1. Acrylic Landscape Fine Arts I

2. Landscape: a picture or photograph representing natural inland or coastal scenery.

3. Vincent Van Gogh Born: March 30, 1853 Died: July 29, 1890 Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Had very close relationship with his brother, Theo. Suffered from anxiety and mental illness. Died at the age of 37 from a supposed self-inflicted gunshot wound.

7. How to Paint a Landscape

8. First: First- Find a clear, simple landscape image with a clear background, middle ground and foreground. Background Middle ground Foreground

9. Second: Second – Sketch your image on regular paper for and color it in colored pencil for practice. Work out all “issues” now. Shape and size are important! Then, draw it on your canvas.

10. Third: Set up your palette. Take only the paint you’ll use in this sitting. Leave blank space in the middle for mixing. Put your paint on the outter edges, in order of the spectrum. ROYGBIV.

11. Fourth: Four – “Block in” your color. Find all the “local” colors and put them down.

12. Fifth: Five – Begin adding detail to the background using different brushes and techniques.

13. Brushes

14. Technique

15. Sixth: Six – Begin using technique to add detail and make your painting more realistic.

16. Technique

18. Seventh: Seven – Continue adding detail using various techniques to the middle ground and foreground. Consider all details.

19. Finished!

20. http://www.artinstructionblog.com/plein-air-painting-demo-in-acrylics-by-donald-neff

21. Things To Remember: Paint what you SEE, not what you THINK you see. Work in layers. Use different brushes. Look at your work from a distance.

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