Plein Air Paintings

In October I'm starting a new Class. Even though we still  left  out some color mixing topics , including painting water, trees, rocks , but I decided to incorporate those subjects in my new block of studies.

So the whole new segment will  be dedicated to detailed study of Composition.

Sergey Bongart once said , "Value and Design set the painting. All else builds from them"   That's why composition is a second  most important part of successful painting.

We will study :

1. Space devision 

2. Focal Point

3. Eye movement

4. Variety

5. Line

 I think it will be a perfect opportunity to include those left out color subjects , as water, trees, rocks into the "Composition" class  

My highly recommended  list of books:

 "Color Choices "by Stephen Quiller 

"Blue and Yellow don'r make green" by Michael Wilcox

"Color and Light" by James Gurney

And here are a new group of plein air sketches made at the Bloedel Reserve this weekend .