Landscape Oil Painting with Plein-air Techniques
Studio Setup, Lighting, and Toning the Canvas
A course by Diana Buitrago , Realist Painter
About the video: Studio Setup, Lighting, and Toning the Canvas
Overview
“How you set up your studio is important! Here I will show you how I work both outside and inside: my painting setup, the light in the studio, and my palette. I will also demonstrate how and what to choose for toning your canvas and beginning the next step.”
In this video lesson Diana Buitrago addresses the topic: Studio Setup, Lighting, and Toning the Canvas, which is part of the Domestika online course: Landscape Oil Painting with Plein-air Techniques. Learn how to paint atmospheric landscapes that capture natural light using plein-air techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Studio Setup, Lighting, and Toning the Canvas In this lesson, I will show you how I work indoors in my studio and I will give you a comparison to how I work outside in plein air. Let's start with the setup. I have an easel and if you want to put your canvas on the easel, try to have your canvas flat. Try not to lean it too much forward or too close to you. This is very useful. You can move the easel back and forth depending on how much glare you get on your canvas. Try to have it like this because if you lean it too much forward, then you start seeing a distorted image, so try to have thi...”
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Course summary for: Landscape Oil Painting with Plein-air Techniques
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Areas
Fine Arts, Oil Painting, Painting
Diana Buitrago
A course by Diana Buitrago
Diana Buitrago is a classically-trained realist painter from Colombia. She’s currently based in Jersey City, and works in New York City. The focus of her work is on both landscape painting and portrait painting from life. She’s received extensive formal artistic training at the Art Students League, Artistic Anatomy coursework at Drexel University's School of Medicine, and the four-year Core Program at the Grand Central Atelier. She has studied under artists Michael Grimaldi, Dan Thompson, Jon DeMartin, Jacob Collins, and Colleen Barry. Her work has been exhibited in New York in Eleventh Street Arts Gallery, Robert Simon Fine Art, Salmagundi Club, The Phyllis Harriman Gallery, and as well as at the Colombian Embassy in New York.
She now teaches painting to the advanced students in the Core Program at the Grand Central Atelier. She’s also taught workshops for The Art Students League of New York and in other institutions around the world such as Paris, Vienna, and Mexico City. When she’s not teaching, she’s at home painting in her studio or out traveling painting landscapes en Plein-air. In 2018, she was awarded a Fellowship with The La Napoule Foundation, which took her to the South of France to paint the beautiful Côte d'Azur. She’s also a four-time Hudson River Fellow, which allowed her to paint breathtaking landscapes in New Hampshire, New York’s Hudson Valley, and Connecticut. In 2019, her painting “Portrait of a Young Dancer” won a certificate of Excellence from the Portrait Society of America.
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