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The English painter, Turner, loved to paint a dramatic landscape, and weappreciate looking at them. He wanted to be tied to the mast of a sailing ship during a storm so he could see what the storm- really looked like and use this information to paint the storm tossed seas. When the parliament buildings were burning there he was, brush in hand. We look at these paintings with awe. Artists can see the landscape through the prism of many moods. Drama is only one of many.
But what an exciting thing it would be to realize the potential of landscape in it s extreme moods.
In this workshop we will concentrate on creating a dramatic landscape. First we will start with a large canvas, 30x40 or 36x48. Then we will use reference material that is dramatic in its essence: a photo you took, a painting you started, a sketch, any pictorial reference that says - DRAMA. Perhaps you took a picture of a stormy ocean or of clouds that predicted a storm coming. Maybe a full moon, lighting up a building. Any visual image that you perceive as dramatic landscape can be used as reference.
Perhaps you will discover that you respond to the extremes of nature.
Saturday Feb. 20; 1 -4 PM
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