Landscape Drawing for Beginners
Have fun exploring the expressive potential of drawing the landscape!
The visual world is filled with complexity. You’ll be supported as you explore your artistic vision, editing to include the level of detail you deem essential, and to eliminatethe extraneous. You’ll learn to do this both when cropping your compositions, and when developing your rendering techniques. For our purposes, we’ll maintain the goal of giving your drawing the descriptive structure necessary so that it is perceived as the selected subject.
You’ll explore the power of suggestion, and the fundamental role it plays in this genre. You’ll learn how to create depth with atmospheric perspective. You’ll be introduced introduced to drawing with graphite powder and discover some of the amazing effects you can create, including ambient light.
The class is structured so that you are able to develop through weekly experimentation. As you work in a variety of techniques, you’ll determine which you prefer, and how you might combine them effectively when rendering the myriad of elements of which landscapes are comprised.
We’ll be working from master’s drawings, paintings, and photographs.