THE ART OF LANDSCAPE LOOKING
This video starts the second module (The Challenge of Landscape Painting) of my Patreon course. It is not a painting tutorial as such, but an illustrated lecture to demonstrate what I believe is the most important skill that you need to take your landscape painting to the next level....developing the Art of Landscape Looking. This is why I have shared it on my YouTube channel and in the forthcoming Patreon tutorials these ideas will be developed: I will show you how to approach the challenges of landscape painting - including choosing painting formats, creating depth through perspective and understanding the idea of spatial constraint. These will be available in the coming weeks to Patreon subscribers and please visit the link below if you would like to subscribe and follow my course.
https://www.patreon.com/oliverpyle
In this video, I review a number of my paintings, using them to illustrate how the skill of LANDSCAPE LOOKING has defined my work and helped to contribute to a body of work that has a distinct identity. We also take a walk into the Sussex countryside, where I explain some ideas to give you some structure to your thinking and observation when you are in the landscape.
I should add a little footnote:
I assumed that the old Dutch barn that was no longer there was the result of damage from a recent gale. Well, I was speaking with the farmer a couple of days later and he told me that it was destroyed by a group of vandals that had set it on fire! Very sad to learn that - farming is difficult at the best of times, without such idiotic behaviour.
Please use this lecture as an ongoing resource and I have included the following time stamps for your ease of reference:
Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
01:25 - The Art of Landscape Looking
01:36 - The Challenge of Landscape Painting
03:32 - Subject Familiarity
07:32 - Colour
09:07 - Drama
10:00 - Detail
11.17 - Shapes
12.29 - Contrast
14:29 - Stories
15:50 - A Walk Down the Lane
16:55 - Landscape Looking 'Gears'
17:57 - 1st Gear - Inspiration
18:59 - 2nd Gear - Observation
20:00 - 3rd Gear - Presentation
20.55 - 4th Gear - Modification
29:27 - Sussex
34:21 - Dorset
37:39 - Summary