Category Archives: Weekly Art Lessons 51-60

Three paintings in thirty minutes?  What, am I crazy?  Well, maybe, but not about this.

This week in class we did this quick exercise in landscape painting using my photos from Burgundy, France.

 How to do the exercise:

• Hold a shuffled stack of photos bottom side up so that you can’t see what you are choosing.

• Select three and keep them turned down until the timer is set.

Happy St. Patty’s Day.  Two holiday posts:(video) Mixing Ireland’s Forty Shades of Green  Artful Greens and Malarkey

                    Daffodils are blooming and all sorts of life is pushing its way out of the dirt.  Intending to do a seasonally correct series on How to Draw Flowers, I thought that I should begin with the ellipse because this understanding will make such a difference with every flower. … Read the rest

SPRING  has me wrapped around her little finger; I have a bad case of her fever.  How about you?

I thought so.  So let’s be like bees and head for the flowers.

Ready?

1. Review the last lesson on  ellipses (circles in perspective)

2. Draw a series of ellipses.  Don’t fuss over them. Do this free hand and don’t worry about perfection  (note the  irregular ellipses in the example below). … Read the rest

Last week, in Exercise on How to Draw a Flower, we thought about ellipses. This week  we’ll get a feel for  connecting the stem to the ellipse / blossom.