Help: Drawing Landscapes
Darren Harris
landscapes?(ie: Desert, mountains terrain, rocky terrain, winter scenery,
plains, jungle, lunar, ect.).
Thanks a lot.
Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.
keith o'connor (tinmangallery.com
by Jack Hamm
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The eye should not be lead where there is nothing to see.
Robert Henri - The Art Spirit
Darren Harris <Sear...@mail.con2.com> wrote in message
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Andrew D
danf...@NOSPAMyahoo.com(Dan Fox) wrote:
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>Your best bet is to find a good private teacher - even if you can only take
>a few lessons, have him or her put you on the right path. Pick someone
>whose work looks like what you want to do. Also, make sure they have at
>least a bachelor's degree in art; a master's is better. (there are a lot of
>amateurs out there giving 'lessons' that aren't worth your time or money.)
If they are successfully producing the "type of art" you want to produce
and have the ability to pass on information in a way that encourages your
own development - and you can afford them - then they are what you want -
degree or no degree.
Andy D.
"I'm a great speller - but a hopless tpyist!"
Ivor E. Black
right@the_end.of.my_tether says...
I agree - a degree does not insure artistic expertise.
In fact, I know of non-degreed artists who are
INVITED to be visiting lecturers, instructors or
advisors in colleges and universities!
I know of instances where tenured professors have
only a BA in art, or another degree unrelated
to studio arts.
And...
I know of many artists who are non-degreed who make
their living from workshop presentations, traveling
about from place to place and alighting for a week
or two at a time to give instruction. I've even attended
'auditorium' seating demos by artists who have no degree
but who are popular enough that they can attract a
paying audience. And then there are all those TV demo
artists who I have never heard mention a degree.
All of the above stated by someone who IS degreed!
Darren Harris
I want to draw some scenes that basically have foreground
detail(outcroppings) but also extend to a horizon and haven't found
much in the way of images like that.(Perhaps I should search out
photograpic scences for ideas also).
Thanks.
Gordon Matheson
"Darren Harris" <Sear...@mail.con2.com> wrote in message
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>
> I want to draw some scenes that basically have foreground
> detail(outcroppings) but also extend to a horizon and haven't found
> much in the way of images like that.(Perhaps I should search out
> photograpic scences for ideas also).
Darren, I'm a landscape artist and if you look a little harder, those type
of images are everywhere. You live in Staten Island so anywhere near the
shore looking out over water should fit your need. Just walk around the
parks till it looks right or if you have a car drive over to Robert Moses
Parking lot # 5(?) near the Fire Island Lighthouse. Until it warms outside,
up do a few Google searches for Nineteenth Century Hudson River and
Luminist painters such as Martin Heade, John Kensett, Fitz Hugh Lane, and
_?_Silva. They did that type of work very well. As for drawing, try taking a
life drawing class. I've found that very helpful in developing landscape
drawing skills. You didn't say if you were planning on finished drawings or
if you want to draw in preparation for painting. There is a big difference
IMO.
G.
Darren Harris
My first project involves drawing in preparation for painting.
G*rd*n
| > news:9437a27c.03012...@posting.google.com...
| > > I'll search for that book.
| > >
| > > I want to draw some scenes that basically have foreground
| > > detail(outcroppings) but also extend to a horizon and haven't found
| > > much in the way of images like that.(Perhaps I should search out
| > > photograpic scences for ideas also).
"Gordon Matheson" <GO...@optonline.net>:
| > Darren, I'm a landscape artist and if you look a little harder, those type
| > of images are everywhere. You live in Staten Island so anywhere near the
| > shore looking out over water should fit your need. Just walk around the
| > parks till it looks right or if you have a car drive over to Robert Moses
| > Parking lot # 5(?) near the Fire Island Lighthouse. Until it warms outside,
| > up do a few Google searches for Nineteenth Century Hudson River and
| > Luminist painters such as Martin Heade, John Kensett, Fitz Hugh Lane, and
| > _?_Silva. They did that type of work very well. As for drawing, try taking a
| > life drawing class. I've found that very helpful in developing landscape
| > drawing skills. You didn't say if you were planning on finished drawings or
| > if you want to draw in preparation for painting. There is a big difference
| > IMO.
Sear...@mail.con2.com (Darren Harris):
| My first project involves drawing in preparation for painting.
There is a sort of low cliff near the water near the
southern end of Staten Island on what used to be the grounds
of Mt. Loretto. Some of this land became the property of
New York State and I read somewhere that it had been shut
off from public access, but it should still be possible to
get down to the water at Lemon Creek or by going southeast
down Seguine Avenue from Hylan Boulevard. Depending on
where you stand, you will have the Atlantic Ocean or the
south side of Raritan Bay as a background.
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Darren Harris
Actually, I don't need ideas on what I want to draw. I'm looking for
books and sites that explain drawing technique.
In fact I would like to draw the kind of scenes you see in the cover
art of
"Heavy Metal" magazine.
Thanks a lot.