Fall 2019 Week 5: Putting Patterns to Use

Video Tutorials about Patterns (under construction)

• Design Series - Part 2 / Pattern by Russell Black
• Design Series - Part 3 / Using Pattern by Russell Black
• Design Series - Part 4 / Patterns of Depth by Russel Black
• Design Series - Part 5 / the Whitney Patterns by Russell Black
• Design Series - Part 9 / Point of View by Russell Black
• Watercolor Basics: How to Make a Value Study Using Graphite Pencil by Daniel Novotny

Video Tutorials about Painting from Value Patterns

• Painting Loose - Part 9 / the Painting by Russell Black
• Painting Loose - Part 10 / Painting Without Lines by Russell Black

Inspirational Pictures

Fall 2019 Week 4: Edgar Whitney's Notion: Design Shapes First then fit Nature Into Pattern

Web page Tutorials

• Learnings from Edgar Whitney – Part 1
• Learnings from Edgar Whitney – Part 2
• Discussion of Edgar Whitney Practices in the archives of Wetcanvas.com
• Discussion of Edgar Whitney in the archives of Wetcanvas.com

Video Tutorials

• Design Series - Part 2 / Pattern by Russell Black
• Design Series - Part 6 / Basic Shapes by Russell Black
• Design Series - Part 8 / Design Within the Frame by Russell Black
• Design Series - Part 2 / Pattern by Russell Black
• Design Series - Part 3 / Using Pattern
• Design Series - Part 4 / Patterns of Depth
• Design Series - Part 5 / the Whitney Patterns

Fall 2019 Week 3: Introduction to Notan, the Notanizer App, and its Application to Watercolor

Web page Tutorials

• Notan and the Notanizer App - Exploring Shape and Composition by Mitch Albala
• A Guide to Notan (including the Notanizer App): The What, Why and How by Barry John Raybould
• Notan -- What it is and How to Use it in Art by Dan Scott
• Quick Tip on Notan by Kelley Sanford
• Composition Before Color — Considerations in the First Phases of Plein Air Painting by Mitchell Albala
• The Wisdom of Notan – A Brief Introduction

Notan Video Tutorials

• Painting Lesson - Notan by Richard Robinson
• Notan - Exploring Shape and Composition by Mitchell Albala
• Light Dark Lecture2 by Ron Lemen
• Learning How to Paint Part 6 - Notan by Barry John Raybould

Monet, Impressionism, and Notan

• What is Notan by Barry John Raybould
• Mitchell Albala - Part 2 Gallery Talk at Lisa Harris Gallery

Books

You can view/download a PDF from the Gutenberg Project here
You can buy it from Amazon here: 

Composition: Understanding Line, Notan and Color By Arthur Wesley Dow

Fall 2019 Week 2: Carrot People and Imaginative Color using the Primary Triad ala Skip Lawrence

Week 2: Carrot People and Imaginative Color using the Primary Triad ala Skip Lawrence

Carrot People Tutorials

• Drawing with Robert Burridge-How to Draw Figures in a Landscape
• Sketching with the Brush / Watercolour Figures by Trevor Waugh
• How to Paint Figures in Watercolour Part 2 Trevor Waugh
• Watercolor Techniques with Don Andrews - Creating Believable Fleshtones
• Connecting Peoples by Umberto Rossini
• BobBlast 124 "Painting Figures using Color Combinations."

Book Review Video of Painting Light & Shadow in Watercolor by Skip Lawrence

• Painting Light & Shadow in Watercolor | Book Review & Flip through by Liron Yanconsky
• Painting Light and Shadow in Watercolor Hardcover – September 18, 2019 (recently reprinted and available October 20 from Amazon)

Imaginative Color using Primary Triad for Shadow Pattern

• Using Intuitive Color in Watercolor - Part I by Laurel Hart
• Using Intuitive Color in Watercolor - Part II by Laurel Hart
• Exaggerating Color in Watercolor by Laurel Hart
• Creating Colorful and Lively Shadows in Watercolor by Laurel Hart
• Painting What You Love In Watercolor by Laurel Hart

Fall 2019 Week 1: Sketching with the Brush: Learning how to see with a Beginners Mind

Fall 2019 Week 1: Sketching with the Brush: Learning how to see with a Beginners Mind

Essential Video Tutorials

• Sketching with the Brush by Marc Taro Holmes
• Watercolour Camels by Trevor Waugh
• How to Splash Watercolour by Trevor Waugh

Essential PDFs

• An Exercise in Direct Sketching: The Broken Silhouette PDF

-- Extra Credit -- 

If You Would Like to Learn About Marc Taro Holmes ...

Marc Taro Holmes is a Montreal artist and the author of three books on art-making.

• The Urban Sketcher: Techniques for Seeing and Drawing on Location (2014)
• Designing Creatures and Characters: How to Build and Artist’s Portfolio for Video Games, Film, Animation and More (2016)
• Direct Watercolor (2018)

Marc has been a correspondent and volunteer art instructor with urbansketchers.org, and, served as a board member and volunteer editor from 2009-2016. He was elected to the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolor in December of 2016, recently winning their Sloan Award (2016), and CSPWC Second Prize Award (2017), and most recently, being juried into an exhibition-exchange with the Société Française de l’Aquarelle. (2018).

Marc graduated in 1995 with a BFA from the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary Alberta, and has worked for studios including Electronic Arts, Microsoft, and Disney.

Website

• Citizensketcher (Marc's Website)

Book Review of Marc's first Book

• The Urban Sketcher: Techniques for Seeing and Drawing on Location. Reviewed by Teoh Yi Chie