Description
Painting the Figure in the Landscape with Eli Cedrone
Dates: August 21 – August 22, 2025
Time: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Price: $270 Members / $295 Non-Members
Learn to create dramatic paintings with impressionistic brushwork. The emphasis will be on composition and value to create visual interest and lead the eye through the painting. Learn to place the figure in your landscape scenes. This will be a fun and inspirational workshop!
Day 1: Fundamentals of Landscape Painting
Painting the landscape requires a strategy to capture the scene before you with a simplified design and correct color relationships. Impressionism is essentially the effect of light on objects. It’s critical to understand how light creates color and form and how color conveys light. A beginner copies nature, the artist interprets and arranges a more powerful whole. Seeing abstractly means to understand the patterns and shapes underlying nature.
Day 2: Getting Figures in Your Landscapes
I’ll go over the fundamentals of drawing and painting the figure: gesture, simplifying forms and painting value and color as a unit. The focus will be on painting people in an environment; such as a beach or cafe. Plan on doing a lot of small, gesture sketches in charcoal, monochrome and eventually color. The emphasis will be on designing the figure-ground relationship and incorporating moving figures in a landscape.
