Landscape Oil Painting with Plein-air Techniques
The Middle Ground
A course by Diana Buitrago , Realist Painter
About the video: The Middle Ground
Overview
“I will continue now with the elements in the middle ground, those in between the deep space and the foreground, such as the mountains and the trees. Sometimes this middle ground merges with the other two sections and it doesn't quite have a clear division. Likewise, it is about making mostly loose shapes and not focusing too much on the details.”
In this video lesson Diana Buitrago addresses the topic: The Middle Ground, 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
“ The Middle Ground In this lesson, I'll paint the middle ground. We will continue painting a solid application of color from back to front. It's always a good idea to clean your palette before you finish a section in your painting, and premix and get ready to tackle a new area. I have premixed my purple and my orange, based on the colors that I decided on in the color study. All I need to do is follow this and try to look at the contrast that I'm making in my own painting. I will continue using half and half medium for this stage until I'm done with the whole painting. I'm tackling the mou...”
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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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