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Landscape in Watercolor
Glenn HirschWatercolor Fundamentals
UC Berkeley Extension
next two assignments:paintings using one or all
of these ideas
Sky and TreesAerial PerspectiveLinear Perspective
Aqueous Perspective
to see trees you look up
Kevin Dame, student work
to see trees you look down
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trees are strong
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leaves have energy
John Singer Sargent
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leaves don’t have to be green
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trees create a story
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tree technique
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trees thrust out of the ground – they have figurative gesture
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trees thrust out of the ground – they have figurative gesture
Leaves cluster in branches
Each branch has a top (sunlit) and bottom (shadowed)
Trees cast a shadow on the ground beneath them
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Sunlight also comes through the branches (lit from behind)
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Sunlight also comes through the branches (lit from behind)
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In watercolor, you can illustrate the leaves with precise drawing carefully colored-in
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In watercolor, you can suggest the leaves with improvised wet-in-wet blobs of color
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atmospheric “aerial”
perspective
This photo illustrates aerial perspective – things far away look duller and lighter compared to the foreground
Claude Lorraine
Joseph Turner
Joseph Turner
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Linear Perspective
Robert Bechtle
Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper
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water (aqueous perspective)
John Singer Sargent
Winslow Homer
Winslow Homer
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next two assignments:paintings using one or all
of these ideas
Sky and TreesAerial PerspectiveLinear Perspective
Aqueous Perspective
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