Landscape Oil Painting with Plein-air Techniques
The Foreground 1
A course by Diana Buitrago , Realist Painter
About the video: The Foreground 1
Overview
“I will teach you here how to paint the foreground and those elements closer to the eye of the viewer. To do this, I will keep my back-to-front approach and try to “finish” as I go. I will start by applying a general, transparent tone of green for the trees, then I will work on the different values, from dark to light.”
In this video lesson Diana Buitrago addresses the topic: The Foreground 1, 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 Foreground In this lesson, I'll continue working from back to front. I'll teach how to paint the foreground and the elements closer to the viewer's eye. I want to start with applying a general transparent tone to my block-in, which is pretty much a drawing that is already dry. For that, I need a flat brush that is very soft or any shape of brush. You want a synthetic soft brush. It's better if it is completely clean. Keep working with your half and half medium. All the third layer, the form pass, the color pass must be done with half and half medium. I'll add that to the little jar, a...”
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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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