March lesson Beeley U3A
We concentrated on painting trees and grasping the form as done by a variety of artists we studied.
If anyone wants to prepare mentally or next month, then look up 'fauvism'. Basically, the style developed from French artists following Monet and Van Gogh and their impressionism. These artists and especially Matisse, looked at each part of the painting, decided what the colour was and exaggerated it as much as they could, with the idea of achieving the purity of the most basic related colour - i.e. a slight purple shadow on a cheek would be painted as deep or really bright purple. A grey blue tint would be deep blue.
So for our next lesson, we will try painting a scene of your choosing or tree outside if it's good weather in this style.Its really fun, and we are learning.
Toady I completed the watercolour I started in Cornwall whilst sitting on the rock sat Mullion Cove in September.
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