water media landscape painting

Topic 1: Depict certain weather or atmospheric condition

I reworked the perspective of the houses to be a bit more wonky to give it character. I think the overall colour harmony could have been better, I was trying to be a bit more spontaneous while referring to my colour tests but I think the colours of the houses can be less muddy looking.

Topic 2: Landscape painting

For this landscape painting I tried to focus more on achieving a range of warm greens and yellows with red/orange as the accent colour. I tried my best to redesign the angles of the slopes to have more variation after receiving feedback that the shape design was a bit repetitive. I also took note of the amount of detail I add so that I don’t overwhelm the viewer. Overall I am pleased with how this turned out.

I’ve compiled all of my works into a pdf for submission:

https://entuedu-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/clim101_e_ntu_edu_sg/ES3h02Zvf49OjIU5MqiJRzUBwSQuQCfWd7CgUZF2TfAORQ?e=t2qYkO

Landscape painting

This is my progress for the landscape painting topic as I only just started working on it in my previous post. Did some value paintings to further explore possible compositions.

But I still prefer what I posted previously in terms of composition, so for my colour test I tried to incorporate what I liked from these compositions. This colour test one has more blue – cyan tint and has a cool tone compared to the previous colour test that I did. I think the previous test worked better in terms of colour harmony. I also feel that there can be a greater jump in values for the atmospheric perspective as now it looks very cluttered.

Comparison to previous colour test:

I also did a rough master study of Ivan Shishkin’s work to practice colour mixng. After working on it I realised how many layers he needed to paint over in order to achieve the density and richness and I was unable to replicate it in my quick study.