than a monumental painting that expresses nothing. If you study nature daily through your paintings, there will be great truth in your work. What you see in the world provides the answers.
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