Title:
Painting into the light : how to work atmospheric magic with your oil paints / Jenny Aitken.
ISBN:
9781800921276
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Turnbridge Wells, Kent : Search Press Limited, 2024.
©2024
Physical Description:
160 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Preparing to capture light -- Exercise: tonal seascape -- Composition, colour and contrast -- Sparkling ocean - stage-by-stage -- Simplification -- Portrait - stage-by-stage -- Woodland -- stage-by-stage -- Painting en plein air -- Sparkle on water - stage-by-stage -- Still life - stage-by-stage -- Atmosphere -- Exercise: cold distance -- Mountains - stage-by-stage -- Impact -- Mevagissey Harbour - stage-by-stage -- Brush language -- Exercise: magic strokes -- Oystercatcher - stage-by-stage.
Summary:
"Learn how to successfully paint scenes that that capture magical effects of light from behind the subject. Good contre-jour - painting into the light - artworks cause the viewer to squint, with light seeming to glow from the canvas. They can look like a kind of magic, with their hazy light and colour singing out. This book demystifies lighting in oils, and provides a practical guide to the process, showing exactly how to create the illusion"-- Publisher's description.
OCLC Number:
on1390776024
Availability:
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