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| Walking the Mon & Brec Canal (May 2018) Revealed Landscape Drawing and Painting the Landscape January 2019 Graphite Pencil Stillman & Birn Alpha Series Sketchbook 14cm x 11cm (5.5" x 4.25") |
Lesson 2 of Drawing and Painting the Landscape by Philip Tyler is about a technique to reduce inaccuracy in landscape drawings - perhaps (more subtly) it is about studying the landscape closely and understanding how it is arranged. The title Revealed Landscape describes the technique - you obscure most of a source photograph and draw the small “revealed” section.
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| Revealed Landscape Drawing and Painting the Landscape January 2019 Graphite Pencil Stillman & Birn Alpha Series Sketchbook 21.5cm x 30.5cm (8.5" x 12") |
In the first assignment you use a piece of paper to obscure everything bellow the horizon, draw the horizon, move the paper down a small amount, draw the newly revealed section of landscape, and continue down the page.
After I finished two of these drawings, I added some shading to them. In retrospect this was probably cheating because the lesson is part of a chapter called “Linear Drawing”
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| Basic Proportion Drawing and Painting the Landscape January 2019 Various Media Stillman & Birn Alpha Series Sketchbook 21.5cm x 30.5cm (8.5" x 12") |
The second assignment is to cut a square or rectangular window in a piece of card, place this over a photograph, and draw what you see through the window into a box with the same proportions. Comparing the position and size of the lines and shapes relative to the long and short sides of the rectangle helps you to recognise their size and position in the overall composition.
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| Basic Proportion Drawing and Painting the Landscape January 2019 Various Media Stillman & Birn Alpha Series Sketchbook 21.5cm x 30.5cm (8.5" x 12") |
I used photos of our neighbourhood and from recent holidays as source material for these pictures. I'm looking forward to drawing directly from the landscape in the following exercises.
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