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Landscape Painting Exercises: Limited Focus, Shape, Color, and Notan

By Mitchell Albala

Type
Article
Level
Intermediate
Length
4 lessons
Price
Free
Published
2011
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A progression of four landscape exercises: crop the scene to a limited focus, paint it with just four flat values, reduce it to a two- or three-value notan, then repaint it under a deliberate color strategy (analogous, complementary, triadic).