Article · Mitchell Albala
Landscape Painting Exercises: Limited Focus, Shape, Color, and Notan
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Length
- 4 lessons
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2011
About this lesson
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).
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