I hope you had a good break and are ready for our next prompt! This month we will also be exploring a new art movement and based on the welcome survey, this movement is the one most of you are interested in! Here are some ideas to start with… |
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- Botanical, horticulture, agriculture, herbaceous, blossom, gardening Related words that may connect with you as a starting point
- Use flowers in different ways: as a paint brush, as a stamp, in pressed or dried form, using different parts such as the petals as embellishments to stick into paint or glue on
- Palette knife rose I love this tutorial by Katie Jobling and the use of a dark color as the background. She's working on canvas so the texture and feel is a bit different than paper but it still works. I recommend using thicker/less runny acrylic paint for this.
- Go outside Visit a local botanical garden, walk museum grounds, visit a nursery. Take lots of photos to use as inspiration or take your sketchbook with you (if creating an entire piece in the wild feels daunting, use your sketchbook to make quick rough sketches of shapes or details you like, jot down notes about the texture or color) or bring home a small bouquet, set it in front of you, and see what you feel inspired to create.
- Cut up your photos If you're like me and have a bunch of flower photos on your phone, print them out and use them to create a collage! I choose photos that have clean lines to make it easier to cut, then I print them out on regular printer paper, cut, arrange, and glue them down. Here are a few examples of what I've made.
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Above: Le Jardin de l'artiste Ă Giverny The Artist's Garden at Giverny by Claude Monet, Bottom L: In The Dining Room by Berthe Morisot, Jardin en terrasse, dominant la campagne by Marie Bracquemond |
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“When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you, a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow.” Claude Monet Impressionism developed in France in the 19th century and is based on the practice of painting outdoors (plein air) and spontaneously, rather than in a studio from sketches. Main impressionist subjects were landscapes and scenes of everyday life. If you'd like to take a deeper dive into this movement, check out this article. Characteristics of Impressionist paintings include: - Rapid, spontaneous, short, loose brushstrokes
- Thick impasto (an Italian word for “mixture,” used to describe a painting technique wherein paint is thickly laid on a surface, so that brushstrokes or palette knife marks are visible) paint
- The realistic depiction of light and shadow of a particular moment, which will change when the light changes
- Use brighter colours and mix less on the palette
- Wet on wet painting
- Clearer picture from further back
Impressionist artists: - Claude Monet
- Berthe Morisot
- Mary Cassatt
- Auguste Renoir
- Marie Bracquemond
Helpful articles to help you paint in this style / art projects to try: Do any of the characteristics jump out at you? Focus on one or two, learn more about them, and incorporate them into your sketchbook page. Do you recognize these Impressionist artists? Pick one you haven't heard of, look into their life and work and see where it leads you. If this wasn't one of the movements you were interested in, take a chance on it and see what you like about it and how it can be applied to the way you currently create. |
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I'm excited to see what this prompt inspires in you and what you will do with it! Talk to you soon, |
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