Final day on the Joseph Zbukvic / EPC Course and final exercise is a practice of Joseph's trademark deep landscape, looking into the far distance, with a misty / hazy feeling to it. I left out his cows on mine, as being only a qtr sheet I thought I would over do it.
The last thing to go in was the chimney smoke, via a bit of dampening of the paper over the area of the smoke and then dropping in some white gouache.
Anyway in summary things learnt on this workshop:
- Thickness of pigment - tea, coffee etc
- The importance of the first wash and Mr Bead. Drop in more pigment before it dries.
- Timing
- Go for larger foreground, but they're still not the focus of attention
- Composition and simplify what you see down to basic shapes
- Mistakes are gifts
Happy painting.
This 6-day post was really interesting. Joseph Zbukvic has such a unique style that is recognizable even when paintings are done by his students. As of 2016, I think you're good enough to not need his instruction and I hope you think so, too! I had already heard of you before seeing these blog entries, and I'm in California.
Posted by: J. Catmull | Mar 09, 2016 at 09:32 PM
Thank you very much for your kind comments. Joseph is a great teacher and inspiration.
Posted by: Tim Wilmot | Mar 19, 2016 at 11:31 PM